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Yeah MC lucky guy nice bikes nice weather and a good turnout..
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Not only looks good drewps it sounds great!! The amount of cups of coffee I have knocked over when I hear it coming down the road and have rushed to the window coffee flying everywhere but well worth the look.....
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sorry only just seen this post paul ,yeah me to have lost the plot dropped something off at Andrews yesterday and called for some petrol and bought there demo, car sadly,should see me out LOL.Hope you're going to be well at easter Paul
Have decided to go skiing not physically the other type ( spending the kids inheritance) so hope to feel better at Easter and head to Hamburg then Denmark,Sweden and where ever the urge takes.
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Once again I find that slice is making a lot a sense, FFS should I be getting worried?
After a tragic event in my life I tell everyone and I mean everyone "if there is something you really want to do FFS DO IT NOW" it doesn't matter how big or small just fucking do it.
Well I would normally agree with slice but as only myself knows how sick I feel I had a flight booked on Thursday to go to Sweden but it was physically impossible as I spent 48hrs being sick all over the place and having lost 2 stone and even finding any exercise to much.
I am always positive despite everything ,death doesn't and never has frighten me i appreciate what everyone is saying but living in manchester which has the best cancer hospital in the country people come from all over the world to it, when they say there is nothing more they can do what then I am still positive and will remain so.
There are lots of things I would like to do still and am lucky to have the money to do it I hope to go away at Easter and enjoy another passion sailing on the elbe and out into the Baltic and as long as I can physically do it I will.
I hope my reply doesn't seem rude it's not meant to but as those on here who have known me a few years know I call a spade a spade
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So, so, sorry to hear this Paul. From a matelot to a pongo.
romeo echo mike echo mike bravo echo romeo tango hotel echo golf oscar oscar delta tango's.
Thanks Mike it seems along lifetime ago that I was medi vac in to HMS yeovilton when you were an airy fairy before you became a submariner lay in a hospital bed surrounded by mate lots.
For those who don't know what Mike was saying it was to remember the good times.
Will do Mike
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Very sad to hear. If I can offer anything here..friend of mine died of asbestoses (cancer in lungs) a year ago. He spent 58000pounds on treatment which just ended up making him sicker. I know if he could do it again that money would have gone to a world cruise or something where he could enjoy his last bit of time. (my point..don`t give it all to the hospitals and doctors..go enjoy it).
Sorry to hear that Mac, that is what I have the oncologist said it can lay dormant from 10 to 50 years that the outcome is the same with or without treatment, so I won't be spending any money on treatment.
I have racked my brains where I could have come in to contact with asbestos and found out in the 60s a lot of the army buildings were made of asbestos due to their Fire retardant quality even thought it was known to cause cancer from as early as the 30s.
Typical of the British goverment if it had been a private employer I would have been entitled to compensation the American veterans can claim but as it likely happened before 1987 and only after that could you sue the queen before a royal warrant in 1987 made it possible.
Did your friend last long after diagnosis that it was asbestosis just curious as I have a few adventures planned a last hurrah.thanks for your comments.
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Crap news that OT. At least you seem to be keeping hold of a sense of humour and who knows doctors have been known to make errors in the past - my dad was given 6 months and had just over 6 years!
Bugger the pint - I could do with some new boots.... you're not a size 8 are you??
Sorry no..size 8 nah I am not a midget anyway would you really want some old gits boots who only has a bath once a year wether I need one or not.
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Thank you everyone for your kind wishes ,I have known for a few weeks what the outcome is 10 to 12 months now I have had the biopsys results it is confirmed.
I have not wanted to post on here and tell people because I didn't want sympathy I just didn't know what to do as people sometimes feel awkward but in the end I have as i know my favourite bunch of fellow pisstakers might cheer me up on bad days.
Nice one kev I knew you say something like that
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Well boys and girls it's a sad day for me today as all my bikes have now been sold, after a rather wet but enjoyable squires I went back to Hamburg only to take Bad and after a few weeks managed to get back home,Christmas came and went and I got no better.
After many tests it seems I have cancer one which is incurable and the out come looks grim so I have sold all my bikes as it was a struggle to ride.
I am sure those of you that know me will realise how gutted I feel after riding for 53 years but if I will not give up without a fight and maybe even still get to squires in the cage.
Will look in now and again to see what scrapes you have got your selfs in and of course drewpys weird vids.
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Hi Karen, the fault codes for R1 are if it was 16 it is the ignition coil, if it is 19 it is the spark plug, hope that helps
Should have said 16 is ignition coil 2,
15 is 1
16 is 2
17 is 3
18 is 4
When I can find it will post all fault codes up for further reference . Paul
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EVEN AN OLD GIT LIKE ME CAN DO IT KEV, and that's on my iPad. smileys as well , perhaps you need directions how to do it,maybe directions the wrong word.......or maybe not for some reasons it won't let me put smileys or photos and the one thing that really annoys me it won't let me change my profile..
