A Mixed Bag of Things.
I didn’t do much
during the week that followed the Chinnor Bike Dayz event other than a bit of
preparation of the car for the up and coming Friends of the 2CV international
meeting in Spain. On the Thursday I had a trip out with the Wey Valley ROG’s
that took me out for a decent ride on the Buell of some 256 miles with the only
event being that the gear change linkage came adrift as I tried to change up
from second gear in a village somewhere in Kent.
Only a few minutes stop to retighten the bolt
that had worked lose. Luckily it was still there. A brief chat with one fellow at
afternoon tea, who did not know about the museum and is now going to pay a visit
on one of his days off. This gets us to Saturday and I head off to Holloway on
the Kawasaki to get my GPS repaired. They did it while I waited and I was back
home by 12 for lunch and out to Jack Lilleys for a test ride on a Tiger 800
road.
This was a bit
of fun as it has the same power and weight as the Buell. It does the job very
well but I found the suspension a little hard for my tender derriere. A bit of
a round robin doing some shopping to see if it was a good replacement for the
Buell or the Kawasaki. I can say that the power delivery is progressive and
just got you to the rev limit quite quick. It has a different sort of power to
the Buell that comes in with a kick at 4500rpm and hits the rev limiter faster
than you could imagine a big twin could do. The seat is wider and more
comfortable than the Triumph and the suspension gives you a very smooth ride. I
am back at Jack Lilleys in an hour to hand out more fliers and leave some for
Sunday where they are doing this open day test ride a bike again. While I was there
an Ariel Square Four outfit arrived and was the prettiest thing I had seen all
day.
I could have gone back again on Sunday to test
ride something else but I had a prior engagement with a run to Polesden Lacey
with the LE owners club. Stewart, a new member, had turned up on his MK2 LE. He
was the only person to turn up on a bike and didn’t stay for the picnic. He
received a flier for the museum and so did another biker I met at the Pimms
bar.
Listening to jazz on the lawn sipping Pimms in
the sun followed by a walk around the house and a drippy ice cream afterwards.
Back home in the evening via a circuitous route avoiding the M25 that had
turned into a melted tar car park. Monday gets me to the Museum again on the LE
with twelve people turning up to keep us busy. Monday evening out to the 2CV
club night and a couple more fliers given out. Tuesday I have the Buell checked
in for a service at Snobs on the North Circular so I head off up the road on
foot to the Ace Cafe for breakfast and to leave more fliers. The bike is not
ready when I return to Snobs around 11:30 so I carry on to Hangar Lane and Infinity
Motorcycles Clothing store to check out some kevlar jeans and to leave more
fliers. I then head back to the shop and wait. There I meet up with a guy from
Bristol, now living in London, who had his Harley stolen and was subsequently
returned. Lucky man! We had a chat about life and of course the Museum before he left on
his pink Scooter (borrowed for the day). Back home by mid afternoon and more
preparations on the car before I head for Bristol on Wednesday and DIY doctor
on my Mum’s ailing conservatory on the hottest two days of the year. Home for Friday
and a bit of a rest day planning the route to Spain and another weekend of
sunshine.
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