Well hats off to Two Tyres and DHL. Ordered a tyre at 1540 yesterday , in my house at 1420 today.

500 miles yesterday, 400 dry. Stuttering like hell below 4k, so just ride at speeds over 4k natch, tyres lunched. On the upside the double USB socket I replaced the din socket with (that the plug in double USB socket kept falling out of) kept the phone sat nav fully charged all day. The last 100 wet mile showed the Enduroguard jacket is not waterproof. If anyone knows the correct waterproofing to use please tell, as Techwash ain't it. And the enduroguard glove felt wetted out but my hands were dry, but I think I'm going to get some new gloves. Why else would I go back to work?

Well damn it to heckington. After Brian persuaded me to bring my quadcopter on our little Wales trip this week, we tried the Maven app thing which adds features to my Mini that DJI don't.

So now I can annoy everyone by doing bird's eye follow-me type stuff as well as onboard footage.

i.e. this.

So I'll almost certainly be bringing it with me alongside the 360 camera thingy. @Martin I apologise in advance for the day I remember I have them and keep wanting to pull over/climb that mountain to rescue it.

If it only does 20mph we better set off for the pyrenees in the morning....

No just looked at Autotrader.  K13 are going cheap now, very low mileages, lots under £5k, it is very tempting. Still, I haven't earned a penny yet, must stop counting my chickens

Quote from: fjtwelve on April 10, 2024, 02:00:18 pm

I haven't agreed a rate yet  mind, suggestions on a postcard to the usual address

One K1300S every 10 days. Plus expenses, obvs.
Does give you enough flex in price?

I mean, there's a K1300S in Autotrader for under £3k at the moment. I was seriously tempted. That's like the price of tinned luggage for a GS.

We must have hit the nadir for K pricing, I reckon.

But aim for a Motorsport every 10 days.

Meh
12 days

Got the old silver wheel  in and got the bike outside to wash the radiator with simple green and the 90degree jet wash widget. I'm not sure how much debris was due to each agent, but I tried to catch the debris on a cloth. It certainly wasn't wow! about the simple green. I can now see the lines of brake dust/tyre fragments up the radiator again. So yeah a lot of dirt has come out but nothing spectacular



There are some seriously large holes now where fins used to be so I'm not holding out much hope that it's going to have enough cooling capacity left. Anyway will be a few days till the tyres are swapped. And I have the name of someone who may be able to get the broken drill bit out.

If you had it worse than me, and according to the bureau that makes the weather, you most certainly did, then I am surprised you still have a shed standing.

I live a few hundred metres along from the beach huts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4zy9vddk9o

After storm Kathleen or  Pierrick or whatever bloody letter of the alphabet we are up to now battered the bejasus out of us yesterday, today turned out sunny, not so windy, and , amazingly,  dry. So as Mole said, "Hang spring-cleaning"( or shed building/ K1200 tarting up etc) and we went for a bimble for the first time this year. Up to Bude down to Liskeard and home again. No 360 camera video I'm afraid, I was too busy remembering how to ride. Jeez I'm rusty, and there are aches in places that havent ached for a while. Just steady away, and mercifully seemed to have a quiet day for traffic. Put it this way I averaged 46mph for about 160 miles which normally you'd have to work very hard for down here, or ride up and down the A30. Moral of the story- go out and repeat as often as possible until end of May so I don't get left in the pyreneean weeds by the old gits