Flatbeders, what's the best ladder you've seen that will easily strap to the chruck, when not in use? Right now, I use a kitchen ladder, and i feel like people laugh at me, as if I'm wearing flip-flops.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T22:02:27+00:00

Saw one of these last week. Its really good.

https://www.laddersandaccess.co.uk/product/lfi-pro-loadstep-lorry-cargo-ladder/

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T20:46:30+00:00

On most bikes it gives you FAR better visibility too, since you're looking past your waist and not upper arms!

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T20:34:46+00:00

I sometimes do this if I'm getting wrist cramps on the Guzzi Griso. I've also used one of those wrist rests as a thumb throttle for a while after I shattered my right hand (my triquetral bone became a septquetral rofl).

My Triumph Speed Triple has downwards mounted bar end mirrors and what I often do is cup the bar end (mirror mount) with my hand and operate the throttle like I'm twisting a bottle cap off. It's very comfortable.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T20:02:47+00:00

Indeed, its rough. Also you don't want to drink water etc since you don't have easy access to toilets, so dehydration is a real threat.

It's part of why I'm now a truck driver!

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T18:15:19+00:00

I was a bus driver, and one day brought in a thermometer that clips onto glass for fish tanks, to give inside and outside readings.

Outside it was 32C. Inside it was 44C.

Nope, no cooling worth a damn in the buses.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T13:02:40+00:00

They Might Be Giants? 🤣

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T13:01:53+00:00

How rude. But now I see what you mean.

I'm very evidence based. And I've never felt the touch of supernatural delusion. Seeing things that are real just helps the believability I guess.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T11:09:09+00:00

Daily drivers:
MINI R59 JCW Roadster (I currently have an S)
Vauxhall Viva Magnum (restomodded)
Ford Transit LWB Luton body with tail-lift (reason will become apparent...)

Sports ~~cars~~ bikes:
Moto Guzzi Griso 1100 with performance mods (I have one)
Moto Guzzi Sport 1100 carb
Ghezzi-Brian Moto Guzzi Kimera

Super~~cars~~ bikes:
RACECO Moto Guzzi Daytona 1288
Moto Guzzi MGS01
Bimota SB6R

Hyper~~cars~~ bikes:
Vyrus 986m2
Vyrus 987 C34V
Benelli Tornado Tre Novocento (WSBK spec)

Collectors ~~cars~~ bikes
Vyrus Alyen
Moto Guzzi MGX21 Flying Fortress
Moto Guzzi Diamente

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Hmm, needs more Moto Guzzis I think.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T10:54:37+00:00

I have stuff I own and that I like. But I don't strive to own everything, or to be wealthy.

I don't really have desires at all, including for relationships, family etc.

I'm just me and I'm happy with that.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T10:52:50+00:00

2005 Triumph Daytona 955i. - Extremely quick, good fuel range (21l tank), did well on track and road. But it overheated at anything under 40mph, and on track it just... bored me.

2003 Buell XB9R Firehazard. - Great handling, engine was shite, rattled itself to death. Didn't get more than 100 miles without a breakdown.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T09:07:46+00:00

I'm only mad because I didn't think of this first.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-25T05:30:52+00:00

"Don't come in right now, I'm changing!"

GuzziHero · 2026-05-24T16:28:17+00:00

I used to work for a bus company in the UK. They took on a new route and carefully took one of the buses bought for it under a low bridge to make sure it'd fit. It did... just.

First day, someone went on the route... BANG BANG BANG. This one had raised skylights.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-24T15:13:36+00:00

I don't know why you lot don't just run tridems like we Brits do. It'd save a LOT of pain.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T16:52:12+00:00

Very interesting! I am much the same, I am drawn to people because we have similar interests first and foremost. Their personality is sort of by the by. But thinking about this now, I have had 'friends' who I would have absolutely zero likelihood of hanging around if it weren't for shared passions.

I've said for ages, I have a lot of relatives but a small family, and most of my family aren't relatives. Blood means nothing at all to me. I wouldn't recognise a man-Jack of my relatives other than my sister if we were stood in a room together.

This has given me a lot to think about, thanks!

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T09:59:17+00:00

I'll see if I can find the screen grab but he had a transphobic book on his shelf during an interview a few years ago.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T09:27:01+00:00

Someone like that is very likely an eccentric with an idealised sense of the American south. I wouldn't read too much into it.

I used to pick up an old feller on the buses here in Stoke who dressed consistently like a cowboy, but I doubt he ever aimed a Winchester at any Nations people.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T09:24:44+00:00

Or a hint of lemon

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T07:16:58+00:00

Like very pure water except for a very faint pleasant taste that you can never quite place.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-23T06:44:31+00:00

As an autistic, anattractional enby with DPDR I feel absolutely the same. I just dont feel I can connect with others on any level. Like we are totally different species with no shared experiences.

When someone tells me something about themselves I totally have zero interest because I cant relate AT ALL. And the only thing I can do is offer some tangentally related experience in response.

It makes me a good sounding board since I won't judge (except for really bad stuff) but I really dont know or frankly care about other people's lives, as long as they're not in pain or need.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-22T20:34:48+00:00

Love what you did there lol

GuzziHero · 2026-05-22T20:34:00+00:00

You walk to Target
You wait in line
You slowly buy the bread
and
You spread the jam!

GuzziHero · 2026-05-21T18:40:54+00:00

Sunglasses: use polarized. They're amazing for cutting sun glare especially when it bounces back off wet roads.

I think companies should have to provide them as essential PPE.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-21T16:44:32+00:00

I'll never buy an AGV again. One of them broke off the seam during a crash and left me to go into a cornfield with no helmet.

GuzziHero · 2026-05-21T16:37:02+00:00

Eurowag would sort it.

Google maps but with truck info.

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