Sir Fallsalot

28.1c at the moment but you have to remember my perfect riding temperature is too cold for you so it's bloody hot at the moment

I've been working in the garage getting rid of crap doing a bit of cement work and trying to re organise things so there's more room, getting pissed off trying to shift stuff about again and if i don't come up with something i can see one of them going. And then the CCTV monitor packed in so been out getting a new one and sorting that.

Too hot today but i did ride 4 different bikes yesterday

It was nothing to do with the weather he said it himself he dodged a bullet by leaving here, all i can think is his ex should have spent more time practicing at the gun range

Weathers great here, if Pedro was visiting next week he would have perfect weather for riding

My mate used to own a garage and he used to get asked quite regular if they could take the car and pay for the work he had done next week, his go to reply was go to Tesco's fill your trolley then ask at the till if you can pay next week my answer will be the same LOL

Send this to your mate

I got the long hooked end red hot with the induction heater and just rolled the hook down until it was a circle with a long nosed pliers and then trimmed it off with a disc cutter to make it a hook again if that makes sense and then dipped it in water to cool it down so the hook wouldn't be soft and stretch out. It needs to be a little shorter but the induction heater went bang so i just found a spring the right length on line and ordered that

In-between riding and washing bikes today i done a job on the dog I've been meaning to do for years. The side stand sits horizontal and when riding through deep ruts with rocks in it gets pushed against the swing arm, you can see the piece of plastic i cable tied on there to protect the swing arm in the photo below and also the wear on the foot of the side stand where its been dragging on rocks. I ground the side stand stop until the stand moved above the swing arm out of the way like it is on dirt bikes and shortened the spring a little and blowing up my induction heater in the process i think i will replace it with a better one as it's really handy. While i was at it i welded a disc to the foot of the side stand to stop it sinking in soft ground something i had done in the past but had to cut it off when i found out it was hitting the swing arm and then applied a nice lick of paint to finish it off.

Ken Hensley, David Byron and Lee Kerslake i think

Those are my type of roads in the video, the dog is great for honing around on those.

I've been having a run on the bikes today not far just enough to warm them up, the old Africa Twin is running lovely and smooth again i wanted to just keep going on it but no tax or MOT made me head for home after a few miles. I was having a problem starting the dog and started dreading the thought of having to clean the carb on this as well, the usual procedure is full choke press starter it fires then ease the choke off, i tried everything choke on off and it was just churning over no sign of it firing. then i remembered it sometimes needs the fuel drained from the carb when its been left a while, so drained the carb and sure enough after a bit more churning it fired up. Took it for a little ride after washing it to dry it all out and as i pulled up to the house it suddenly dawned on me that i have a fitted a flat slide carb to this bike and the choke is now on the carb the choke lever on the handlebar is no longer connected to anything what a fucking plonker it's because the original choke setup is the same as the Africa Twins which i had been messing about with for the last couple of days. Just the XR to run now that hasn't been started for a month

As usual i got the dizzee Rascal gig thing all wrong apparently he was promoting his tour and played for free in Cardiff bay he turned up on a boat (shut up @busabeast) climbed onto the dock and played until the police turned up and then left on the boat nothing to do with the blue light thing that was something else, have i said i never listen to the wife before lol

Mine was chopped and had a 21" front wheel it wasn't the best LOL

My 400/4's handling was a little scary at times LOL

You might be surprised Bob i was with the X Trainer feels quite comfortable on the road and cruises happily at 50 to 55 mph will go faster but that's when things get uncomfortable and scary

Yes i forgot about that

NHS staff card, she gets shit loads of discounts with it anything from tyres to mc Donald's

He's putting on a free show tonight for blue light card holders although the grabbing ticket office is charging £6.50 booking fee

She's out all the time doing her thing which makes it easy for me to do my thing guilt free lol when she said she was going to see Dizzee Rascal in Cardiff i didn't think she was going to actually see him

That's very good of you, so far everyone we have installed for are really happy with the way they are working we recommend they switch to octopus energy as their rates are really good.

WTF i wondered why the wife got me some cans tonight and then announced she was off out bloody tart is hob knobbing in Cardiff anyone know who this is cos he's having it when i see him

Cool we have an abundance of Ash trees all around us here they grow like weeds and very fast as well, good thing is they have a low water content so make good fire wood

You forget what i ride at the moment

That reminds me of a mate of mine he planted a monkey puzzle tree in his back garden in the late 80's it was not much bigger than that tree of yours and not knowing anything about plants other than weed he wasn't sure it would survive this is it now