What have you done on your bike today?

Gimlet said:
That literally is the Liffey. 😷

We still have a magnificent range of ales over here and a fine choice of local brews in the north east. The Firebrick Brewery in Blaydon makes some excellent ales, including Propa Belta and Wye-Aye-PA. Im waiting for them to bring out one called H'away an Shite Man. That'll be the daddy.
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Cold or room temperature 👀👀
 
The skitz said:
Cold or room temperature 👀👀
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Room temp you heathen bog-trotter. Who ever heard of cold ale. The very idea...🧐
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WAYNE said:
Today i went down to the garage to do some more fitting bits to the Enfield, fucking freezing but i was brave and put my fleece on!! :) I got the rest of the stuff on, inlet manifold, carb that i changed to bigger jets, the most difficult bit was getting the air filter on, a right pain in the ass but done now. I now need to fit the throttle cable to the grip and a couple of other bits and i have a brass washer that i have no idea what it's for??:unsure: I'll finish things off tomorrow and it's meant to be a bit milder so hopefully get the tank on and go for a fire up!!🤞
I also got a txt from Boots saying my prescription is ready so i'm hoping it's my antidepressants!!

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Given you thought Wayne that crap from a possible liner was clogging everything up, have you managed to deal with the inside of the tank?
 
Exige said:
Yours has a different manufacturing process so not connected (probably) 👀
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Ehh, it’s all made in Dublin nowadays, same beer, same process.

Gimlet said:
Is there any proper cask ale in Oireland or is it all that black treacly stuff?
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Sadly not 😕. I don’t care what @The skitz says, it’s a fooking cartel here in Ireland as far as draught beer available in pubs goes twixt Diageo brands and Heineken brands, all mass produced, all chilled. It’s one thing I miss is proper real ale, served at cellar temp from the cask via a hand pump 😕.
 
West Cork Paul said:
Ehh, it’s all made in Dublin nowadays, same beer, same process.
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The UK stuff used to be Carbonated where the Irish was Nitrogenated - maybe that has changed but they still Carbonate for other markets such as Canada I believe :unsure:
 
West Cork Paul said:
Sadly not 😕. I don’t care what @The skitz says, it’s a fooking cartel here in Ireland as far as draught beer available in pubs goes twixt Diageo brands and Heineken brands, all mass produced, all chilled. It’s one thing I miss is proper real ale, served at cellar temp from the cask via a hand pump 😕.
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Have you ever thought of opening a brewery in your shed :unsure:
 
West Cork Paul said:
Sadly not 😕. I don’t care what @The skitz says, it’s a fooking cartel here in Ireland as far as draught beer available in pubs goes twixt Diageo brands and Heineken brands, all mass produced, all chilled. It’s one thing I miss is proper real ale, served at cellar temp from the cask via a hand pump 😕.
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Yep, there's nothing like it. I've been known to walk into the pub over the road, find they've run out of ale and walk out again and go home.
If industrial lager was all that was available I wouldn't go out much. I'd like to like Guinness but I just don't. Gives me a thick head.

I'm surprised there's no ale in Ireland, what with the Irish love of their pubs and a pint. Maybe there's never been a hop growing tradition in Ireland, whereas in England it's been going on for centuries. I don't know.
Saying that, it's getting harder to find a pint of ale in Scotland too, and they do have an ale brewing tradition, but certainly in the south west of Scotland it's being pushed out by pre-gassed keg beers and fancy foreign lagers.

Cracking range of ales up here in the north east. When I came here I was expecting a lot of darker beers because of the brown ales of Newcastle, but most seem to be paler golden ales. There's a lot of milder strength session ales too. I guess a legacy from the days of heavy industry when miners and steel workers went for a pint as they came off shift and they didn't want anything too strong. My taste buds have adjusted from the heavier bodied ruby ales down south. Virtually every pub you go in up here will have at least one locally brewed ale on offer, and there's a lot of them. Although a lot of locals seem to drink John Smiths, which I don't understand. Gives me a nitrogen-induced headache just looking at it.
 
Gimlet said:
Yep, there's nothing like it. I've been known to walk into the pub over the road, find they've run out of ale and walk out again and go home.
If industrial lager was all that was available I wouldn't go out much. I'd like to like Guinness but I just don't. Gives be a thick head.

I'm surprised there's no ale in Ireland, what with the Irish love of their pubs and a pint. Maybe there's never been a hop growing tradition in Ireland, whereas in England it's been going on for centuries. I don't know.
Saying that, it's getting harder to find a pint of ale in Scotland too, and they do have an ale brewing tradition, but certainly in the south west of Scotland it's being pushed out by pre-gassed keg beers and fancy foreign lagers.

