1400 Owners Life Today ( The 'What did you do today?' thread)

[Tony Nitrous]

Wife's latest idea / bribe....

I don't buy an expensive NEW bike, I buy a cheaper older bike (I'm bored and want a new toy), maybe something like another cheap Gen 1 Busa so I can have a proper unregistered long and low dragbike, I've only ever raced Run-What-ya-Brung street bikes, and then I spend the rest of my savings / wages / pension in December towards finishing the house renovation. In return, when we sell the house and settle in the new place, in maybe 18 months or 2 years, I get my new bike paid for.

Mmmmm..... I'm thinking.

[KiwiCol]

I'm thinking Vlad might like to borrow her for a while . . . 


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[seth]

Today me and Emma go to the tynecot cemetery to pay our respects .
100 years is not that long but I don't think anyone on any side is left to tell the story of a massive family argument that go out of hand big time.
So millions of normal men and boys from the countries involved had to pay the price .
In the end it finished but no winners as all sides lost so many .

[grog]

yeah Seth, everyone loses. i missed out on vietnam by a month, so glad. no probs serving but in a pointless situation , just stupid stuff. today i paid my bills, owe nothing to anyone. good feeling i reckon.

[Andre]

Just came back from a ride. Towards the end I visited a war cemetery where 2334 bodies are resting. 27 of them died from after the war till 1949 clearing mines. All victims of the battle for Hurtgen Forest. There are many thousand more victims of that battle. One of the worst (on foreign soil) for the US regarding casualties. About 55 million people were killed in WWII. Haven't heard a number about wounded in body and soul.

[ARH]

Sobering stuff gentlemen ... for sure we won't see wars like that every again.  Next one will be decided by nbc and will snuff out millions ina very very short space of time.   Cheery fella ain't I 

[Tony Nitrous]

Text messages today...

WIFE: "Can you go to shops on way home"

ME: "I'm already home"

WIFE: "Don't let that idiot dog on the bed"

ME: ...... 

[grog]

its a tough life Tony

[Sweaty]

Hahaha, love it 

[KiwiCol]

No new bike for you then . . .

[ARH]

Looking very cosy there Tony!   I assume the dog gets chased off the bed before the missus arrives 

[Hooli]

Well that cheap tomtom I got on ebay is no good for what I wanted it for. It functions fine as a sat-nav & allows four waypoints per trip. However being nav3 spec (I dunno either, but it's a software thing) it can't save routes so the stuff I've setup in tyre can't be loaded on to it.

Hence I popped out from work at lunchtime today & spend way more than I wanted too on a Garmin that will accept the files. I much prefer the Garmin interface too so that's a bonus. Especially as it turns out the 'any tomtom' that write ups online about tyre say it works with actually means not cheap ones, not new ones but just some old expensive ones. It's now sat on my desk updating maps & charging so I can put the routes on it tonight after servicing (& maybe washing) my 14. The latter depends how long it takes to get the scotoiler siphoned as I let it empty so it's not working currently.

Loads of time till the 4am ferry on Sat right? 

[ARH]

Hooli - the satnav needs to be able to store ITN files... useful info here:
http://www.tyretotravel.com/help/#qb2

[Hooli]

It's just finished updating so I'm trying to copy a route, it's stuck on 'Creating route tracks' currently....

[Globalrider]

Hi Hooli,
I have used TomTom riders for many years and TYRE and as ARH said, you need to convert to ITN files TYRE will do that - or at least the last time I did that - it did!
I find Garmin not intuitive like the TomTom but if going 'off road' they are better. I did do the Continental Divide using a TomTom but it was hard work.
I hope you get it sorted and safe riding!!
Cheers
Stan