So todays boredom discovery, an insurance quote on a new GSA... £2260, 2 year old GS Rally £1090, Back to the Ape (Aprilia Caponord 1200) £380 I think we have a winner. I will revisit the GS in a year or 2 so might keep the parts I have for one... But part of me want's to just bite the bullet and ge...

Got a payout for my GT-Air2... £350... Wish I could buy one for that but looking on the bright side, the replacement Scorpion Carbon lid was £304
https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorc ... rod/758189

So that's paid for.

Yeah, it has to be me as looking at the website I need the V5 and photo ID to get in and they're open Monday to Friday.

Thanks for the offer, it's appreciated

It seems to be the way with Insurance, it was a straight forward one too.

Okay, progress has been made. They have increased the offer to just about where I had set my minimum and have agreed to contact copart and have my "Personal items" posted to me, That includes the radiator guards, sat-nav bracket and the Yoshi exhaust can. The one caveat is that the bike ha...

Round 2 with the rear brakes on the car, the striped hole was just larger than the drill for the M8 helicoil but smaller than a M10 bolt... Hmmm I didn't know that M9 was a thing but apparently that's what I was dealing with. The thread on the slider pin was not great anyway so now it's M8 and neede...

Hospital visit over in Sheffield today just for a check up at the Endocrine unit, naturally they wanted some blood from this Stone while I was in the building. Then a shopping trip on my way home and a tank of liquid gold for the car, cheapest I could find on my travels was £1.59.9 a litre of standa...

Replaced the brakes on the car and promptly hit eBay for some new parts. One of the rear calliper carriers has a smooth bore for one of the sliders which should be a thread so a Helecoil kit is on order and both of the retaining springs were seized so replacements have been ordered even though I did...

Happy Birthday Frankie,

Another one by that fat electrician, about that time World War 3 almost started over a tree (World War Tree??)

https://youtu.be/u4CeY6Q3KFE?si=1ddBeY3nMgn_sAxZ


An interesting part for me is the comment section, plenty of people telling their own stories about the events behind the events.

Not much progress, called the underwriter today and was told they would offer me the finance settlement figure + excess which they keep anyway... I told them to think again as the bike is irreplaceable, they're out of production and it was less than a month old so they will have to do better! Appare...

Another bottle of oil for the cage, I can easily buy it locally but it's £13 cheaper for 4 litres delivered from eBay...

I called into my local dealer for the 1300gs launch, there was free food and coffee so I thought why not? Well I won't be ordering one straight away, the first year of production always has problems to iron out. But I did get a quote for the 1250gs adventure, huge as it looks it's not much heavier. ...

CPC training course at work, necessary but nothing exciting.

After being crippled in bed by a sneeze for what felt like forever I would not recommend bruised kidneys :D Then I had a chat with the insurance broker, they were confused as hell when I told them where the bike is as they didn't know... The tracker is still working. Other than that I fitted my new ...

Random military history on youtube.

More fat electrician on a pretty odd British invention, the Chicken Nuke.
https://youtu.be/szL0shEPb3U?si=jCtX5GGccy8_LceX

They do have a really nice Rally in stock, 2 years old and 6 k miles, being a used bike seems to make the insurance happy too as the quotes online are not all 4 digits. I've been considering a couple of adventure style bikes like V-Strom 1000/1050 and the Aprilia Caponord, I have some thinking to do...