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Falcoholic · #1 Post by **Falcoholic** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:28 pm

No not the new CC capacity of the beasts engine.

Posts since I was last here.

So how y'all doing then?

Samray · #2 Post by **Samray** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:42 pm

WB mate.

exupmonkey · #3 Post by **exupmonkey** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:02 pm

How do Mr Holic, where you been, mining for coal in Chile??

HowardQ · #4 Post by **HowardQ** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:58 pm

Nice to hear from you again Andy, how are you doing?
Hope you're still getting out on the Falco.
Any changes on the job front?

Falcopops · #5 Post by **Falcopops** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:03 pm

WB why so long away?

D-Rider · #6 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:14 pm

Falcoholic and exupmonkey both posting on the same day in the same thread ...... have the planets aligned ??

Glad to see you're both about

Samray · #7 Post by **Samray** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:24 pm

I think Scotland must have come out of hibernation.

exupmonkey · #8 Post by **exupmonkey** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:18 pm

80mph winds and driving rain up here....I am going back into my hole in the ground, wake me up when the sun begins to shine

Falcopops · #9 Post by **Falcopops** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:09 am

exupmonkey wrote:80mph winds and driving rain up here....I am going back into my hole in the ground, wake me up when the sun begins to shine

Damn that could be a long time coming

Falcoholic · #10 Post by **Falcoholic** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:57 pm

Since I finished an 8 week contract in May 2009 with South Lanarkshire Council I had no work until February 2010. Sure I managed to get a few wee cash numbers and a couple of wee daft jobs (Next stockroom)and had the support of my brilliant family and lovely girlfriend. (No exup ape, a new one

)I made it through 2010, still managing the Northwest, cos I ended up selling Woodburning stoves for a well known Glasgow gangster (well, former gangster as he told me but hey

) which ended not so amicably in July. At the start of November I got a contract position with Glasgow City Council and up to now I'm still here.

I spend a load of my weekends last year from June onwards, bagging Munros and managed 16 before the end of November. Cheap pastime you see.

I still have the black beast and won't be getting rid anytime soon. I used her a good bit last year more as a mode of transport than fun as I didn't have loads of spare cash for fuel. She still makes me smile as much as ever.
Mind you I destryed a sprag clutch last year at the North West and had to get her recovered from Bushmills to Kilmarnock, pushing her on and off the ferry. It didn't detract from my enjoyment of the North West tho and being pillion on a CBF1000 was a proper laugh.

So there you have it, Fit, Fat and still alive and looking forward to another NorthWest. I'm on the lookout for a cheap big tourer like a ZZR or a Blackbird but the beast will always be my number 1.

S'good to be back

exupmonkey · #11 Post by **exupmonkey** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:17 pm

Andy...ZZR14, that's the way to go, and you have the ballast

Falcopops · #12 Post by **Falcopops** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:55 am

Nicely done on the Munro's, gonna get them all?

about 300 IIRC, I didn't even make it into double figures before I got fed up with it, was too young to appreciate it really.

Good to hear that you're getting some work.

Now if you recall many years ago I came round to check out your Falco prior to getting mine, so I know what you look like.

So my question is, how does an ugly git like you manage to pull all these wimmin?

exupmonkey · #13 Post by **exupmonkey** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:32 pm

True dat...he IS ugly

ligloo · #14 Post by **ligloo** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:20 am

View posts since last visit (5093)

I must have popped in one night whilst under the affluence of incohol ......

HowardQ · #15 Post by **HowardQ** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:11 pm

"Fit, Fat and still alive and looking forward to another NorthWest."

Doesn't sound too bad to me!
Especially if the Glasgow Council jobs lasts for some time.
Chasing up Munros is a bit too much effort for an old fart like me, (old, fat and still alive), but I have done similar less energetic things in the (long distant) past.
Glad to hear you've still got the Falco.
As for getting a sports tourer, how much tourer do you want. I had always expected to get a Blackbird, (along with the Falco), when I got rid of my old CBR1000F a year ago. Had owned it for 7 1/2 years and a Blackbird (or possibly a ZZR) seemed an abvious replacement.
Then just over a year ago I saw a really nice ZX9R and bought it.
See my posts in the Kawasaki section if you are interested. Main thing is they are very comfortable, as well as very quick and there are some real bargains around. I have an F Model, one of the last ones, and it is still on flatside carbs, which makes it indcredibly economical if ridden with a bit of restraint. Also goes ballistic, if you want to play.

Was out yesterday on it, the roads were not that great and the wind was bloody awful, so riding slower than normal on a "fun run".
Filled up when I got home after exactly 120 miles and it took 9.5 litres.
That's 57.47 mpg, how the bloody hell did it manage that?
Dont often check it but did get 54 mpg on a similar run last winter.
Good luck with the job and the search for another bike.
Keep in touch mate, always nice to hear from you.