TOMORROW - SKIPTON Big Bike Sunday !

[@TonyKitchen471]

Hi as some of Steve's subscribers may be aware following health issues Steve has been in Hospital for sometime and has been poorly. Along with Family I have been visiting Steve over the last few weeks and to put it mildly really has been "through the mill. " After some hiccups with his treatment the good news is Steve is making good progress his appetite is coming back and he's now building his strength up working on his mobility, and very much Looking forward to going home.

[@SCCFORUM]

Hi Tony. That is great news. Appreciate the update. Lots of love to you Steve.

[@cootsyuk7889]

Thank goodness for that, I was getting quite worried when we hadn't heard anything from him for a while. Please tell him his subscribers send best wishes and look forward to him getting back on the road. I really miss his narrated bike tours all over the North. 🤟🏍👌

[@TonyKitchen471]

@@cootsyuk7889 I'll keep people posted as much as I can

[@carolanne7085]

Hi Tony, many thanks for the update on Steve, I'm sure he has looked forward to your visits, we have been trying to get over to see him as we have a few things to give him we picked up from a new shop here in Blackpool, if you could mention it to him and that we hope to see him before he leaves hospital 👍🙏🏍

[@Alex-sz8tx]

Brilliant news give him my best wishes and I look forward to seeing him back to his unique and entertaining best 👍👍👍👍♥️

[@StevesHornet900]

....Hello everyone - I'm deeply touched by all your loving comments .....I got home this afternoon at 12.30pm after almost 3 months on from my 999 call ! I'll do an update video soon as I'm still a bit fragile ....though I'm glad to be home , despite the sad news that my sister found old Ginger had died in August ...he was19 years old - about 95 in cat years....

[@Peakwanderer]

I'm glad you're home Steve, I can only imagine what you've been through these past 3 months, here's to hoping you can get some stability back in your life, I bet it's lovely to be back home, sorry to hear about Ginger. Love and best wishes Stuart.

[@TonyKitchen471]

Great news you are home Steve👍😁 sorry to hear about ginger. 🙄

[@johnarnold352]

Hi Steve just watched Banditnev’s video and he said you were out of hospital and back home that is great news just take it easy and rest after what you’ve been through time will be the healer sorry for your loss of Ginger as you get very attached to pets look after yourself Steve and take care 👍👍👍 Regards John

[@sonofagunner50]

Hi Steve, I'm so pleased and relieved to hear that you're back at home and on the mend. What a grind this has all been for you. I've just returned to the U.S. after my first visit back to blighty in 26 years, showing my 25 year-old son where his roots are. We went to Blackpool, (wet and windy, like my Y-fronts) during Storm Babet, and I was thinking of you as we drove up the prom. Hopefully you'll be back there yourself, and posting more soon. Slow and steady will be the watchword in your recovery, don't be rushing anything, but what a boost for you to be back home. Sad to lose Ginger, they are family, aren't they? But you can take comfort in the fact that you gave him a very good (and long) life. All the very best Steve, Good Vibrations from California.

[@aircooled9213]

Hi Steve, Pleased to hear that you are back in the comfort of your own home and are on mend. Sorry to hear about Ginger, pets are family members aren’t they? Anyway I wish you all the best with your recovery and look forward to seeing your video update. All the best. Steve

[@JohnG11000]

All the best Steve hope to see you out and about this summer.

[@hoyhoytoo6772]

Lovely to hear from you today, Steve, thanks for the message reply. Sorry you’ve had to cancel your Edinburgh trip for 60th birthday, it’s my 72nd this month too. Maybe I could pop in soon, if you’re well enough to see anyone? All the best.

[@StevesHornet900]

...HI EVERYONE ! JUST WAITING FOR THE PAINKILLERS TO KICK IN , then I'll go and make a brew and a Pot Noodle. Still experimenting with grub to avoid the chronic kwikshits, which has been a daily ordeal and why I am still barely over 11 stone ! I've blocked a couple of twerps - one kept saying he'd come to visit , then wouldn't turn up after I'd got cakes in and cleaned up ....but he'd gone CYCLING INSTEAD AND POSTED A VIDEO CYCLING UP THE LOCAL CANAL......MEANWHILE I WAS WAITING DOWN THE SAME CANAL AT HOME !!!!!!!!!! He still doesn't seem to realise this is what happened a few times and just says he was in his cab for 5 days .....NO, YOU WERE CYCLING IN BOLTON !!!!!!!!!! IT'S MY 60 TH BIRTHDAY IN A WEEK....but I've cancelled all the plans I had....however why don't YOU GO TO THE EDINBURGH BIKE SHOW INSTEAD...as Carl Fogarty is there on the DUCATI stand ! I'm too ill to go to Liverpool , the 2nd choice , and we'd planned on having a shuftie round Lennon & McCartney's old houses on a minibus tour.....but £72 each - yikes ! The plan now is that my mate Kevin is coming here in the evening and we'll either get a takeaway - or a taxi to the Dil Raj restaurant in Clitheroe after taking a look at the 1833 Holmes Mill venue as that's where we'd booked for a 'burger and beer St. Patrick bash' - which the mill CANCELLED due to few ticket sales....at 40 bloody quid each !!!

