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First time it years the doors are lockable on my big shed where the Hornet lives. Spent all morning repairing and re hanging the doors that Gerotti broke. To be honest I enjoy a bit of wood work or wood butchering in this case. The best bit is that it never cost a penny. Coat of red stain on the next dry day and all will be good. The roof on the bike shed is next.

El Twatos...!! Well just did and emergency pass so neighbors and my son can head to work this morning....this tractor has to be one of the better investment I did over the years...and its a blast to work with...instead of dreading snow accumulation now I look forward to it now...

Bloody 120 mph wind gust wrecking havoc all over the Duchy. Trees down everywhere, RTA’s, roads closed. Lifeboats, coastguards and all the other services on the go all night. 53,000 homes blacked out. Worst of all for me pealed the roof off my bike she which was new this year. Tore the doors off my big shed and blew the sides out of my recycling bag store. At one point we had a tin can twister flying around the garden . Managed to trigg it up today hopefully good enough for overnight so I can get on with fixing it properly tomorrow. Guess the Triumph Carb rebuild is on hold until the shed is secured. Bikes all untouched I couldn’t get to much today as Shadow had a hospital appointment and I had to take the Mr’s down to RCHT Hospital in Truro to see her 94 year mum who is in with. Flu I have everything crossed she comes out again, my Mother in Law is a gem.

Here we go

The Madam opened the Brothel Door to see a frail, elderly gentleman. "Can I help you"..?? the Madam asked. "I want Natalie," the Old Man replied. "Sir, Natalie is one of our most Expensive Ladies, perhaps someone else"..??? "NO, I must see Natalie." the old guy exclaims. Just then Natalie appeared and announced to the Old Man, that she Charges £1,000 per visit. Without blinking, the Old Man reached into his Pocket and handed her Ten £100 notes. The two went up to a room for an hour, whereupon the man calmly left. The next night he appeared again demanding to see Natalie..?!?!? Natalie explained that no one had ever come back Two Nights in a Row and that there were NO Discounts. It was still £1,000 a visit. Again the Old Man took out the Money, the Two went up to the room and an hour later, he left. When he showed up the THIRD Consecutive night, no one could believe it. Again he handed Natalie the money and up to the room they went. At the end of the hour Natalie questioned the Old Man:- "No one has ever used my Services Three Nights in a Row. Where are you from Sir"..??? The Old Man replied, "I'm from Cardiff "Really"..?? replied Natalie. "I have Family who Lives there." she replies. "Yes, I Know," said the old man. "Your Father Died recently, and I'm your Sister's Attorney". * "And she asked me to give this £3,000, when I saw you"..

All i can say about the KTM's i worked on, and there were enough to buy me a now bike about two year. I used to do jobs on my machinary lathe, Mill, Boring. Lots of little jobs that used to get me a credit ( at the time i thought i was just helping out my Local Dealers) as he was Honda also..i ride Honda cos i like to get to ware i set off to go at the start of the day.. Anyway two years into repairing these KTM's that TKM would not warranty ( but the dealer did ) i ended up with a young lady from the dealership asking if i was going to spend this account i had biult up...(Me) what account? the dealer had put money into an account within the dealership for me for all the work i done for them. Seems kT thingy would not warranty the items that were failing at an alarming rate..i later found out the rear swingarm was over a grand to replace...and i fixed them in 40 mins.. It ended with me getting a part ex ( cash in hand ) plus a new bike from my acount....Local family run Motorcycle dealer...buy you bikes and bits from your local dealers before we loose them all...shit will happen then.

Does work, i had an 8foot iron pipe on my last one across the wall...not nice if you forgot and put your hand on it.. Like a dick i started to hang tools on it in the summer, winter came and i just went to lift a rat-shit from it..I can say it did not stay in hand very long But as a heater it worked well.

Dude, you can't find your way from the paddock to the track.

Flounce alert!

Ill show the online review he gave me....it's the last one...lol ....the fellow forgot to mention a few details...lol

Think it calmed down enough, ill go finish off the rest...

Myself, I enjoy doing that kind of work...especially if you've got an array of new parts for replacement. Inline 4's or parallel twins/triples are much more pleasant to deal with vs. wrestling w/ V4 carbs, which can sometimes be a real bitch.

