Very neat.
Helmut and I took the Street Triple and Multistrada to the MotoGP yesterday; nice ride from Herefordshire, through Stratford and Banbury on great roads. Just the last 20 miles or so on more boring ones but all in all a great day out 
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Fitted the camera to the new tiger yesterday, so went for a bimble in the local lanes. 800 miles on the bike now, so not much longer to complete the run in. 
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As the mrs. is quite nimble with her crutches now, so can reach “the facilities 
” independently now, prepped her a delicious lunch, made sure she was watered, and then bu@@ered off out of the house for a few hours to play with the Tiger… A lovely 100 miles on country lanes. 
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Great to hear Jefta’s managing a little better @Vulpes 
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(Had to edit, my computer autocorrects her name to Jeff every time 
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That’s funny!
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Two complete engines. I’ll actually get that T120 Tiger into it’s new frame one day. One T140 disassembled and ready to be assembled.
The only spares required hopefully. The hardest bit should be the sludge trap plug - nice hex drive on the new one rather than a slot.
And the last of the Triumph pistons done along with a couple of Norton Dommies.
Doubles are £300, singles are £200 - just in case anyone was wondering. Over… 
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I think I’m not the only one that was missing your glorious post 
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Thankyou @Hubaxe ,
A note for all - The bottom row left 1976 crossed T140 pistons and the bottom row middle 1990s Hinckley Triumph piston are both now spoken for.
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Well last night actually…
Classic Car and Bike night at The Artisan, Cow Roast, near Tring, Herts.
It’s every other Monday at the moment but may become every Monday.
Their website is a bit out of date but it’s a buzzy place when the weather is good.
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A post was split to a new topic: Stirling, Glendevon, Gleneagles, Crieff, Auchterarder
The little Striple and I flew round 187 miles of mainly gorgeous scenery and twisty roads today; I
had intended slightly less but a road closure added a bit. The main object of today was to ride the Forge Mountain Road between Machynlleth to Llyn Clwedog and it did not disappoint; the views were incredible and the tarmac smooth and blemish - free (usual contingent of suicidal Welsh sheep though…of course). Onwards from Llyn Clwedog to Llanidloes was also pretty gorgeous.
I rarely stop and take photographs (as you all know…my rideout posts lack them severely 
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The main aim of a sheep is to die - preferably in debt… An old Welsh adage…
Today I changed the rear brake pads and took rear wheel to get a new tyre fitted. Old one still had 1000+ miles on but I need new rubber ready for my 2 week Europe tour at start of September.
Was also thinking of changing chain and sprockets but the chain seems fine, having no stiff links and has only ‘stretched’ half way to wear limit. The front sprocket is rather worn, but not to the point of being a problem yet, so I decided to wait until after Europe trip before changing them. My thinking is that on that trip I’m likely to be rather lax on the chain lubing front so would be good to let old chain take the abuse rather than give the new parts an immediate hard time.
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My uncle used to say something like that, from the moment a sheep is born, it spends it’s entire life trying to die.
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I heard it from a sheep farmer in Exmoor…
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A couple of years ago, we had to rescue a big heavy lamb that had got stuck in the bottom of a deep narrow gulley in the merse (tidal salt marsh) next to our house. Its legs were stuck in the mud at the bottom of the gulley. Pat had heard its distress cries the previous night, and went back early in the morning to look for it. I had to get a spade and dig the gulley wide enough to climb in myself, pull its legs out of the mud one by one, and heave it up out of the gulley. A very muddy job. At least, once liberated, it ran to its mum and had the sense not to jump back in!
It never even bought me a pint.
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I was out this morning adding running-in miles to the 400 Scrambler. Even though I’m restricted to 6500 rpm currently it’s surprisingly punchy up to 60 or 70 mph, which is about as fast as I’d want to go on the types of roads I like to ride.
I’m really liking this bike
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A very handy looking machine.
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