[@Alex-sz8tx]

Merry Christmas Steve, here’s hoping you have a far better 2024 ❤

[@randommisfire8791]

I would just like to wish you a Merry Christmas Steve, if such a thing is possible going through what you are going through. Although you don't know me we have spoken on occasion at Rivington barn and St. Annes bike night. I wish you well fella, and hope to see you back on form in the future.

[@paddywatters6689]

Hi Steve, I just wanted to wish you a happy Christmas and I hope you're doing OK. Sorry to hear about Ginger but you gave him a great life and can have no regrets. All the best for now, Paddy.

[@StevesHornet900]

...cheers mate - all my best wishes for Christmas to you too.

[@yamark02]

Hi Steve. Don't want to pry. But with your current health problems, if you haven't already, you can claim Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Your local Citizens Advice or the council's Welfare Rights Unit can advice you. Regards.

[@StevesHornet900]

...thanks mate , I'll look into it tomorrow - but SHOULD it be necessary in 2023 to go begging to Welfare when I'm usually in full time employment , with over 9 years service and a 99% good attendance record....I've been late about 3 times during my service ....due to a flat battery on the bike , or late taxi's in Winter. !

[@yamark02]

Hi, it's for peoe like you who've worked all your life. I've a female friend who had serious health problems a few years back. She was still employed. She got PIP immediately until she went back to work.

[@ajfemma9042]

Please apply uncle Steven when your home. Your mostly deserving and need this extra support at the moment…. Thanks for sharing this information!

[@paulrobinson7881]

hope you get better soon steve thinking of you pal

[@paddywatters6689]

Hi Steve, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know I was thinking about you and hope everything is going OK for you. I hope to see you back on KZbin again whenever you're up to it. All the best for now, Paddy.

[@StevesHornet900]

...WELL, tomorrow I'm getting a price for my unridden since buying it a year ago...'Superscooter-workcommuter' Piaggio BV350ST from the local bike shop....and I might have to sell the Hornet900 too, after forking out £500 every month for my sky-high fuel bills over the cold frosty winter. Gas and leccy , water, food , but no job as my employer came here two weeks before Christmas to terminate my job - RATHER than continuing 'sick pay'...like he does with OTHER female long term sick workers !!??!!! 'Occupational Health allowed him to FINISH my employment after over 9 years, so I got 9 weeks pay meaning not a lotta 'benefits' as the UC thought I was minted - but my spiralling bills meant that it's now all gone ! You'd think after ten years and 950 videos maybe my viewers and 'subscribers' would help me out - a fiver each would be a huge help....but I had NO response last time I appealed for help...apart from just TWO kind people who chipped in a few quid.

[@SCCFORUM]

Hello Steve. Are you back home yet? Best wishes mate.👍🏻

[@stevensmith7292]

Hi Steve, how are you? it's been a while (very understandable) just wondering if your OK. Your in my thoughts frequently, so I just thought I would ask here. Thinking of you, as I'm sure many others are.

[@StevesHornet900]

...still very ill, run down , very thin and not gaining weight I'm afraid.

[@hoyhoytoo6772]

Steve Here’s hoping you’re ok this Christmas and are able to have a more positive year, in 2024. I for one am hoping that you can pop an update on here, to let us all know how you are doing. All best wishes to you - John

[@stevechell9485]

Get well soon mate we've never met, however, strangely I feel that your an old friend. Missing your tubes & we're looking forward to the next one.

[@StevesHornet900]

...thank you - I'm still very ill and run down as my recovery is going to be very slow after all my surgeries....so no videos anytime soon as I can hardly walk and struggle to even breathe at the moment. I'm VERY disappointed that only ONE biker has been for a visit and a brew , Tony Kitchen. What a shower....so much for the biker brotherhood....a berk in Bolton just 20 minutes away kept saying over and over....'I'll be over at the weekend mate....' but never did , the selfish bastards can all just fuck right off !

