Parts ‘n’ all

[Cappodimonte]

Well took the plunge and bought front and rear mudguards for the bike, still got a lot more bits to purchase to get  her into top condition. When you chaps on here call them money pits you’re not wrong. Think this one’s going to be a mineshaft by the time I’ve finished. Think I’ll have to get back driving trucks again, bugger, just as I was getting to enjoy retirement.👍

[Laverdaroo]

But what a great way to fritter your retirement fund away,you'd have only spent it in Spain

[Cappodimonte]

Never had any wish Togo to Spain, been to Tenerife 8 times before COVID struck, until we give it another year I won’t be travelling in a high flying aluminium tube, so spending it on the bike is the better option right now.😀👍

[TrickyMicky]

Forget air travel, foreign lands, and sit back and imagine a Friday afternoon in the garage/workshop, and the last nut and bolt have just been successfully inserted and tightened. BLISS!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Not sure if it's just me - from my late teens until I was in my mid 60's  I enjoyed my holidays in the sun mainly in Europe. Then as my travel insurance rose  from £20 to finally £600 odd plus the joy of spending longer at the airport than in the air foreign travel lost it lure .
 For the last 8 years it's been in the UK tbh now I'm retired every day is a holiday. When I was working full time I needed a holiday to wind down now I have the 500.

[Johnny4428]

I’m with you Ted. Feel a bit of a fraud taking a holiday now I am retired. Managed nice family holiday to our favourite isle of Majorca in early June. Nice tool storage there Micky.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I love Majorca went with a mate to Alcudia for over 20 years.

[Laverdaroo]

Forget air travel, foreign lands, and sit back and imagine a Friday afternoon in the garage/workshop, and the last nut and bolt have just been successfully inserted and tightened. BLISS!

I'm with you on that!

[Moorey]

  Motorhome and trailer, take your bikes  and ride wherever you want. We have spent very little time at home this  year.  Home is
  where you park it. 

[philward]

I admire you Moorey, I have enough trouble getting my 24 foot motorhome around Welsh and lake district roads - particularly having to back up on single track roads when I meet a caravan coming the other way! Can't imagine adding a trailer to the backing up manoeuvre!

[Athame57]

.. been to Tenerife 8 times before COVID struck...

How did you cope with the time share touts ...pepper spray or something? 

[Cappodimonte]

Never ran into time share touts, if you knew me well you’d realise that I’d tie them in knots as my attention span for things I don’t need or want runs into milliseconds. Loved the
Hotel we stayed in, just a week or to of R and R.

[Moorey]

I admire you Moorey, I have enough trouble getting my 24 foot motorhome around Welsh and lake district roads - particularly having to back up on single track roads when I meet a caravan coming the other way! Can't imagine adding a trailer to the backing up manoeuvre!

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Just say to yourself. " Don't panic Mr Mainwaring." Things always work out. I am a great believer if farm vehicles and suchlike can get there so can I. The heart of the Brecon's can be a bit tight.

[Cappodimonte]

24 foot Motorhome ! Try getting a full length Artic truck and trailer down some of the South West and Welsh roads, then you can crow about achievements, even ‘arry and his tractor backup for that 😀👍. More than once it’s been an inch each side of the trailer and wall so, little room for error.  Worst was going down a half mile lane to a Commercial premises to find they had no yard as such, only way out was reversing where I’d come in, not very clever when chumps park cars where they shouldn’t. The lass in the timber yard was kind enough to let me spin around after I’d convinced her there was enough room (just) missing decking and stacking piles by an inch as the trailer swung about.

[Moorey]

  If it's how you earn your living then I see it as nothing to crow about. You are just doing your job like everybody else.