Finally got round to fitting the Zumo 350 .....seems all ok but not road tested as yet....just an expensive toy really but been hankering after one for ages....still got me rip proof mini map in the cavernous tail unit mind you!
Got my Sidi Vertigos resoled, bought some tops and usb chargers for my euro trip, paid the bills and made a beef bourgignon for us teas tonight.
TV4 went in for her first service............. got the brand new Capponard 1200 as a loaner while mine is in. That is a big 'ol bike.
Took a trip to the local stealers to get the bike details put Into my name and look at the latest hondas..... Oh an near managed to wipe myself out on the way home lol All my own fault :s
Rode to Brentford from Kent, thought I'd avoid the M25 and go through London- what a world of pain, it's a jungle out there!
Used to do it all the time a couple of years back when my firm had offices in Great Portland Street, today was simply unreal.
Yeah but it was a proper close call.my fault was not thinking ahead. There was a jump leading into a sharp left, numpty here flew over the jump and then I spot A car with the right indicator so I dont let off thinking I will go up there left. As I get real close they cancel and instead are admiring the view and start driving On.by this stage its too late so I nip between them and the ditch with about an Inch to spare.all this happened in about three seconds max so it was a very Close call and I thought thats it, its lights out for you boy.but it didn't really Phase me an I carried on as if nothing happened so I maybe need to question What safer sports I can do for my adrenaline fix as a near death experience Doesn't seem to cut it. Anyway lesson learned :s
I had a meeting in Knightsbridge this morning with a ‘not for public domain discussion’ Gulf State Embassy. Signed in, had my ID checked out and confirmed, up in the lift to the 6th floor, the door opened to a wall of heat and sinking up to my knee caps in the carpet. I was shown into a very plush meeting room with huge pictures of the ruling family on the walls. I was offered coffee by a very smartly dressed ‘servant’ before my contacts arrived. The meeting was very congenial and filled with a sense of humour I was not expecting. The coffee arrived and after one sip the caffeine hit my heart like a special forces round at short range. They made it clear what they wanted, when they wanted it and the cost of which was not an issue or discussed. No official order was taken or required; their word is their bond and on the authorisation of the president to ask for something in writing would be seen as the worst kind off insult. How the other half live continues to amaze, if not surprise me anymore. I then meet L for a lovely dim sum lunch in China town. On the way back to her office we came across the following: Don't you just love summer in the city? Tomorrow I don’t have to get up till 07:00 for a conference call so the cork is out and happy days.
Im thinking Sky diving! Last year I exited a tunnel bridge it's blind on the exit and peals left a car with a trailer was parked right on the blind exit with another car in front tight to the double whites, I locked up the rear and it drifted out 45 as oncoming traffic blocked the other side of the road, decided to release the rear brake and go trough the gap into the oncoming traffic! Think there was a gnats ass between us all and my pass through was still around 70mph, some bloke stood at the rear of the last car had to take a step back as he was stood at the double whites, you know I think they were picking blackberrys!.. said to myself "not the first time this has happened on blind bends" but you never know what's round the corner on the bloody roads! But we're still here to make the same mistake another day I'm sure....lol
my latest adventure was sticking petrol in my A4 TDI ....dont know what the hell I was thinking as this is something I thought you would have to be a numpty to do....and I did it.so two miles later it stalled and when it wouldnt start again I clocked on what I had done.so its now towed to my fathers that was close.have to decide what to do next.
Oops... Ive done it once but as I was walking back from the till I was staring at the ticket thinking why does that say Petrol!
Makes me feel a bit better that another bloke has done this. Going to get the tank drained and the filter changed later, Then see what the damage is.
Sweeeeeeeeet I'm On the FireBlade again today, tried a different mounting point for the GoPro (just watching it back now, looks ok)
A while ago we had a "friend" put diesel into a petrol hire car. Missus sorted her with a friend mechanic and we loaned her 40 litres of petrol to flush the system through. Took 4 months to get the jerry cans back and filled up, apparently she thought it was a bit excessive that the whole episode cost her £125, even when I bluntly reminded her of the £300 fee the hire company would have charged. She didn't even send us a xmas card this year
