Reading matter!

[themoudie]

This may help, if you are looking for some inspiration! 

Link: USA_national-emergency-library

Hopefully, dear Donald won't see fit to close it! 

Good health, Bill

[Steve Lake]

ok, i read ....
A) private eye
B) the oldie
c) the new european

usually at bedtime, so busy in workshop with 5 bikes to get sorted and (hopefully) sold.....

[themoudie]

Aye Steve,

Dinnae flood the market!  There are a fair few on fleabay at present and they don't appear to be shifting (since Xmas!). 

Can you still obtain parts, or are they closed now? 

Enjoy your weather whilst you have the chance. We have now had 2 days of dreek, drizzle and a cool wind off the North Sea. Everything dripping! 

Chicken tageen in the oven and wood stove on. 

Good health, Bill

[Ian]

I see another one of my old ones is on fleabay and autotrader.....at an exorbitant price!!!. How silly

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114136299652

[themoudie]

Aye Ian, it's a bonnie bike, of that there is no doubt. But, gold bars! I think not.

Trust you are keeping lurgy free?

My regards, Bill

[Rossco500]

I'm sure it's been mentioned here before but I'd highly recommend Peter Egan's Leanings 1,2 & 3. His first two books can be obtained quite cheaply 2nd hand from the usual sources. 3 was published more recently and will cost a bit more. He has a very laid back writing style and seems to enjoy all makes and sizes of bikes which in my eyes makes him a proper biker / motorcyclist. One of his favourite trips was on an early Honda 50 Cub (bought for the proverbial song) with a mate who accompanied him on a bicycle!
He is also a car journalist and if those books are as good as his "Leanings" series I look forward to reading them too.

Anyway all of you take care out there in these difficult times.

Regards

Tony

[Ian]

Trust you are keeping lurgy free?

My regards, Bill

Many thanks Bill, I think I'm "lurgie free" but we were happily cruising back from Brazil when told we weren't allowed in any of the European Ports....until Lisbon allowed us to dock but no one but Portuguese nationals were allowed off. It turned out one of them was tested positive. We Brits were then repatriated asap. It was all a bit rapid as we given just over half an hour to pack and go get our passports. Police armed guard on coaches in which we were not allowed to sit by a window. Armed outriders to stop all traffic through the back streets of Lisbon to take us to the airport. Straight off the coaches onto the plane to deliver us to an unknown destination (Heathrow as it turned out). Quite an experience. Now at home doing a lot of gardening and other non vehicle activities
Sorry for hijacking the thread
Regards Ian

[themoudie]

Aye Ian, pleased to read that you made it back and in one piece. One of lifes little adventures! 

Good health, Bill

[mthee]

I'm sure it's been mentioned here before but I'd highly recommend Peter Egan's Leanings 1,2 & 3. His first two books can be obtained quite cheaply 2nd hand from the usual sources. 3 was published more recently and will cost a bit more. He has a very laid back writing style and seems to enjoy all makes and sizes of bikes which in my eyes makes him a proper biker / motorcyclist. One of his favourite trips was on an early Honda 50 Cub (bought for the proverbial song) with a mate who accompanied him on a bicycle!
He is also a car journalist and if those books are as good as his "Leanings" series I look forward to reading them too.

Anyway all of you take care out there in these difficult times.

Regards

Tony

Thanks for the tip, sounds good and there are only so many YouTube videos