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  1. Iuse anold bmw carjack that someone gave me, but I don't carry it on the bike. That would be lighter and easier to carry on long trips. Um... why do you have rigging U bolts screwed to your driveway?
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    battery

    fuckmine! thats less than half the price it would be here! i actually just started tigger, I went out to take the battery off, planning to take it in to work on monday and have our battery bod test it and charge it for me, and the baterry terminal connector bolts were finger tight or less... i tightened them and gave it a whirl and she started fine. I wasn't able to go ride it but run it up to temperature and then a bit longer at higher revs. it was charging at 14.3v, varying very slightly with revs. i checked it agin about 15 minutes after switching off and the battery was at 12.9v I'll check it again tomorrow, but even it it seems good I'll replace it ( it appers to be the original battery, ( fabrication date on the battery same year as the bike) so if that's the case it's 12 or 13 years old already.
  3. Tiger won't start this morning. I'm not really surprised, the battery was showing signs of weakness earlier on in the winter but I though I'd managed to ride enough to recharge it. To be fair this is probably the longest I have ever left a bike unused ( apart from 2016 following an op on my back) and I obviously havent disconnected it or used a charger or anything intelligent like that. The battery shows 12.5v on a digital multimeter, so i'll probably hack it off and take it into work on monday, nail a charger to it for 24 hours and then hammer it back into the bike and see if that sorts it, at least temporarily. The battery is at least 8 years old, so it may just be time to replace it anyway, but batteries are fookin expensive here ( i'm looking at 150 to 170€ for a decent quality one. I could get one from work MUCH cheaper but it would be cheap chinese rubbishand I want something reliable. I know that all my ex client boat-owners brought batteries out from the uk as they were far cheaper, what does a bike batterie cost in the uk nowadays? ( i'll be over in the car next month). the original is a YTX-16BS 14Ah job. any thoughts?
  4. Rant... I was supposed to be going to Lyon today, they have moved bro in law's care home to a new location to the east of the city and it's been a complete clusterfuck from beginning to end, so bad that of the 65 staff, only 3 haven't left, including the director, so everybody there is an interim worker, paid by the day and has no clue about the patients or their needs. Bro in law has, as far as we can make out, been parked in his new room. we have no further nformation since wednesday and can contact no one, except an interim "director" who is not on site, knows nothing and cares even less. The French bloody peasant farmers have come out on strike and are blocking all autoroute access from Nemours down as far as Chalon sur saone or Tournus which makes the road trip to Lyon 5h each way ( under normal traffic conditions, and as all the trucks are off the autoroutes, it is currently FAR from normal trafic conditions) I am now trying to wind myself up to make the 5 h drive overnight, be there in the morning to find out WTF is going on and drive 5 hours home sunday pm... or to take a day off work and try going on wednesday, in the hope that the fucking peasants have moved their shit north to Paris where the fucking politicians are rather than wrecking the lives of the entire population who have nothing to do with their problem. Rant over...
  5. well i've pretty much finished the planning for this trip, two dasys travelling ( one up & one back) and two days doing some museums and memorials, starting on the right at the german batteryr at Merville and moving west via pegasus bridge, the bunker at Ouistreham, , the British memorial at Ver sur Mer and Arromanches and SWORD beach. Then a US day taking in Colville cemetry, OMAHA beach, le point du Hoc, Utah and st Mere église. If I get enough time i'll try and sneak a quick peek at the bayeux tapestry ( wich is neither a tapestry nor from Bayeux...) but that's secondary. I have contacted a couple of B & B's in the area but I think I'll probably use the municipal camping in Bayeux as a base. 1120 odd km trip in theory. I now just need to persuade people that they really won't be interested in what i'm visiting so they really don't want to come...
  6. MooN

    Odd one!

    I would guess either somebody told him all about you and this site and all of what gets got up to on here... or he was just one of those people who simply cannot be doing with the incessant flow of utter bollox that this forum seems to specialise in. If nobody called him a twat or a cunt or told him to fuck off within the first half hour or so following his first post then maybe he just didn't like the tone of the place...
  7. anything where people are not telling me how i should be doing it ( which means VERY little these days)
  8. -6c tis morning so probably won't be getting the bike out this weekend... The wife is away for the weekend so I'll be pretending to be a fully functional and responsable adult, cooking for me and the animals ( sorry, children) and doing some decorating in the girls room as they're going to be out all afternoon at some party. I also have to book the crossing for our february foray to the septique isle. That's going to set me back 300+€ which I can't afford. for the last few years eah trip is probably the last time I'll see Mum ( 93 and fading fast into alzheimers fog) so I can't really not go, but the cost wipes us out every time what with the crossing + accomodation+ fuel + autoroute.
  9. I just rendered a young salesperson in an electronics shop speechless..., I told him I wanted som intra auricular "ear bud" ( not "ear pod") heaphones, not bluetooth but with a lightning connector to plug into my Iphone. " doesn't exist" " erm... well they did exist, cos I have some, and I'd like to replace them with a similar pair" I said. his replay of " well I'd like to see that, cos I've never heard of such a thing," was cut short by my timely presentation of said earphones from my pocket and his jaw hitting the floor. apparently anything bought over 2 years ago in their shop constitutes a relic from some dim and distant past, to be revered and sniggered at in equal measure. It would seem that such antidiluvian apparatuses are no longer to be found, Blue tooth only if you don't want apples own brand designer fucking useless "fall out of your ears if you turn your head" pods. wankers, all of 'em !
  10. well I think our local prefect has finally lost it! this morning it was -8c ish and freezing fog, cars in ditches all over the bloody place ( i exaggerate a little... but I only have a 10km drive to work and saw 2, wifey does 20k in the other direction and saw 1 plus an accident) The mwin road through the village here was fun cos a water main burst during the night so it was a proper ice rink. Kids off to school on the bus, no problem, all the schools open. Tomorrow the forcast is for +4 in the morning, rising to 10 ish in the afternoon and rain. All regional school transport and schools are closed tomorrow due to extreme weather comditions... fucking lunatic i tell you.
  11. chores today, it,s been cold this last 48hrs and not got above -3c all day today. I spent 2 hours outside assembling and then fitting roof bars to the car in preparation for a family trip to the UK to see my parents in feb. Bit of a pain and a financial drain that I really don't need but Mum's 93 this year and Alzhiemer is doing what it does so If I don't go when I have the chance, it may well be the last.
  12. ST Malo is my favorite place on earth. ( so far...) first visited as a kid on a sailing boat and have been back numerous times since, it never gets old. but don't even think about going when Paris is on school holidays.
  13. buy some earplugs. oh, and make sure your bathroom has industrial gauge waste system.
  14. anybody here visited? 80th anniversay this year, and if my Britanny trip doesn't come off ( looking less likely already) my plan B for the 8th may long weekend would be to go visit the landing beaches. I'm looking for info on whether I need 2 days "on site" or if one is sufficient, and what to see and what to not bother with. As the internet is only capable of supplying commercial tour operators advertisements and information pages from conspiracy theorists explaing how, "in fact", none of it ever happened, i thought I'd ask a group of people who's opinions i respect. Obviously I could,t find one, so I'm asking you lot as a last resort... anybody been and done it?
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