(long) Weekend debrief....

[Steve Lake]

4 glorious days.....and not one of them spent doing anything biking!!, strangly not too concerned, not got a roadworthy bike at present....both #1 and #4(which No1 Son is preparing for IOM trip) are waiting patiently for oil pumps then MOT then Tax.
Had a housefull all weekend, so we had to have a plan.....and the plan was to build a chicken shed and run and go and get some hens....this involved the whole family including the 4 grandchildren so was great fun.....lots of beer and sandwiches consumed by parents and grandparents, ended up last night with a very passable chicked shed and posh run.....Mr Fox will have a difficult time getting this lot (although previous flocks have suffered carnage from his visits!)
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[beeman]

Did the chicken thing last week now have 4 hens a laying and one collie dog spending hours sitting outside the run hopping for the hens to escape chase kill play (please delete as appropriate)
Nothing bike, except to go to work, as either working or ill (D&V). Might strip out daughters 400 and put unto boxes today. (as long as loo is near by)

[guest27]

Collie and hens - since we have had our collie we have only lost a couple of ducks to the fox - mind they do look kinda pee'd off at times when he rounds them all up for no good reason.  Both he and the GSD/Rottie cross learnt very quickly that the ducks (and with the Mettise hens) that they are part of the pack and to be looked after.

Oh ducks are free range apart from evenings - and mostly being muscovey crosses they get fed up with me getting them down out of trees etc to put them away..

R

[guest27]

This weekend I played with a couple of bikes and got them running sort of - now I just have to take them apart again....

Went to Pembery to see the Classic Racing - nice day out, bit too long but ahhhh .  Lovely smells, lovely bikes and some good natters.

Sunday went to Margam to meet up with Margam Archers - wandered around with a group on their field shoot - long bows and foam animals.  Was quite fun, can understand why they get complaints mind - from a distance does look like they are taking pot shots at the deer.

Yesterday spent messing about and getting the CG sort of running - waiting on family getting home - seems they had a torrid journey

R

[Bruce]

Got The Norton loaded up Friday morning and went to The Ded Duck Rally run by Glos.MAG stopped on the way at Newent and had a mug of tea and a toasted teacake arrived at the rally and relaxed on friday and saturday, won the Best Classic Bike prize,there was not a lot of competion, it makes a change from winning the Rat Bike prize.

Sunday morning loaded up and went to Red Marley on the way I went up a hill on a B class road which had signs saying HGVs engage crawler gear The Norton went up  in 3rd gear no problems.

Red Marley was bit of dissapointment not the event but the administration I don,t think I will bother going again next year.

Got home early monday evening looked in the mirror and saw that my face was sunburnt from all the good weather.

Following the piston change the bike is running a lot better.

[squirrelciv]

Friday and Monday spent at the beach with a gang of mates and Friday being the better of the two visits with its BBQ & beer elements and the night ending at about 12ish following more beers and several games of 'buzz' on the play station :-)
Saturday was spent working on a commision followed by mother in laws 70th birthday.
Sunday spent with my parents (gulp!) and no massive family rows marks this trip an exception to the norm.
Nowt Bikey  done at all, not even a wash for the old girl :-0

[themoudie]

Spent Friday trying to flog the butt and rootball of my lovely big laburnum tree, about 500kg! Roots not spread when planted and 40 years later she strangled hersel' and was leaning toward my neighbours sun lounge. :-(

Serviced Boy Bros and Sally and started tidying garage with potential for sale! Raked the lawn with lawn rake (no bantams these days!) and carted off 25 barrows of moss, big lawn (grass) as well.

Saturday went for a potter on Sally, commiserated with daughter whom had a wisdom tooth out on Thursday. A crack for each root, followed by a further 10 minutes wiggling and prising by the dentist before it let go. My sympathetic comment was that it looked horse like! Tried a Wall's Ecuador Dark Magnum, mmmmmmmmmmm!

