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I have started going out for a ride on Wednesdays, weather permitting of course! last Wednesday I couldn't go as the bike went in for its annual service on the Tuesday but was not ready to pick up till Friday, things do take their time here in Spain but I love the 100 euro bill. So I'm all ready for this Wednesday but! the guy who usually puts the rides together has hurt his back he usually sends me the route so I can put it into my sat nav. This week that didn't happen as one of the other crew put this ride together, so I had no idea where we were going except for the meeting point. I had two ideas one was to use the "record your trip" function on the sat nav and the other was to use the "Relive" app on my phone, I did both. After our first stop point for a drink my sat nav stopped no idea why? will look into that tomorrow but it didn't matter as I had the phone working at the same time, after around 180km we reached our lunch spot high up on a mountain next to a church of some description great views temperature in the high 20's. I got the phone out to find that the running app to record my route had actually flattened the phones battery and it had switched off. I will now have to go through my video footage and see if I can work out using the village names the route I took LOL. The point is had a great ride wherever it was and added another 300km to my total for the year which has already surpassed my total for the whole of 2020. All I can tell you is we were riding somewhere in the Valencia region of Spain in the Northern Costa Blanca area.

We won’t see Tymeh for three minutes now.

My new riding gear finally arrived. I am super happy with everything, the leather jacket already feels like I have had it for years. The helmet is quiet and I got a pinlock this time, so no fogging up! Much more comfortable in this gear on the Honda than I was in my ADV gear, and I was surprising warm in it all. The new jeans are cool too!

it was 16c and sunny this morning but I had to take Madame's car back to the tyre place (again) as they're a bunch of incompetant fuckwits, and glare at them menacingly until they did what I had asked them to do in the first place. I'm not a patient person but I am rarely openly rude and agressive. Today was an exception and one of the fuckwits got shouted at. Anyway, long story short, I didn't get home till nearly 12 and Madame was deep in the twins maths homework, so we didn;t eat till nearly 2 by which time the forcast storm was nearly upon us. I rushed to get the bike out and get some riding in before a0 the storm broke and b) curfew... i realised as I rolled out that I hadn't checked tyre pressuressince the bike had been sat for a week or more so I headed first for some air I usually do this with a foot pump but I was already togged up and getting overheated when I remembered so I came here, wonderful peice of kit this one, when you attach the air hose it lets all of the air out of your tyre! The only way to meke it work is to hold the end onto the valve and then press the green button on the pillar. I magaged to get it to stay on but not to seal properly so as you pump air in, it lets it out as soon as you stop the compressor so I had to pump it up to 3+ bar, let go the button and dive at the bloody valve hoping to get it off at 2.9bar precisely.... I got "some air".... The storm front was coming in from the west so I rode a while north, almost along the leading edge of it and then turned East to run befoe it hoping to outrun it before turning south and cutting back West in the hope of finding a passage round it's southern edge the storm was moving quite fast so I didn't stop for many pics as I could see the rain moving in behind me, I did have to stop here for this pic though as I knew @XTreme would never forgive me if I passed up an opportunity for some dark motorcycling, I have no clue as to WTF this is doing here, or what is the other side of that wall, but it looks well abandoned, so I will be back for an explore as and when possible and I'll have a gander on gooooogley earth later to see what shows up. it has to be military with a watch tower like that right? did 100 odd km and managed to get home dry by diving through a gap between two storm cells and got home half an hour before curfew and 15 minutes before it rained "like a cow pissing on a flat rock" as the locals here say ? PS. The pics were taken on my phone which is not my usual M.O. and the quality is, surprisingly, not as good as I thought it might be.

I swear a family of skunks just stood outside lined up and sprayed my house, im gagging like a maggot in here...

WOW, just saying. I grew up in boats, but never paid much attention to the motors. A little, but not much. But that presentation you shared @Tym was awesome, the illustration of that V12 was super sexy. Why am I such a weird lady...I just watched it again....so smooth ?

Starting a drug running business?

So last week I got a message from I guy I know saying that his old Zebra bike was now residing in Somerset and the new owner was giving it away for free I made contact with the guy and sure enough he he was willing to pass it on , the catch was that it wouldn't start and there was a strange noise coming from the engine. So this morning my boss and me set off in his van for the 45 minute journey across the Mendips to Wedmore. The owner (Dominic) was a very cool guy , ageing surfer an ex French Paratrooper After removing the screen and mirrors we managed to fit it in the van......... Once we got it back to the workshop we started to try and find out what the problem was . It wouldn't turn over so we put it into top gear and rocked it see if there was any resistance, then we tried to start it on the button but just got a loud clunk. We wheeled it inside and I started to strip off the fairing panels, seat and then the tank . For a 30 year old bike it didn't put up too much of a fight, so then I took off the rocker covers on the rear cylinder. From that we found that the valves were moving freely so no problem there. My boss also put a scope with a camera to see if there was anything untoward.... Next I removed the carbs to give me access to the front cylinder and then removed the rocker covers on that cylinder as well. There was no movement on the valves when we rocked it in gear. Next I drained the coolant out and removed the two rads and the front coils to get the valve cover off to see if the cam chain was ok........ The cam chain was fine so we're now suspecting something a bit more terminal. That's as far as I got today, next it will be engine out and see what else we can find.

