fastbob

16 hours ago, Fiddlesticks said:

Does this qualify as an empty layby? Too hot to go far today...

Or if you prefer, from the other direction..

Back down to Eastham now to listen to the music at the Tap.

I don't think that is  actually a Lay-by .  Looks more like a parking bay to me . Can't beat a big , air cooled muscle bike . 

23 hours ago, rennie said:

Next weekend we'll be in Scotland! 

Got a full week of nights to do first but, once I finish Fri morning,

we're off for a 15 night tour in the campervan.

first night in Gretna 

Try the B7076 / B7078 that I'm always banging on about . See if you can spot the extra wide grass verges bisected by unusually long driveways and the gigantic road signs . https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/b7076-and-b7078

I need to turn my attention to mine . It runs and rides great but I limped home on one cylinder when I took it for a long run . Probably just the usual float valve issues despite the big inline filter I fitted . As soon as I'm satisfied that it's reliable I'll flog it  . 

Spent the morning fiddling with my new bike . My Biltwell grips arrived so I fitted them and by the time I was finished it was too hot to do anything . This evening I went out on an aimless ride on empty roads and took a few pictures on the Burton Dassett hills . 

9 minutes ago, Bender said:

If your starving your starving, probably healthier than a big mac meal  

Whenever I see members of the traveling community and their fat children creating chaos in MacDonalds they have usually got a wedge of cash the size of a brick , so I think Mrs Tiggywinkle is probably off the menu these days . 

9 hours ago, Bender said:

Roadside clay oven for that. 

You would have to be absolutely starving to bake a Hedgehog in clay complete with all its guts  and then try to eat it . The thing has hardly any meat on it and it eats slugs and worms . I suspect this concept might be a rural myth . 

18 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Rode one round N Wales. Fitted a new screen to the other one. 

 

Both have enough dead flies on them to keep me in Eccles cakes for a year. 

Given the source of the main  ingredient I would have thought Welsh Cakes would have been more appropriate . 

Think I'll check out the custom bike and car show at Alcester Rugby Club on Saturday . Only £2 to get in and straight down the A46 . 

Please make it stop ..

45 minutes ago, Bender said:

Folk who don't use Facebook. 

Well you'll just have to try and imagine it running then . 

Who needs a Haynes Manual .. . https://www.facebook.com/reel/598293544758786?fs=e&s=cl

53 minutes ago, Stu said:

Just like @fastbob its that time of year for me too! 

 

Its starting to become a yearly thing where me and the missus book last minute and sod off to wales for around 4 days  

 

Got a hotel booked in Betws y Coed route planned going and a route planned to go up to mach loop as I have seen it mentioned a few time on here so I thought I would give it a look

 

Setting off tomorrow morning and will be back Friday night  

I didn't know it was called the Mach Loop back in the Seventies but I was with my family walking alongside Llyn Mwyngil when a Blackburn Buccaneer came flat out overhead at zero feet . I didn't hear it until it was upon us so it must have been fast but subsonic . The best bit was afterwards when for nearly a minute the air was filled with whistles and crackles and all kinds of strange noises . An amazing sight . 

1 hour ago, MikeHorton said:

Some nice eadt going roads through the cotswolds and back through Worcestershire

Banbury to Shipston has some amazing views of the "Rolling" Oxfordshire countryside but the surface is horrible . 

Got up and headed to Coleshill Bikers World for a Breakfast Batch . Then I found myself in Stratford upon Avon followed by Banbury and then I noticed that I was in Shipston on Stour . Half way to Oxford I veered off towards Stow on the Wold and ended up in Pershore . A quick sprint along the A 46 and here I am in Coventry again . Would it have anything to do with this ? 

20 minutes ago, Fish said:

gave the bike a clean, and had the joys of taking the front cog cover off. It's been a few chain cleans since I did it last and I was shocked how much buildup of thick grease like crud!

Best cleaner bar none is Petrol .

I think I'll nominate myself and not for the first time . I thought I'd squirt a little WD40 into the throttle housing of my new Harley just to see if it freed up the throttle action a bit , which it did . So off for a lovely ride in the countryside and I spot a bloke pushing a 125 . I indicated left and stopped to help but he just ignored me so I indicated right to carry on my way . Ah , my hazard flashers are on , don't remember doing that . Click both buttons* and nothing happens , shit . So I had to ride home again like a bloody press bike in the Tour de France causing all kinds of confusion among the car people . Unfortunately I also rang Mr Frog who was having his dinner , sorry Ian , to find out where the fuses live . Anyway , although the WD40 might have been the cause , I don't know what the cure is yet because once I had the side panel off the thing stopped flashing . Oh well at least I know where the bike's brain lives . It's like a medium tablet in its own little tray , very tidy .       * Don't ask .

All worth it by the sound of it . 

4 hours ago, Ian Frog said:

Picked up the new girl now @fastbob has adopted the Dyna.

In the garden and I cat find anything to clean even after a 100mile journey home lol.

Cheers

Ian    

 

Don't forget to change your profile now . I've already done mine . 

On the other hand , my GSXR 1100 has presumably not been ridden since I sold it four years ago . A DVLA check shows it untaxed and with no MOT . It's a mystery to me what happened to it . The guy rode it away alright . He was only a little bloke and the back end was raised a bit because I put a GSXR 1000 shock on it . Maybe he thinks it's an investment . Who can spot Bob ? 

Sneaky f*****s ! 

The world is full of ex bikers . There's no shame in it . It's only a relatively small band of nutters like me who make some kind of life long obsession of it . 

No 

Change your bike for something completely different ( And bigger ) You've done the wizzy race rep thing so try a Harley or an Adventure Bike or better still , buy a scrapper and build a custom bike . This life choice has many facets and like anything else you don't want to get stuck in a rut . There's very little you can get out of a CBR6 that you haven't got out of it already . 

3 hours ago, Scrumpy said:

 I must just be built in weird proportions!

 

I think I'll just see how I get on with this as it is.

If/when I get bored of it, I'll probably just l get another shorter one and see if i can bend it to perfection...

But if you bend the long one you will effectively shorten it .