What have you done on your bike today?
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Nannying grown-ups causes nothing but harm in the end.
Long shot but maybe a dodgy fuse? Had a problem with the 748 cutting out now and then and refusing to start then being fine for a few miles, sometimes more..
Took an age to work it out but re checking fuses, ( can't remember which one it was) one had the tiniest crack in it and that was the problem, pennies later it was finally sorted..
I'll give that a look tomorrow, i have a bag of fuses in the garage if needed.
Fitted the new sat nav cable using these new solder/heatshrink gizmos as recommended by @West Cork Paul
Sat Nav, don't you listen to Perry
Why?Sat Nav, don't you listen to Perry
Whilst setting up the new device it asked me if I would like to share data from my device, times dates speed etc. As if there isn't already enough roadside spying regalia, without volunteering to condemn yourself.
Feck that, paper map for meWhy?
Whilst setting up the new device it asked me if I would like to share data from my device, times dates speed etc. As if there isn't already enough roadside spying regalia, without volunteering to condemn yourself.
I used to try and remember a route by looking at the map before I left. The sat nav allows you to be a lot more adventurous.Feck that, paper map for me
If you're leading a group and you have to keep stopping to consult a map which is vulnerable to the wind and rain, and the bit you want to see is on the fold line etc your company will very soon become bored and restless
And hostile no doubt!
I was 17 when I first drove to Italy - looked at a map and wrote down the points. The following year I did the same route and didn't have to look the MAP.
I've never used sat nav on a bike, but like to follow someone who does
I use paper maps to plot a route in advance. I then note down the way points and load them into the sat-nav.
I like the large scale physical OS Ranger maps. They allow you to see a wide area of the whole landscape and all its features so you can get a good idea of the place you'll be riding through. Sat mapping systems are like looking at the landscape through a letterbox. You only get the detail when you zoom in and the wider overview is featureless.
I never tour without a paper map. If all else fails at least you've got a reliable reference. I was driving back from Scotland late one night and when I got to Edinburgh the ring road was closed for night time works with no diversion signs in place. The sat-nav was useless because it just wanted to send me back to the road closure all the time. If I'd relied on that I'd have been going round in circles for the rest of my life. I had nothing to go in but guesswork and I ended up going through the middle of the city. Luckily that was before the CAZ was in place.
When I got clear of Edinburgh I hit three more undiverted road closures on the A68. I tried to skirt round through Hawick to get back to the border and met another unmarked road closure in Hawick. I eventually made it to Carter Bar and as I crossed the border there were more workmen doing something to the Welcome to Scotland sign in the lay-by. They were just putting cones out to shut that road as well. Luckily I managed to nip through. Took me eight hours to get form north of Edinburgh back home to Consett.
They must have been having a night of roadworks throughout south east Scotland on that day. I'm wary about night driving in Scotland now and I never set out without a road atlas.
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Went to the gym, and celebrated by going to WWT Slimbridge in order to stuff my face!
I asked why I could hear geese (I think it was geese, or swans) flying over my house back to Slimbridge,
My house is certainly on the migration route from Slimbridge for geese flying south for the Winter!
Apparently they are swans that don't migrate, but fly around looking for food. Chipping Sodbury Golf Course is a favourite and so is Berkeley. Some fields near the castle seem to now be flooded permanently, due to house building upstream, losing the water run-off. So, one effect of all the mad housebuilding will be to create a new wetland in Berkeley, around the castle!
I asked why I could hear geese (I think it was geese, or swans) flying over my house back to Slimbridge,
My house is certainly on the migration route from Slimbridge for geese flying south for the Winter!
Apparently they are swans that don't migrate, but fly around looking for food. Chipping Sodbury Golf Course is a favourite and so is Berkeley. Some fields near the castle seem to now be flooded permanently, due to house building upstream, losing the water run-off. So, one effect of all the mad housebuilding will be to create a new wetland in Berkeley, around the castle!
Every time I see a post from you in my notifications I just think ‘Enfield’ now. I don’t see Wayne, I just see Enfield. I’m gonna start calling you Harry from now on.Today after more internet bollox did a few things on the Enfield and then went for a ride round the block and a complete waste of time!!It's still fucked and that's it for me i'm done!!
Well that's me off the road, 996 on SORN so nothing to ride, i can't afford to get the Enfield put in a shop as we do have an Enfield garage not far from me.
I can't afford to tax the 996 again and the weather is fucking shit.
It's funny how you do things for a reason and it has the opposite effect.
Loads of interest on my stuff on ebay but nobody is buying!!
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If, somehow, that bike could be brought to me I’d fix it for you.
I might have an answer to the bloody Enfield, i'm going to ring Hitchcocks tomorrow as on there bloody website they don't list the o-rings i need on there fuel pump diagram. This is were it went wrong the first time as i had some o-rings kicking about and it seemed to work.