[@stevechell9485]

I can't ride a Kawasaki Vulcan 650 from Brisbane Australia, however, thinking about it; it would be one hell of a caper for an old bloke like me. Get well soon mate. 👍

[@StevesHornet900]

....as I said to BanditNev...you either rent a bike once here - or borrow my BV350ST Work Commuter SuperScooter ! Nev didn't even enquire about the return flight price....@@stevechell9485

[@carolanne7085]

​Aww that's very sad that nobody has paid you a visit, especially the biker ones, never mind Steve Frank and myself wish you a better time of it in the upcoming year. We got to the St Anne's bike meet and spoke to a man who knew about your channel, a decent guy he was, I mentioned you had this big operation in February, he said he did not know, but knew that you visited the bike meet. Sorry on the loss of your cat Ginger, have you thought anymore about getting another cat, you said you were thinking of it. Ok Steve we miss you lots, all the very best to you and take care ❤👍🙏 xxx

[@StevesHornet900]

....thank you for your kind words...I was intending on doing another 'health update' video , but don't want to keep complaining ! I'm still very frail and can't walk too far yet, and have to stop and rest and gasp for air - although I now smoke cigars to de-stress ....which doesn't help I don't suppose ! YES, I WANT to adopt another cat , BUT the local so-called 'Cat Rescue' REFUSED .....AFTER I'd donated a total of £135 to them...they had an elderly ginger cat called Ginge, which would have lived in warmth and luxury here.....but they said they'd '...drove past my house then noticed a busy main shopping road nearby....' so they refused me for an adoption of any of their cats ! My old Ginger , or any other cats I've had here , have never been anywhere near that road, and preferred to stay in my yard as it was fully 'carpeted' in plastic grass...and Ginger died of old age in the sunshine - he wasn't run over.@@carolanne7085

[@ajfemma9042]

URGENT update ‼️ My uncle Steven had major surgery 1.5 weeks ago.. He is recovering in the Royal Blackburn hospital.. Something burst inside his stomach from his previous surgery. Was very serious and touch and go! HOWEVER he is recovering not so bad. He was in agony but now responding and awake… He asked me to leave a message on here for you all with an update. You know how much this page means to him and his dedicated followers.. Please keep him in your thoughts and prays. Family are close by, cats are being cared for, his flowers in his garden have grown upto 3ft tall! He is on the mend and I am sure with lots of positive energy he will be home again soon… Thanks ever so much. 😊

[@Peakwanderer]

Thanks for the update and the glimmer of hope that Steve is going to pull through, I've never met Steve but am very fond of him and I do feel very emotional about his current situation, we're all rooting for him ❤

[@carolanne7085]

Yes we are all rooting for you Steve....we send you lots of positive thoughts..you have got this, we hope you are feeling a bit better, is Steve well enough for a visit or is it just family at the moment? If he is well enough would you let me know what ward he is on anyway many thanks for letting us know take care Carolanne 🥰👍👍🙏🙏xx

[@ajfemma9042]

I am sure he would love a visit, but better check! I shall ask my grandma this evening ( your morning ) and get back to you if that’s ok.. Thanks everyone. Really been through the ringers theses last months.. x

[@sonofagunner50]

Thanks for the update Emma. I've been checking back and getting a bit worried as Steve hadn't posted for a few weeks. Our lad's been through the mill alright, but he's a tough owd bugger, and it's right what they say: You can't keep a good man down. It's been a rough ride though. I'm not much of a praying man, but I'll be saying some for your uncle. Good thoughts (Good Vibrations!) from California, Steve. Stay strong!

[@ajfemma9042]

UPDATE: C 14 A - royal blackburn hospital- he has a room of his own! 2-4pm 6-8pm… would love a visit please xxx

[@Peakwanderer]

Silver would look good I reckon Steve. I MOT'd my bike this morning after not using it for 20 months, hopefully I'll use it a bit come July when I tax it.

[@StevesHornet900]

...in the USA the equivalent of the Red Arrows are the Blue Angels....in F18's in royal blue and yellow , so I'll get some little Humbrol paints.

[@michaeldoherty4070]

Glad to hear he's on the mend

[@StevesHornet900]

....no I'm not - had a check up this afternoon back at the hospital...