Definitely, you know where all the best ditches are ...........

eeeesh, yep that's pretty grotty. Well worth doing

Well the carbs came off without to much drama. Throttle cable was a bit of a pig but ok in the end. Initially took the float bowls off and there was some sludge so have cleaned them all out. Gonna re watch some carb cleaning vids before going any deeper. On a side note the carb rubbers are not old at all. Both airbox and motor sets. All pliable and in great condition. I’m fairly sure that have been replaced at some point. Also the air filter looks in very good condition and must have been replaced recently in mileage terms. Good to find out but sort of wish I didn’t have a new one sitting on the bench, that is a few quid I could have saved as are the new set of rubbers. I intend to keep the bike so they will be used at some point.

Here we go let the tears and swear words commence. Time to get the carbs off

How long did you spend on Google to arrive at that?

I forgot I posted anything about this here. I got the bike out in the spring, put enough miles on it so I could get the first service done... and then rode it one more time beofre putting it back in storage. The tires were bought but never installed. Never did a track day. The regulator got repalced uner warranty but they left the old battery in there so the one day I tried to ride it again, it woulnd't start. A buddy loaned me a battery (that was also junk but not quite as bad) so we could do the ride, but I never shut the bike off because I didn't trust it would restart... A few weeks later the same buddy gave me a brand new lithium battery to replace the one I had loaned him so he could ride his 888 one afternoon, and then didn't want to screw with pulling it back out so he just bought me a new one. Lot's of battery swapping going on here in the 'burbs. I did spend a stupid amount of time making camera mounts for it last winter though! Insta360. It mounts where the passenger peg used to go. Also has a rear mount to stabilize it. If you replace the pink post it note with an Insta 360 you can get video from this perspective. I probably should have mounted it at an angle to get more of a side view? I also made one for the front that mounts over the mirror base, but I'm not sure why. I highly doubt I'll ever use it. No mirror in this shot, I don't have bolts long enough to mount everything yet. All of the mounts were printed using carbon fiber infused nylon. The turn signals were also moved into the headlight so there are blanking plates there, side reflectors have blanking plates, and I may also put a Mighty Mouse sticker on the plastic behind the windscreen. ANYWAY... it wasn't a great summer for riding. The bike now has something like 700 miles on it, needs the new battery installed, and is still on it's no-name original tires. Maybe next season it will see some use.

Let me think about that ..................

Nah he is fine and he hasn't smashed up his helmet so hopefully only pride and ear bending to deal with.

You only got 3" last night? You should speak to @Vamana Gupta, he always gets at least 12".

I gave my Rickman Z900 to the lad a year or 3 ago..still done anything with it..wish i had kept it now. I would have had it back on the road...Mind, they were shit in a bend and the brakes were crap.. in a straight line in those days...Waaaaaaaaaaaa!... Bikes are much better today, we just we had the best then.

That's pretty shit @Saul , we must have been in a weird pocket of weather here . There was snow all around us but all we got was rain all day and no wind.

We had about 3" of snow last night and the winds got up to 90mph according to my Davis weather machine...Yanky but good kit, i have had it since i used to fly...as a young un with money, then shit happens Anyway, snow gone by 11am as we had rain from 0630-ish...but glad it's over..

Plus i could maybe even have a few or more bits that may or even could be of use to some nut sorry i mean well meaning person to help one's Little Lady and her high sidding mate.

But it was factual

Most things are.

Yeah bit dirtier than I expected to be honest, they bike seemed to run pretty well. The tickover issue developed after I messed with it but before it was fine. But now I am in might as well do everything, I have a full rebuild kit including floats and jets so seems silly not to do it properly now.

Looks like you're going to get a snow dump in Wales today. Could you kindly all blow hard and send some over the channel, I have the WR250 primed and ready for snow action ......

fuck

No chance, that would be eating Harley dust.

You started it you woke lefty twat!

my workshop is the lower level of my house, so it is literally as big as my house too. That is also a very distorted view of it through what is basically a fish eye lens.

I wouldn’t bet on it, the U.K. has become spineless, they just opened a Palestinian embassy in London, Palestine isn’t even a country or state, the U.K. is marching towards islamation.

Hey, you got one in two right, nice job!

You never know, he is 19 and dumb as a rock but I can’t claim to have been much different at his age. To my knowledge he has been down 3 times in 2 years. He treats Shadow right and I genuinely like him so I hope he gets through. Shadow won’t let him hang with the numpties anymore so that is a positive. She bollocks him about bad riding

That’s the point really, I enjoy playing with bike stuff, and I do like helping the kids out like my dad did with me. Nice to be more than a grumpy old git on occasion.

You're a good man Saul, saving them kids a packet although I think you're enjoying it too which is a bonus.