Sunday, TT past the house! Plastic chair out under the tree, coffee, marmalade and toast as the local 'hoolies' rip past on all sorts of exotica. MV F4 was best this weekend, but new 14K + revving CBR600 sounds good on a race pipe. Vincent Comet was also very tuneful and not being spared.

Monday more gardening and trying to get this damo bloke sorted! ;-) Morini 'The Minx' kickstart getting sorted and front end getting stripped. Manx kippers for tea, work mate been across surveying. One day of drizzle, one day of soft hail, the rest nice with cool northerly breeze.

My MoT today, nurse reckons OK for a few more miles. My dear wife reckons I'm too cheeky!

Keep boppin', Bill

[Richard Marshall]

Took the family camping near Cader Idris, which meant we were able to fit in a trip to the racing at Tonfanau on the Sunday and met up with Steve (Steffan) and family there.  Splendid time cheering on someone optimistic enough to be running a 500 Meteor Minor Twin.  Not so many singles in the classic races as there used to be (plenty of 250 Suzuki and Honda twins though).  The Matchless 500 never made it onto the track but there were the usual Nortons, Triumph twins and triples and Ducati singles.
Bit hacked off to hear I managed to miss the Pembrey Classic racing though, again...............

[SteveC#222]

Friday - collected No1 son from uni at Nottingham. Family day at newstead abbey on the way back. Van went bang on the way home - fan belt pulley fell off/sheared!!- RAC'd home.....Bum!

Saturday - day spent messing with bikes. Oil/filter change on the XBR. New clutch springs on the GN....result!.. no more clutch slip!

Sunday - family christening

Monday - Went out with local bike club for a 150 mile round trip to rutland water.  Good day,but as the XBR was the smallest bike there and most were on 600+ jap sportsbikes spent most of the day playing catch up (showed 'em on the twisties though  )

[002]

Finished work early Friday.
So decided that my weekend could start early,packed bike and trailer.
Met up with Julian and Viv at Llanthony Priory.Pitched up,had a chat then decided to go for more beer in the Priory.
Woke up Saturday with a head ache...? Went back to bed.
Got up again.Trip into Hay,back for more beer.
Didnt wake up with a head ache.Went for a walk up one of the hills.Magnificent scenery,what made our day.
Not just watching the Buzzards soring,but looking down on a Red Kite and then a Kestral both intent on watching us.
Loverly colours !
Another afternoon and evening of beer.
Back home for lunch on Monday.
Today,tidied some the garden a little,then went to the local Landy dealer and had a look at the new Deafener.
Home wait for it to cool then did the valve clearances on my Landy.
And fell in love even more with the old Series 111.

Jethro

[MrFluffy]

Fri on child minding duty with v1.1 as doc's have told my mrs to bedrest for a while, in the evenings got into workshop for a tinker, mostly with my car.
Saturday retrieved bits for another project (a car...) from storage in field shed (three hours, its like fort knox with the door barracaded by a squished wheelless renault espace that has to be dragged out the way) and discovered thieving scum had stripped the tow hitch from the trailer in field so shagged vinyl roof on rangie at rear carrying too big bits strapped into tailgate area..
Sunday mother in law took offspring so started to reorganise our garden after having a new septic tank system and filter bed fitted which managed to destroy every area of the garden somehow but couldnt backfill as offical inspectors yet to arrive for final signoff. Ran new 3 phase cable to garage and put bigger fences to keep child out of the swimming pool area. Out for a hours pootle on sp when boy came home after a day on grandads tractor mowing lawns and went straight to bed (bliss) while wifey watched crap soap tv.
The water inspector people came today and refused signoff because we didnt have a 100mm vent on a 32mm saniflow toilet system. Grrrr. So we're still chopping it up and discharging it on the road as not allowed to commision system till re-inspected and passed, only in france...

[guest7]

Worked Friday and Saturday, painting a house in Magnolia in bright sunshine - I swear I went snowblind!