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the highlight for me was the old dear frothing at the gills in the car park, just after the old dude had called me a wanker for riding like a twat.
that must be a new record for me as i had only been there five minutes
Even better was when she started on me and murph and I hadn't even been there, couldn't stop laughing when she said to me and YOU should know better.lol
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Didnt get a reply when i tried. Pm'd lee direct too. Stayed with cia in the end.
Well Jason it seems like you might have made a wise decision, I am still in limbo with them I thought yeh everything's sorted but no having sent as requested a copy of driving licence they also wanted a copy of my no claims fair enough so I sent them a copy of my present insures paper work which shows my no claims but no no good enough so I got carol Nash to send me a quote for this year which also show s my no claims but yet again NOT good enough they want to wait till my insurance has ended with carol Nash and then phone them so I think I will be using my 14 day cooling off period to cancel.. I can't go off to germany on Thursday not knowing am I going to be coming back to yet another email.
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Lol, yeah, I just couldn't help myself - great roads aren't they?
They might be now but last night they were horrendous that rain! And then the mist and fog over the top. Looking at your bike last night it was difficult to tell it was a new bike. Have a nice afternoon cleaning it I have spent 2 hours and mine still not mint lol.
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We'll did one of those online quotes with the bike insurer after carol Nash who I have been with for years sent me my renewal what a p...s take my online quotes came back with bikesure streets ahead saving me £192.84 on carol Nash whose first quote was over £500 pounds more but suddenly came down over £200 after I said no,so in the end I have paid half of what I would have paid on my MV Agusta F 3.
Thanks bikesure well pleased and quickly followed up with policy details on PDF
Now just have to decide do I keep my Bonnie as well!
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No photo of bike drewps ! We'll disapointed
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yep & I bet none of us were with the AA or other back then
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The thing was tommy back then most bikes were a simple fix unlike the computerised things today, the guys who still ride the classic and older bikes at least have a chance of getting it running even the AA man now days just calls up recovery,when my f4 broke down the AA guy had to ask me where the battery was!!!!!!
All being well I should be at squires god and the dvla willing as I am waiting for paperwork for a change of reg.
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Am with lassy " dont buy new, its a loose-loose situ, thers a lotta great secondhand bikes out there,,,you will buy for near the deposit money,,,
And no rope round your neck,,,[ HP]
Well john I am with you never ever buy a new bike,with any bike you will have some depreciation but adding to that the VAT my bike in the first year from riding out the showroom I was down over 4k.
As far as reliability some have no problems others have lots but reading the internet most of the comments will be negative nobody posts how good just how shit and what problems they have had.
I love the comments about my bike oh no you bought an Italian bike the electrics are crap they are un reliable mostly from people who have never had or rode one.well mine has been a dream one blown fuse and one rear light bulb in18 months, so get what you want ignore everyone else then you only have yourself to blame,pasted a lot of Harley's on the autobahn on the way back from hamburg 860 miles only saw one bike broke down sorry boys it was a yamaha.....
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Yeh will be there at squires,having been a widower for 25 years and a happy single biker left Antwerp and started to spend a lot of time in hamburg then the usual story met a woman and was due to spend the next 3 weeks in hamburg but due to my bad behaviour on Saturday and a big row I am back home single and happy.
Both my bikes and cars are due for insurance in September so the nightmare will begin all over again LOL
At least in hamburg no one tried to steal my bike or car over the last six months unlike Antwerp 3 times I had attempts at having it away with my bike,which is why I don't stay anywhere for more than a month at a time as insurance over the 90 days gets silly
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The main differences I can tell is that you can get agreed value but have to limit certain parts of the policy such as mileage and security when not ridden. Apart from the big benefit of agreed value, the other is recovery. Often vehicles need to be under a certain age to get this as a separate purchase. Financially, I can't see any cost savings nor any to a multibike policy with most insurers but that might be because my premiums are low anyway. Even if the risk of accident etc covers both bikes, the recovery will only apply once as you will only be riding one bike. I have never used it yet. The one time I needed to recover a classic, due to a puncture, I used the policy that comes with one of my bank accounts.
Insurance is one big nightmare, single policy? Multipolicy? Six wheel policy tried them all none of them appear to be any cheaper last year I almost considered giving up having more than one bike and carol Nash can shove there policy's where the sun don't shine I was with them for years from when carol started and did them from her kitchen but for some reason everybody tells me it must be great being 67 years old your insurance must be cheap well for some reason once I got to 65 it seems to be going up ? WTF. I give up
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Paul, you OK for shopping and stuff? give me a bell as I pass your house on the way to work
Thanks andy for an amazing offer our nick was round last night so he sorted me out, the swelling seems to be going down, up and about this morning think I am best staying local while it goes down completely. Thanks once again. -
bring back a burger then
Sorry you have no chance of a burger.....agh. I am grounded I have got GOUT last time I had an attack was twenty year ago not much hope of getting my boot on , the good news is whilst sat here moaning I have just realised if I had left tomorrow I would have done so with no road tax
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Fingers crossed but will be on four wheels.