Weekend Debrief

[KirriePete]

Really started Friday evening, fettling the GN electrics to stop it blowing bulbs.  6v regulator from Paul Goff wired into the headlight circuit seems to have done the trick ..... so far!  Number 1 son has now taken ownership, so we'll see how long it all holds together in his tender care!

Saturday - did this: YouTube Clicky Linky Thing - that's me at 2:19, yellow Marshall's hi-viz on Norman The Valiant NTV (why a bike should be wearing a hi-viz I don't know, but there y'go!).  Despite the title of the vid, it was a Dundee Bikers Forum event, although some of the Saints'n'Sinners came along.

Today, Sunday - handed over the GN keys to the lad, along with a can of chain lube (don't ask!), then washed & prepped the c*r*v*n ready for a week away - me, the missus, the dog and a beach with no mobile reception, just need a bike to make it heaven!

Oh crikey!  I've just had a thought (first one for years) - now that the GN has drifted into the hands of the lad, I no longer have a thumper in my shed - will I be excommunicated?

[guest18]

Friday, light work on XBR outfit, heavy work shifting flammable/heavy stuff to my parents house in advance of the move (cheers Transalp John for the help!). Also negotiations with an aquaintance from the Scottish Off Road Club over the lend of a car trailer...
Saturday, heavy garage tidying and boxing of stuff. More gentle work on XBR.
Today, further heavy tidying in garage, most heavy work done and 80%(ish) of the spares etc boxed. XBR finally reassembled and upon inspection fuel found to be revolting (brown with dubious viscous bits in  ) mostly syphoned out, just the dregs to drain and it can have a gallon of fresh (dunno what to do with a jerrycan of contaminated petrol though  may have to try to palm it off on work...)

Tomorrow, more bl***y boxing of stuff 
Happy Easter.... 
(will be worth it afterwards I'm sure/I hope!)

Oh and Kirriepete, to avoid excommunication or more painful fates, the easy answer is to put a "long term project"/festering wreck at the bottom of your garden/back of the shed/end of the garage/mates house and look at it every so often whilst muttering "I really must do something with that..."

It's been a biking standby for years 

[Mark]

Went to a bike rally in the Forest of Dean, it was a bit wet and muddy(effin' stinking).

On the +ve side it kept the boys with the big BMs away(some turned up, took one look and bu66ered off) which left us with more real ale (pigs ear, jouster, tornament and old spot).

Ifor kept falling off/dropping/kicking over his Norton 16h as it was so loaded with gear it was top heavy and just toppled over regularly. The funniest time was outside the COOP in Coleford when he didn't swing his leg high enough to get on, he kick it over one way and fell backwards the other, all in the car park though it quite comical.

Called back at the Downs Cafe by Cowbridge on the way home still covered head to toe in dried mud much to the amusement of fellow bikers gathered there.

I'd love to know how those got on in Llanthony.

Mark.

[Richard]

Plenty of snow on the Abergwesyn road over the weekend.  Got called out to rescue an elderly couple stuck there.  Oddly we found them whilst the helicopter didn't.  Couple of bikes out on the same road, wish it had been me.

Still got some drifts up high.

RIchard

[002]

I got to Llanthony Fri.afternoon.
Got stuck set up camp then managed to retrieve the outfit on my own 
Yes Mark it was bloody wet.
Jules arrived later,got sorted....loads of fun watching other people negociate a very,very wet and muddy field.Most seemed to be wearing white trainers 
Saw a few get stuck....any way went to the pub and had a few Stout for those who couldnt make it.
Sat. went for a stroll,stopped off at Treats across the road for some tea and home made cake and sat next to the wood burning stove they have in their little room for travellers.
Tim turned up on his Guzzi and Royale oufit....very nice too.
The luverly Viv tuned up later...again had some scoff,very nice venison casserolle,and of to the Priory.
Sun.Had Brekky...went for a stroll up one of the Hills and looked down on the Priory,magnificent views all round.Back to Treats for more Tea and cake.
Sue...Tims other half arrived....yet again more scoff,a very nice home made meat balls and pasta....off to the pub.
And now after a good hearty cooked breakfast,packed up and arrived home.

A good weekend....people watching,chatting,to other campers,aswell amongst ourselves.
Good food,good beer,weather a little interesting,but on the whole not too bad.Very wet Friday morning,eased off and Slowly dried up....well sort of...ish.

Jethro

[Steffan]

Nothing bike related to report. Attended the watch on Thurday and the stripping of the Altar on Friday, then the vigil followed by a cook up of sausages and bacon washed down with liberal quanities of Cava before eight AM on Sunday morning. Christ is Risen!

Washed some of the salt off the MZ - oh dear.. bike is good, salt is bad. Liberal coating of fancy anti-rust stuff. Will have to get busy with Hamerite smooth this summer or at least before next years salty season.

Sounds like Llantony was a hoot..

Steffan

[guest868]

Bit late I suppose...and not really the weekend, but I went to Red Marley for the hill climb, or at least part of it.
Some pics-

Darmah in the bike park-



View from the bottom-



Lovely Matchless rigid-



Beezer heading up-



Oops-



Was a good ride there and back, beating google maps estimation by 35min each way... 

[guest7]

My plans went awry when I was reminded by my wife that we had two events booked in over the weekend so Pembrey and/or Red Marley was off  

As it happened it wasn't a bad weekend. I had a good time at my in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday and then, on Sunday morning, I got up and cooked a monster fried breakfast for the parents of the 8 children who came to help my two horrors on an Easter egg hunt.

Monday was spent with the kids because wifey was working, but I did get to have a potch in the garage and it's looking better than it has for a while. Whilst there I dug out a calliper for my Spares-Bin XBR that I'm building for the trip to the NW200. I tootled off to work with this yesterday morning as I was working in a business adjacent to Cardiff's finest independent motorcycle mechanic, Dick Jones. I thought I'd use his workshop to strip it down. In a flash the calliper was sorted and I was holding a rebuilt item with new pistons and seals. Total cost, £20   Dick hunts autojumbles for NOS Honda parts and this is why the parts were so cheap.

Yesterday afternoon my brother turned up with his Ebay DR650 that he hopes will provide an engine for the DR he bought from club member Simon Morgan. This was also entrusted to Dick Jones and he awaits the results of Dick's examination of the bike.

The battery for the GB turned up today and tomorrow night is earmarked for some GB fettling.

GC

[andy230]

Friday morning we packed lots of tools and a small bag of clothes into Tamworth's plastic supercar and headed down to Dorset, to a small cottage with the squaw's sister and her husband.

Visited Monkey World en route to see the relatives.

2 days, much walking, gallons of cider and plates of stew later we were on our way back.

Via the Donkey Sanctury in Devon.  Not as clever as monkeys, but just as nice!   

The only hitch with the Resin Rocket was a stuck lecky window on the M25 on the way home.  Promptly cured by slamming the door!  Love it

I had tuesday off, so serviced the skorpion.  Its been a bloody good bike that.  The DR has been re-born, ready to go when the MZ spits the dummy next.  I have a chain and sprox and a pair of rear pads for the Skoprion.  It will get them as as and when...

It keeps getting me to work, mostly with a smile.

Cheers, keep the shiney side up,

a