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Bit chilly in the south of France

Pack need a shuffle.

Bin bit busy the last couple of days but still here. Got a 100 mile bimble in on the CBF yesterday and get the dash and rear cams set up. I have worked out to get the video off the mounted cams but it is a little protracted tis a learning curve. Interesting to watch the tyre pressure rise as the tyres warmed up. I knew it happened but was interesting to see it happen in real time. I do like the Aoocci thinger I have fitted to the bike, a toy I know but useful and interesting to me. Spent some time on Shadows bike this morning as she picked up a rear puncture. Fixed with a repair kit, it was in a safe place to do so. Also noticed that she has covered 2100 miles since her birthday last October. Think she will need a new tyre in the next 1000 miles or so. I took her CB125F out for a 10 mile spin after doing the tyre, all good. I must say that it is a thoroughly pleasant little thing to ride, I don't want one but would commute on such a thing if I worked within 10 to 15 mile of home. Very frugal on fuel and comfy, if dog slow. I remember from riding it in the dark that the lights are very good for any bike let alone a 125.

Wanna ride a lap of the USA and do it at 70F / 21C the entire way? Here's a map showing the route and dates you have to follow. Funny how you can spend the entire summer in Colorado and never see it get much warmer. The July 1st dot is where I live, you'll need to head south and outta the mountains to see 70F / 21C after that.

Trumpet looks good in black and white , it looks nearly as old as you

I've been out and about today for work . Took forks to a place in Dorchester for anodising, then onto Poole to collect some storage fuel and then Frome on the way back to get parts . Very foggy out there today , lots of twats driving at 35mph on main roads with no lights on Nice and sunny now that I'm back in the workshop

Saves keep buying masking tape … genious

Mach II 350....

Had a great stag do there for a mate of mine. Woke up in the morning wearing a pink dressing gown in a house I didn’t recognise. If that wasn’t bad enough I was hanging out of the back door guzzling black coffee when the milkman delivered the daily pint and said “ooooh another wedding is it?” Apparently, I was in the Best Man’s house and he’d been the Best Man at loads of weddings…….fucking hillbillies

You got your bus seat on you bike

A tad chilly today

The early model WK650Tr used a CDI manufactured by Ducati Veglia (not Ducati bike manufacturer) and most of post 2016 bikes used a CDI manufactured by Bosch, but the earlier model cannot utilise the later Bosch CDI. The early model CDI seems to be made with unobtainium but with much searching one could be found in Alibaba (think that is what the site is called ) but they are a hefty price, around £450 . Iam on a Chinese bike forum, and a couple of members have purchased (a few years ago I must add) the said CDI from that site, but it took many weeks, in one case a couple of months to arrive. One of the problems with the Ducati Veglia CDI is that it is a poor design (stated by a guy on there who knows his stuff) and a new CDI would most probably (in his opinion) fail after a time, and he tried a couple of companies who specialise in repairing CDI units, and they were unable to effect repairs on the Ducati Veglia CDI. So, £700 for the bike, and £450 for the CDI,and if you paid for other repairs and a MOT it effectively makes the bike not a viable proposition.

He's not a Harley rider

One of the Good Ones?....

Okay, who sent a picture of a dirty bike to Pete?

You said you got them when you were 14 they probably ran out by the time you got your licence only show on there for 3 years. I got done a few months before i could apply for my licence

I get paid for looking at the ones in Bournemouth. They are just as shit as any others tho.

I received some gentleman's reading material today. Properly labeled as well. I do happen to have ginormous gonads.

Just looked on AliExpress and there is a CDI for £285.. But the one in photo looks nothing like the CDI that was fitted to my bike, could be a risky buy.

Decent HL 5 build.....

It'd kill him.

Just as well Pete isn't here to see this shit.

Is there any liklelyhood of you cleaning any of those bikes

Mansfield Town centre is bad enough in summer when the sun is shining.

His bus is faster than his bike

Are the roofs where you live not nice to look at or have you looked at them all... are the roofs in Bournemouth nicer to look at...

Took my car for a MOT today and had to stay and sort some vehicles. One of the boys hadn't turned up as his misses was hospitalised. No news yet but hope she's ok tomorrow as I have my own work to sort.

I tend to attract them as well, I always put it down to me being a decent, pleasant and approachable individual, not sure why you attract them, unless you are hiding your light under a bushel on here.

Are they available Clive. Seems a waste of a decent bike for the sake of a black box.

A year to do a two week ride is pointless.

All I can think of is a numb arse.

On the Beta group page someone pointed out the difference between the X Trainer and RR air filter cage and said on my bike their interchangeable which sounded correct as they use the same air filter. So i ordered one and it arrived tonight The one on the left is for the X trainer looks a bit more restricting than the RR one. The bike is running a little rich from new and is definitely thirstier than the 2022 bike so hoping this will help lean it out a bit without messing with the jetting. So put a clean filter on and fuck it don't fit. I placed the cage on a piece of paper and drew around it and the footprint of both cages are identical it's that locating spigot thingy is about 6mm longer than the X Trainer one I got my needle files out and started filing a new locating bump, after about 30 minutes it was done and it fits just need some time to test ride it now

if your a pussy

January in Algarve.

And now I think of it a few years ago I had 4 speeding tickets in about 3 months if it wasn’t for speed awareness course and the wife taking a hit for one I would have been fucked

Can't believe you didn't take full advantage and stoke the fire.

Yeah , so f*ck you Fred , @Six30 was a proper badass dude. Now he just paints wheels as part of his care in the community .........

I'm a shit magnet. That's how I ended up with you lot.

you should of poked him in the eye and calmly walked away .... its the only way to deal with fruit cakes.

I’ve lost my license once, they took it for two months but there were no points system at the time. I had one normal speeding fine, one dangerous driving offence, and one serious speeding fine, in less than a year. Currently, I have a couple of small speeding ones but don’t check the website, I worry they’ll know I’m nervous

Cardiff is a shit hole, the people there are all toothless rejects.

I was in Bournemouth today, looking at a couple of roofs, but the weather was ok. Always lots of morons crawling along in Dorset. We have a live in carer arriving tomorrow for MiL as she appears to be deteriorating. The chances of her going back to the US seem to be receding :(. This has been a pretty shit month.

Passing a bit of time, bugger all else to do here, flicking through the for sale ads......2013 WK650Tr for sale for 700 quid!.....same colour and year as the one I had, in the photos it looks in decent nick, a bit of a plan was hatched..............sell the scoot and buy the Chinky?. Then I read the full description which read ok, till near the end. Non runner, it needs a cdi... Bugger.