Modern Vespa

An LV sounds very tempting. I have however promised to not buy another scooter related product. (for the moment )

I am trying to convince myself I am happy with the GTS just the way it is. Which I am. But I am also thinking about a new seat, and a top case, and an LV pipe.

well the topcase comes under the heading of 'essential equipment' - personally i wouldn't bother with the vespa one, i'd go with a givi. they have nicer lines and can be removed in about 5 seconds if needed.

I had a vespa one on the LX, thought it was over priced. I wanted to avoid the having a topcase this time, but I could really do with the extra storage. At the moment I am riding into work in jeans, my lunch and gear is in my bag in the pet carrier and my laptop is in a bag on my back. Which leaves me no room for when I go back to wearing suits for work and need storage for a jacket. I will see how it goes, maybe I can avoid wearing suits for work permantly.

Do. When I started work I vowed never to have a job that required wearing a tie. Career successfully accomplished (and ducked out of nice and early!).

I am so tempted to leave an 'Otto' message on there.

I can't believe no-one picked up on it.

I like the Vespa ones, I think they definitely match the scooter better! but can see the worth in the Givi... matter of preference, much like the other subject we were on earlier

As a pantheist, omnivorous, bourbon-swilling, live-and-let-live-and-shut-up-already pervert who just *happens* to also reside in California USA (and didn't vote for our current governor, tyvfm), I'm electing in this particular instance to keep my fool mouth shut.



Oh hell...who am I kidding? GIRTH. Girth girth girth. Unless you're the 50 ft. woman, length doesn't matter much at all. Girth FTW! (girthy heads are nice too, though. Built-in bloops. POP!)

Sorry I havn't been very vocal here recently but with all that chat about penis size recently I frankly blushed so much I had to go away and compose myself because you all know I'm very shy.

Well Nik has come up trumps with my Italian Airforce logos and they will be applied over the cowling scratch on Saturday.
I may have a couple left over as he made about 8 of them so if anyone wants one or two ? Let me get them on then you can try before you buy.
Well not buy but you know what I mean.
I'm still trying to figure out if it's worth getting the cowel painted at the end of the year prior to selling the Hornet.
I know that all of this will change but for now the plan is to sell the Hornet in November and the VW Fox and to purchase a 300 in dragon red or white with the proceeds and then lease an Audi A3 for a year through the company and hand it back at the end.

If anyone is interested in the Hornet let me know. I'll transfer the screen and the mat to the 300.
It's still only done about 2500 miles so I doubt it will go over 6k by the end of the year.

Lets hope that the weather stays good for Saturday afternoon because I fancy a nice ride out.

Does anyone fancy the meet at somewhere Italian on the 6/7th of June or even another meet at the Pilot soon ?
I do really like that pub and it's not too far for most of us.

Mark I'm so sorry to hear about your recent unscheduled modification to your ankle. Get well soon mate.
Lets hope we get a chance to meet you very soon.

Ride safe all.

Billy-no-scoot

Creth I've missed your own special kind of input. Fancy taking the Pepsi taste test ?

What am I like.

Oh Billy, my sweet. Come over here and give us a sip, er...kiss.

Diet ? Sugar Free ? Tab ?

You decide.

Bill X

Um...all bets off. I have to hate you now.

Ooh sir me sir please sir!

I'm thinking about changing my bike towards the end of the year (sooner if a sooper deal should turn up) so I might possibly take an interest in the Hornet, though green isn't really my colour.

I'm such a fashion victim, BTW, that I've just bought a pair of Crocs because I was so impressed by their usefulness at the Bikers Loft (Guess what colour they are?)

That'll be red, red or red I guess...

I'm going for green just to be different. Much as I like the white 300'ds I think I'll be lusting after the fire and the passion that is red.
Red polishies up really well where as white just reflects light and doesn't have any depth unlike navy blue and black.
Alice you have first dibs on the Hornet as and when it becomes available.
I have a pair of stickers here for you for when we meet again.

Regards

Bill XX

So Creth if I get a 300 in red will you hate me forever ? ( and that's a long long time )

Bill XX

maybe she won't but i certainly will i'll once again be the lowest displacement member of the club that isn't a club

who on EARTH wore crocs at the biker loft

Why do I feel that my ambitions are making me very unpopular ?

It's lonely here.

Bill

There's me remembering it was you.

They do look useful, I admit. It would be a huge wrench for me to buy extra footwear though.

t'was me indeed

yellow with green straps (funnily enough my last pair were green with yellow straps

work = steelies
scooter = hiking boots
all other times = crocs

crocs are sooooo comfortable 8)

Not having looked at all, so lazily asking here, are they readily available in the UK? Crocs that is?

should be able to get them in any town center

word of advice......

only buy genuine crocs, there are lots of look-a-likes on the market, some just as good, some aren't so comfortable

Black Crocs here. Though I usually only wear them in the summer while watering plants or pressure-washing my patio.

