i already knew that. i think something went wrong with my question
i don't care enough to start again.
Kicking in the doors at München
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i already knew that. i think something went wrong with my question
i don't care enough to start again.
I did wonder.i already knew that. i think something went wrong with my question
(That's why I used a one word reply before someone pitched in with explanations of parallelograms and all that).
Mr K
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Thank you for your selfless sacrifice(s) on behalf of us pitiful 1200 riders.
We don't deserve you.....
...no really, we don't...
Good read - I stayed up late to read it all, last night..
We don't deserve you.....
...no really, we don't...
Good read - I stayed up late to read it all, last night..
Fanum
Toubab
I thank you 
It ain't quite finished yet.....still a few more odds and sods to go and some general conclusions, had to upload some more pics etc.
As for winging it, JFDI- you have to adopt a certain mind-set before you go but I'll come to that later when I finish off this report I promise
When all the bollix is finished later and there's only the sad bastards like me and Ash left up on the night shift, I'll round it off.
It ain't quite finished yet.....still a few more odds and sods to go and some general conclusions, had to upload some more pics etc.
As for winging it, JFDI- you have to adopt a certain mind-set before you go but I'll come to that later when I finish off this report I promise
When all the bollix is finished later and there's only the sad bastards like me and Ash left up on the night shift, I'll round it off.
i already knew that. i think something went wrong with my question
i don't care enough to start again.
i thought mono stood for monolever not monoshock ?
monolever as in single sided arm for the swingarm
perhaps some old duffer could clear it up ?
Mr K
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i thought mono stood for monolever not monoshock ?
monolever as in single sided arm for the swingarm
perhaps some old duffer could clear it up ?
I sincerely hope not.
We want more of the prophet Fanum's photies and words of ...er ..well the words...
i'm sure it does.
LiquidLAN
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monoshock, monolever, paralever, tomato, tomateto... did you spot it running in the live action on the Dakar tonight??? They did a section looking back over other bad weather years, and I'm pretty sure there was two of these running past the camera at one point.
anyway, I know I started this and I'm sure mono to the wider biking public is going to be shock
edit: oh doG thats a Family Fortunes type thing isnt it
anyway, I know I started this and I'm sure mono to the wider biking public is going to be shock
edit: oh doG thats a Family Fortunes type thing isnt it
Trippy
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When all the bollix is finished later and there's only the sad bastards like me and Ash left up on the night shift, I'll round it off.
So how long do we have to stay up?
At work till 7am anyway, not really staying up just for this
Kicking in the doors at Munchen eh?
Tip toeing through the open garden gate and gingerly tapping on the patio door more like...
Nice RR
Tip toeing through the open garden gate and gingerly tapping on the patio door more like...
Nice RR
Fanum
Toubab
Kicking in the doors at Munchen eh?
Tip toeing through the open garden gate and gingerly tapping on the patio door more like...
Nice RR
Oi!
I resemble that comment!
Will try and finish it off tonight...got caught up in something else last night 
Farmer Palmer
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Good read........:
NA1959
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Excellent report and pic's
Fanum
Toubab
So after an hour or so listening to the oompahs and talking general bollix, we decided to head off- Noddy was heading back to the UK drekkly but as it was late in the afternoon and Neuschwanstein was just up the road, we agreed to drive and ride up there, have a gander and then camp up, have a drinky and some supper before going our seperate ways.
Again, I'm afraid I don't have any great pics but it only took half an hour or so to get up to Neuschwanstein and park up as illegally as we could across a bus stop
(look up the hill to the castle if you missed it
)
It's a nice place but it is very overdone, as you'd expect.
If you're prepared to get up at stupid o'clock, jump in your hot air balloon and hang around with a grand's worth of decent camera kit and a laptop full of photoshop wizardy, I guess you could see this sort of thing
but to be honest I was a little underwhelmed with the place- maybe it was the bemulletted Germans and waddling American tourists, maybe it was the plastic pseudo gothic nik naks in the tat shops all around the place or maybe it was Noddy's underpants, I don't know, but it wasn't a highlight of the trip for me.
