What's Popular With Bikers On Google+?

You’re a motorcyclist and you have the opportunity to share your ideas and discuss with thousands of other motorcyclists on the World Motorcycle Community on Google+. So what do you think would be the most popular posts? Racing, bike maintenance, motorcycle safety, adventure touring?

Using Circle Count we discovered the top ten posts (based on +1’s and re-shares) were:

1. Real Life Motorcycle Signals – not what you think.
2. Gixxer Dog
3. Michael Rutter Leaning On A Wall
4. Pee'd Off
5. Welcome Hiromi Takahashi
6. Your Car Is A Lethal Weapon
7. Pick Up The New Diavel Today
8. Me And My Daughter ... Let The Race Begin....
9. Go Go Go
10. Fully Restored 1974 Laverda 750 SF

Which is your favourite motorcycle post that you have seen anywhere online?

Wirral Egg Run – 17th April 2011

http://www.wirraleggrun.co.uk/

New Brighton Prom Run starts at 11am.

Pre-Meeting Points

Hein Gereicke Liverpool will have tea and toast from 8:00ish
Olde Red Lion Little Sutton Breakfast from 8:30
Scotch Piper Liverpool open from 8:30
Blue Anchor Hoylake Breakfast from 8:30
Lacey’s Bar (FORMERLY DARCYS), New Brighton, Bacon Butties from 8:00am
John Wynne’s (Automotive), Bromborough,
Lattetude, West Kirby,
Bike Devils, Llay. Wrexham
The Egremont Ferry, Tobin St, Wallasey CH44 8DF, Bacon butties from 8:00am
Farmers Arms, Hilbank Rd, Frankby, have about 30 tabbards available, there will a bacon butty for each biker who wears it during the bike run and can be collected from 9:00am.(can be picked-up day before in normal hours)On there return a free Hog Roast batch.  Also in the evening an amazing band called “Fifi and the Boom Booms!” don’t be decieved by the name.

Here’s a great way to donate:

2011 Major Competition

TEXT ‘EGG’ to 70099 to win a 2011 Harley 833 Iron !

1st prize

A 2011 Harley Davidson 883 Iron donated by Camps Solicitors and supplied by Manchester Harley Davidson plus an OSX Aviator leather jacket.

2nd prize

A full training package and test fees, donated by GEG Rider Training (CBT, 24hrs road tuition, Mod 1 test, Mod 2 test) plus OSX textile jacket, trousers and gloves.

3rd Prize

CBT donated by GEG Rider Training plus OSX textile jacket, trousers and gloves.

TEXT ‘EGG’ to 70099 to win a 2011 Harley 833 Iron !

Drunk Pilot

I know it’s not bikes but it’s well worth a watch.

Thanks to Brad from Where It's @

Motorcycle Photographers

‘The Mudman’ here is one of the great motorcycling photo’s over at Adam Duckworth Photography.  I like the images of people linked to their precious bikes.

Go over and take a peek <link>.

Who is your favourite photographer and why?  Add your comments and links to their sites. 

If we have enough we could see who picks up the most votes in the popularity pole, or not.

New Year Resolution

Say after me, “I promise myself I will read one of these great Blogs once a month to keep my motors revving.”

Have a great New Year.

1. http://wrenchmonkees.blogspot.com
2. http://vintagedirtbikes.blogspot.com
3. http://300kmj.blogspot.com
4. http://ladyridesalot.blogspot.com
5. http://www.pittedchrome.com
6. http://poorcirculation.blogspot.com
7. http://garethowens.blogspot.com
8. http://carlaking.typepad.com/weblog
9. http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf
10. http://www.motomatters.com
11. http://www.helmethairblog.com
12. http://40on2.blogspot.com

The Hairy Bikers' Twelve Days of Christmas

A typically madcap Hairy Bikers' journey through the verses of one of the most popular Christmas songs.

For each line of the song, the boys have come up with a fantastic twist on a classic Christmas dish. From roast partridge with spiced pears (a partridge in a pear tree) and a classic trio of top-end poulets de Bresse chicken dishes (three French hens) to spiced Christmas pannacotta (eight maids a-milking), and of course the secrets of a perfect roast goose (six geese a-laying).

