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You do live in a lovely part of the world Marcel.

I found a replacement BMW K100 tank of the correct year on eBay close to me and it seems pretty good and was a reasonable price. I need to strip the paint off of it so I can check if it got any filler in it and get a better look at the lower shoulders as the things seem to always leak there. BMW used one tank format from 83-86 and then changed in 86 to a slightly different design with a different fuel level sender, a diff size fuel pump and different tank fixing points. The latter type are more freely available and I had also tracked one of those down as I wasn’t sure I could find one of the earlier type. Using it would mean more welding for different fixings and I’ve decided I’d rather use the original earlier design if I can. I’ve picked up the tank but need to strip the paint off of it. I’d rather not sand it off as it’s a pain in the arse. Anyone got any experience on aluminium with using Nitromores ?

Tastes great, and octopus, as long as it’s cooked correctly. If it’s overcooked it’s like chewing a rubber band.

To be fair, it does look like they have been caught from somewhere near Chernobyl.

Supposedly, but if you want to buy a camera or phone or whatever the prices are the same as the UK. Tobacco is cheap, as is alcohol .

Packing my bags to return home from a weeks skiing in Andorra ( weird little place jointly owned by France and Spain for Marcel), 65 cm of snow in one day, fresh snow every day but also very strong winds so various parts of the domaine closed from one day to another. Been a fun week with good friends. Four am start tomorrow

If I want a decent steak I normally go to ALDI, they have a good sized rump or sirloin for around £8. I’m fussy though and generally look for the leanest one possible.

No, the BMW. It looks like they will fit anything with the right sized bar. They appeal to me because you don’t need a separate controller. I’ve just ordered a new Speedo for the BMW from the same manufacturer, so will soon see the quality or otherwise of their stuff.

Control button is on the left grip, has 5 settings. Don’t need anything else apart from 12v.

Ok, thought it was fir your bike … Im considering some of these for my bike - https://www.acewell.co.uk/Heated Grips/ACE-HG20.htm?action=full&id=347

You have to mount that big control knob thing on the bars? That’s going to look ugly.

I use hobby gas, found them to be pretty good. You pay a deposit for the cylinder and then just pay for the fill thereafter.

It’s utterly shit, every time it rains large parts of the roads here are under water as the drains are not maintained. You can’t see the bloody pot holes because of all the standing water. The gimps responsible for maintaining the roads don’t understand the effect of water/ hydraulic action on the road surface, or maybe they just don’t care. When the water drains away there is gravel, mud and sand all over the roads and they don’t give a shit about that either. I despair of this country.

We don’t have the infrastructure to handle anything now. Nigeria has better roads than we do, ours are one big mass of potholes and all the drains are blocked.

I bet it was worth every penny

Tried to get at the coolant stub this morning, its fixed to the block by 2 bolts. To get at one of them I had to dismantle virtually the whole bloody bike. Thankfully didn't see any more fuel leaking, still not sure what might have been the cause of what I saw yesterday. Last thing I want is to have to find a new tank.

My sympathy, I bloody hate moving house. Last time I did it was 26 years ago since when my wife has accumulated so much crap that planning D day would be easier than moving us.

Slightly annoying day, put some new exhaust headers on the bike, then noticed a very slight coolant weep around the base of a stub on top of the block. It's buried in amongst everything else, pretty much the first thing I put back on when putting it all back together. I put a new o ring on the bloody thing when I was reassembling it. Whilst trying to work out the best way of getting at it which won't involve taking the whole thing apart again I noticed a tiny drop of fuel drip from the underside of the tank. Not sure if it is a tank leak or a pipe /joint ... sigh...gave up and came inside for a fish finger sandwich dinner (chef is away with her mates)...

I think I've been out once so far this year ... maybe it will have stopped raining by June. Then again work has been unrelenting too.

Can you get the restrictor tube thingumys from China too? The really fine rigid plastic tubes which go into the vacuum lines to stop the weights bouncing all over the place...

He looks like he has made himself at home, good on you for giving the little guy a second chance at a good life.

Mine is full of rabbit scrapes where they start to dig a small hole then move 4 feet and do it again. Wife is away overnight tonight so I was going to shoot the damn things but it's pissing down and blowing a gale and none of them are out

That's exactly what I did, and did it ever bloody hurt. Won't be doing that again. My heated gloves are Keis 601, and the cold went right through them. I have some polar expedition type mits which are great at -25 C but even those I needed a chemical hand warmer in each one below that temp.

I was amazed at how fast the cold went through my gloves, hurt like hell warming my fingers up again. I've never experienced that degree of cold before, the humidity is generally quite low but it does get windy. Without the right clothing you could be in serious trouble very quickly.

Im in Finland at the moment, -39C a few days ago, my hands in heated gloves were frozen in 3 mins. Don’t know how cold it gets where you are.