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enjoying the sunshine on the bike and...

Re bleeding the rear brake,
ordering new swingarm bearings as the replacement I have got is off to Nooj to be painted black.
Ordering a new clutch line
Wondering what else I can change or replace

............................Working.......bbbboooooooooooo

Having wifey time as she calls it tomorrow and AP open day Sunday why squid may even share the details of where we are meeting for him to lend me my fiver ... Again !

Sidestand bolts had worked themselves a bit loose again - so sorted that out.

Hadn't cleaned the bike for months - so gave it a bit of a swill-down.

A few years back at the Norfolk weekend, a few people wanted to hear my bike with the baffle out ... but it wouldn't come out.
Well. today I decided that as it was looking a bit carboned-up, I would set to work, do my best to get it out and clean it up.
Job done.

Yesterday I filled up with fuel but as I'm fed up with my growing tank, I found a BP and went for their high-end fuel instead of the usual cheapest-I-can-find-supermarket stuff.
Hope it helps as the bill for it was quite frightening compared to what I'm used to paying for the cheapest-I-can-find-supermarket stuff.

I took the bike for a run, about 60 miles
Cleaned the bike ready for next week.
And i changed the panier frames from the green to the grey.

I have been finding out that my Beowulf rad and oil cooler guards dont fit and dont use all the existing fasteners and cannot be fitted in minutes as some of the testimonials say on thier website

Give Nooj a bell, I think that is what he has fitted to his.

Cleaned bike yesterday and went for a quiet ride with Jules this afternoon. Visited a lovely country house and garden near Malton, They actually had a dedicated hard standing area for bikes (on the grass car park). It was really warm and the nice lady (very posh) in the office/shed where we paid took our helmets and jackets for us while we walked round the grounds.
Splendid

Did a 58 mile cycling 'sportage' around North Yorkshire...knackering! Lot's of bikers around Helmsley as usual, spoted a Futura...the Stoksley road is a lot harder with pedal power!

Went out on the Falco yesterday to Skipton...the long way round

Davshill what was the name of the place in Malton??

Shall be fitting a 15t front sprocket, gear indicator and tomorrow hopefully fitting Dunlop d212 gp pro tyres front and back, previously used for qualifying, that's if my wheel weights arrive.

Toying with fitting a cheap nasty alarm and immob to stop the opportunists...

Davshill what was the name of the place in Malton??

Scampston Hall - just off the A64 Scarborough road - After Malton, pass through Rillington and turn left signpost Scampston Only - (YO17 8NG).

Thanks, not come across it before as we usually head off left to Pickering! Always on the lookout for places for the wife to visit with her Mother so i can go out elsewhere on the Falco

furygan man wrote:Thanks, not come across it before as we usually head off left to Pickering! Always on the lookout for places for the wife to visit with her Mother so i can go out elsewhere on the Falco

That sounds like a great plan, I may start doing that to the missus. Yorkshire sounds far enough from Buckinghamshire that I may get a weekend out of it :)

Falconilist, the rad guards just a bit of bending and longer bolts, the oil cooler guard was the real bugger, the cut out to clear the bottom mount was in completely the wrong place, overall too effing small, bit of careful re bending in a vice,trimming with hacksaw and filing

hmmm

my beowulf guards were a straight, easy fit....