Chimay and ukrm feckwits (longish)

We thought it was you but couldn't work out why you'd have been coming
onto the motorway at that junction, I suggested that fuel might be 2p
per litre cheaper than anywhere else so it was worth the detour....

You're probably right about the speed, we got the excess speed bit out
of the way while we were in France where speed limits are advisory. I
think I was doing just over an indicated 150mph when I went past Champ
a few miles shy of Calais.

 

You were just leaving the toll booths when we arrived there and I
wasn't sure we'd catch you before you turned off for the ferry. Adie
had decided to speed test her R1 and reckoned that because of the
luggage it got 'a bit squirrely' at 140 so she backed off.

Yeah, you even get more power as well as a nice racket.

 

I'm not a fast rider and certainly not a fast rider on a Pan with a
full load of luggage and panniers full of her necessaries *but* on
that particular stretch of road, I think I have some excuse.

 

Had you or he put any liquid in it once you discovered it was boiled
dry?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

It's a sealed battery, and over 5 years old, so no doubt it had seen
better days..

 

130 in a 110 I think would normally get you nicked, especially with UK
plates.

But with lots of apologising, smiling, pidgeon french and some semi gallic
shrugs / hand gestures, the nice madam and monsieur sent me on the way with
just a "Keep an eye on the signs sir".

Result.

 

Shame you didn't think this before setting out with it, innit? ;-)

To be fair, I should have recognised the smell, because I've whiffed a
boiled-out battery before.

 

Cnut....

 

I've always thought sealed batts were an exercise in hope; they're
exactly the same as a non-sealed one when slightly overcharged, as
you've found. Anyway, many of them are only a drillbit away from being
non-sealed and fully topped up.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

pan euro high speed weave?

 

Yesterday I couldn't understand why the ride was so bouncy. After
doing a long trip with a lot of luggage, it's a good idea to put your
suspension settings back to where they were for unloaded riding.

 

wrote:

well, yes but it didn't smell before I left, and seemed to hold charge,
not sure how I could have known until the smell started up when I
stopped in Dover.. Maybe it just didn't want to go home.

I think I'll rememebr it next time. I also seem to have a bit of a
bunged up nose, I wonder if that's down to sniffing acid battery acid
several times over the weekend and not realising.

 

You'd have been proud of Platy this afternoon on the A26 to Calais:
throttle pinned, speed wavering between 58 and 62, it took a Spanish
coach more than eight miles to get past us.
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'^' RBR Clues: 26 Pts:0500 Miles:1739

 

'specially when it's already fecked anyway.

 

We've always managed it, although there have been some close calls....

And Ginge only *just* managed to get back. His battery was so fucked
that on the last 25-mile stage to Timo's, when he used the indicators,
the engine cut out and he got a killswitch backfire with every flash.[/QUOTE]

The CBX did that last year, when it ate its alternator brushes.
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<waves> Left Mr Iggins at the Eurotunnel exit, and not sure if Platy
got on our train.
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I had that with my old ZX-10 (the old-style one) the guy before me had
fitted Maxton shocks to it and they were variable pressure jobbies. The
one year I went touring on it I spent the two days afterwards wondering
why it handled so badly until I realised that the suspension was stiill
set to rock-hard..

Phil.

 

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:57:55 +0100,

I was expecting a slightly longer commentary on this bit, you
homicidal maniac.

I very nearly widdled myself in terror.

Sunday evening/night was successful, too. I fell asleep in the
sidecar, and got sunburnt; we *didn't* eat in the shite caff[1] in the
square, though it was close shave; two Chimay trackside banners were
"liberated" and much more beer was consumed.

Oh, and fire was still going when we left, in the rain.

[1] the one next door does sublime steak with Roquefort sauce. With a
Chimay Rouge, 17 Euros. Bargain.
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\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 26 Pts:0500 Miles:1739

 

And nothing whatsoever to do with the amount of Chimay Rouge you
ingested?

 

Hoorah! No casualties! Makes you proud to be British.