Sunday and Monday spent avec mon famille. Nice to play with the kids and chill out.

Couldn't really do much else as my only roadwirthy bike is still crook and I'm broke. However, on Monday I finally cleared all the climbers off the aviary that the previous owners had erected alongside the garage. The plan is to add roof timbers and then clad it as a shed.

Had a little potch on the black XBR outfit, got the sidecar lights working, etc.

Cheers
GC

[Steffan]

Managed to get back from N Wales intact , having spent the weekend in little Manchester beyond sea. Came back via via Harlech and Barmouth, both are complete dumps this time of year - full of bloody tourist. Tonfanau was fantastic, I was so stoked I was tempted into thinking about building an MZ racer - how mad is that?. Anyway just back from giving the Skorpion a good run over to the coast to see Keith and to have a cup of tea, and while I was away all my Brembo goodies for the Skorpion came home to roost via ebay, so I guess I will be making a mess with Dot4 at some stage:-)

Steffan

[steveD]

Spent Friday modifying the pannier mounting system on the DR to make them quickly dismountable with some SS pegs that AS had made for me and some spring pins worked a treat. Sun was still shining so decide to set off to Dent, if a little late but had a great ride up there as most traffic was where it wanted to be. Too much booze on the Friday evening and a bit heady Sat morning but decided to go to Sedburgh to check out the catering for the Annual with success.
Saturday afternoon went over to the lakes on the rideout route, its looking good folks, but Hard Knot Pass still Sh**s me and I've done it loads of times! The DR wants to wheelie on some of the very sharp corners which wind up and the surface is quite corrugated now!
Checked out a ford en-route but bottled it!
Rideout still needs fettling but is promising.
Got back to campsite toi find a Suzi DR350 with full Alloy pannier set camped next to me (Matal mule, Tres cher!)
Guy called Steve who had taken this very beast over to Iceland and fallen off crossing a river, bike fell on him and broke his leg! Fortunately he was being followed by someone in a Landy who managed to get him and his panniers to hospital. Bike was left in the middle of a sand bank! He was repatriated to UK some days later and got his bike back months later, quite a story!
We went to the pub later and had a right good chinwag, perhaps a new member for the club!
Sunday had breakfast in the Farmhouse and then as he was travelling the same route home we set off together. Those little 350's go like hell, I was only just keeping up with him on my DR750!
Good ride home and hot bath to ease away the aches! Used a tankfull, 250 miles! just went onto reserve near Hudds!
Now back to work.
See some of you at Wetton.

Cheers SteveD

[Andy M]

Did Ok bikewise for a change.

Friday after work I got stuck with some gardening but managed to skive off and try the Saxon bodywork on the ETZ. No go as it turns out, the frame has side panel brackets in the wrong place, a hole for the exhaust rod missing and a couple of other annoying little bits that all add up to a long term hassle if you try it. Therefore it's plan B, sort the Saxon.

Saturday had to go shopping but managed to sneak into the DIY place in the market and aquire Hammerite, wire brushes etc. Got smashed on port which isn't a bright move, but the Derbyshire Blue was too nice to stop!

Sunday we had one of Karen's mates over, so I spent the morning in the kitchen (Strudel, hot cross buns and Goulash soup all knocked up despite the head ache) and the afternoon/evening/night in the pub/garden house drowning my hangover in Erdinger.

Monday I got the frame, swing arm and a stack of minor bits cleaned and painted.

Tuesday I assembled the swing arm, stole the back tyre, shocks and mudguard off the ETZ and got them on. I even got some new plugs fitted into the loom so another corroded bit hit the scrap pile. I now own 2 MZ unicycles, but at least one of them is neat, tidy and corrosion proof (ish). Another few weeks and it should be MOT, tax and back to making smoke. Just waiting for fork oil, exhaust paint, stainless fasteners etc, to arrive in the post.

Andy