S-Westerly Posted March 15 Posted March 15 (edited) This weekend is work. This was yesterday. Finished at 0530 this morning started another at 1300 this afternoon. Another scheduled for 1600 tomorrow. Sometimes I earn my dosh.Mine is NOT the rusty heap on the right! Edited March 15 by S-Westerly 8 Quote
Bender Posted March 15 Posted March 15 1 hour ago, S-Westerly said: This weekend is work. This was yesterday. Finished at 0530 this morning started another at 1300 this afternoon. Another scheduled for 1600 tomorrow. Sometimes I earn my dosh.Mine is NOT the rusty heap on the right! There is a spare captain job going, must be prepared to ram us ships I think it said on LinkedIn 1 4 Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted March 18 Posted March 18 My weekend has been determined by my clapped out old Astra. When driving it I've got to the stage of listening for new noises and figuring out how terminal they sound. A recent nasty tapping under modest acceleration (yes, such a thing exists) turned out to be the exhaust manifold heatshield making a bid for freedom. It is currently attached by the one remaining upper bolt, with the lower two brackets having declared independence and broken off diplomatic relations. But driving home today I was halfway round a roundabout when a noise like a thousand cats being slowly fed through a mangle erupted from somewhere deep within the dashboard. It turned out to be the heater blower motor giving up the ghost. Fortunately a replacement is less than £30 which I can just about justify spending on the car. The downside is that the wiring for it runs to a resistor pack located in a position that requires the dexterity of a small, lithe and youthful person, none of which attributes I possess. 2 1 Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted March 20 Posted March 20 The weekend needs a rethink because the replacement heater motor arrived today. Since it was warm and sunny I got it fitted. As predicted, getting the motor out was relatively simple due to Vauxhall placing it behind the glovebox. Getting at the resistor was a different story involving squeezing a hand into a tiny gap surrounded by razor sharp plastic edges, then needing to release two catches simultaneously whilst at the same time pulling the resistor out of a very tight socket. And then, as they say, refitting is the reverse procedure. My hand looks like I tried unarmed combat with a sabre toothed tiger. But the new motor is in. 3 2 Quote
RAYK47 Posted March 20 Posted March 20 This weekend is a wash out so no 2 wheeled action. The wife is away all weekend at my daughters so its me and the boy, he has a match Sunday morning so that is all i have planned. Quote
Mickly Posted March 20 Posted March 20 Taking my elderly Mother to a stamp auction… she was saying how much she’d like to go & that she was still a bit shaky after a recent bump in her car, it was like an out of body experience … I could hear myself offering to take her while thinking ‘WTF you doing??’ 3 3 Quote
rennie Posted March 20 Author Posted March 20 Not much! Might go to the pub Saturday if we feel up to it Quote
Bender Posted March 20 Posted March 20 Going out sat nigh, getting up to watch F1 at 5am sun morning 1 Quote
rennie Posted April 2 Author Posted April 2 Going away in the campervan for the weekend! Friday and Saturday night at Shardlow marina 3 Quote
S-Westerly Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Saturday is training day so have to plan for that and Sunday we are scheduled to load the second part of this cargo. Not the best weekend ever. 1 Quote
Simon Davey Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Just now, S-Westerly said: Saturday is training day so have to plan for that and Sunday we are scheduled to load the second part of this cargo. Not the best weekend ever. Despite your whole working life at sea, they're giving you training..... You know you love it. Hope it goes well,all the same. Quote
S-Westerly Posted April 3 Posted April 3 2 minutes ago, Simon Davey said: Despite your whole working life at sea, they're giving you training..... You know you love it. Hope it goes well,all the same. No we have to conduct various drills to rehearse disasters and mayhem. You wouldn't believe the crap I had to jump through after the recent shunt in the North Sea! There's a degree of logic to it though and it's largely me conducting the training in this case. 4 1 Quote
Shepherd Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Off to Donington tomorrow ready for the start of GT championship on Saturday, where a friend races as an amateur. Going to take the Deauville as we'll be 2 up, and it's more like a sofa for my Wife than the seat like a barstool on the Versys. Then all the way back to Essex Sunday night, only to take the Versys back up and turn left for a week in Wales starting Monday morning It's not gonna do the tyres any good on either bike, both sets are showing signs of squaring off. Might get my first tags though. 4 Quote
Mawsley Posted April 3 Posted April 3 First camping of the year. Don’t think it’ll go well - firstly, I don’t have a sat nav to get there, and I’m currently sitting drinking the bottle of rum I bought to keep me warm at the campsite. Don’t have any way to strap stuff to the bike either. And they all want to leave at 10:30…which is the time I normally get up. Challenges. 2 2 Quote
Mawsley Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Now if I was clever, I'd check to see if the mice have destroyed my tent and bedding before I get to the Peaks. I'm not very clever. Quote
Mawsley Posted April 4 Posted April 4 2 hours ago, Fiddlesticks said: More rum required... Currently debating this very tricky problem. 2 Quote
ChrisBiggsUK Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Spent all day today at the mother in laws while the new garage door was fitted. Which was a chore. Sorry, I mean to say, it was 'lovely' being sat there all day. Tomorrow, few plans. Go for a ride, then give the bike a thorough clean before... Wirral Egg Run on Sunday morning! Proper excited! Terrified too. Mostly terrified. Not of the ride itself, I know the route off the top of my head and have inadvertently been riding it almost every day for the past couple of months as it seemed, to me, a perfectly acceptable ride taking in multiple road types, speed limit variations, hills, roundabouts, you name it. Seemed a good route to take to practice on, and didn't realise until recently that it was the actual egg run route. So not terrified of that. The riding with however many hundreds? thousands? bazillions!?!??!? of other bikers though... That bit has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. Luckily I'm riding down to the starting point with a nice bunch of people, and having a fat bacon sandwich with them before hand, and should (mostly) be sticking with them the whole route, so in theory the 'riding with other people for the first time' jitters should be to a minimum but even still; Many bricks will be being pooped. Positively giddy with trepidation is probably an accurate descriptor. 6 Quote
Simon Davey Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Hope you have a cracking time doing the egg run @ChrisBiggsUK Next year you'll be so confident about doing it. 1 Quote
Fiddlesticks Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Good luck @ChrisBiggsUK Try and keep a good amount of space ahead of you, that way when everyone slams on you can slow slowly and mitigate the risk of being rear-ended. Post a few pics! 1 Quote
onesea Posted April 4 Posted April 4 2 hours ago, ChrisBiggsUK said: Positively giddy with trepidation is probably an accurate descriptor. Don't worry about it, most are very kind give space and the handful of dicks well they stand out as dicks. What a good first big ride, do update us... Relax and enjoy... 1 Quote
Mawsley Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Replacement rum purchased, various unchecked bits of camping equipment strapped inelegantly onto the Street Bob at jaunty angles. Old school sat nav taped to the tank. If you are in the locale of the M1, A50, Peaks - keep an eye out for everything of mine that will have fallen off. There’s no reward, I’d just like to have a laugh at the photos. I’m kinda hoping I have an excuse to check into a B&B. 2 3 Quote
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