Multiple woodpeckers? Blimey, it must be like listening to riverdance everyday.
What the feck have you done today?
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Multiple woodpeckers? Blimey, it must be like listening to riverdance everyday.
Mmm, hmm!Neither do they - they're a lil deranged
Happily! I am always up for a bike swap on a ride!A test ride....you mean you've got to give marks after it?
Not much pecking to be heard oddly but their call is very distinctive !
Just popped down to Flitwick Motorcycles, my local Yamaha dealer. Not after one but they are close to where i was getting a tyre on my car so i had a little time to kill.
They were having some sort of heritage day today, lots of 2 strokes there, some that @wroughtironron would like. Also a few other interesting things:-
They were having some sort of heritage day today, lots of 2 strokes there, some that @wroughtironron would like. Also a few other interesting things:-
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Wrong time of year. Woodpeckers excavate their nesting holes in trees in early spring. That work is done quietly. The machine gun drilling is just a display that announces and enforces their territorial claim. It works most effectively by echoing round the forest before the trees are in full leaf when the sound wouldn't travel so well. March, April and May are typically the rat-a-tat months. By the end of June they're pretty much fallen quiet.
First time ive had a bit of a day off on the weekend since our non TT visit....Took the SXV down to Fowlers just for a look around, but in particular one of those top end DLocks....from what i can see the new Oxford Grinder S2 is the kiddie and 40 quid cheaper than the Litelock.V3
My first bank robbery is planned for Monday - my disguise arrived today (from China)
Hmmm, wow you’re smooth…Yes, but you're a girl so where else would you be with your bike
Yeah, well next time you are down this way…I would happily have a stint on your monster, never ridden one of those. It is obscenely loud tho!…
So was I!
Blinkin eck
Ooh! Lucky you can still come, at your age!Yes, I knowit comes naturally
Did you bump into Perry by any chance? There can’t be a day he’s not there.
I wouldn't mind if I thought I was going to sell everything. It would be more than a little dispiriting to get up at the crack of dawn, load the car up, get set up on site and then end up packing up and taking most of it back home again.
Good luck. Hope the till rings.
This one starts at 11. Waste of a good riding day though… Would take to charity but they always seem full. There’s some box collection people that will come and take away for free - rest will end up in landfill
Bit rudeOoh! Lucky you can still come, at your age!
I did pop over to df and see one of his latest threads about an Iphone Air, 5 pages in one month, he seems to be calming down
You could always tell him @West Cork Paul that the left side buttons on an iphone air starting from the bottom and working their way up, Volume down, Volume up and the top one is silent or ringing. Given how he responds to advice though, you might as well tell him salt, kippers and Kumquats.
One of the most depressing things I had to do when my mother died and we cleared out her house was disposing of my Dad's books. There were hundreds. Colour photo non-fiction, modern fiction, paperback novels, hardback classics etc were pretty easy. The family took as many as we had space for. But there were masses of complete collections of old (pre-1950's) non-fiction works, like a full set of 1930's Swedenborg. Absolutely no one wanted them. We contacted every book dealer we could find. We offered to give them away but no takers. Charity shops wouldn't touch anything old, regardless of condition. They said they didn't have the space and they'd never sell.This one starts at 11. Waste of a good riding day though… Would take to charity but they always seem full. There’s some box collection people that will come and take away for free - rest will end up in landfill
In the end, one day before we had to hand the keys to the house buyer, myself and the new owner took two car loads of immaculate old books to Blandford tip. There was nothing else we could do. We told the lads at the tip to help themselves and save anything they could and they did dive in and pulled a lot out and set them aside, and we invited the public there to take whatever they wanted but we stilled filled one large industrial sized recycling wheelie bin with perfectly good books, many that will probably never be in print again. It was one of the most horrible things I've ever had to do. I felt like a book-burning Nazi.
We've been there with FiL's house clearance. It was quite overwhelming. A lot went to charity some to the dump. A lot of the thingsI brought back to the farm have not been used and will be there when I go, giving my kids the job of getting rid of them. Having a good clear out is quite cathartic but bloody hard work, there is never a good time to be doing it. Good on you Char for getting stuck in. I hope you feel the reward.
I wouldn't have it any other wayYou'll be interested to know, she's a lot ruder in real life!
A lot of what we dumped was stuff my parents and inherited from theirs. It really piles up across the generations and it's hard to get rid of it. If you can slim down your accumulated possessions before your kids are faced with doing it, you're doing them a big favour. But it's not easy. Not helped in our case by my mother in particular being a minor hoarder who struggled to part with anything that held a memory. You then inherit the same sentimental attachment.
The guy on the left, with the Hearse what is he selling, spare parts?
Horrible. I still have a load of mum & dad’s books - loads went to the Scouts, I kept some interesting ones just to look nice in the bookcases
Cameras & furs. And a bit of crown Derby
Not a clue if i walked past him...!
Test ride on the Hyper earlier post Dyna Coil install....very subtle improvements which i didnt expect...even with my shitty early oem starter it starts a bit better...under hard acceleration it feels a bit more "sure" when going up through the rev range...thats the only way i can describe it...i like to hear my engines...i tend to more often than not blip the throttle up and down through the rev range while riding....that blip seems to clear faster and is more responsive. Finally - mines been mapped so when the throttle is shut off i do get a bit of backfire and popping - thats now a bit less...so, all in all really good.
Just found a Denso OEM starter from a monster 1200 with the lastest part number so ordered that...coming in from France for 150 quid so im expecting to get bent over for some tax. C*unts. But at least my lazy starting problem will be gone...and on the back of that ive had oil venting from somewhere on the engine...probably a not very well sealed engine cover so while doing the starter ill tackle that as well...
Just found a Denso OEM starter from a monster 1200 with the lastest part number so ordered that...coming in from France for 150 quid so im expecting to get bent over for some tax. C*unts. But at least my lazy starting problem will be gone...and on the back of that ive had oil venting from somewhere on the engine...probably a not very well sealed engine cover so while doing the starter ill tackle that as well...