Awoke about 7:30 this morning feeling my age after the day on track yesterday so a gentle start with coffee in bed. Hooked the trailer up to the car and set off for the journey back home. The M1 followed by the A43, the M40 and finally the A34 is not the most inspiring of journeys but hey, that was the most direct route. Unloading the bike, putting everything that we took back in their rightful place, including a generator and gazebo and the trailer put back in the back garden, behind the shed. I’m bloody knackered all over again. Hell of a thunder storm and torrential rain for a couple of hours so now it’s humid again and I’m melting ...... again. Still another day tomorrow and who knows what it will bring. Whatever it is, I hope it won’t be too early though. Andy
Found hotel near Burgos 30€ and it’s nice free breakfast too...cool at 16 or 17 outside throwing it down a lot of the way from Santander
Did a few finishing touches and its pretty much done! Except for the wheels, tyres, frame & crank cases everything is now new...LOL Just in time for it to be tax & MOT exempt next year - not bad for a 40 yearold bike. Still I will probably get hand guards, maybe change to twelve volts and I heard a rumor bigger fuel tanks are available... I guess you never really finish messing about with these old toys.
Just got booked back on boat home Monday...paid 95 cents a litre for diesel then saw it for 90 cents further along the road...some seriously cheap fuel on the Santander road down to Burgos at the moment
Yeah I plan to ride it a fair bit. I went to the Lakes this week to start the running in process. Riding it is great fun. So light and revvy. Not enough power really, but after 8 hours I only stopped riding as it was getting dark.
Finally getting around to posting pics of my recent 10hr ride covering most of the length of the North Is. Is mid winter here so had to bust out my long pants and a jersey for work...
It did from 5 till whatever time after I slept. So muggy until 11ish when a nice breeze came through windows. The lightening here was fluorescent I couldn’t look at it it was soooooo bright
Got home from hospital early evening yesterday and just had my first dose of the 6 tablets I will be on for the rest of my life.