What have you done with your bike/s today?

[Greybeard]

A great ride out on the A7 with 10 of the Thursday crew today. Started as always at Stratford St Andrew then across via Framlingham and Earl Soham to Stoneham Barns for coffee. Next up to Eye and Hoxne, along the Waveney valley to Harleston, Flixton and then Earsham and the grumpys cafe for a nice big ‘late’ breakfast yum. Finally, via the back roads to Halesworth and the Angel Inn for tea and cake, then home. 125 miles on a crisp bright dry November day, with the lovely autumn colours all around. Its great to be out

A great ride! I know the areas you mention; Janet and I lived in Diss in the 1970's.

There were plenty of characters around. One of them was the Hoxne, (pronounced Hoxen) Cowboy. The older man walked around wearing a cowboy outfit with a banana in his holster.

The local paper carried a strip, Mere Quacks, that told of the adventures of the ducks on the mere, (lake) in Diss. The artist would include the Hoxne cowboy in the strip.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Mere_Quacks.html?id=87CTNYOhywoC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

[Butch (cb)]

Pulled the rear end out of Blue my T3 on Saturday. It's a service job - inspected the UJ and greased up the drive shaft splines. Always a pig of a job getting the UJ plugged back in on these on reassembly.

Sunday my pal brought Jaws the Jawa sidecar round and I was wiring in some hot USB tails on that. Then checking the timing, that will need a bit more work. I've ordered a TDC checker to screw into the plug oles.

Lunchtime I took The Black Pearl my V50 out to an Essex branch Guzzi Club meet up. First time out on that one this year. I think it's going to need a new battery.

[865]

Got this off the workbench and in the ground. Only taken a month.

[muskrat]

G'day Pete.
Motor rebuild? Not a big fan of the 3" primary (had my boot chewed a few times).

I'm still having  with the conversion from butterfly to CV carb & manifold. Spitting back through the carb that much it's eaten the foam in the new air filter. It's got a #45 pilot jet, have to try #48 or 50.
Cheers

[muskrat]

G'day Fellas.
Fixed! I was going to throw the old butterfly back on but thought I'd see what size pilot it had. A #52 so it was removed and put into the CV. A couple of adjustments of the pilot screw and idle, she's purring like a saber toothed tiger.
Cheers

[berger]

the berg is now googling sabre toothed tiger purr

[groily]

friendly beast bergs  . . . must have accessory for every 'ard man out there!

[865]

G'day Musky
It's a long term project bike. Final assembly, am actually swapping it for a rather large pile of a65 stuff. I have a Dyna Street Bob as well so lost interest in the softail. I have a 3" belt on the Dyna as well lol.

[RichardL]

It's a story you don't want to hear, but one that must be told (no tragedies). Today was 57F in Chicago, so decided to run a necessary errand on my bike over lunch. After all, at this time in the season, it could be the last riding day before May. The errand? It was a delivery about 6 miles from my house. They weren't expecting that I would pull up on a vintage bike to make this delivery. I had parked in one of the service spots to phone in for assistance. The female medical assistant who came out to receive the delivery showed some real appreciation for the A10 as I took the parcel from my handlebar pouch and handed her the small container our our dog's urine for testing. So, obviously, any excuse.

Richard L.

[Butch (cb)]

Had the engine and gearbox oil warming on the radiator indoors all yesterday. Then out in the garage last night to fill the sump, gearbox and drive box on Blue the Guzzi T3.

Might be taking an off road excursion with the boys Saturday week. I'll be on the long range SP. That's not been run in some months so probably needs a check over tomorrow.

[BSA_54A10]

Forgot to hit the send button yesterday
Very plesant ride down the BSA NSW club meeting in the cool of the evening returing at 1am
Nice ride again as I had the roads to my self .

[Rex]

When down to the workshop to check all was holding up as Eunice was doing her worst at the time.
I ended up refitting the rocker box on the A7.
I hate that job, and I've misplaced the pushrod comb, but it took my mind off the storm for a half hour or so..

[Angus]

Before my trip to Wales last year, I changed the front brake shoes on the A7 (7” FWH). I had purchased a set of the floating type. Hoping they would improve the braking, well they did not, it was so poor that I would not let my son ride the bike. At the last Kempton Jumble I purchased another ‘normal’ set of shoes with totally different friction material.
Today I finally got around to changing them over. The floating shoes appears to have a very good contact area so my only assumption is that it was the friction material. The new ‘normal’ shoes give quite a good brake and the bike now stops better than I ever recall.

[Worty]

I found that, when putting everything back together with greasy hands, the brakes do not appear to work at all

This was very evident approaching a roundabout when a cursory application of the brakes resulted in having to steer toward the curb with a very alarmed car driver braking heavily.   An embarrassed wave of the hand had me returning to the garage to clean everything with brake cleaner - it now stops.  Incidentally, I had the same result on a B31 which had no grease on the brakes at all.

Preparing myself for the first ride out - weather's getting warmer!!

[berger]

i think i have a ghostly helper, maybe a deceased mate. now stop this bullshit berger your talking out the rear again, a couple of weeks ago i changed the plug caps on urma the yonda and underneath urma with the hex head on the floor and the bolt sticking up proud was a 10 mill bolt with one of those wide washers that you can't get off easily. i have looked everywhere to see where it came from, today i got urma out in the sun with the seat off and eventually i spied a bolt that i had put in the back light housing so the bolt under the bike was from there. how did it get to under the engine of the bike in that position ?? the garage floor has been swept and hoovered with an industrial hoover many times since i finished putting urma back together [ its very sandy/gritty/dusty at my garage and the wind whips all the crap in] after i had given urma a few checks i got betsy out to prepare for the good weather, took the sump plug out and she hadn't weed into the sump, bless her. gave her a coat of looking at put her back in the garage and went inside and poked the fire. happy days