Weekend debrief

[guest7]

Worked... lots

Plastered a ceiling on saturday, had a short spell in the house and then met up with Richard, Jethro and Pat for a beer.

Today I took my boys over to see their sister and I delivered an 8-track multitracker that I'd bought her to record her band. In 1982 I had a tape 4-track recorder and it cost £650. My daughter's digital 8 track, complete with all sorts of tricky built in effects cost £225 (although I bought it secondhand for £75). If only everything had dropped in price by that much eh?

Later this afternoon I had to go and plaster another ceiling (in the same flat) and now I am knackered. I'd hoped to work on the bikes today, but not a flipping chance.

GC

[002]

In work Saturday....and  The Pub Sat. night.

Got home today to find a parcel of M14 bolts waiting for me.
So set about them with Hacksaw and Arc welder to make a few more fittings for my Sidecar.

Having done that I decided to have a go at fittng said chair to the bike.
So now have one Bonneville with bare sidecar chassis fitted and loosely set up.
Hopefully next weekend will start to bolt on the panels and look at wiring up the lights.
Dead chuffed found it easier than I thought it would be doing it by myself,I did expect to have to call a mate for another pair of hands to help.

Will have to look into stiffer shocks and springs as expected.

Jethro

[KirriePete]

Saturday - shed time working on prospective daughter-in-law's Yam SR125.  Much use of lump hammer on seized front brake caliper - corrosion thy name is Yamaha - steering head bearings cleaned, repacked & tightened, engine service essentials (plug, valves, oil & filters), seat mounting nuts Dremel-ed off (corrosion thy name .....), stiff chain now swimming in paraffin & electrics looked at (just looked at 'em, waiting on Hyenas manual from ebay for diagram).  All to a background of Hurricane Kirrie.

Sunday - prepped c*r*v*n for heading further north for some downtime with SWMBO and the dog for a week (hopefully no mobile reception).

That is all.

[guest18]

Saturday, a day indoors catching up on tidying/washing/lounging about and congratulating self about not being outside in the wind/rain.
Sunday a day touring possible houses (in the car) as far afield as Plains and Forth, pleasant day 

Monday, late already(!) But at least I'll be back on the bike in a couple of minutes 

[guest7]

Sunday a day touring possible houses (in the car) as far afield as Plains and Forth, pleasant day 

I read an article in saturday's Guardian about the massive housing developments around Edinburgh that have been the victim of the crunch. Great big shiny blocks of flats sat on rubble-strewn sites and all that. Mind you, with your assembly building it would be hard to tell if it's finished or not eh? 

GC

[guest24]

Misery, misery, laid up with something horrid and now I have lost my voice, much to the delight of my children as I cant tell them off anymore!!

Hoping my Wilderbeast is still in the back garden and is keeping warm and dry as its raining outside today in not-so-sunny soufff Lundon.

Nothing exciting to report for the weekend. Even my Lotto tickets have expired, but thank goodness for my on-line Lotto account as I have renewed them now!

[tj63]

Saturday spent at Silverstone, courtesy of one of my suppliers at work  .  Unfortunately it was cars, not bikes, but an enjoyable day all the same.

Brief jaunt out on the bike Sunday morning - Matlock Bath for breakfast, then in the afternoon pub with No 1 son for a couple of beers before dinner.  Evening drinking wine and nodding off while the wife was watching some cr@ppy film.  It's a hard life. 

Work's getting worse - a quarter of the workforce made redundant a couple of months ago.  Now we're on short time.  Let's hope things pick up soon.


Trevor

[guest18]

Sunday a day touring possible houses (in the car) as far afield as Plains and Forth, pleasant day 

I read an article in saturday's Guardian about the massive housing developments around Edinburgh that have been the victim of the crunch. Great big shiny blocks of flats sat on rubble-strewn sites and all that. Mind you, with your assembly building it would be hard to tell if it's finished or not eh? 

GC

A "slight" exagerration... but there is an element of truth in it. New house prices are down at realistic levels for the first time I've ever been aware of and a lot of building projects have gone bust or been put on hold/slow time. Whatever the pundits may say the used house market is dead slow and not showing any/many green shoots so far, a lot of talk about recovery but it seems to be just that at the moment, talk! Those of us working for the Government are also watching the hovering axes nervously whilst trying to guess where the next cuts will bite (note where / when, not if..  ) it's not just the private sector suffering. Seems almost everyone is in the same boat just now 

[squirrelciv]

Fitted a set of Oxford heated grips to the VX on Saturday and replaced the dodgey horn with trhe one off Dolly. Popped to the pub for a quick hour Saturday night (very nice) and spent Sunday as a lone parent. Did cook up a lervly roast for me and the boys though.

[Richard]

Met up with Graham (thanks for the curry), Jethro and Pat in Cardiff for a few beers and much talking.  Just what I needed.  Spent the rest of the weekend in hospital with No 1 son but we are all back home now and on the road to recovery.

Must get the bikes MOT'd.

Richard

[Steffan]

Friday - AM on placement in Lampeter
Saturday - running kids and Mrs about from Aber etc
Sunday On Placement - back to Cardiff on the Skorpion.

Steffan

[Andy M]

After the first weeks commuting my £501/5000km (yep 14 years old and it's done 3000 miles  ) Zed needed a bit of TLC. Rewired a plug behind the headlight and replaced the neutral switch on Sunday.

My rest of my bike activity is now "full time" stuff so I won't bore you with that. I loved the Friday trip to ASDA on the outfit though, makes it so much more fun than it was in the cage and it's amazing how much beer you need to ballast that chair 

Bad news is that the front disk on the Triumph is warped. I've spent the last few lunchtimes getting a floating disk, gaiters, fork oil, pads, M&S tyre etc. on order so I can do the whole front end in one go. Watch this space for the Ex-brake engineers comments on "EBC floating disk, improves brake performance by UP TO 14%.

Andy

[guest7]

"EBC floating disk, improves brake performance by UP TO 14%.

It does that simply by making the rider's pockets so much lighter 

GC

[Andy M]

"EBC floating disk, improves brake performance by UP TO 14%.

It does that simply by making the rider's pockets so much lighter 

GC

You are dealing with a Yorkshireman! The floating type was a tenner cheaper than the another one of Triumphs warp speed specials, hence my willingness to try one 

Andy