There are a fair few. Not specifically “biker” ones but certainly you feel welcome at them.
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I suppose it’s the price I pay for living somewhere where there aren’t many people. (The upside being the lightly trafficked roads.) There are cafes, of course, but they’re mostly in towns and don’t have their own parking.
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We live somewhere with not too many residents, but close enough to towns for lots of people to come for trips out to the country etc etc. Many of those I go to are also in Wales as we’re not far from the border so I make heavy use of their superior road surfaces and marvellous scenery and must rely fairly heavily on tourism based upon where they’re situated. Almost all are friendly to bikers and some are actively encouraging as bikers keep them going when holidaymakers are thin on the ground e.g., Two Hoots at Devil’s Bridge charges for cars to visit, not bikes, and the lady serving said to me that this is because the bikers are “good to them” in terms of consistent custom.
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Definitely an upside!!!
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Today I took the yellow peril around Kirkby Fell with the addition of my nearest and dearest. It doesn’t sound much, but my lady struggles ’cos of a chronic medical condition and this I’d the first time in a couple of years she’s been able to ride with me… so yeah, only 10 miles or so, but it was nice to have her there with me again.
(Queue soppy melodramatic music… “Oh Mr Darcy, from the moment we touched, your arms seemed like home!”)
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Drew up and printed a screen/bracket for the SD to relocate the sat-nav from below the dash to above it. It was attached via a bracket on the fuel cap so now I can have a tank bag too when touring, plus I don’t have to look down to see the sat-nav. Win win, its a bit ugly but will use it for touring and the practicality it brings trumps the looks. The type of plastic its made from will go brittle in UV light though, so it’s basically a prototype until I make an enclosure for the printer which will allow me to print it from a better UV resistant material.
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Nice job… just curious how you rendered the clocks and the lights accurately? 
Autodesk Fusion is the software, it’s free for non-commercial use. Brilliant for 3d models but I find the 2d side annoying as it automatically adds constraints to your geometries. The headlight was not drawn with a lot of accuracy, it was more to get a rough idea of layout but the rest took a lot of careful measuring. I do a lot of CAD stuff for work so this sort of thing is right up my street.
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I used to be a CAM programmer (1988-96) but the stuff we were using was horrendously out of date even then (Olivetti M40’s) But I used to enjoy the challenge of being given an item to reproduce, no drawings, having to measure and draw them out myself.
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Ya cleva booger 
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That is amazing @Andyc1 , well done 
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Love it! (I program CNC machines CAD/CAM is most of my work) you’ll know the importance of proper measurements then. Bikes, Guitars, CAM, man after my own heart 
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That’ll be £200 down the pan unless you’ve managed to negotiate a freebee
I got £1500 off list for the bike, was quoted £160 for first service. But changing colour panels and recoding locks on the panniers grew a bit,… so you’re probably right. 
Bagged the RS up for the winter. Mini dehumidifier and Optimate connected to keep it dry and the battery topped up. Roll on March…
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160mls on the XR so far.
Thought about getting a few more on today.
That’s as far as it got, chuffing cold out!
Supposed to be getting a bit warmer the next few days, may be then.
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I just realised how lucky I am having a in-house heated garage… No damp, no worries…
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The garage itself isn’t too damp, the problems arise because we also keep the cars in there too, often putting them away wet. But the main cause is the differences in temperature between the outside and inside of the garage, we go from cold periods to warmer wetter ones and when that happens when we open the garage doors to get a car out the warm(er) moist air from outside comes into the garage and condensates on the cold metal on the bike. So I stick it in the vac-bag until the weather improves, it’s not a massive problem as my bike is now SORN (officially registered as off the road until I tax it again in spring)
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Understood. I only store the bikes (and sundries) in the garage, and it doesn’t get opened much in winter.
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