[@michaeldoherty4070]

Hope it's not more bad news Steve

[@carolanne7085]

We are hoping and praying its good news Steve 😘 xxx

[@northernrider780]

I for one watch all your videos Steve, I find it weirdly relaxing just listening to you 'waffle' if I'd known sooner I'd have gone to Skipton bike meet and filmed some stuff for you!

[@hoyhoytoo6772]

Well, just thought I'd check how you are now, it's a month since I called in. Give us an update, if you can. Hope you're a little better?

[@ajfemma9042]

Update above x

[@Peakwanderer]

Probably too late now Steve, I've just checked on Compare the market for your area and Vodafone are £24 a month for 24 months for 35mb speed broadband and a phone line, no inclusive calls though. There are others at around £25 also.

[@StevesHornet900]

...have a look on e-bay for 'Hood Ornaments' and hundreds come up....some mint , a lot pitted and silly prices - but a few are less than a tenner as they're modern repros ....and China make a 'Ratfink' one !?! The 1950's American car ones would be too heavy to fit to plastic mudguards though...are modern custom bikes usually fitted with chromed metal ones though ?

[@sonofagunner50]

Good work on the plane Steve..I got back into model planes myself during lockdown. You could leave it grey, 'cos the real USAF ones are usually grey. Or, if you fancy blue, you could go for the "Blue Angels" US Navy display team's paint scheme. Blue with yellow accents. That'd look sharp on your mudguard. Just make sure to spray a couple of coats of varnish to protect it from the elements...😃

[@StevesHornet900]

...Corgi / Hornby ignored me when I sent a pic of that Spitfire and ME109 with 'working propellers' and a little battery in from 1969 , and suggested they make a few again themselves - and make a fortune ! Imagine a Mosquito with l.e.d blazing red four front cannons - or a Lancaster bomber with 4 props spinning and lights in the cockpit and gun turrets....but the miserable sods didn't say a thing back....

[@StevesHornet900]

....if it fades I'll get them little Humbrol tins on it .....my local paper shop sells them. Yes, I thought I had some light blue spray paint ....the Aldi sprays are too thick for little models. Why can't China churn out mini Chrome hood ornaments though .....I'm sure they'd look great and sell very well !?

[@hoyhoytoo6772]

Dear all I’ve been in touch with Steve today and it’s not good news. Here’s what he asked me to tell you all: “Very bad setback - i phoned 999 a week ago in severe pain ...had another major op for burst ulcer , will be in for ages”. I said that I’d post further updates when possible.

[@Peakwanderer]

Oh no, thanks for the update, fingers crossed for you Steve ❤

[@iannightingale3363]

Fingers crossed also ❤

[@willh5130]

Hope Steve gets better soon wishing you a speedy recovery @StevesHornet900

[@carolanne7085]

Thankyou hoyhoytoo we have been a bit worried with not seeing any recent videos from Steve's channel

[@ajfemma9042]

Thanks so much everyone. Means a lot! Still in the hospital ❤

[@AdamsLifeRiding]

Good idea with the ratchet to manoeuvre the scooter. The Astley Mining Museum classic bike show is on, on the 2nd of July I will film it for you steve. Hopefully its as good as last year.

[@StevesHornet900]

.....I must get that blue Puncture Safe in the BV350's tyres - I was worried about my brother running over all the glass in the backstreet as pissheads use my backstreet as a bog during their pubcrawls ....smashing the Vodka bottles they're carrying in their drunken state . Do you use the gel in your tyres .....? I thoroughly recommened it mate !

[@AdamsLifeRiding]

@StevesHornet900 I have some in the triumph but it's the green stuff. But nothing in the Dr as its tubed tyers

[@michaelmarsh-bl9mg]

Wishing you a quick recovery Steve , keep your pecker up 😊

[@StevesHornet900]

...DID anyone go to this bike show then....and how was it ?!

[@StevesHornet900]

...THIS COMING SUNDAY - JULY 2nd.... is that Blackpool Bike Show at Stanley Park.....organised by the local 'Motorcycle Action Group'. Why not go to that - and have a go on the Park's motorboats and have a meal or just a nice ice cream at the lovely Art Deco cafe close by . The bikes are in a big circle around the Italian Gardens - and please record a walkaround video if you are going ! I hope the weather improves before Sunday.

[@StevesHornet900]

....has anyone been .....?

