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Sun Jun 07, 2020 12:24 am
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Stuart Fillingham tackles Triumph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofIHT4pOILo
Current motorcycle collection: 2002 Yamaha FZ1; 2020 KTM 390 Duke; 2011 Royal Enfield Bullet 500; 2009 BMW F650GS; 2016 BMW R1200RS; 2018 Zero S 16.6 kWh
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he's a cheerful chap |
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Zitat von DavidJR im Beitrag #3 Yes, his delivery of the script was very poor. He's no Sir Patrick Stewart. Not much of the proper Forest of Dean dialect left now. I grew up in Monmouth, lived between Ross & Lydbrook for many years and worked for 15 years at the Xerox factory in Mitcheldean until it closed in 2002. I became quite attuned to the dialect. Lots of new housing in recent decades so lots of outsiders commuting to Gloucester & Bristol. Very few industrial employers and little post 18 education so those insular hubs around places like the iron works at Lydbrook, the brick factory at Cinderford and various coal mines are all gone. The Forest is largely homogenised now and tourism is the major industry after grocery, schools, health and social care. |
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Well I was an early tourist in the Forest camping at Bracelands at the tender age of 6 weeks and remember the old road over Longhope Hill before the fast new road was built. At the age of 18 I rode my bike every Friday evening and Sunday night through the Forest on my weekly commute between Cheltenham and Usk. The twisting road going down from Staunton to Monmouth remains an all time favourite biking road up there with the Cirencester Road from Rendcomb, the road through Cranham Woods From The George and the Stow road from Andoversford. I kinda wish I lived there now just so that I could take my Boxer along those well worn routes. |
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Zitat von DavidJR im Beitrag #5 Just to make you happy, I have finished lunch and will now ride to Stow via Bishops Cleeve, Toddington, and Ford. I will return via Andoversford. A loop I probably ride 3 or 4 times a month. Often extended to go via Bibury, Perrott's Cross and Rendcomb rather than Andoversford. When I fancy a change, I ride to Ledbury via Hawe Bridge then to Ross, bag of chips at Monnow Bridge before riding home via Staunton. |
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And no it doesn’t make me happy LOL. If I want a Sunday afternoon burn I would normally head off into the Black Forest along the L roads to St. Blasien. But I must suffer the historic indignity of being an Englishman desperate to cross the Swiss-German border that’s only a mile away with the pandemic cognitive dissonance of wanting to make my escape across the Rhein INTO Germany. |
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I used to follow this chap on YouTube until he started spouting stuff that I knew to be nonsense. |
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