Mississippi Bullfrog

Where's the black pudding?

One more sleep and then we're heading back towards summer.

Sadly I had to abandon using the bike last night on account of the lane to our house being flooded. I don't mind riding in rain but I'm not risking falling down the umpteen potholes when they are under deep water.

@S-Westerly Hope your Dad is ok. At that age it's worrying.

Haggle now. It won't make any difference leaving it until January. If you can't agree a price walk away....then you can always go back if it's still there in a few weeks. I've found that worked for me, though obviously you take the chance of someone else buying it in the meantime.

None. Never had a problem. Two years ago for family reasons I had to leave the Bobber with half a tank of old E 10 from October until March. It fired first touch of the starter without hesitation. When used to rebuild 1970s cars they could sit for a long time with old fuel in the tank and I never had a problem getting them started.

In our house Castrol Power Racing 10W/30 is considered a fragrant priestly oil. It's also a very pretty festive red.

The 'X' is Greek. The Greek for Christ is Χρίστος

Got it out after a lot of very wet journeys recently and found the front brake light switch has done its usual trick of seizing up. On the CBF is it very exposed and regularly fails which means no brake light. Fortunately if it's checked regularly and given a dose of GT65 it frees itself up. If I don't spot it in time then it means dismantling it.

My morning appointments were cancelled today which gave me chance to chop up the broken gates (very large) from the weekend, and vacuum up the leaves which had piled up. So I've had a cracking bonfire instead of doing any work.

I had lunch today with a chap who spent much of the time moaning about the current government and lamenting the budget changes. His main theme was that as a working man he didn't feel better off as a result. At the end I followed him out. I got into my 2010 Astra with 116,000 on the clock. He climbed into his helicopter and took off.

We lost a few slates off the roof. The front gates were demolished along with one of the garden gates. A very large beech tree came down opposite but fortunately fell away from the house.

As they say, location is everything.

Have a great day

I second this entirely. But I will admit that at times I have fallen to the temptation to hold my ground when doing so meant a conflict between a motorbike and 2 tons of SUV - and we all know who comes out that the better side up.

And the 3 year old rolled up again this morning. I'm off for a hot bath then an evening in the pub.

Mission accomplished.

Tomorrow is forecast to rain. For once this pleases me as the CBF is covered in salt so a good wet ride will wash it off.

We have been looking after the grandchildren Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I am destroyed. They, on the other hand, are still bouncing off the walls.

Phew....I rely on my computer for work. I've been thinking it was time to replace it but the laptop I had my eye on was too expensive. Then it dropped by £250 as BF approached so I went for it. Even so it was a bit of a tough decision splashing out on a second computer. Last night my old one froze, then just died. Completely dead, it won't boot or enter the BIOS. No response to any inputs. A bit of a lucky escape.

Ours must be really good....I just leave them somewhere on the landing.

Particularly if you use washing fluid rather than powder. That stuff plays havoc with washing machines.

I have a very similar screen by Puig on my CBF500. It's a vast improvement on the oem screen. At motorway speeds (probably not your main concern on a CG125) it does a decent job of deflecting the airflow around me.

Interesting. A mate loves building small capacity bikes from weird originals. His current one is based on an imported Japanese postal bike. I'm pretty sure he has kept the original reg from when it was imported. I guess there's a fuzzy line as to what constitutes a whole new bike as opposed to a modified original.

My wife has an excellent system of ensuring her car is clear of ice and ready to drive on frosty morning. I go out in my PJs and scrape off the ice. When it's clear enough to see out of the windscreen I set off down the frozen country lanes trying to dodge the worst of the potholes and stay of out the ditches. After a couple of miles the heater starts to work and by the time I'm home it's up to temperature. The windscreen and windows are clear inside and out, and the car is toasty warm. The downside of this system is that the de-icing operative is (I am told) a grumpy old git and expensive to maintain.