Buy your bits now...

[Lucky_Lou]

Thinking about buying parts from Moto Bins or Motorworks ..buy now £ at record low vs $.. wont last long
Lou

[Motu]

Yeah but our $ is down now too.

[motoboy66]

Unfortunately 17,410,742 of our citizens don't really understand what the EU does or represents and didn't feel the need to do any real research before voting to leave it, putting a dent in global economies that only makes me ashamed to call myself British. I'm sad that my 1 year old son will be growing up in a country that seems to become less tolerant and more xenophobic by the day. Spirits are certainly low around here regarding the result.

[clonmore1]

Not the same here in the North...

Being a Londoner by birth, the South of the country is a little more cosmopolitan than here in the north, however, many in the south do not understand the impact immigration has had on the midlands & north.

To fully understand this you need to live and work with the fine northern people who work hard and love the country in which they live

Just my view!

[Justin B.]

I don't want to get into a political argument about a situation I don't fully understand but from what I've gathered the desire for "freedom" and self determination might have had a lot to do with a lot of folks decision.  These reasons, as a "Yank," I can fully understand and appreciate.  The desire to be out from under the thumb of a pack of self-serving, power hungry, limp-dicked bureaucrats is a desire I can fully comprehend and applaud.

The short-term will probably bring some grief and misery but in the future I think everything will work out for the best.  I have no doubt that our Brit cousins will suck it up and emerge far stronger, and with more National Pride, than most people can imagine.  I think that globalization and multiculturalism has been damaging to the spirit of a lot of countries and maybe that was it's intent.  

OK, I'll be quiet now...

[wilcom]

The desire to be out from under the thumb of a pack of self-serving, power hungry, limp-dicked bureaucrats is a desire I can fully comprehend and applaud.

+1

[thrang]

I like most people in South Cumbria voted to remain in the EU, but being a Manc by birth and a former resident of Sunderland during my university years, I can understand why many up here voted to exit.
For months you have had all the self serving bas*ards in power banging on about how good the economy was, but if you go to places Sunderland, Newcastle, Halifax or Burnley nothing was improving and if anything things were getting worse. Most people in the former industrial towns of the north saw nothing of the recovery, but what they have seen is more migration, loss of local services, longer waiting times for the NHS, over subscribed schools and increased costs. The out vote in the north was an inevitable consequence of giving the people a referendum choice... I disagreed with their decision but I can understand why they made it and as someone who believes in democratic process the choice has been made, so now we have to get on with the job and out of the mess we are in.

Right that's enough political BS!  I've got the Bimbo and my route all sorted for the ACU National Motorcycle Rally next Saturday. A 440 miles Daylight gold award day for me and the Bimbo should set me just right for the USA with the wife the following Thursday.  

[Justin B.]

Where are you headed over here, Tony?

wilcom - I can imagine you would agree wholeheartedly with the constant assault the bureaucracy in your state has been waging on what are rights guaranteed to all by our Constitution.

[wilcom]

in your state has been waging on what are rights guaranteed

 Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, all from California.

We have cornered the market on Ding Bats....... It's enough to make you just sit down and cry  

[wilcom]

We have cornered the market on Ding Bats....... It's enough to make you just sit down and cry Cry

Wanna cry some more...................all the folks that elected them are my  neighbors.............AAAAAARGH

[Justin B.]

I feel for ya, Bro, you need to move somewhere safe like TX.  

[motoboy66]

I totally understand the comments that I'm not a Northerner and never will be. Also that I don't have first hand experience of the effects migrants have had on that part of the country. But I am aware that a lot of migrant problems have been blamed on the EU and it's only really a small part of that, with a lot of our cousins of colour and wider ethnic backgrounds being part of the knock on effect of colonialism over many centuries.

As sore as I am about losing my EU passport and although I foolishly started this, the point I agree with here most of all is no more politics.

One of the many things I love about motorcycles is their ability to bring people together from all backgrounds and ages and that's always worth celebrating with a cold beer or three. Thanks for putting up with my rant!

[wilcom]

, the point I agree with here most of all is no more politics.
 

+1

I'll take my Rush Limbaugh pillow and go back to sleep and dream of motor bikes

[thrang]

Where are you headed over here, Tony?

We land in Chicago on the 7th of July and pick the bikes up on the 9th. It will be the wife's first time in the US so she's feeling a little apprehensive about riding over there. She's spoken to lots of people who have ridden in the States and like me they say that in comparison to normal UK road conditions even in the bigger places riding in the US is a pleasure because of the wider roads, usually lower traffic density and slightly lower speeds. Well it is until you get to LA (by far the worst drivers I have experienced in the US and on a par with Rome or Paris for people behind a wheel lacking to attention to driving) and then you treat it like you would the M60 or M25, and ride with the mind set that everyone else on the road is trying to kill me.    

[Ed Miller]

I thought the drivers in the L.A. area were very polite.  That was back in 1989, and may have been influenced by a recent rash of freeway shootings, I don't know.  They were a lot better than drivers here in Oregon.