We’ve all done it 
Dropped my Tiger 800 whilst getting it off the centre stand
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That’s a bummer 
but as has been said, we have all done it.
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I’ve been around the museum a couple of times but never done the factory tour. Might be able to make that day. Possibly not in time for the tour but there’s always the beer.
Today though, I have mostly been testing positive for Covid. Bah! 
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Bad luck James, but we have all done that.
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Be good to meet you, lurgy withstanding 
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Watching Mrs. Iron rake out and point the chimney.
Took her all day to do one side, so at teatime I went down the chippy and bought us dinner. God knows what I’m gonna do for dinner tomorrow…
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I got off light could have been worse.
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Starting to pick up after my covid bout, had a walk along Gardom’s Edge this afto, managed to find the cup & ring stone in all the bracken. It was huge (the bracken, not the stone). Keep saying I’ll do a wild camp up there, something a bit other worldly about the place. 
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Quite a bit of damage from a simple drop though James. Bad luck!
Little scratches on everything, nothing actually broken just cant live with the bike not looking right.
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For those of you interested in Neolithic rock art… 
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…puzzling over the fact that my car insurance renewal invitation is £80 lower than the best offer from a conparison site. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before.
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Gift horse. Mouth.
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I’ve just insured my Speed Triple. Renewal from £79 to £101, quick search for quotes, got it for £68.
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Insurance generally, but motor insurance in particular, seems to be what our septic cousins would endearingly term “a total crap shoot”! Meaning it is, by and large, a lottery that depends on an unknown set of variables that generate an unpredictable set of widely varying results!
These days I phone 3 or 4 insurers - which is about as much as I can stand to repeat the same old answers to the same old questions - review the quoted prices and go for the one somewhere in the middle of the range. They all seem to be much of a muchness in what they provide for what they get so I ignore the “comparison” sites/companies and, since I HAVE to have something, the random choice method seems as good as any.
One day there’ll be an insurance company or broker set up by motorcyclists for motorcyclists - and before anyone mentions McKenzie - Hodgson I think you’ll find that’s just a nom de guerre for the conglomerate that Carole Nash has become.
But don’t quote me on that! (Geddit? ;-))
While slumming it in Durham, see above, it turns out there was a Northumberland vintage motorcycle club Clover Leaf do based about a mile from our digs. Some great machines new and old.
Does anyone know what this is? Looks like a side valve maybe?
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Pure guess but looking at the olive drab paintwork I wonder if that side valver is a TRW. I think I still have a primary chaincase for one. No idea why…
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