So anybody going out on the bike this weekend, or like me do you just park the bike up everytime a bank holiday comes around and wait for the idiots to return to there home towns.
Bloody raining here! Rain forecast everyday this next week! I'm doing my safe rider course with the Norfolk police this week! Wednesday in classroom so taking car. But Saturday we are out on the roads and I'm really not looking forward to it as I don't have any wet weather gear! Thanks Gary
Normaly stay put on Bank Holidays Fez .But i do need my fix so an early dart would be in order ,except yup the bloody weather nearly solid 24 hours here of full on downpours and after the recent dry spell the roads are as greasy as a porn stars cock!
Have to be careful down here on bank holidays. Too many cars with gunsights on their Bonnet's. Jeanette says they're Mercedes but I'm not so sure. The upside is that the weather is really good today here despite the weather forecast which had little Jewish guys building huge boats. However, I'm to deep into my cups to consider going out on the road until, at least, tomorrow afternoon, but I do need to get some miles off my back tyre quite soon.
Just got the forecast for the Motherland and its ok Monday and Elaine is working so if it doe's stop raining and the roads dry up King Daddy will be out!
Even though tomorrow is going to be nice i think i will spend the day giving the bike some overdue T.L.C so she will be ready for the suspension set up on wednesday
Ill be going out for a quickie,O/H has finally put his KTM back together again.I'm busting to have a go on it.
Going to give the bike some TLC this morning and then it's out for a blast to scrub in the new tyres, so easy does it.
In the words of Guy Martin "I'm not made of sugar".riding in the rain helps your overall riding and road craft,then when its dry your a road God.;-)
My Garage which is normaly just for me and the bike is now full to bursting point and i can't even get in it. I am just in the process of flagging a new shed base and as i now have no shed all the shit that goes in it is now in the garage 2 bikes /Lawn mower /garden tools/ i have also got a large collection of shit for a car boot sale which will fuel the bike for a good few runs.Iam also between sites so all my work shite Levels/ files/microwave/ bin bags full of office stuff are also in there so i am quite gutted at the moment but new shed /New site and the poxy car boot sale which although i have done three and clean up a couple of hundred sheets per time i detest the magotts coming up and wanting things for nothing or even trying to walk off with goodies so i suffer it for the sake of getting rid of some shit knowing i get a few free rides.
Once the summer is over, I'll be seriously thinking about my bespoke bike shed concept. In my head it's something like a cross between the bat cave and thunderbird 2's hanger. I need it to be big enough for the bike on a bump stop, a small, heavy duty bench at one end with cubbyholes for essential kit to be out of the way so stuff doesn't need to be moved to do other stuff. It'll have a pent roof with overhead storage and it'll be designed to fit rather than be fettled to fit. I'm really looking forward to it and the drive in drive out without the tai chi of moving vehicles around just to get in and out. It'll be a lean to against the garage so all the electrics will just be fed through and the door will be integrated into the fence so it will blend in.
Cats and dogs here yesterday and again today, I am not that keen on riding on bank holidays anyway so I am not that bothered. Interesting this is drifting into a garage project related thread. I have been researching a new garage this morning, and this is what we are thinking about, with a log store on the side. But have to make a much larger decision about what we are going to do with the cottage first. Knock it down and new build a new house further back into the land away from the road or sort out the subsidence and extend and improve what we have. Think I might start a new thread and ask any builders on here what they think. Anyway back to the garage, if we go for something like this it will be quick and easy to build and I suppose could be moved later if we need to. Or wait until we have decided what to do about the house and have a purpose built garage with den above to match the house based on the ideas and impressions I knocked up on the laptop. But I am impatient by nature and want a new garage asap.
Thank god i am back. Well against better judgement i was lured out and went for a run about twelve after about 45mins i decided that my heart wasnt in it due to the processions of cars all driving about at an average of 38 mph yes this is usually part and parcel of the normal run ,but today it seemed like everybody but me was in some sort of trance like state and you just couldn't win bike or no bike so i headed home for a couple of laps around my curcuit which was a tad better (just) so for once i am glad to be back .Spotted near home Fiat R1 with the jockey wareing shorts very clever hope he made it back.
Good philosophy Mike. I'm liking the look of that garage David. See, I reckon I could build that if someone did the groundwork for me. Log store obviously for the bike, yes?
I don't think you would be taking the likes of that garage with you Freedom as behind the timber cladding must be either block walls or steel which is needed to support the roof and those heavy concrete tiles. What ever you do have an Engineer inspect the ground next to the cottage or within the proposed plot for the house by either drilling survey or the cheaper option of excavation by mini diggger to form some trial pits so you can see whats under the ground ,This is where all your money will end up if it goe's tits up .