Cracking range of ales up here in the north east. When I came here I was expecting a lot of dark brown beers because of the brown ales of Newcastle, but most seem to be paler golden ales. My taste buds have adjusted from the heavier bodied ruby ales down south. Virtually every pub you go in up here will have at least one locally brewed ale on offer, and there's a lot of them. Although a lot of locals seem to drink John Smiths, which I don;t understand. Gives me a nitrogen-induced headache just looking at it.
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Marketing (brainwashing) of the younger generations innit, in the 90's real ale pubs were for beardy wierdys although most still drank locally brewed bitter in England, Scotland was Tennents or McEwans 🤮 getting better now (if you discount Brewdog 🤣)
 
Barry Hell said:
Marketing (brainwashing) of the younger generations innit, in the 90's real ale pubs were for beardy wierdys although most still drank locally brewed bitter in England, Scotland was Tennents or McEwans 🤮 getting better now (if you discount Brewdog 🤣)
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One of my favourite ales is Deuchars IPA. Never saw it once (or any other Scottish ale) when I had my house in Ayrshire. You're more likely to see it down here. There was a pub a few miles away in the back of beyond (now sadly just a cafe) that always had Deuchars on draft and you see Jarl regularly all over the place.
Around Ayr all I ever saw was Belhaven Best, McEwans light and Tennents. TBF Belhaven isn't a bad pint but it's not the same as a cask ale.
 
Gimlet said:
One of my favourite ales is Deuchars IPA. Never saw it once (or any other Scottish ale) when I had my house in Ayrshire. You're more likely to see it down here. There was a pub a few miles away in the back of beyond (now sadly just a cafe) that always had Deuchars on draft and you see Jarl regularly all over the place.
Around Ayr all I ever saw was Belhaven Best, McEwans light and Tennents. TBF Belhaven isn't a bad pint but it's not the same as a cask ale.
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When I worked in a pub in the mid 80's we served McEwans 80 shilling, which was the closest we got to real ale, was much better than the Tennents piss
 
Barry Hell said:
When I worked in a pub in the mid 80's we served McEwans 80 shilling, which was the closest we got to real ale, was much better than the Tennents piss
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A lot of lads in my local in Ayrshire used to drink it, on the basis that it wasn't very strong so it was OK to go to the pub on a school day. That theory doesn't hold up if you drink ten pints of it though. They're still working on that bit..
 
West Cork Paul said:
Ehh, it’s all made in Dublin nowadays, same beer, same process.


Sadly not 😕. I don’t care what @The skitz says, it’s a fooking cartel here in Ireland as far as draught beer available in pubs goes twixt Diageo brands and Heineken brands, all mass produced, all chilled. It’s one thing I miss is proper real ale, served at cellar temp from the cask via a hand pump 😕.
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Hard to believe no Irish establishment will take money off you for warm watery brown water 🤔 I think I see an opening here 😂😂 I might even sell mustache oil/wax on the bar for a high price 😝
 
Barry Hell said:
When I worked in a pub in the mid 80's we served McEwans 80 shilling, which was the closest we got to real ale, was much better than the Tennents piss
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When I use to go to download festival all the bars sold Tennents. It was £4 a pint and you had to use tokens that you bought for £4 each. I bought 65 tokens between Friday afternoon and Sunday night and they all went on Tennents. I don't remember feeling remotely pissed at any stage!
 
Today i did a few things on the Enfield, there is a head steady bar that bolts to the head and the frame, now the choke lever hits it!! Me being a typical bloke i didn't read the instructions properly, you have to put the choke lever on the right hand side of the carb, so i swaped it around and now the head steady bar can be bolted back on. 🤷‍♂️
Anyway i will finish things off tomorrow, it needs some petrol and when i last went out on the 996 i filled the tank so i will transfer the fuel into the Enfield. (y)
 
NoGutsNoGlory said:
When I use to go to download festival all the bars sold Tennents. It was £4 a pint and you had to use tokens that you bought for £4 each. I bought 65 tokens between Friday afternoon and Sunday night and they all went on Tennents. I don't remember feeling remotely pissed at any stage!
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I remember going to Kent bike show at Romney marsh in 1989 when Rory Gallagher played there, all they had was some shit lager and Stones bitter, i don't think you can get it anymore.:unsure:
I drank Stones all Friday to Sunday and it was the same with that i at no point felt drunk in anyway shape or form, piss water!!:oops:
 
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Do you have old carpet or rugs in your garage Wayne? might improve the temp in there by a degree or two? Look in local adds like gumtree for free to take away and local ebay.

Avoid the alah akbar ones. Once you kickstart a royal enfield on it, all it wants to do is fly to london, luton, bradford, rotherham etc etc...you get my drift

Avoid ones with black, grey and white squares, probably a dodgey owner

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Noobie said:
Do you have old carpet or rugs in your garage Wayne? might improve the temp in there by a degree or two? Look in local adds like gumtree for free to take away and local ebay.

Avoid the alah akbar ones. Once you kickstart a royal enfield on it, all it wants to do is fly to london, luton, bradford, rotherham etc etc...you get my drift

Avoid ones with black, grey and white squares, probably a dodgey owner

Modern Large Rugs For Living Room Bedroom Carpet Hallway Runner Rug Floor Mats
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Yes i have thought about putting some cheap carpet down, my garage is on the end and it has about 8 feet of earth one side with an empty garage on the right. I painted the wall on the earth side with paint that seals the wall as it was realy damp in there. I had an old leather that i had hanging up before i painted it and it went all mouldy. 🤷‍♂️
 
She lives, got the Enfield fired up today, when I first started it She was on full throttle, where the throttle was push me pull me I had put the cable on the wrong throttle point so no play in the throttle so changed that then it ran all over the place. So had a play with the carb screw and it now runs really nice, it's a lot more throaty with a crisper feel to it, can't wait to get out on it, it's pissing down and getting dark out, tomorrow is looking better. (y)


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