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Out shopping on the Tidler. Got some L plates as Shadow is going back on the road . But apparently I have to take the dog shit top box off first

Just picked our dog up from the vet. He had vomititus at midnight on Thursday which got so bad that he was throwing up blood. No Idea what caused it and it was bloody scary, but £2000 and lots of worry later and he seems OK now thankfully.

Happy birthday old mate

He would have been 72 today and probably getting bummed by a dago midget in an abandoned building.

I believe it was Pete’s birthday today (according to Facebook). Hopefully he’s misbehaving wherever he is.

I had to take my cat Zippy to see the vet a week last Friday. He had a poorly eye, got a horn in it a year or so ago was treated but was never right. A couple of months ago it sudenly got bad weaping gunk all the time, i had to clean it 4 or 5 times a day. in the mornings it was stuck together and the poor little fella had to put up we me washing and pocking around with Q-tips to get his eye open..Never a spit or swipe. Vet said bring him in, so i did and left him till the phone call_______5pm, come and get him...Poor sod had his eye removed..Was not the thorn but a tooth that did it. Root had gone bad and when he had bitten on some thing hard it had pushed the tooth up and through the roof of his mouth and into his eye..Poor little fella... Anyway he is doing ok now thou my bank account is not

7:00 am ready to go

An hour walk in the morning, takes two hours because we’re stopping to sniff and pee everywhere Today is a national holiday on top of being a saturday, so the village is going into full stupidity mode with all the Lisboners arriving and foreign girls parading everywhere with coffee cups in hand. Me and Luke will shelter from that until tomorrow. I barely managed to keep my sanity with a brief stop by the market.

Strange to think he's been dead nearly 2 years already

Don't worry, if it wins it will get cropped.

Just scraped in by the skin of my teeth ...

He is a mixed breed, but definitely some Jack Russel in there, it’s quite obvious by looking at him but particularly when he gets scared or hurt and his response is to tear apart the next person’s neck and face

Tuna steak and spinach: Favas with chorizo: liver slices with onions: A tipical Ribatejo bifana, which is a pork sandwich Sofia’s delicious lamb croquetes Cabbage and chorizo rice, the best one I ever made because it was top season for cabbage during the coldest bit of the year.

18c here from 12 o clock on until 1900hrs Very not like Welsh weather, did lots doing the new shed base ready for the woodwork guy to come tomorrow. No idea why Tony wants to pay somebody to do the rest. All the hard work we have done I think he ( the woodwork guy ) is a family guy short of work. Tony did a repair on his work van two weeks ago that if not done would have failed the MOT. at no cost.. So he (Tony ) is Human after all.

Because you've got bloody chores to do and a wedding tomorrow.............

Just because, why wouldn’t you go out in this weather.

I agree with her.

I voted for the ditch dragger as he finally got one right

What’s happening with you @Clive? Haven’t heard from you in a while.

Just finished work and there is a thick harr rolling in from the Firth of Forth.

I’m not

Out on the Tidler to run a few errands

The new lithium battery will go in front of the ECU and the other electrical stuff can go either partly in front of the battery and /or under the ECU.

The stupid ECU doesn't quite fit between the frame bars so I need to mount it high enough so it will fit. I can then use the space under it for the battery connections and some other electrical bits like the indicator resistors etc. The original ECU supports had AV mounts so I guess I should do so again, although the whole thing will be mounted upside down. I made up a plate which will hold the ECU over the new tray with enough space under it to accommodate the other electrical bits. The seat will be mounted higher than the original so I have a plate each side to infiltrate the gap between the frame and the underside of the seat.

Finished work a bit early today so had a while to think about how to accommodate the big ugly ECU that I cannot get rid of, and the battery, the original used to live in a big box on top of the gearbox housing. The plan is to try to tuck them away under the seat position. The ECU box is the aluminium thing resting on the back of the frame in the two photos above. I made up a tray that hooks onto some existing frame fixings at the front and screws to the underside of the bar which supports the back of the seat.

Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop in Dingle, they walk over to the bird section and Gerry says to Paddy, 'Dat's dem.' The owner comes over and asks if he can help them. 'Yeah, we'll take four of dem dere little budgies in dat cage up dere,' says Gerry. The owner puts the budgies in a cardboard box. Paddy and Gerry pay for the birds, leave the shop and get into Gerry's truck to drive to the top of the Connor Pass. At the Connor Pass , Gerry looks down at the 1000 foot drop and says, 'Dis looks like a grand place.' He takes two birds out of the box, puts one on each shoulder and jumps off the cliff. Paddy watches as the budgies fly off and Gerry falls all the way to the bottom, killing himself stone dead. Looking down at the remains of his best pal, Paddy shakes his head and says, 'Fook dat. Dis budgie jumping is too fook'n dangerous for me!' THERE'S MORE.... Moment's later; Seamus arrives up at ConnorPass. He's been to the pet shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another cardboard box in one hand and a shotgun in the other. 'Hi, Paddy, watch dis,' Seamus says. He takes a parrot from the box and lets him fly free. He then throws himself over the edge of the cliff with the gun. Paddy watches as half way down, Seamus takes the gun and shoots the parrot. Seamus continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom and breaks every bone in his body. Paddy shakes his head and says, 'And I'm never trying dat parrotshooting either!' IT IS NOT OVER YET... Paddy is just getting over the shock of losing two friends when Sean appears. He's also been to the pet shop and is carrying a cardboard box out of which he pulls a chicken. Sean then takes the chicken by its legs and hurls himself off the cliff and disappears down and down until he hits a rock and breaks his spine. Once more Paddy shakes his head. 'Fook dat, lads. First dere was Gerry with his budgie jumping, den Seamus parrotshooting.... And now Sean and his fook'n hengliding.

They give more consistent oil pressure especially at low rpm and I'm prove scavenging which reduces oil pressure in the heads to improve valve timing. It's worth a couple of hp but the real benefit is the improved lubrication which means I can run the more aggressive cams.

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I spent a lot of time cleaning the engine fins today, what a pain. Hopefully finish it tomorrow.

It wasn’t the dog that was sniffing and peeing everywhere.

Missed delivery of my chain and sprockets today.

You might be right, never ridden this bike or any other K100. I do kind of enjoy doing this sort of thing though, and I’m learning a lot as I do so. This is the first bike I’ve ever done anything significant to. If I hate the end result I’ll just flog it . These things are by no means good looking bikes but I do find them interesting.

I'm guessing the one I worked on was an earlier model as it had the ECU and another electronic ignition module almost as big as the ECU. Would of been more crap to try and hide.

I can’t help but think you’re going to a lot of effort to get a bike you might not enjoy at all, considering your two other bikes.

Managed to connect up the new clock, all the wiring will go under the tank. It looks like a birds nest but next winter I will rewire the whole thing and replace lots of the bulky original stuff with a Mo Unit Blue.

Where's the fucking bin !!

From our local and favorite motorcycle road

Quite enjoy puttering about in the garage just minding my own business and doing what I want, but inevitably there is always something else that needs dealing with. Today it was mice which were in massive sack of rice (which for some reason we have to buy in bulk just in case the population of Beijing drop by and want a snack). Where there are two there will be 12 more so set up traps in places the dog can't stick his nose. Emergency over I went back to minding my own business and wired up the rear indicators, completely forgetting I need to stick a resistive load in line somewhere. Realised when I tested them and just heard the relays singing. Wired up the rear brake switch but can't test that until I put some fluid in the system. Temp sensor for the new clocks goes into the drain port under the water pump, which of course has the hex socket rounded off so spent a while swearing at it and eventually got it off. Was going to fit and connect up the battery but couldn't find the crimp on terminal connectors I know I have somewhere so had to order some more. Was going to try and make an exhaust, got all the bits of tube I have out and bodged it into a rough idea of how I can get it all together but don't want to start welding until I have the back wheel on with a tyre so I can see how much clearance I will have. My one tangible achievement after all that is that the clock now works on the new speedo