Do I lol three times now Once a week after i got it I put it on the stand outside the garage and while I was locking up it fell over, second time in the garage I had it on the centre stand but forgot it I had left the side stand down as well and and she came off the centre stand the side stand hit the floor and over she went and I even dropped her on a gravel road in the mountains just outside Benidorm and yes she is bloody heavy LOL

We have some wiz bang shit in Canada... I could hook you up with something..... You'd be running around the yard without knowing why.... lol

That is exactly what a marijuana grow op smells like. Like a million dead skunks just blew up. ? So maybe that drug business thing you need the boat for is getting out of hand....

Wow, I don't think anyone has ever called me "petite". Cool ? But I could still kick your butt! ? My ADV gear is very thick so maybe that's it.....lol

Starting? ?

Either of these two would be nice!

yeah but what pontoon you going ta nail it to?

oh in French Bob, no point if they can't understand it, and it's less effective if the other clients don't get what's going on. When I'm angry EVERYBODY needs to know about it!

it's got a fekking great searchlight on the top of it, 'bout 18" diameter by the looks of it, that ain't a clay pigeon tower...

The pictures helped a lot Bob.....otherwise I wouldn't have understood a word you said. Having said that, I'm not entirely surely what I was looking at in the pics! So it's time for......

@DangerRuss58 has some experience of picking it up too!

Keeping the Triumph looking stylish, Chris. I was going to go for a ride myself today, but the sky decided to open into a rain storm while I was almost putting my boots on. For tomorrow...

nice gear ?

Nice work Fred, you've done a grand job there. Loving the exhaust extractor as well

yeah steer the other way

Oh what a challenge.... I know just the thing you need to get your spring back..... But if you are not interested then I will leave you to sit and I'm going to watch that V12 boat motor video again.....

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! Is it 4:20 yet?

Boats?

I did I dropped off your underware .?

I also wore Shoei for years and yes the fit is similar, but agree, the price is a bit much.

Nah, it's not that bad. You just have to get the stepless plane on the crank/central shaft pair right first, then build from there. So all you need is time. And of course shims. And the tool to pull the bearing cups to replace the shims. And remember to install the central shaft before putting the case halves together. And then set the stepless planes on the cams. And don't go back to tweak the main gear later cuz if you do you have to redo everything above it. And make sure you get the timing right, keep in mind the timing dots only line up once every six revolution. That assumes you aren't changing the cam timing, which you really should do because from the factory they're notorious for being off. And to change the timing you'll be offsetting the gears from stock settings, both top and bottom. Which means the factory timing dots won't line up anymore. Break out the timing disk. Youll probably want to add your own dots when you're done, though who knows if they'll stay there. Or if the next guy to work on it will know what they mean. But other than that it's pretty much like using a chain.

I'ts alive. I don't normally like first time startup videos as i feel it jinxes things but i did it anyway and sure enough i was jinxed got a ohh noo feeling when it wouldn't rev and cut out ? my temporary fuel tank was empty so all's good With fuel in it seemed to run better sounds real quiet and ticks over so much smoother, it used to have a lumpy tick over i'm thinking the carb balancing has fixed that, hopefully it will still be ok after a run

I think I may have already told you about the time they put a health testing machine in our town hall for a few weeks. I put my money in and stood on the scales. The instructions were in tiny writing and I bent down to see that it said to press this large red button which I did not knowing that this measured my height as it was pressed. The piece of paper it printed out said I was 12 stone but only 4 feet 8 inches tall and I was morbidly obese. I did it a few weeks later properly this time, a vast improvement and without even dieting or going to a gym.

Thats the sort of road I loved. Nice and simple riding with time to look around. I was always at the back.

As a rough description the part I've circled in the photo has a plunger in it which is pushed up by a spring and the space below it is filled with oil as it advances when the chain and guides wear, The oil stops the plunger from moving back once its advanced so keeps the chain tight, the oil in this part will only come out if you turn the tensioner upside down. New oil runs over this part when the engine is running but it does not replace the oil that's in there so hoping cleaning it out will fix it otherwise it's £150 for a new one

Flares with an open primary isn’t a good idea.

Talking of Noddy, he narrates a series on sky arts on a Friday evening called trail blazers. Good stuff.

No, just that the tensioner is pushed by a dead end oil channel, as since it's a dead end the oil at the end doesn't get freshened up with the running engine or oil changes.

This is Ryknild Street, a roman road in Gloucestershire. That's a KTM990 Adventure courtesy bike that the dealer loaned me for the day when my 950 was in for a recall issue. That track is not hard to ride but the 990 made it hard work as the fuelling was sooooooooooo jerky. When I took it back they asked if I would like to upgrade to the 990, I politely declined

Get Dell to ride over, you borrow Petes bike and go for a ride with Dell (make sure you've got wine gums with you), then Dell can fall off his bike and you can spent your time there at hospital out patience. ?