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Had to wait about 45 minutes to get tires mounted ands balanced today, so I took some snaps of our local shop while I waited. Thought you guys might be interested in seeing it...

a bloke on the facebutt page "Motards Bourguinons" was asking if anybody had some old bike parts, especially engine parts that needed getting rid of cos he wanted to incorporate them into a sculpture or something. I scavenged these from the bin at work for him ( I couldn't find the crankshaft from the single so I guess somebody already had that) This also gave me a destinantion for a ride. Chateau Chinon. I had the devils own job attaching the two crankshafts to the rear rack in a way that they wouldn't move over the 180 odd km of minor roads. I really didn't want to lose them "en route" and have to retrieve them from some poor buggers radiator or windscreen. Unorthodox but effective, ( story of my life ) obviously monday ( bank holiday here) was overcast and about 10 deg C wheras sunday had been a glorious spring day. but the route went something like this as I was on my own, I ws having far too much fun to stop and take pics but took a couple alongside the reservoir the route home was a little faster, about 4 hours all told,

Also had to go to the local Honda dealer for an oil filter. They have tons of cool bikes there...

The closest sized place to that here is M&P in Swansea, i think they sell about 12 motorcycle brands new and all sorts of used, Their also sell clothing and accessories on line so have a huge warehouse full of stock there, when one of the guys showed it to me all i could think of was the warehouse they stored the ARC in at the end of Raiders of the lost Arc

Yeh.....I was thinking that!

The ride was shit, turned into rain 5 minutes in and ended up having lunch at home. At home I did exactly that as I remembered this one time many years ago when I took the bowl off for changing the jets. A few taps fixed the leaking problem, however with all the fussing I fucked up the magic procedure to start the bike so it didn't and I left it for tomorrow. Also took apart a compost box in my garden as there are suspicions it might have been converted to a snake nest. There are a lot of small lizards and stuff like that living in the wild bush that is my garden, and they slither around when I'm around, but after a few more or less big snakes were seen I have become a little skittish of grabbing into grasses. Snakes here are mostly non venomous and eat rodents, but they are very aggressive and will make for painful encounters.

He would like that.

That's very interesting, let us know when it's done.

It's an accessories only shop - no bikes. But the owner has some cool bikes that he puts on display. Like this Kawasaki - new in the crate ....

Talking to a Nordic friend today about sugar. She said in the Netherlands brown unrefined sugar is called Bastardsucker. I didn’t believe her (I know progress right? ) so she posted a pic

they wouldn't fit in my top box, and to be honest, the weight of the bloody things would destroy a plastic tob box on the roads I use I reckon.

Pete has this on the side of his engine to remind himself not to touch it.

And there it is @XTreme the joyous blend of toxic masculinity and motorcycling, a harmonious bundle of ‘You’re not a man if you can’t fix things’ insults winging it’s way to you shortly. Shields up

Real bikers are good mechanics, the rest are just ponces or women.

Has @zzzak been rubbing off on you?

Morning peeps, just rousing the troops as we are driving to Milan today

Not the biggest shop in the World - but pretty big, but they always have everything that I've ever needed....

Bloody hell Pete, not again already?! And yet somehow you don’t get multiple bike ownership Suppose you don’t need to when you change your bike more often than Yen changes his undercackers.

@XTreme still has .

when you got to prayer , do you give the choir boys your Cathedral cheese ?

They are ridden by complete gammons usually.

ou have a decompression lever!? I haven't seen one of those for about 20 years, and the last time I did it was on an old volvo boat engine

Grab a 17mm ring spanner and take put the plug under the carb float bowl (turn the petrol off first) try and save the fuel in the plug to inspect see if there's any crap in there, you can turn the fuel on to flush it through at this point, i also find dropping the stale fuel out the carb helps starting after being left for a while. When you refill the carb if it starts pissing fuel just turn the tap off and start it with whats in the carb you can turn it back on when you go for a ride. If mines been left for a while dropped or flooded i find the procedure in the handbook works every time

Chaparral Motorsport in San Bernadino, Iron Pony in Columbus, Ohio and a few others are bigger as they are also multi-line motorcycle dealerships as well. This one is a "accessories only" place so it's smaller. Still, big place with lots of stuff in it.

I just tried to google it and it gave me completely unrelated results, made me laugh though - Am I too skinny to ride a motorcycle? Am I to weak to ride a motorcycle? Do you have to be strong to ride a motorcycle? How heavy a bike is too heavy for a beginner? Not a single mention of mechanics

I'm trying to work up the energy and will to do some of the jobs around the house that need doing. So far drinking coffee and listening to Prog radio seems to be winning though!

Bother you does it.

Did everyones haircuts yesterday, including a bold new look on my eldest which transformed him from looking like a soft foppy haired student to a kick ass adult you wouldn’t mess with, he even looks employable which I didn’t think could ever happen Course no-one cut my hair so everyone else looks great and I look like serf

Fucking Harley Rally by the look of it!

Nice one Eric, they certainly carry some stock in that store

Honda.. managing to smooth the excitement out of everything ps if someone was going to hyperthetically look at Honda’s and wanted something fun with a bit of go what model would they look at? Asking for a friend. And Pete need only reply if he promises to lock up his fanboy badges beforehand

You're not the first Harley owner to say that!

you can never own too many bikes

Don’t think @Pedrois a bummer , who told you this ?

Sounds like a stuck float in the carb, so it's probably flooded now. You could try tapping the float bowl with the blunt end of a big screwdriver to see if that unsticks it. Otherwise you may need to remove the carb and check the float height and needle valve seat. Enjoy your ride and lunch anyway.

Frustrated with myself and my mechanical incompetence. I've got a XR400 pissing fluid down the carb's little escape tube instead of starting, fuel all over, even resorted to pushing it up the ramp to bump start it going down. I'm clueless. Considering selling the thing as I haven't ridden it more than 2 or 3 times in the last 3 years. Will take the GS and go for lunch up in the hills.

Proper motorcycle

No … I’m just not a gullible twat ….

Today I’m going to ignore my responsibilities and skive. Bake some bread, maybe make a cake and drink shedloads of tea

I want a bike not a Hot Tub Time Machine experience.

I'm off to Ivan's for a haircut!

"Not the biggest shop in the World - but pretty big" Far bigger than any around here.

A Pacific Coast!

yeah, OK I didn't actually research it...