I've got a good joke about Bergen too. It was hilarious until I went there. Not certain if I can shift it anywhere. The advantage of living in a 200 mile cul de sac is that you can just lean back against the weather and it's trapped. If you try and shift it there's a tendency for it to ooze out of the edges. It's all cause and effect, I'm afraid. Just keeping the weather nice for you means several million tons of the devil's dandruff is about to fall on Fez, Ash and Dave D.
You'll need to keep Derick onside too. He may have more influence on the weather your way as he's based in Glasgow. By the way, Si, I went with an R+G tail tidy. Your one has gone to a Spondon with a frame, swinging arm and exhaust like Armageddon itself. I'll send you a pic once it's finished. It's not my bike.
That's a sweet ride mate! Loving the colour scheme Can I ask what height you are that the screen make such a difference? I'm 6' 2" and got a fair bit of turbulence when I would it up. Weather up here is stonking too. Thing the 20th as the first day of spring was spot on. Shame i'm still in the tin box as couldn't bring the bike to work today. (its too short a trip in any case). Tomorrow, I may have to take the long way home.
Yes please, if you would that would be great. Look forward to especially it to see if it's an option to take mine off too.
I'm the same height or an inch taller or so. Very impressed that the airflow was so clean around me. Glad you like the colours, shipmate.
[/IMG] Hope this helps, Bill. If you want me to get closer I shall. It would need someone more up on these things (like Arthurbikemad) to make out what's going on here!
Oops! Looks like I may have overdone holding back the weather and it appears I may have broken it. It's gone a bit mental now.
Cheers Lambeth that picture shows it all for me. I can see now why the plastics are there, my guess is to cover the brackets that are above the engine case. What are the brackets there for as I'm assuming they're part of the ABD arrangement?
My pleasure, shipmate. Do you mean ABS? I've no idea what any of the stuff is in the picture I'm afraid. I reckon I'll have to keep it cleaner from now on and use that Scottoiler 365 gear. I hope neither Si nor Freedom see that picture with the dirty bolts and stuff. They'd think less of me.
Right. Since everyone's manifestly clamouring for my Bergen joke....ok.....well, here it is anyway. And it's nothing to do with rucksacks. This bloke has a bit of time off and decides to take a long weekend away on a cheap deal. He sees cheap flights to a place called Bergen in Norway and decides to go there not realising that it's the world capital of rain. He arrives on the Friday. It rains all day and all night. All Saturday. All the way through to Sunday and Monday. Really annoys the bloke cos he's from Manchester and is sick of the stuff. So he goes up to this child on Monday and says 'Excuse me. Does it rain here every blinking day?' The child replies 'I don't know. I'm only twelve.'
You joke all you want but the ..............meant, I WILL tell Ling!, not so funny now is it. You sleep well, mate, sweet dreams.
Are you sure, Ken? Sure the child wasn't 11 or 13 in your version? Cos it's not so funny then. 12 is the optimum age for Bergencentric humour.
Correct. It's the youthful charm and boyish good looks. Were we separated at birth, David? Btw if I ride it to Cheshire and ask REALLY nicely...do you think I could get Si to clean it?
My brother managed to lock himself out of his hire car at a one light, one phone booth, one bar crossroads deep in the glades. He called his mate to come get him and went into the bar. Typical western scenario, everything stopped as he walked in, every head swung his way. He walked to the bar, ordered his beer and put his money on the bar. The bar man swept the change off the surface and said "English. Your money's no good here". Thinking he was in for a kicking, Kevin braced himself as the guy nods at a picture on the wall of the burning twin towers and a Union Flag and Stars and Stripes crossed over it then slams a pint of the piss the septics call beer infront of it. By the time his mate got ther Kevin was into a serious shotgun session with the good old boys. "What made you think I was English?" He asked the batman. "You look like Vinnie Jones."