[@StevesHornet900]

@@diversionbob8482 .....I had a phone call yesterday from the woman at Burnley Hospital that I was meant to be seeing - but thankfully the phone call was instead of faffing about getting a bumpy taxi over there. Worryingly she said the CT scan showed fluids gathering in my guts , and maybe the drain bag and pipe was removed too early....I have to see her at Blackburn hospital in 2 weeks . Don't worry about Blackpool ...there weren't many bikes there anyway.

[@StevesHornet900]

.....????????????????? ARE YOU STILL LIVING IN THE CLITHEROE AREA ?@@diversionbob8482

[@petemorris6191]

You sound like you're getting stronger to me Steve. Keep up with the diet and we'll have you back on that Hornet (don't get rid yet). I think a group run with some of your subscribers will be in order then! I'm up for that. All the best.

[@SOLOMOTOUK]

Hi Steve virgin are decent reducing the bill. Not good of work putting you on ssp I’ll ring you tomorrow 👍🙏

[@barryhaymes3315]

How are things you really been put through some shit fingers crossed things go right for you

[@carolanne7085]

Hello hoyhoytoo, hope you are well, we have noy heard much from Steve lately, my partner misses his vlogs, as i do, can you please let us know how he is doing if you visit him soon, thanks, also have some items for him, are you living in the Blackburn area.

[@StevesHornet900]

...that's a kind thought but please don't bother with prezzies or chocolates etc .....give them to a charity maybe ?

[@carolanne7085]

Ok Steve 👍 but I would have liked them to go to you, a new top plus a Beatles calendar, not choccys tho'. I was hoping to meet up with one of your friends that have been to see you, possibly give them the items, anyway will see if they agree. Thanks for getting back to me Steve.

[@StevesHornet900]

...you could give them to a local charity shop - I sent a Liverpool Cafe who feed the homeless about 350 Beatles postcards to sell and raise cash there to pay for the soup and brews they dish out ! Imagine sleeping rough in this weather ....another huge gas and leccy bill for me to pay tomorrow.....over £400 a moth , for the past 4 months !! @@carolanne7085

[@carolanne7085]

Afternoon Steve, freezing cold day today, my gas heating has gone off again, have to fiddle with the thermostat, then it clicks back on again, thank goodness! That is a lot of money to keep paying every month for the gas and leccy, we pay 95 a month by direct debit, got the c/tax bill, it's gone up by 4 pound a month!! Take care Steve and keep warm.

[@fredstraw]

You ok mate not seen you on

[@StevesHornet900]

...no, been to hospital this afternoon and an emergency CT scan is being arranged asap......still just 11 stone....same as 3 months ago when I left hospital , and very weak . Skint too, as my employer finished my job after ten years and the payout has gone on gas and leccy bills.

[@fredstraw]

@@StevesHornet900 That's shit mate can't you get UC of something

[@StevesHornet900]

...just had a third letter from those bastards , saying 'you are entitled to £0 this month....' WHY....?....because my employer ended my job in mid December and the UC halfwits assume I still have money.....but every month my gas and leccy bill has been just under £500 and it's almost all gone.@@fredstraw

[@Peakwanderer]

@@StevesHornet900 Steve you need to apply for New-Style Employment and Support Allowance (NSESA). I'm sorry to hear you're still struggling health wise, I know how it feels to be ill after living with a chronic illness for the past 18 years. Get in touch with Blackburn welfare rights and they'll help you.

[@StevesHornet900]

....I feel so ill I honestly think I'll be dead soon ...finding it difficult to even do basic stuff and finding phone numbers for benefits help etc....no carers or even any family help - nothing. @@Peakwanderer

[@StevesHornet900]

....jump to 05:25 for the chrome hood ornaments pictures.....my little plastic F18 Hornet is a lot lighter - and cheaper. The first 5 minutes contains a warning about a dangerous junction on the A59 , if you're going to Skipton though.....

[@StevesHornet900]

....and from 2014 is this walkaround of Skipton Castle .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/aquvloxnhbF4a5Y

[@StevesHornet900]

...for those of you wondering - here is my visit to the Skipton Bike Show in 2019....though I've also done a walkaround of Skipton Castle too ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqnNlJ5siZaDpq8

[@tommoso55]

How ya doing Steve ?

[@banditnev]

If you want to buy something you but it Steve don't pay any attention to the trolls.

[@StevesHornet900]

.....it's retail therapy - and those plastic flowers really brighten up my back yard and cheer me up.

[@carolanne7085]

Hi Steve, thanks for the update, we did want to pay you a visit, but dont have your address. Ive just sent a comment to hoyhoytoo on here, as he mentioned he may visit you. All the best for your 60th birthday 🎂