Clive

Many year ago I had a Kawasaki GPZ305, that was belt drive, the belt snapped while out on a ride, luckily near to home when it did. Ŵent and ordered a new belt, when they told me the price I almost passed out. £150, and that was around 1980, so I converted it to chain drive, shortly before it devoured its camshafts.

Get nowhere near that on a scoot belt, they wear down on the edges which decreases top speed, the belts I have changed looked in perfect condition, but below factory width specification.

A few weeks ago my ex brother in law called and bought a H.P computers, tower, keyboards and screen, fuck knows where we could put it in our small bungalow, had to say Thanks, but no thanks, Pissed him off a bit.

Computers to me are like spanner are to you.

Think it was running on Windows 92.

My father in law had a huge computer, he never had the Internet in his house ,he just played Patience & MahJong on it.

Mark Willaims talked (in print) a language I could understand. But as you say Setright was to technical for my feeble brain. I bought Bike each month for years, I had a stack of them that stood 3 feet tall, when we moved house i could not give them away, no interest, ended up binning them all,

Yep.

Just lack of spares and rust, got plenty of that.

And a damn sight more costly..

Our local (very dubious) bike shops would tell you the bike your were interested in was the best thing on 2 wheels, every bike in the shop was, according to him/them. I bought the GT550 because 2 guys in our group jad one and gave a honest opinion of it, it could have been a Honda 750 Four instead of the GT550, but the Honda dealer was not a man to be trusted, took your money then you where on your own.

Is @Buckster,s Harley a belt drive.

I did a bit of maintenance, wasted my time really.

It says on the board in the photo.

I did the spark plugs on my VFR.....I still have the scars to prove it.

Your going to NL and I have a trip to Harwich on the 9th of July.....rather be going to NL......Harwich!...a shithole.

This weekend I am er....er....er....doing bugger all.

I know exactly where my Chinky bike is and what condition it is in, blown ECU ( or whatever its called)......Damn Italian electrics.

Wish I could find out where this is nowdays.

No smoke from mine, but it ain't diesel. But E10 petrol stinks, back out of my drive and its overpowering.

Yeh I have a Dacia/Renault Clio.

They have all buggered off to Mablethorpe it seems. Not so much a drug problem there, just Mogadon and Prozac abuse.

It's been left in the 1970,s.......no investment in the place.......same with much of the east coast. We keep out of the centre of Mablethorpe, stay around the caravan park.

If you travel directly west from Mablethorpe guess where you end up on the west coast Rhyl.