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Hello from France.
What a day I have had, my day started at 00.01 when it was raining and the wind in the wrong direction caused another night moving buckets and bowls about to stop the leaks, after a while I got hacked off and decided to go to bed.
One hour later I was awake 02:15, got up took some more pain killers and went back to bed 03:15 got up went to the bath room and looked at my PC to see if any mail, 04:40 got up switched on the TV watched the news, more UK army killed in Afganistan, Australia v England on Saturday and I think NZealand are playing Wales or was it Ireland. Went back to bed now 06:00 got up time for all my pills and potions, coffee and back to bed.
Wow must be a record I got up about 09:15 had some toast and coffee fed our pet cat and fed our wild cat that lives by our back door in a flower box, sat down in front of the PC and low and behold flashing across my screen was a skype warning that KING of AMERICA was on line and wanted to say hello, as I am not proud I will talk to any QUEEN / KING or any other person of good standing.
I was so impressed that he found time to say hello and with the 7.00 hrs time difference it must have been 02: something in the USA, I can only say that CCC has got some real good guys and girls all over, it was a great thing to speak and see him for about 20/25 minutes and then I had to go. After that the rest of my day has not been so bad, sold one or two little things and made a bit of money, showed a woman my leather jackets as she wants to by one for her husband and one for the son ( not top of the range Perfecto’s but good enough for the price that I sell them for, one must eat you know! )
Its now 22:00 and I am going to sit down and watch THE UNIT and have some more coffee.
Keep the grey coming long and slow.
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Hello from France.
Well I have found a camera over here on Ebay and it seems OK, its an EAGLE 100 by Somikon, basic cam with AA batts inside and up to 8 Go Sd card, can be used direct to the TV or PC via USB connection and well the price was less than 50 euro.
It has an elastic strap to fit it to your helmet but I don’t like that much, it comes with a tube fixing and that seems the best solution, got to work something out as my tests gave me a bad neck trying to keep up with the vibration of the cam.
The quality of image is very good for something a cheap as this, so lets get down to my posting, CAM v CAM, when you get pulled over by the police in a lot of places you are being filmed, so now when you talk to the occifer stand in front of your bike so that when he gives you a test of your helmet by hitting you as hard as he can with his riot stick you now have it on film, try improving the sound gain on your cam so when he starts talking about the married status of your mother and father you again have it on film.
When it goes to court and the occifer states his cam was not working well because he pulled the fuse, you can say “ ok judge you can watch my film if you want to”. You have fun and enjoy yourself, and as other people have said, once you start you cant really stop, I walked round the house filming, the garden and our village, must get it on the bike without all the vibration. If somebody has the same I would love to know how you fixed yours as I have seen a clip with it used on a BMX coming down a mountain side with the exception when the guy fell over the side all was good, I sent him a mail but he has not replied yet ( maybe injured or dead )
Keep the Grey coming long and slow.
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Description: Today was the Victorian Pink Ribbon Motorcycle Ride. This is an annual event to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. Spacemonkey69 and I have made an effort to do this ride each year since I got my learner permit actually, and so it's become something of a tradition, and something we look forward to each year. I'm sure it is a cause that is close to many of our hearts (excuse the pun), as we all know someone who has gone through some form of cancer or another, it's a disease which doesn't discriminate.
Our day started at the reasonable hour of 7.30am (thank goodness as last night was my 15 year high school reunion which went till late - that's another story). We rode first to my sister's place, as we've promised my 7yr old niece that she could ride with us this year now that she can go on the back of hubby's bike. Just as we pulled into their driveway the rain began. Just great! We had a few minutes to wait anyway, as we put the pink bandana around the niece's neck, adjusted her 'pink wings' and put a pink ponytail (helmet hair) on her helmet. The rain stopped and we were ready to go. Mum and little brother watched her hop on the back and us taking off, and I'm sure her mummy had a tear in her eye watching her little girl leave for her first "real" ride (before this we'd taken her only as far as the local cafe).
We rode out to the Westgate bridge meeting point near Melbourne city. The bikes had already started to arrive and fill the car park of the Shell Servo - which is a huge car park. In all there were 10 different 'meet points' across Victoria, all leaving to arrive at 11am at Point Cook. Point Cook town centre was closed off to all cars, only allowing bikes and pedestrian access. A band (Retromax) set to play in the town square, trade stalls, all local retail outlets open for business, some even with specials and part of purchase being donated towards the pink ribbon cause, raffle tickets, etc. Lots of other things organised to make it a memorable day.
We met up with XRAYX and all paid our registration fee - all funds going to breast cancer research. Checked out all the other bikes, chatted with other riders about their bikes, had people talking to us about our bikes... actually it was here I ran into Greg Evans (local media celebrity from the 80's - hosted a match making tv show back then, now on radio) who was checking out my bike really well - imagine that! Turns out they came on his daughters bike which is a 650 Drag Star, similar looking to my V-Star and we got chatting. It was great, lovely guy and his daughter is really nice as well. Got a few tips from him on roads we can't miss on our trip to Sydney, some of the best riding roads he's ever experienced. We'll try work those into the trip.
10.30am all engines started and we hit the freeway towards Point Cook. Kept up a good pace considering there were probably a hundred bikes, and we saw other riding groups from other directions merge with ours as we were arriving at Point Cook Town Centre.
The town was abuzz, splashes of pink everywhere, bikes literally everywhere! People lining the streets, getting off bikes, watching bikes, taking pics of bikes and generally just a lot of fun. My sister was there waiting for us - takng video of all the action (and if I can figure out how to edit it and upload it, I will!).
I had to back the bike into a bike space I thought I might have a bit of trouble with, as there was a lip on the road and it went uphill. "Concentrate" I told myself, "Think about it before you do it", "Ignore all the people watching you, just concentrate and do this"... then, with the right amount of momentum I bumped over the lip and the bike just rolled back smoothly into the perfect position - great! I might finally be getting better at this slow speed, walking around stuff. Just after I parked, the rain began again, but it only lasted a few minutes and was light. Then it was gone - and hasn't come back the rest of the day. We were blessed.
We had a good time at Point Cook really checking out the diverse range of bikes and chatting with various riders. Always interesting to see what other people are doing with their rides, and other people wanting to know about ours. I think spacemonkey69 showed about half a dozen riders the easy bracket system for my saddlebags, cos they hadn't seen it before, stuff like that.
Home early now, had a full on day yesterday, and late night. Got a family dinner on tonight, then going out until late tomorrow after work, to a concert - so trying to conserve a bit of energy - for the next ride!
Hope I haven't bored you all... I'm not much of a writer, so thanks for reading this, and if you made it this far - well you get a gold star LOL
Take care and ride safe to all! Dim 
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Description: THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning
Uphill... barefoot...
BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. cause that's how we rolled dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!
and just for Phil,
we had NO FM or Digital Radio only AM radio. No Digital TV, NO Plasma TV, NO 60" Wide Screen TV's and NO 5:1 Surround Sound Entertainment Systems either only Stereos lol
Regards, The over 30 Crowd
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