Had the case on my 84 Goldwing. I had to drill the bolts…
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Luckily the application of another gorilla solved the issue. Drilling would have been a bit of a 'mare.
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Sunny and dry after yet more days of torrential rain, so time for this week’s ride. 
Guess that makes it look like I’ve been doing the ploughing, but no, there’s a tractor 
Made a day of it and headed to SportsBikeShop in Lincolnshire to buy a waterproof phone mount in case I have another Odyssey™ and have to use phone for navigation after drowning a satnav.
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Should have been a BMW GS on that picture… 
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Don’t be silly, they never make it off the tarmac
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Car was icy this morning and the forecast top temperature for today was 10°C so before this week’s ride I refitted the chin curtain and pinlock to my helmet and broke out scarf and heated socks.
Set off about 11am after it had warmed up a bit and the sun on my black bike gear made it feel a lot warmer than the air temperate would have implied. So after the first couple of hours I needed to remove scarf and turned off the heated grips.
All told I was out for 5 hours and I found that I was riding a bit faster than normal; sunny dry roads were a factor in that but mostly I think that it was the helmet chin curtain reducing noise and drag. I must subconsciously judge speed by the sound and feel of the air, because I know I’m 10mph slower in an open face helmet.
I’m also finding that I’m still hesitant at T junctions and when pulling away from the side of the road as my brain still thinks that I might be on the continent and need to ride on the right!
This is the view up at the fields last weeks picture was looking down from
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Yes, interesting psychology.
I think when abroad we know it’s different so our brain concentrates, when returned we relax, but our brain now has new experiences/muscle memory to process.
For me same applies when trying a different bike, riding the “new” bike - no problem - you’re concentrating, but soon as you get back on your “old” bike it feels “wrong”. 
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I get the left/right side of the road confusion watching YouTube too. In years past when watching Itchy Boots riding through the former colonies in Africa and South America it felt wrong when she was riding on the left. Now, after riding on continental Europe myself, UK vloggers make me tense up when riding on left when coming out of junctions, as I do in real life myself.
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I get that when switching from Tiger to S3 - one has a quickshifter, the other hasn’t. Brain in gear!
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Try going from keyless to a key again… don’t know how my street triple was never stole 
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Been there, done that though my bike’s not been nicked (so far) pray tell, what happened?
I hate clueless, just another complexity you don’t need. All it saves is the turning of a key
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Quite a few occasions I returned to it to discover I had left the key in the ignition. So used to stepping off and walking away with keyless. I wouldn’t say I hate keyless but it really is a solution to a problem that never existed !
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Better weather there than we have . I fear our season is over before it really got going. The second poor summer on the bounce.
Bring back a bit of global warming please…!
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Apparently we’re getting 21C here tomorrow - I’ll be out again! I agree though - terrible summer. I’m 700 kwh down with my solar panels compared to last year. That’s 23%…
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We in the other hand are getting more feckin rain…. 
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It’s going to clear up and be wet.
