Guy's, I do appreciate the patience you're sharing. Thank you.
Ian: I've tried to use the available flickr tools (as I see them), but couldn't see any way to copy from there and paste here.
The 2 links I inserted are sh-te and have no idea how they appeared; however, I did later manage to establish the beginnings of a photostream with them, which contain 'normal' size images.
To be honest, in 10 years of working on other forums I've never encountered these issues.
I accept this forum is a shoestring affair, so is different to what I'm used to, ie just copying and pasting.
A confession;- I'm dyslexic, both alphabetically and numerically. So stepping outside my comfort zone can have me confused. Experience has taught me to find unusual/oblique strategies to understand things that normal folk see straight away.
Steve: I discovered the 'faff' was due to me not being logged in properly. Though elsewhere you can't write a bunch of stuff until that's done. Here you can!
Whatever problems I'm having, I'll get around them; where there's a will etc!
Until then I'll just have to stick to babble, ramblings and observations. Sorry to waste all this space.
Back to bikes; after living with the BSA for so long, then jumping on an XBR, was like a kind of culture shock, which illustrates the development progress between them. They both get there, but differently.
I've also got a Ducati F2 replica, which I had built in 1984 at a time when I was all year round, weekly commuting to London on BMW' (R's & K's). That was like falling off a sofa onto a bicycle!
Had enough for now....but I'll be back!