There are laughs to accompany the cooking: in addition to the fantastic Christmassy grub, the Hairy Bikers corral everyone they meet - including the original inspiration for Alan Partridge, four call centre workers and the fleet-footed Lords (and Ladies) of the Dance - to sing the lines of the Twelve Days of Christmas song, ready for a rendition at their drum-and-pipe-laden Christmas banquet finale in a beautiful manor house in Scotland.

Part of the BBC Christmas 2009 season.

Hairy Christmas on BBC2

Garage Door Opener

This is the future of automation!

Goldscoot and Golden Girl

Elvis Has Left the WingDing!

Coming soon … Diary of a Goldwinger the Portugese and Spanish Treffens.

Dear Mr Darling

I don’t know where this came from originally but Steve of Diary of a Goldwinger fame e-mailed it to me.

Dear Mr. Darling,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing Britain 's economy.  Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 20 million people over 50 in the work force.  - Pay them £1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.  Twenty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new British CAR.  Twenty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.
4) They must send their kids to school / college /university - Crime rate fixed
5) Buy £50 of alcohol / tobacco a week there's your money back in duty / tax etc
It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back there falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances.

What day is it LOL??

When I got the email from Lol about the concentration last weekend I thought that would be a nice relaxing few hours, not long distance, nice scenery and I hadn't seen the lads from TnT for some time. I set off for the 30mins trip to Castalla. I arrived early as usual for a coffee and tostada. Checking my phone I noticed a missed call from Lol, I rang him and he informed me that he had done his back and couldn't make the run out. He asked if I would mind taking his good lady Liz as she like me was looking forward to the ride out, normally I would have refused as I don't like taking passengers who have not ridden with me before. Lol has done me a lot of favours over the years and to pay him back and not to let Liz down I agreed.

We enjoyed a nice ride out and Liz turned out to be a great passenger and enjoyed the music and comfort of the Wing. We arrived in the village (Fontanar I think) rode around the village, there was a few bikes around the local area and parked outside bars, we then rode around the village looking for the parking area. Diego who was leading stopped, and asked for directions and we followed him back into the centre of the village. I noticed the trees were decked out with flags and a band was gathering on a street corner. Wow, they really put some effort into this for a bike day I thought. Lucy then came over to the bike and informed Liz and I that the concentration was on Saturday not Sunday and the bikes parked around were the campers and were having breakfast before leaving the village. I cannot print my thoughts as I would be locked up.

Well Lol that's what I call great planning and organisation. I noticed on the blog, a write up from Lol about the trip he had to show people houses, well they must be counting their blessings that he managed to get the date right. I even noticed sometime ago a trip to Morocco, thank God I didn't book in for that one, who knows when we would have got back. So a word of warning next time you get an email inviting you on a trip with Lol, double check and check again.

I cannot post any pictures because, as normal I forgot the camera, BUT if I had taken it it would have ended up where the sun don't shine, if you get my drift. Second word of warning if you intend going to Alqueña for the racing it is on SUNDAY, that's the day between Saturday and Monday LOL.

4,000 and Riding

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While Out Riding

Here are some great road signs I've been sent by King Pig.  If you see anything on your travels send them to me here.

 

 

 

 

Who the he..? 1970 cool sunglasses. Triumph 500

Click on the photo to go to this cool guy's

This is from the Benelli web.  Nice of them to make a bike in honour of Tour and Tracks (TnT) great work in bringing pleasure to motorcyclists around the globe .

Benelli Spain

Delhi Traffic Police

Paul Reading Motor Cycle News (MCN) in Delhi, India.

Something to Scare the Kids with

Face Helmet

A Triumph for Triumph

I wonder .......

Thanks to King Pig for these:

Can you cry under water?

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How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

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Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'.. But it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?

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Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

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What disease did cured ham actually have?

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How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

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Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up like every two hours?

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If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

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Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

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Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

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Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

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Why is 'bra' singular and 'panties' plural?

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Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?

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If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

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Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?

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If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

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Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!

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If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?

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If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

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If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

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Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

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Why did you just try singing the two songs above?

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Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

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