I did it but my spillage was petrol.
Wife is just about talking to me now…!
Bike still not fixed…!
New Year’s resolution to get the bike fixed and ridden more this year…!
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Fortunately my oil spillage seems to have just been outside and my clean up efforts last night were ‘good enough’. So today I was measuring valve clearances and getting different measurements each time I rotated engine. As I got readings in middle of tolerance for each valve at least once I’m calling it a Pass. I’m leaving gasket scraping and reassembly until tomorrow.
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Filters and other bits arrived today so finished engine service and tidied everything up. All ready for a test ride tomorrow, on roads that haven’t seen rain for 5 days or so 
(Though max temp only forecast to be 5C, so doubt I’ll be out more than a couple of hours.)
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I was out for about 3 hours this morning.
Dry roads and blue sky but only 3C, which felt like -2C 
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I keep getting the urge to go ‘fuck the bank balance’ and go ride over to SportsBikeShop and blow £500 on a full set of Keis header clothing. So far I’ve resisted as 8 or 9C is OK with layers, and below 5C I tend not to ride due to ice risk, so I’ll be blowing that dosh on the chance to make half a dozen days a year more pleasant riding wise.
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I agree it’s not worth it. It’s been dry and sunny here for a few days but today the temp never topped 3 degrees. I’m tempted to go for a ride, but I probably wouldn’t enjoy it
-1,5C here today, so I didn’t see the point going out…
The Triumph will have to stay safely in garage for a couple of days.
Minus temperature is not the issue. Snow the whole day + freezing overnight. Get your ticket for holiday on ice 
Had to drive the pickup in town… not the funniest car to park.
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I’ve had the Keis heated waistcoat for a few years now. Absolutely brilliant in the cold - once your core is warm you really don’t feel the cold at all.
I’d start with that before spending too much!
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I got to thinking last night and this morning’s test ride took me here…
Fortunately for my bank balance my arse is too big for the trousers. 
They only go up to 3XL, which is more than enough normally but these were way too tight. (2XL jacket fit nicely.)
Another customer in the shop said he sold his trousers as they just made him sweat, he said you only really need the jacket anyway. (Echoing @stevelovatt above.) Thing is, I had set my heart on the full kit, especially to get the socks, which you sorta need the trousers for to connect up nicely. Overall though, I guess I’m relieved as the trousers only have heating down front and no insulating fabric at the back, and if they had fit I would probably have ended up buying them anyway, even though it’s my calves that get coldest and the trousers wouldn’t really do the job.
When I set off at 10am it was 2°C and there was a frost on road so my toes got painfully cold on way there even with my feeble heated socks; and chest, neck and shoulders were uncomfortably cold after an hour. The fact I survived and still enjoyed the 2 hour each way ride shows that I can probably manage without expensive heated kit.
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I always wear textile jackets, but I’ve never so far got on with textile trousers. In hot weather, I wear denim riding jeans, and the rest of the time I wear leather trousers, and I always carry waterproof overtrousers in my topbox or tailbag. This combination has always worked well for me, apart from the occasional one-legged roadside dance if it comes on to rain.
Like @stevelovatt, I have a heated waistcoat which is very effective and didn’t cost a fortune. Coupled with the Triumph heated grips, it keeps me plenty warm enough on cold rides, although I admit I don’t go on really cold rides very often nowadays.
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BD666 IRN. The registration number of the beast.
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It makes a difference for sure.
I’ve chosen a strat amongst 40 guitars tested while in USA… and I discovered later why that one was the elected.
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Not today but yesterday. Went for a ride last week and for the first time ever did not clean the bike within a day. It sat in the garage filthy for over a week; definitely my bad. Anyway here are a couple of pictures before and after the clean.
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I’m afraid it’s that time of year mate!
Tired of washing mine so it’s been left a week like yours 
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Gave mine a hose down and blow dry today, two days after last ride. Should have done it sooner as I’m not convinced they didn’t salt the roads. (Do they do that for sub-zero temps when there’s no precipitation forecast?)
It’s not actually rained here that much recently but the roads just don’t seem to dry out and remain permanently damp. They are clear of salt though.
However, woke up to frost this morning so no doubt the gritters will be out again!
replaced the Road 6 rear tyre, with a Metzler Roadtec 01 SE, then when for a ride to scrub in said tyre
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