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Hi all,

Not been around for a bit. I've been fiddling with rusty old motorcycles and associated kit. I wanted something to tour with, so I bought an old BMW. I was looking round for some luggage, when I found.......

Hi all,

As per title really. Some pictures of a rusty old nail enclosed for those of you that like that sort of stuff.

Hi all,

As always, it's been a long time. I'm going to try and post here more often - been lurking for ages but I've never really got anything that I really want to say or share that you lot would find interesting.

Except maybe a small subset of you would be interested in the continuing evolution of my Laverda into a working motorbike.....

Youtube did not exist....

It's a long term project.

Hi all,

I've not really posted here recently (or anywhere for that matter) but suddenly I feel the need to empty my head. I could post as a couple of seperate diaries but instead here it is all in one go... Bikes, mental state, work.

I found this out in the wwwilds of tinternet. Looks like the chap was a straight talkin' open minded bloke who wrote it like he saw it:

In this small book I have tried to present the circumstances of motor-ownership to those women at home and abroad who have yet to know the splendours of the game.
My grateful thanks are due to the proprietors of The Lady and of The Morris Owner for permission to draw upon certain of my contributions to those journals.
John Prioleau.
London, March 1925.

 

Blimey - are you lot all still here?

Hi all, long time no diary. No real content here, just a few links to some badly encoded mpeg movies...

Woo - Yes!  Took it for the MOT last week (failed on a loose handlebar grip and a screw missing out of the rear light lens would you believe) so I stuck some new grips on and an additional screw, and took it for a retest. Pass.

Hello all,

Bit of pictorial news about the Jota within, and a mystery object.

I dumped the bubble. The specific reason had a pinhole in it. Please feel free to comment on trust issues and ticking biological clocks within. I'm not going to.

Hello all.

Warning to Mr Ha and other susceptible types - partially clothed motorcycles and parts within - get a tissue NOW!

The next time you go to a cathedral, lie down on the floor.

As you rest on the flagstones, look upwards towards the high vaulted ceiling. Take in the massive, unmoving blocks of stone, the gentle curves, the slim vaults holding up countless tons of stone far above your head.

Observe the eternal, unmoving, stillness of the structure - the intended permanence inherent in its design.

I've got an engine on my bench which puts me in a similar frame of mind....

Been busy is why!

Hi all - been rushed off my feet with work, bike fixing, geektoys and dating related stuff. An executive summary of my activities is related within.

Not written anything for a while - been busy at work and nothing interesting has happened that I'd want to talk about.

Apart from this:

I've started online dating (and although every sense is screaming at me to not give you lot any more information) my profile details are within.

Please be gentle with me.....

Hello everyone - I'm back after a work related break - ie I took a break because I actually had to do some work.

Some things have occured, and I shall relate them to you in the extended copy...

Hello everybody. Things have occurred - I shall now relate them to you.

Executive Summary:

Bought another motorbike (Wups!)
First day in new job.
Asked someone out (a first for widdle shy old me).