My day in picture

Motorcycling
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Wow, what a day… not going to forget that one in a hurry… It started off at the crack of sparrow fart… well everyone gets up early in the country. Wondered down stairs and my father said to me, why was I up… looked at the clock and it was just before 7am heard him stonking around when I was in bed and thought it was about time to get up not realising it was so early as I didn’t have a watch, clock to look at… so day was shaping up to be a nice one, got out on the bike

OK boys and girls, now I know they are not very good because they were on my camera phone… who knows where I’ve been today?

Can you spot what is wrong with this picture? no… here is another clue…

Anyway breakfast inside me I went for a propper crack and ended up here… anyone?

and can you spot what is wrong with this shot…

only joking officer

I wasn’t doing 130mph up the motorway… no sir… I spotted them hanging back on the inside lane and pulled in in front of them. The guy in the Porsche in front of me was so impressed he gave me a thumb up

Got back to destination number one, went for a pee in the public lav and was just walking back to my bike ready to go home and kick it in front of the TV to watch the afternoon sporting events. Got the bike key out of my pocket and stuck my index finger through the key ring and sort of flipped it round, as you do sometimes… only this time it flies off my finger and like a guided missile straight toward a drain. Thirty feet of road either side of this thing and it does that little, oh I’m just sitting on top of the grill… now I’ve dropped inside (all in slooooooow motion). Now I’m about 2 hours away from home and my spare key… hmm, called my father to come get me… I’m thinking drive home, pick up spare key, drive back, collect bike and ride home again… this is gonna take all frikin day

Now this is not the first time I have dropped keys into drain. This happened about a year ago when getting out of my car with an armful of stuff I just dropped my house keys… unfortunately I had parked right over a drain. I fished them out eventually after a few days with a garden rake and a strong magnet… Lesson learnt I thought… I keep my house keys on a lanyard… but I’d stepped out this morning with just a bike key

So the first thing I did was wonder up to where I knew there was a hardware store to buy a magnet and a stick… closed My next thought was to ask my father to take me to the next biggest town where there would be a store open to buy one… He was taking his time to show up, which is odd, as they don’t live far away. I was thinking of calling the AA to join up and get them to come down… when I remembered I have emergency cover with another company, which I took out with my insurance almost a year ago but have never had to use

Then he arrived with a magnet from the same place I was going to ask him to take me to… great minds and all that. Two minutes of fishing later key on the end of a bit of string

Big shout out to the old man for getting me the **** out of dodge. We had to go for a quick beer, just to settle the nerves

Whataday! lol

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Not sure about the 1st one, but the 2nd one is H’s at Barham (aka Kent M/C’s cafe).

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Well done on your fishing trip, I’m very impressed! I’ve done the “parking over a drain” thing and when I realised that I made sure I held very tight to the keys in my right hand. Unfortunately I wasn’t very coordinated and relaxed the grip I had on my phone in my left hand which slipped from my grasp and slowly, oh so slowly, fell towards a watery grave.

As for what was wrong with the pictures, the bikes were stationary, should’ve been on the move!

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Yup H’s is a bit of a give away. Kent Motorcycles. Big crowd there on Sunday.

I’m surprised if no one gets the first though. Excellent spot for bikes.

Choccie, no not stationary… think tyres.

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Oakdene? Ridden past but never been in, nor got a good look at it - was lost both times

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nope. anyone else?

OK I’ll put you out of your misery as I am sure you are all dying to know… Rye Harbour.

I’ve got chicken strips… seem to have lost my bottle over the winter… well I didn’t have any knee sliders so couldn’t explore the edge of grip

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Aah, i thought it was oakdene at first too…! Was gonna mention the strips, but ive seen worse so didnt think it was that…uve not been put to much shame! ha ha

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I think ive also spotted a fake Akrapovic?

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no… the Akraprovic sticker is genuine, £8.50 each

the chicken strips were bad, about 2cm to start off with I couldn’t get my head round corners at all. Still in winter mode. There was a bit of damp in the shade. It got a bit better but still feel so rusty! Man, I’m gonna have to get my power ranger suit on, strap some sliders on and find so nice quiet roundabouts…