Today I'm happy about......

[Bijou Bob]

Well done Tango. One of my day jobs is running cancer related projects, you'd be staggered at the increase in your survival statistics now you've given up!

[David Lee's Hair]

Congratulations Tango... I am 54 days smoke free today having been a 20 a dayer for the past 15 years or so... Keep it up.

[TANGODANCER]

Yesterday and today I cut down a twenty foot conifer that had got way out of hand. It started out as a two foot high plant in a tub a few years back, grew fericiously and had to be re-planted in the garden. Finished up like Jack's beanstalk with three trunks almost six inches in dia each at the base. Today, it got Tango'd.

[Il Pirate]

I've just made my 1,000 post....................

[thebish]

I've just made my 1,000 post....................

that's worth a raised glass!!

[thebish]

I love this time of year - and the explosion of new life!

as well as watching the kingfishers - watched this brood of fairly newly hatched ducklings...


ducklings by revnev, on Flickr

[Prufrock]

Ducklings are ace!

[David Lee's Hair]

Not being a jaffa...

[CrazyHorse]

Not being a jaffa...

[Wandering Willy]

Tomorrow I shall be spending the afternoon in the Sweet Green with Old Man Willy and a couple of his cronies.

Should be a great laugh.

[Gary the Enfield]

Tomorrow I shall be spending the afternoon in the Sweet Green with Old Man Willy and a couple of his cronies.

Should be a great laugh.

I think DLH has been having fun with his Willy and a couple of hangers on too by the sound of it.

[thebish]

the other day the speedo stopped working on my bike... it's a bit un-nerving rollicking down the M11 and the speedo reads 0 - especially going past speed cameras...

anyway - how hard can it be??

ordered new cable - arrived today.

remove old cable and fit new one - 5mins.

remove the fairing you need to access top end - detach and unbolt fwd indicators - and then replace said bastardy fiddly fairing with fiddly bolts in unreachable places and repair indicator light electrical connections that were loose as feck - 1hr 10mins

anyway - it works - and this kind of thing is where ultimate pleasure lies!!!

(plus - saved myself a huge garage bill)

[TANGODANCER]

Sunshine, blue skies, nature in full regalia. Oh to be in England...

[Bijou Bob]

[quote="thebish"]the other day the speedo stopped working on my bike... it's a bit un-nerving rollicking down the M11 and the speedo reads 0 - especially going past speed cameras...

Stop this bike talk please, I'm already hankering after another and this sunshine is the final straw. Mind you, I'm fancying a big cruiser for the first time, so perhaps my indecision is saving me from a fate worse than tassled handlebars.

[thebish]

the other day the speedo stopped working on my bike... it's a bit un-nerving rollicking down the M11 and the speedo reads 0 - especially going past speed cameras...

Stop this bike talk please, I'm already hankering after another and this sunshine is the final straw. Mind you, I'm fancying a big cruiser for the first time, so perhaps my indecision is saving me from a fate worse than tassled handlebars.

ooof - just a tassled handlebar away from a full (second?) mid life crisis???

you have admit - this weather - best way to travel!!!

[TANGODANCER]

Stop this bike talk please, I'm already hankering after another and this sunshine is the final straw. Mind you, I'm fancying a big cruiser for the first time, so perhaps my indecision is saving me from a fate worse than tassled handlebars.

Ah,but were I young and foolish again, I'd forget cars and ride around on one of these. Not crouching along a tank with drop bars blasting speed limits, but riding country lanes and smelling the roses.

[Dujon]

Does one have to wear a full-face helmet and visor in the U.K.? Here it is certainly the case - and a hefty fine if you don't. To me that takes away half the enjoyment of riding a bike - by the time you get togged up in leathers, boots, gloves, helmet and the like what's left of the 'wind in the hair' experience? Nowt, that's what. Not that you'd get me on a bike in the first place (at least not around here) given the maniacs on four wheels who have infiltrated the ranks of our drivers.

[thebish]

Does one have to wear a full-face helmet and visor in the U.K.?

no - you don't - visor and goggles are not a legal requirement..(helmets are) (though if you DO have visor/goggles - then there are regulations attached - eg. not tinted at night)

open-faced helmets are quite legal here - though most people will take to wearing goggles/visor right after the first time they get a bee in the eye at 85MPH!!!!

[thebish]

Stop this bike talk please, I'm already hankering after another and this sunshine is the final straw. Mind you, I'm fancying a big cruiser for the first time, so perhaps my indecision is saving me from a fate worse than tassled handlebars.

Ah,but were I young and foolish again, I'd forget cars and ride around on one of these. Not crouching along a tank with drop bars blasting speed limits, but riding country lanes and smelling the roses.

nice bike, Tango - though I had you down as a British Bike man!!! A Norton perhaps?

[TANGODANCER]

Stop this bike talk please, I'm already hankering after another and this sunshine is the final straw. Mind you, I'm fancying a big cruiser for the first time, so perhaps my indecision is saving me from a fate worse than tassled handlebars.

Ah,but were I young and foolish again, I'd forget cars and ride around on one of these. Not crouching along a tank with drop bars blasting speed limits, but riding country lanes and smelling the roses.

nice bike, Tango - though I had you down as a British Bike man!!! A Norton perhaps?

Love Brit bikes,and B.S.A would take priority, but who makes them today?