We headed off a mile down the valley towards the lake to find the campsite as marked on my ADAC map- Graham had managed to park up just around the corner so we agreed to meet him at the first campsite we came to.
Again, I'm afraid I don't have any great pics but it only took half an hour or so to get up to Neuschwanstein and park up as illegally as we could across a bus stop
(look up the hill to the castle if you missed it
)It's a nice place but it is very overdone, as you'd expect.
If you're prepared to get up at stupid o'clock, jump in your hot air balloon and hang around with a grand's worth of decent camera kit and a laptop full of photoshop wizardy, I guess you could see this sort of thing
but to be honest I was a little underwhelmed with the place- maybe it was the bemulletted Germans and waddling American tourists, maybe it was the plastic pseudo gothic nik naks in the tat shops all around the place or maybe it was Noddy's underpants, I don't know, but it wasn't a highlight of the trip for me.
We headed off a mile down the valley towards the lake to find the campsite as marked on my ADAC map- Graham had managed to park up just around the corner so we agreed to meet him at the first campsite we came to.
Fanum
Toubab
Can you see it huh?? Can you, can you????
If you squint your eyes up and use a magnifying glass you can just about see the castle in all its glory
behind the cowshed, with just a turret poking up above the roof
We set up camp in a tent only section and looked out for Graham who we presumed had to park in the big white van section, but after an hour or so we realised that we must have missed him somehow- Walking down to the lake, we could see another campsite a mile around the water.
Now don't get me wrong, Graham's a lovely bloke and we were looking forwards to having a drink with him, but frankly we couldn't be arsed to walk a mile around the midge infested lake so we did what we had to do- it was a hard choice but if just ask yourself what you would have done
If you squint your eyes up and use a magnifying glass you can just about see the castle in all its glory
behind the cowshed, with just a turret poking up above the roof We set up camp in a tent only section and looked out for Graham who we presumed had to park in the big white van section, but after an hour or so we realised that we must have missed him somehow- Walking down to the lake, we could see another campsite a mile around the water.
Now don't get me wrong, Graham's a lovely bloke and we were looking forwards to having a drink with him, but frankly we couldn't be arsed to walk a mile around the midge infested lake so we did what we had to do- it was a hard choice but if just ask yourself what you would have done
Trippy
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And he said he waited there for 2 hours as well ...... you cnut
Fanum
Toubab
That night the cows talked to Rosie.
We walked though the little village next to the campsite and past the big wooden cowsheds- you could feel warmth and a smell much akin to that released at any UKGSer meet wafting through the big open windows of the sheds and it was with much glee that Rosie discovered that not only were the cowsheds full of large brown eyed moo moos, but each one had a big brass bell around its neck and if you spoke to them, they stirred in their straw covered booths and clanked and mood at you.
Which was nice.
I dragged her away after a couple of hours and we retired to our pits where she dreamed of big milky udders and I, er, um, rolled over and went to sleep
By the way, this was by far the most ridiculously expensive camp site we went to and you're ever passing that way, avoid at all costs- you might as well get a taxi to the nearest hotel and stay there for less money and have less midge bites to boot.
There was an English chap there though on a 65OGS, heading for India overland- nice chap but I forget his name- he had some somewhat over-engineered pannier supports on his bike with a very neat and extremely solid tool box type thing on the back of them which he'd made himself- I said he ought to come here and offer them to the lovers of bling so hopefully one day he'll appear
They were very nice though and it's always nice to meet people who have modded their own bikes and are just off to do their thing
No, I didn't get a photo
We walked though the little village next to the campsite and past the big wooden cowsheds- you could feel warmth and a smell much akin to that released at any UKGSer meet wafting through the big open windows of the sheds and it was with much glee that Rosie discovered that not only were the cowsheds full of large brown eyed moo moos, but each one had a big brass bell around its neck and if you spoke to them, they stirred in their straw covered booths and clanked and mood at you.
