More DIY
After the post
holiday blues, what next? I managed to get the gearbox changed on the car and
after buying a few parts finished the assembly last Saturday. Another day
crawling around under the car. Sunday, the first one of the month is Wey Valley
bike club day so I was off out to enjoy the sunshine and get brushed up on my
riding techniques. It has been a few years since I passed my advanced
motorcycle test and I had the feeling I was losing my edge after driving the
car so far during the trip to Spain. I had an enjoyable couple of hours and was
told to stop riding as though I was driving a car and get back on my bike!
So I did and headed
for a visit to the Museum to sort out the things I would need for the
forthcoming show at Ally Pally. Only a quick stop but I did spot a few well
preserved 1300 Kawasaki’s parked out the front. I spoke to the guys when I got
inside to discover they were from Leicester and had come to London for the
Classic Japanese Motorcycle day at the Ace Cafe. They had come along to the
Museum to see what it was like. They had read so much about it they had to see for
themselves.
I went to find
Bill but he had disappeared somewhere but what I did see was the Triumph Trophy
parked up on the rear access ramp. It had been taken out of the Museum to go to
a Salon Privee at Syon Park in the coming week. I arranged with Phillipa to
collect the Hendon LE engine and gearbox cutaway and fliers for the show the
next day. The rest of Sunday I spent cleaning the car and the Buell and the
Valiant.
If you read this
later in the week it’ll be raining and the sunshine of Monday at the Museum
will be a distant memory. The last Monday I did of the week following a Bank
Holiday and children started back at school not one person visited the Museum.
This year and this Monday almost as soon as we were open people started
arriving. Mid morning we had a contingent from Sweden five mature lads, who
were doing the rounds of the museums and, were on their way to Brooklands in a
camper.
They much
enjoyed their visit and even tried the ginger beer. One of the last visitors to
arrive were from Spain Juan Miguel and his wife who did an excellent job of
interpreting bike jargon. He was a retired policeman and had several bikes of
his own. His interest in the bikes was amazing and they spent all afternoon
talking and photographing anything and everything. Juan Miguel even signed his
name on “the Board of Fame” They were here for the Olympics last year and have
promised to come back next year when they visit the UK again. The afternoon was
gone and time to get the cutaway into the back of my car. It took three of us
to lift it and a sack truck to move it around. It was surprisingly heavy more
due to the thickness of the board it was mounted on.
During the week
the car went in for its MOT and this is where the DIY comes in, we had not
found a suitable piece of furniture to put things on in the kitchen. A
suggesting by the eldest was that I should make one. That is exactly what I did
in two days. It still needs to be varnished but it is in place to try it for
size and now covered in plants!
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