What have you done to your bike today....

[chas]

What I actually did with my bike today is whilst riding back from work adjusted the o/s mirror a smidge and the fucker cracked. Short term I'll rejig the n/s so it'll serve as an o/s and blank the n/s hole in the bar end. I've a couple of old mirrors in the shed so may try to cut a circle out of one of them to fashion a replacement glass. They seem expensive buggers to buy.

 

[chas]

You’ve been watching too much Eastenders @chas

If only I could blame it on that

 

[smib]

You’ve been watching too much Eastenders @chas

No... Don't tell me that crap is still running

 

[Old Nick]

If only I could blame it on that

I blame my inability to remember names on senility

 

[chas]

I blame my inability to remember names on senility

I don't have an inability. Just a lack of interest

 

[half ton]

I don't have an inability. Just a lack of interest

I agree with you me old Mucker, But Matey from down south has got a point with the senile bit,As for Buddy and Old Pal from Northampton ... well what can I say...

 

[Don the Don]

Remembering names get's harder as you get old, these days I'd forget me balls if they weren't in a bag never mind someones name

 

[Doc Strange]

I don't even give women 'women's names'.

Being 'of an age' I call women by Darlin', Sweetheart or Twinkle (if under 21) and all blokes are Fella or Mate.

I can't be doing with learning names

Sounds perfectly correct to me!

DS

 

[Doc Strange]

85 mile bimble round Melton, Rutland and the cafe.

Checked millage as then filled up - so £15.50 in petrol and a fiver in the cafe.

Reckon they could double the price of petrol and it'd still be worth it

Beyond that, I'll be turning to crime to fund me riding!

DS

 

[Scrappy]

A good couple of hours riding one of my favourite circuits over to Melton and surrounding area, then stopped off at a usual spot for a few mins to enjoy the view and peace

 

[Don the Don]

A good couple of hours riding one of my favourite circuits over to Melton and surrounding area, then stopped off at a usual spot for a few mins to enjoy the view and peace

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Nice pic's @Scrappy the Guzzi is looking good,........I thought you took to cruising the Bible belt of old biddies on the Bonnie on Sundays? ....to much to handle mate?

 

[Scrappy]

Nice pic's @Scrappy the Guzzi is looking good,........I thought you took to cruising the Bible belt of old biddies on the Bonnie on Sundays? ....to much to handle mate?

Just making do with a throbbing v-twin between my legs today ...come to think about it, I get more feeling from that than some women I've known

 

[Big Sandy]

Names? My Tee shirt used to say "Hi. I'm bad with names. Mind if I call you Shithead?"

Today, knee wrapped up and off to Thurso to the post office. Nice day, killed a million flies... Back brake working just fine, bike running well, apart from one misfire, which is probably a different coil pack. Time will tell. 43.5mpg at fill up, and I wasn't hanging around.

Knee is interesting, bit sore, but it works.

And here we are at the harbour in Thurso... Orkney in the distance.

 

[Don the Don]

Names? My Tee shirt used to say "Hi. I'm bad with names. Mind if I call you Shithead?"

Today, knee wrapped up and off to Thurso to the post office. Nice day, killed a million flies... Back brake working just fine, bike running well, apart from one misfire, which is probably a different coil pack. Time will tell. 43.5mpg at fill up, and I wasn't hanging around.

Knee is interesting, bit sore, but it works.

And here we are at the harbour in Thurso... Orkney in the distance.

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Bikes looking well mate, hope the knee gets better soon @Big Sandy it's a right bastid having a bad knee, had to take the Scrabster ferry over to Orkney a few times nice on a day like that but not so when the sea's rough

 

[Big Sandy]

Aye, the Pentland firth is interesting when it's rough. Our daughter lives on Orkney, we usually take the ferry from Gills Bay, the catamaran one. MV Alfred.

Knees on the mend... Keeping it strapped up. I mashed it with a starter handle years ago, that hurt then, but never thought I'd still be paying for it 30yrs later....

 

[Don the Don]

Aye, the Pentland firth is interesting when it's rough. Our daughter lives on Orkney, we usually take the ferry from Gills Bay, the catamaran one. MV Alfred.

Knees on the mend... Keeping it strapped up. I mashed it with a starter handle years ago, that hurt then, but never thought I'd still be paying for it 30yrs later....

Aye those starter handles can be lethal, I used to enjoy watching gobby airmen try and start the old genny's or compressor's with them having some how forgot to tell them to keep their thumbs out of the way........ain't I a shit

 

[Steve 998cc]

Aye those starter handles can be lethal, I used to enjoy watching gobby airmen try and start the old genny's or compressor's with them having some how forgot to tell them to keep their thumbs out of the way........ain't I a shit

I only made that mistake once dislacated my thumb when I was an apprentice starting a mixer

 

[Big Sandy]

The 2.25d Land Rover comes complete with a starter handle. It's only real use is for doing valve clearances and timing.

It is, however, very funny when you tell someone they can start it on the handle, and then step back and watch them try....

Now who's a shit?

It was a Thwaites 5 ton dumper that bit me... Handle spun round after it came off, cracked my knee with the key end. It was a bastard to start, 2 cylinder, so you needed to throw one decompression lever, and keep it turning before throwing the other.

We had a 15kw genset at the lodge I worked at, I could start that by getting it on the top of the stroke, one spin and away it would go. Then they took the fun out of it by fitting a starter on it!

 

[Don the Don]

We had a few old trucks that still had that way of starting as a back up, the same as opening the old Hanger doors wide open, warmed you up,
But imagine starting one of these below on the crank: Landy's can be done also the Lada Niva had access to a hand crank

 

[Big Sandy]

Aye, can start a 2.25 petrol Landy easy. Not the diesel though, never get it fast enough!

That's the Tiger at Bovington isn't it? My broadband speed is Shite at the moment so didn't watch the vid, but seen them start that up before. The Sherman engine is fun to watch start too... I like them both....