Which was nice.
I dragged her away after a couple of hours and we retired to our pits where she dreamed of big milky udders and I, er, um, rolled over and went to sleep
By the way, this was by far the most ridiculously expensive camp site we went to and you're ever passing that way, avoid at all costs- you might as well get a taxi to the nearest hotel and stay there for less money and have less midge bites to boot.
There was an English chap there though on a 65OGS, heading for India overland- nice chap but I forget his name- he had some somewhat over-engineered pannier supports on his bike with a very neat and extremely solid tool box type thing on the back of them which he'd made himself- I said he ought to come here and offer them to the lovers of bling so hopefully one day he'll appear
They were very nice though and it's always nice to meet people who have modded their own bikes and are just off to do their thing
No, I didn't get a photo
Fanum
Toubab
In the rather dank cold and grey morning, we walked down to the lake edge to catch a last romantically spectacular view of the fairytale castle 
It's there, in the distance, promise!!
That day we headed generally North West and round some big lakes- A lake is a lake and I can't remember which ones they were but we ended up at Lake Bodenzee which I thought was Lake Konstanz because Konstanz is on it....damn these cunning German schwine!!
The campsite was great if noisy, run by a long haired biker dude hippy chap and very laid back compared to many of the German campsites we'd been staying at.
All done out in red, the bar and cafe bit did some reasonale grub and the lakeside was quite nice as well.
These ikkle things were parked up on the side and I took a photo for all the anoraks
Nice.
Cynicism aside, it was quite pleasant but we were definitely on the way home so there was that inevitable down feeling
It's there, in the distance, promise!!
That day we headed generally North West and round some big lakes- A lake is a lake and I can't remember which ones they were but we ended up at Lake Bodenzee which I thought was Lake Konstanz because Konstanz is on it....damn these cunning German schwine!!
The campsite was great if noisy, run by a long haired biker dude hippy chap and very laid back compared to many of the German campsites we'd been staying at.
All done out in red, the bar and cafe bit did some reasonale grub and the lakeside was quite nice as well.
These ikkle things were parked up on the side and I took a photo for all the anoraks
Nice.
Cynicism aside, it was quite pleasant but we were definitely on the way home so there was that inevitable down feeling
Fanum
Toubab
The next day we pushed on quite hard, mainly because we had run out of money and could only afford one more nights camping if we were going to eat that day as well- I tried to keep of the motorways but in the end we had to do some slab time on a very straight but satisfyingly bumpy dual carriageway before finding a very grand house whose gardens had been converted into a campsite.
NOTE- odd they are over there, in nearly every campsite, at least 50% of the caravans are permanent, but not like the part time pikeys do over here- these were small touring caravans but with big sheds, tents, canopies, decking, trees and dog knows what all sorted out around them- I guessed it was some sort of tax thing on holiday homes but these were permanent installations and rather sad for it.
This campsite had around 80% of its grounds covered in them, and you wouldn't believe the addons they had.
The bike packed and ready to go the next day, it was a bit of a downer as we knew we'd be back in squalid England that night
I love England BTW, but having been on the continent for a couple of weeks, you get used to the cleanliness and it just feels really nice to not be surrounded by spitting oiks and litter.
Ah well, at least we could get a kebab
NOTE- odd they are over there, in nearly every campsite, at least 50% of the caravans are permanent, but not like the part time pikeys do over here- these were small touring caravans but with big sheds, tents, canopies, decking, trees and dog knows what all sorted out around them- I guessed it was some sort of tax thing on holiday homes but these were permanent installations and rather sad for it.
This campsite had around 80% of its grounds covered in them, and you wouldn't believe the addons they had.
The bike packed and ready to go the next day, it was a bit of a downer as we knew we'd be back in squalid England that night
I love England BTW, but having been on the continent for a couple of weeks, you get used to the cleanliness and it just feels really nice to not be surrounded by spitting oiks and litter.
Ah well, at least we could get a kebab
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