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#3426644 20-Oct-2025 12:27

Getting out on the trails again with my eldest son.
Always nice to bond over a shared interest (Mountain Biking).

Riding an eMTB certainly levelled the playing field for me.

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#3426931 21-Oct-2025 10:26

gzt:
, I have a Triumph Tiger Sport 660. It’s a LAMS bike but that only affects its power. The physical bike is identical to the non-LAMS bike.

Good lord that's 200kg! I do not like the idea of learners on something that heavy. I'm glad you had some professional lessons. I'm sure picking the thing up when it falls over was the very first lesson ; ).

Yes. It’s heavy although there are worse!

What freaks me out more is the fact that in some countries there’s no restriction on what you can ride at all.

You do the riding round the cones thing over a weekend and on Monday you’re collecting your Hyabusa!! That’sa bike that will hit 100kmh in 2.7 seconds….. in 1st!

To my mind, allowing a new rider to get on that is tantamount to giving them a death sentence.

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#3426932 21-Oct-2025 10:27

Tinkerisk:

I like the idea behind the motorbike licence test in Japan, where you have to be able to lift the engine capacity class you want to ride. 😁😉

Hopefully not over your head!🤣

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#3426936 21-Oct-2025 10:30

MikeB4:

@Geektastic A few years back I came very close to purchasing a Can-Am Spyder. For me it would have given the best of both worlds. Sadly it was not be as my medical condition interceded and I was forced to file that dream in the bottom drawer.

I had one for three years before this bike. Great fun to ride - semi auto, only one brake pedal, can’t drop it, can’t really high side or low side, VSS, ABS etc etc.

Don’t leave the dream in that drawer.

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#3427046 21-Oct-2025 17:29

Geektastic:

Tinkerisk:

I like the idea behind the motorbike licence test in Japan, where you have to be able to lift the engine capacity class you want to ride. 😁😉

Hopefully not over your head!🤣

No, if you're lying under the overturned motorbike. 😁

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#3427547 23-Oct-2025 16:41

I've sharpened all our kitchen knives again. It just makes cooking more fun. 🙂

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#3427822 25-Oct-2025 05:16

Today I ordered another (fourth) sound system from the Berlin-based company Teufel (which means ‘devil’ in German). Now, every room in our home, including the kitchen, will be equipped with a synchronised (or independent) music source from my own local server – i.e. not proprietary – or the usual, suspect services, but including free licences. It's quite a fun experience to have AMSR or music playing throughout our entire home, even if it's just quietly in the background. The Guests are always wondering where these sounds are coming from... 😁

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#3427847 25-Oct-2025 09:24

Healthy Rivilary in Sport. My Son is becoming a crack Squash player, he has added 350% points in a calendar year this year, and is playing some amazing squash. He has a friend from the same club and coach, and these two kids both love to play, love to compete. There is a rivalry between them which is genuine, but based on respect and care for each other and it absolutely brings out the most in both of them.

They are genuinely happy if the other person wins, even against them, and it drives them to be better, so they win next time. Both play in good spirit and multiple times the 'pro' referees have made comments about what a pleasure it is to referee them. They even have a way of turning around other players who don't play in good spirits and don't allow their bad atittudes to impact their own.

This is how sport should be and why I love sport and believe in it's importance to our society.

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#3427921 25-Oct-2025 15:45

Lunch at the Martinborough Hotel.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3427936 25-Oct-2025 18:17

Lighting charcoal before 9am

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#3428020 26-Oct-2025 11:25

That I don't have to go to work tomorrow.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3428033 26-Oct-2025 12:17

That mail from Christchurch to Ross Island takes less time than mail from Christchurch to Auckland.

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#3428367 28-Oct-2025 09:14

Catching up with friends that we have known for over 30 years but only see (at best) once or twice a year.

Easy conversation and that comfortable feeling you get when you're with family.

Also making me smile was the way our conversations were different to 30 years ago - instead of "how many shots can you do?" it was "How many pills are you on and what do they do?". Then the follow up, "Are the parents still alive?"

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#3429057 29-Oct-2025 22:00

I have now upgraded my OPNsense router to the next level of security with Coreboot instead of UEFI. The European OPNsense (or the US pfSense, if you don't mind their business model or don't mind at all) was absolutely the right decision years ago, when many people were busy investing in UniFi systems.

However, you need a very beefy CPU if you want to perform deep on-the-fly analysis, multiple VPN encryption and virus inspection at 10Gps. The average user will do just fine with the inexpensive Celeron/Pentium class, but keep in mind: despite the nice GUI, it's NOT plug-and-play. 🙂

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#3430143 2-Nov-2025 17:29

I managed to do a price match today between Bunnings and Mitre 10 which is rare because those two retailers are generally very careful to make it near on impossible.

Needed an oscilating multitool and because I'm already using Makita tool I was eyeing off this one Bunnings ($342). Checked the Mitre 10 website and saw that they were selling it for Mitre 10 ($378). Popped into Mitre 10 and asked for a price match and ended up picking it up for ~$290, score!

SApekaing of small things that make you smile. How good are oscilating multi tools. Talk about a tool that is designed to do one thing but my it does it so good!

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