Back on the road

Heyup you lot, how's it going?

After a long layoff and an unwieldy set of adventures involving a
stretch in hospital with a broked spine, a 12 month medical suspension
on my license, several employments and a poverty impeded rebuild, I'm
back on the road with a reasonably smart looking street sleeper Guzzi
T3 tastefully embellished with Le Mans heads, 36mm Dellorto round body
carbs, and a LOUD Dr John exhaust system.

Hog has kept in touch on and off, offering occasional words of
encouragement and beers - Cheers Mate!

So, what did I miss?? When's the BOSM??? Will anyone reply?

 

Do be careful, 007.

You've missed it, but there's still time for you to get your arse down this
way - winterplatyfest is 20th Dec.

 

Ooh, I might manage that or, at least, breakfast.

 

Yesh. Shaken, but not shtirred. I need to talk to 'M' about those car
sheeking mishiles.

Wahey! Where's 'down this way'?

 

Her Majesty's Southwest. Just North of Bristol.

 

Arrr, Brizzle. Sounds like a good excuse for a ride down the welsh
border.
Room for a long 'un indoors? Or do I bring a tent?

 

Should be plenty of room. If you must have a tent, I'll set up one of ours.

Details emailed.

 

Good man.

 

'tallbloke' wrote...>

Good to see you back on the road TB.

You've only missed the usual bickering, nothing important

 

Canny! And nice to see you back on a Guzzi.

 

Cheers Frag, didn't you have a major recovery hassle some time ago
too? Hope all is good.

It's the unimportant bickering which seems to have a fond spot in
what's left of my memory

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, tallbloke

Ayup, big feller.

Sorry to hear of your travails, glad to hear you're back up and
fighting.

 

Hey Ace, ISTR you bust your back in Swiss around the same time? Hope
you are back to full health. You got the full metalworks no? I got the
hi tech NHS 'Lie still and suck this aspirin' treatment, which has
left me with a 26 degree kink in my back. Hey ho. I had some
blackouts, which is why they nixed my license for a year, the
b'stards. As if I didn't have enough problems, that lost me my job.

But I'm the luckiest guy walking, so I'm just happy to be here.

 

'tallbloke' wrote...>

I did. I also fell down the staird and broke the same leg a couple of
months ago, but all healing well now

#Mammories, like the melons of my mind...

 

Wotcha Colin. Good to *be* back on a Guzzi.

 

Aug 2006.

Pretty much. Still doing physio, some way to go yet.

Bugger, bugger, bugger.

Good to see such a positive attitude - hope it orks out for you.

 

Cheers Nigel. Hows the workshop doing?

 

Hi Molly, bike sounds good. Sorry if I hijacked your thread. I picked
the same title and googlenews has run them together. Don't know how it
looks on a proper newsreader, as I'm posting using my mobile, and T-
mobile don't do a proper NNTP feed AFAIK.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, tallbloke

Fine, fine, fine.

Do you need a new spine knocking up? I've got a lump of titanium lying
around somewhere...

 

I aws thinking more along the lines of rocket launcher tubes for
dealing with cars driven twuntishly onto the wrong side of the
road.
Didn't some bond baddy have something similar on a Z1000 in 'Live and
Let Die'?

Speaking of rockets on bikes, have you seen this guy's buzz bomb style
bike propulsion?
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/05/jet-powered-bic.html