Sat in departure lounge waiting to board the plane to Barcelona . 7 days of sun, sea, tapas and beer - hoorah ! Andy
I've had meetings with corporate lawyers and IP experts. Not sure I'm any further forward or just more skint.
First ride out since surgery done :Nailbiting: Bike now Mot'ed, had a squeaky bum moment from the new rosso3's, yep 1/2 mile in and forgot about the newly installed quick action throttle :Wideyed: .........3 miles and my wrists are killing!!!! Time to build it back up me thinks..... ............................ still grinning 2hrs later though
Took my 600ss for its MOT - it passed! It's done 542 miles since the last one. which is quite a lot considering it's only done 2,452 in it's 21 year life.
I took the MT over to Motografix, they have taken rough templates from another MT and used mine to trial fit the kit of gel pads they are making. Also got caught in the rain in a leather jacket and kevlar jeans... Well the Bridgestone S20's seem to work well in the wet.
Arrived in Salou despite the train from the Passage de Gracia being cancelled and having to dash to Estacio Sant to get it. Found a great little restaurant catering for the locals and had a very pleasant meal and lots of beer. Almost time for bed after a long day but the prospect of a few very good days ahead. Port Aventura for the girls, Bar Lobo in Barcelona for me . Andy
You reversed into two couples ? Those rear parking sensors are moving towards the top of the Xmas list....
Had a Rosso II fitted to the front, great improvement old tyre had wear, flopped into corners, rolls in now, painted the clutch cover, been for a ride, had a haircut, and most important of all applied Agip stickers to fairing and clutch cover.
SWMBO and I have just been to see Tom Jones at Castle Howard near York, after having been to lunch at the Crab and Lobster at Asenby. The weather was fantastic, the venue stunning, evening picnic wonderful and sir Tom was absolutely brilliant. The man can sing and he's certainly not lost "it" going by the hundreds of women swooning over him. A good day was had by all.
This afternoon I was out on my bike and having fun hooning around Fife when it started raining. Incredible, I know! Anyway, I decided to head for home and after a while I was leaving a 40mph zone so accelerated, not giving it much, but I could feel the back wheel start to slip and the TC cut in to sort things out. I changed mode from sport to touring and carried on. I caught up with traffic and when I started accelerating to overtake the rear end started twitching about and the TC cut in again. The road was freshly wet but nothing extreme and it looked clean. I cautiously went for another overtake and again things started getting out of shape under acceleration and the TC pulled it together again. This was all in the space of a couple of miles. I wondered if I had a puncture or if oil was leaking onto my back tyre or something. I was just a couple of miles from home so I gave up on the idea of overtaking, dropped into urban mode and rode the last few miles to my house on a steady throttle and keeping as much weight as I could over the front (not easy on the M1200). When I got home the tyre pressure was fine, no oil leak, nothing loose, in fact nothing untoward that I could see so no clue as to what happened. I can only guess the road was made greasy by diesel or something. The sky was leaden so no tell-tale oil rainbows. It gave me a renewed appreciation for TC.
I just reported a spammer company that have spoofed my email address. Each spam email contains the IP address of the originator so it's not hard to trace the source (Stylecom in Bulgaria in this case). I don't suppose much will happen but at least, by reporting it, their ISP will be informed.
Well first thing this morning I got the Pani out and had a quick blast for an hour then came home and cleaned it. Then I went out for an hour on the Scrambler I then came home got changed and SWMBO and I headed to #1 son's house to take my two grandsons (4 &2) out for the afternoon on an "adventure" whilst mummy and daddy went on a date. So we took the train from Romiley to Manchester Piccadilly and headed to Piccadilly gardens. The weather was scorchio We played for a bit in the gardens, I bought them both a "bubble gun", then we went for a pizza before heading back to their house again on the train. We are now home, knackered and skint but we've had a great weekend.
Took a ride up to Cheltenham, Into Evans Cycles to purchase a new cycle helmet and gel summer mitts. Brilliant ride back over the Cotswolds. Got home and had a choice of weeding or cleaning both bikes, couple hours later two lovely shiny bikes, swept out the garage and tucked them up for the night. Homemade salt beef and coleslaw for dinner, ate outside as so warm. Weeds still there!
Today I finished ordering half the parts that I needed to fix my bike...tomorrow I will be wrapping up on the order...then it will be just a matter of time for everything to come in...all in all...the total cost for everything in parts was $6500.00 CAD
The weather forecaster today, said we'd have brilliant sunshine tomorrow and tuesday. Which is great because there's nothing worse than mediocre, apathetic or lazy sunshine
I completely missed the post about your accident. That's shitty luck. I'm glad things are moving forward for you. It was an absolutely stunning bike and I'm sure it will be again.
