thought I'd use up some of my brownie points and head off to cadwell today to see the historic/vintage/veteran racing, checked weather forecast....a few showers it said... no need for waterproofs then, 'cos i've treated my leathers so many times they MUST be impervious to showers at least??.
30 miles in reasonably sunny and warm conditions to kings lynn, then......bluddy heavens opened, remaining 50 miles in the heaviest continual rain i've ever ridden through!
bike behaved impeccably.....leathers were crap!! soaked through, anyway, hadn't been any racing 'cos of the rain, which was easing off by the time i'd got a coffee down me.
and racing resumed fairly quickly, blummin good it was too, worth the drowning.
I did take the precaution of taking a spare set of gloves, 't' shirts and socks (with plastic bags), so did a quick change (if I have dry and warm feet and hands, i feel so much better on the bike), set off home about 5 in drying conditions and a watery sun. So gave it a bit of a handful on the way back, once back on the (dreadful) A17 was 'making progress' at about 85 (ish) kit slowly drying out, bike sounding good, ......no it wasn't.... sort of suddenly didn't seem to want to 'get on' and, lifting my visor there seemed to be more noise, yes, definitely...not on the overrun or cruising at 50 ....but when the throttle was opened up.....an exrea knock.....a millisecond or 2 before the ignition (or maybe after) took it easy for a while, not getting any worse, eased it up to 60, again, not any worse after 10 miles, so up to 70's, still ok, noisy if opened up, but ok when cruising.......got home ok, helmet off, quick check, no oil leak or gasket leak, or exhaust leak. sounds top endish......so after all that, (if you're still with me) ideas on a postcard would be very welcome.................