There should be no fuel coming out of the fuel tank exit and i noticed the other day it was dripping fuel and it should not be happening.
I might have an answer to the bloody Enfield, i'm going to ring Hitchcocks tomorrow as on there bloody website they don't list the o-rings i need on there fuel pump diagram. This is were it went wrong the first time as i had some o-rings kicking about and it seemed to work.
There should be no fuel coming out of the fuel tank exit and i noticed the other day it was dripping fuel and it should not be happening.
I might have an answer to the bloody Enfield, i'm going to ring Hitchcocks tomorrow as on there bloody website they don't list the o-rings i need on there fuel pump diagram. This is were it went wrong the first time as i had some o-rings kicking about and it seemed to work.
There should be no fuel coming out of the fuel tank exit and i noticed the other day it was dripping fuel and it should not be happening.
Pressumably the seal is then broken on the pressurised system?
Yes, i've just been on Hitchcocks website and on there exploded fuel pump assembly the most crucial part of the jigsaw the o-rings aren't even on there!
I'm going to ring them in the morning and talk to a human and point that out to them about the o-rings and get them to send some out to me.
Yes, i've just been on Hitchcocks website and on there exploded fuel pump assembly the most crucial part of the jigsaw the o-rings aren't even on there!
I'm going to ring them in the morning and talk to a human and point that out to them about the o-rings and get them to send some out to me.
AirCon
Resident Thermodynamics / Electronics specialist
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You did the right thing going through the city centre, to be honest the Edinburgh ring road is horrible and if you're on a bike the LEZ doesn't apply so its quicker to go south on Queensferry road to the centre and then south on Lothian road which was always the way to go south from Edinburgh back in the day
I was in my pick-up. Just as well because it was 11 at night and I'd have run out of fuel on a bike before I found petrol, what with getting lost on the rural roads. At least I had tea to drink and a radio to listen to.You did the right thing going through the city centre, to be honest the Edinburgh ring road is horrible and if you're on a bike the LEZ doesn't apply so its quicker to go south on Queensferry road to the centre and then south on Lothian road which was always the way to go south from Edinburgh back in the day
It was literally a case of drive in what felt like a southerly direction until I saw a sign for the A68 or some place I recognised.
That was before Snippy got busted for having her fingers in the till so I'm blaming her. The money that should have paid for diversion sign probably went into her camper van. Or rent boys for her husband.
Talking of CAZ/LEZ etc, I'm convinced the government have forbidden sat-nav companies from adding these zones to their lists of avoidances to pull in more fines from people who don't know their way around.
Take a look at this map of Newcastle CAZ. Zoom in and you see there's a thin sliver of the zone sticking out to the south that crosses the Tyne and intercepts a roundabout on the A189. This strip which is only a few yards wide is meaningless in terms of ensuring clean air. It's clearly designed to catch out drivers coming off the A1 or from Team Valley and trying to get to somewhere south of the river, thinking they're well clear of the CAZ area. If you're trying to get to the civic centre area of Gateshead coming from the A1, Consett of the Metro area, all sat-navs will send you down this main trunk road and once you're on it there's no way to get off or turn back until you get to that roundabout, so they're stretched the CAZ zone right across it like a trip wire.
They've done the same on the Tyne bridge. No one lives on the bridge or beneath it. Extending the CAZ over it is clearly just to capture fines and payments from unsuspecting drivers and sightseers who want to drive over the bridge.
Map — BREATHE Clean Air
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Making the most of the sunshine.
The view from the top of Bullbarrow Hill overlooking The Blackmore Vale (Thomas Hardy's Vale of the little dairies ).
The view from the top of Bullbarrow Hill overlooking The Blackmore Vale (Thomas Hardy's Vale of the little dairies ).
Today after wasting more of my precious time on the Enfield it still will not run properly, i'm going to get it booked into the Enfield shop.
I'm not going to waste more of my time on it, it's cursed, i'm going to get it fixed then it's getting sold!!
I'm not going to waste more of my time on it, it's cursed, i'm going to get it fixed then it's getting sold!!
Ooh I was born and bred near there at Winterborne Houghton.
Many's the time I rode my GP100 over Bulbarrow in the snow in the middle of winter to go to work. Fell off a few up there too coming back from the pub in my callow youth...
Today after wasting more of my precious time on the Enfield it still will not run properly, i'm going to get it booked into the Enfield shop.
I'm not going to waste more of my time on it, it's cursed, i'm going to get it fixed then it's getting sold!!
What is it Wayne 650 twin?Today after wasting more of my precious time on the Enfield it still will not run properly, i'm going to get it booked into the Enfield shop.
I'm not going to waste more of my time on it, it's cursed, i'm going to get it fixed then it's getting sold!!
Get shot and get a proper British banger: