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I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow!!

yeah

ah shitake

http://www.weathercity.com/uk/gb/baildon/

rain sat and sun then sunny again on monday wtf??

herbacious wrote:I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow!!

yeah

http://www.weathercity.com/uk/gb/baildon/

rain sat and sun then sunny again on monday wtf??

Oh I don't know - not great but not bad here

http://www.weathercity.com/uk/gb/coventry/

herbacious wrote:
ah shitake

Japanese mushrooms

I'm off tomorrow... need to get out... just got to put the bike back together now!

I got out for a nice ride on the Falco last weekend. Roads were almost clean and dry in places. Very stimulating to be on the Falco for a change. Been a couple of weeks since I'd given it a decent run and I was getting used to and comfortable with, the BM in all that ice and crap. What a bike! When you wind the handle it doesn't hang about....


Not sure this weekend will be as nice!!

Yup pretty sunny here on the weekend, so I took a ride up to Ingham, Forest Beach and Paluma.

Got stopped by the police for being a twat, but once I admitted I was a twat and passed a breath test they sent me on my way on the proviso that I promised to stop being a twat. I had my fingers crossed though, so that was OK.

Ride to Ingham was very very boring and hot. Ingham was closed (Sunday afternoon in North Queensland, pretty much everything is closed), so I followed the signs to Forest Beach. Good choice as they had put corners on this road, posted at 80kph and good fun at 120kph, see told you I had my fingers crossed.

Managed to ride from the cafe to the beach carrying a hot coffee (coffee in right hand, start bike with left hand, set fast idle, slip the clutch and cover the rear brake, simples. Stripped to shorts and T shirt had a quick swim to allow the coffee to cool (inside the stinger nets) then dried in the shade of a palm tree while sipping coffee. Nice.

Run back to ingham was at 150kph, which was even more fun.

The road to Paluma up in the hills was fantastic a real tight twisty affair, which would have been great fun, but there isn't enough width to give it major beans as oncoming traffic is a problem, it really is so tight that cars can barely pass. Nice and cool in the trees at the top of the hill (it's only about 900m high). Carried on past Paluma and headed for the dam. The roadsign said dirt road and it wasn't so just as I was getting used to the shallow river crossings and giving it some beans the tarmac stopped and I didn't. Falco's take quite a long distance to slow down on dirt using the back brake only, fortunately the recent rain had left a number of deep trenches across the road which helped (I think). Still no obvious damage, so I thought I'd carry on the remaining 10km to the sustainable village for a look see.

about 2km further on after negotiating increasinly deep ruts and potholes I reckoned on either falling off or getting hpelessly bogged down so I headed back.

Good fun though.

Falcopops wrote:Yup pretty sunny here on the weekend, so I took a ride up to Ingham, Forest Beach and Paluma.

Got stopped by the police for being a twat, but once I admitted I was a twat and passed a breath test they sent me on my way on the proviso that I promised to stop being a twat. I had my fingers crossed though, so that was OK.

Ride to Ingham was very very boring and hot. Ingham was closed (Sunday afternoon in North Queensland, pretty much everything is closed), so I followed the signs to Forest Beach. Good choice as they had put corners on this road, posted at 80kph and good fun at 120kph, see told you I had my fingers crossed.

Managed to ride from the cafe to the beach carrying a hot coffee (coffee in right hand, start bike with left hand, set fast idle, slip the clutch and cover the rear brake, simples. Stripped to shorts and T shirt had a quick swim to allow the coffee to cool (inside the stinger nets) then dried in the shade of a palm tree while sipping coffee. Nice.

Run back to ingham was at 150kph, which was even more fun.

The road to Paluma up in the hills was fantastic a real tight twisty affair, which would have been great fun, but there isn't enough width to give it major beans as oncoming traffic is a problem, it really is so tight that cars can barely pass. Nice and cool in the trees at the top of the hill (it's only about 900m high). Carried on past Paluma and headed for the dam. The roadsign said dirt road and it wasn't so just as I was getting used to the shallow river crossings and giving it some beans the tarmac stopped and I didn't. Falco's take quite a long distance to slow down on dirt using the back brake only, fortunately the recent rain had left a number of deep trenches across the road which helped (I think). Still no obvious damage, so I thought I'd carry on the remaining 10km to the sustainable village for a look see.

about 2km further on after negotiating increasinly deep ruts and potholes I reckoned on either falling off or getting hpelessly bogged down so I headed back.

Good fun though.

I think I speak for most us when I say "you can go off people quickly sometimes"

repeat after me "I'm not jealous", "I'm not jealous"

F9

We all knew you were a Twat already Dale

Especially when you keep going on about the great weather down in Oz.

Only joking, keep enjoying it mate, (and telling us about it), just try not to spill the coffee.

Actually I got out on a bike for the first time this year on Saturday.
Took the Kwack for it's MOT test.
Nearly crapped myself, the bloody potholes round here have very little road around them any more.
On one stretch there were about 50 metres of potholes, large ruts, plus the usual wet shite on the roads and all the gravel and rubble that used to live in the potholes after the previous temporary repairs.
Ended up just weaving through this lot slowly with a queue of bloody cars behind.
The worrying thing is that we have all the old potholes, repaired in previous years, which have all come back again, but now even bigger, so you can hide a bike them, plus lots of new ones, there really ain't much real road around in some of the worst areas.
Good news was the Kwack passed OK.

herbacious wrote:I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow!!

yeah

ah shitake

http://www.weathercity.com/uk/gb/baildon/

rain sat and sun then sunny again on monday wtf??

Sunny in Baildon are you sure??...take photo Herb...where you off to then??

Well in gods country GOD thought he'd piss all over it all weekend , good news is the bikes still clean !!

After changing brake shoes on car and doing other boring jobs on Sunday, I decided to treat myself to an hour's ride on the unusually dry roads. As the BM was easier to get out the garage, I wheeled it out and fired it up. After a few minutes, I blipped the throttle a couple of times and the engine revs shot up and wouldn't respond to closing the throttle. Restarted it and same problem. So, instead of a ride, I ended up stripping it down to check out the throttle linkages. No problems found so further checks required. I know, I should have taken the Falco out instead! That's next weekend's plan if the weather is OK. Roll on spriing.

Like Howard I took mine for it's MOT on Saturday. Not a brilliant run as the roads were a bit slippy and it was blowing a freaking gale, but good to be out on the bike again.

Dusty wrote:After a few minutes, I blipped the throttle a couple of times and the engine revs shot up and wouldn't respond to closing the throttle. Restarted it and same problem.

Check for air leaks between the carbs and cylinder head

D-Rider wrote:

Dusty wrote:After a few minutes, I blipped the throttle a couple of times and the engine revs shot up and wouldn't respond to closing the throttle. Restarted it and same problem.

Check for air leaks between the carbs and cylinder head

Perished inlet rubbers?

Thanks for the pointers, guys. I have checked the inlet rubbers etc and all seem fine. The bike is an 07, so perishing shouldn't be a problem yet, although stranger things have happened. Thanks also for the trip down memory lane, D_Rider; Carbs indeed! I'm now thinking it might need a trip to the dealer to check the ECU. O me miserum.