Yes, Billy. Forever.

Yep I was wearing my sand crocs at the loft too. I'm a 43 or 9 and wear a large w10 -11. Plenty of genuine ones on ebay Jim. I'm with Maver. All the time in the house.

I'm a Birkenstock clog man, myself. Chocolate brown.

i have to agree with you there. length is only useful if you're inseminating livestock.

and now back to the shoe discussion:

household footwear = LL Bean sheepskin slippers in the winter, muji flip flops in the summer. i have a pair of rubber garden clogs i got for £3 at Lidl - those are for wearing in the garden year-round (unless it's pissing down and then the Hunter classics go on).

now, i could go on to discuss the rest of my shoe wardrobe .... for instance, today i'm giving a paper to the august membership of the Royal Photographic Society so i will be sporting green pixie boots purchased in amsterdam.

At last, a part of the conversation I can join in about!

I love the idea of "Skoks with Crocs!" Perhaps a special not club within a not club.

I enjoy the added beauty of Crocs With Socks (try it guys, it adds a new dimension to their comfort) so there could even be another sub sub club sub club called "Skoks with Crocs with Socks". Kate, can you get on with the stickers please?

Oh, another idea, as I also love Birkenstocks, there could be (come on, you know whats coming next)...

"Skoks with Crocs with Socks and Birkenstocks" - so, as the first official member, who wants to join the SWCWSAB?

Charles

PS: I have NOT been drinking, this is a genuine post.

Yeah, yeah, Miss ditch-all-the-ET4s-and-leave-me-all-on-my-own...

Jim wins the 'what colour are Huskyteer's Crocs?' quiz. Shop around on the internet and you can find them a fair whack cheaper than the ludicrous £30 RRP - Amazon has various colours for £20 atm.

I can do crox-with-sox, but alas my sandals are plain old Clarks so I can't join Charles's gang

nor can i. i don't do birkenstocks (they make me walk like a duck) and i already have my pair of Lidl 'moc crocs' .... so if you're willing to accept pale imitations of molded rubber sandalry, then i can be in the sub-club-that-isn't-a-club and no billy that isn't 'submissive' it's just sub. whew

okay off to talk to the RPS now

Charles, I assume it's obligatory to have LSD for breakfast in your new club

my guess was magic mushrooms on toast

Ahh. Those were the days

The Psychedelic Breakfast of Champions!

*Cornflakes emerge from the eternal void, but alas, all the spoons appear to be made of jelly*

Nah! genie never fear i'm still here, or am I not here in the club that is not a club. If I dont attend the majority of Skok meets that are not meets does that mean I am more of a non member of the club that is not a club?

As for footwear i'm a 95% desert boot man, I now have 3 pairs, one pair that i'm wearing at the moment which are the standard Ikon sand colour with oily bits and dirt and shit all over them. When they give up the ghost i've got an identical pair sitting in a box in the cupboard brand new to take up the baton. I've also got a dark brown Wranglers pair for special occasions. I get them from Brantano!!! cos every now and again they have a pair for sale on sale at about £20 so I buy them and store them away, they normally retail for about £60 in the shops

But when its really warm i don a pair of Clarks Active Air sandals or my Element trainers.

So there you go


BTW i dont spend the majority of my time sitting outside Brantano in the rain waiting for the only pair of size 11 desert boots to go on sale, just in case you were wondering

That used to be obligatory "camping dinner" before they made them illegal a few years back. I guess I was having one of those "flashback moments".

There is however one rule in the SWCWSAB - your Crocs need to be the real thing (sorry Alice and Genie). As the man Maver says - real or no deal.

Kate, where are our sticker designs?

Applause to CBS Whitton!

Having serviced the X9 125 ready to hand it on to elder 'orrible as a more convenient commuter vehicle than his Range Rover Sports Supercharged gangsta-wagon, I went to get it taxed online this afternoon. Argh! The MOT ran out yesterday! A quick phone-call to CBS, and they squeezed me into their fully booked-up schedule within the hour.

Sorted.

applause to breakdown recovery!!! my rear tyre lost all of its air as i was speeding down the A2 earlier today. thankfully i didn't crash - read the full story here: Adventure on the A2 - rear tyre goes pop at 70mph

oh btw just prior to the decompression event i discovered that i can get all the way to the top of the speedometer (140 km/hr) without hitting the rev limiter.

I don't own the crocs and never will, sorry guys, please don't ditch me from the club!

bill - I agree with the shine comment. I love white vehicles, but they don't polish as nicely and they stain with anything.