Fucking favouritism!Right i am now home, i will order a inner tube tomorrow morning and will get it on Friday!! What a day, i'm knakered, all this waiting around has knocked the stuffing out of me!!
What have you done on your bike today?
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Today i got my inner tube for the Enfield, i spent god knows how long fitting it and about ten minutes ago i put some air in and heard ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!! FFS, the air seems to be coming out of the valve, i've just left it and i can't be bothered anymore with it today, i'll have another look at it tomorrow!! If the valve is fucked i've got a bag full somewhere, if it's not that then i'm going to get my tyre bloke to sort it. 
You know sometimes you just meet Guinnesss that make shit look so fucking easy ? Yea your not that guy palToday i got my inner tube for the Enfield, i spent god knows how long fitting it and about ten minutes ago i put some air in and heard ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!! FFS, the air seems to be coming out of the valve, i've just left it and i can't be bothered anymore with it today, i'll have another look at it tomorrow!! If the valve is fucked i've got a bag full somewhere, if it's not that then i'm going to get my tyre bloke to sort it.
Today i got my inner tube for the Enfield, i spent god knows how long fitting it and about ten minutes ago i put some air in and heard ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!! FFS, the air seems to be coming out of the valve, i've just left it and i can't be bothered anymore with it today, i'll have another look at it tomorrow!! If the valve is fucked i've got a bag full somewhere, if it's not that then i'm going to get my tyre bloke to sort it.
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Yeah that's me mate, fucking thing!!You know sometimes you just meet Guinnesss that make shit look so fucking easy ? Yea your not that guy pal
Yeah that's me mate, fucking the thing!!
If you are lucky it will just be the valve insert. But I have struggled a lot with friggen inner tubes, both the ones on my project bike have slow leaks. Couple of tips when installing, the first and obvious one is put a small amount of air in to give it some shape and secondly, douse it with talcum powder to help it move around inside the tyre. Hide all your hammers before you start!Today i got my inner tube for the Enfield, i spent god knows how long fitting it and about ten minutes ago i put some air in and heard ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!! FFS, the air seems to be coming out of the valve, i've just left it and i can't be bothered anymore with it today, i'll have another look at it tomorrow!! If the valve is fucked i've got a bag full somewhere, if it's not that then i'm going to get my tyre bloke to sort it.
This afternoon (with granddaughter pillion) and son on his V-strom we took all the gnarliest, single track lanes directly to West Bay, the route included one green lane (on road tyres) and a loose stone bottomed ford which was signed 'Not suitable for motor vehicles'. The great weather had brought out the bikes including this little beauty.
I had a GT380 in the early 90s, nice bikes that are very smooth and pretty quick!!
The only thing I miss from down south is my gang of mates from West Bay. I was one of the regulars. Loads of good ways to get there from the Milton Abbas area so it was the start point for my rides most weekends.
Right, packed the bike up ready for a week away doing the 4lighthouse of the north island trip. Going to Cape Reinga today (north) and staying in doubtless bay. Called that apparently because as he sailed past, Capt Cook said "doubtless, a bay"
Have a Transalp that a good friend is lending me, which as it turns out is a very suitablebike for the trip. Hopefully we get to do some gravel roads and get lost. Getting lost is preferable to some of the other drama we have had in the past…
Have a Transalp that a good friend is lending me, which as it turns out is a very suitablebike for the trip. Hopefully we get to do some gravel roads and get lost. Getting lost is preferable to some of the other drama we have had in the past…
Cool man!!! Where are the other light houses?
Hope the weather is good for ya! It's foggy as fuck here but if it's anything like yesterday it will be a scorcher when that blows away..
The same this side of the world this morning unfortunately. I was hoping to get the Triumph out today butu it's mist and drizzle here after a day of rain yesterday. At leasth that will have washed the salt off the roads. I just hope the bastards don't spread any more now. At least you don't have that problem I guess.
There's the regular salty liberal tears down there that cause local flooding though ...
Had a ride North to the Windmill cafe nr Millers Green, on the hills above Holmfirth. From there over to Glossop, anybody recognise this statue?
Then up to Flash for a coffee. Met a lovely lady, an author and bar owner from Burton on Trent, her place is called Burton Banter.
Had an ice cream in Calver
Stoppped here for a wee/photo on the way home.
Then up to Flash for a coffee. Met a lovely lady, an author and bar owner from Burton on Trent, her place is called Burton Banter.
Had an ice cream in Calver
Stoppped here for a wee/photo on the way home.
I’m going to Hathersage later this week to walk Stanage Edge and will stop off at the coffee shop in Calver on the way.
I like to sit outside and watch the world go by.
Hadfield, Derbyshire. Filming location for the League of Gentleman. Though in fact, Roysten Vasey was originally based on Alston, Cumbria apparently. Bit unfair I think as Alston is a nice little place.
Is Alston a local place for local people?
Not any more...
New Road to blame?
The "other" place. Lun-dun!!
TBF, Alston is known as the "capital" of the North Pennines so it's long been on the tourist map. And the Texaco garage carpark is rammed with bikes every weekend as people fuel up before heading to fall off at Hartside. It's just that visitors used to go home afterwards, now more are buying up property, as they are in Hexham. Actually Hexham is propably worse.
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