I'm Freeeeeeeeeeeee

Gosh that was good.

Slow, plenty of vibration and excitement from the most unusual places
but good.

I've never had a gearbox with neutrals between each gear before.
Occasionally two.

 

"steve auvache" said

I had this vision of Mrs Slocombe at the till there for some reason
--
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www.ailishandcharlie.co.uk

 

Donegal Paul emerged from their own little world to say

Has Auvache gone for the purple rinse then?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

Oh bless. Welcome back, aged one.
--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

wessie wrote

Still grey and still proud of it.

 

Donegal Paul wrote

But you won't catch me stroking my pussy.

 

Nigel Eaton wrote

I am a tired but happy little bunny now. So I am going to have a cuppa
and a wicked spliff and annoy you lot for an hour and go to bed.

 

steve auvache says...

Heh, I know what you mean. I rode it for about 10 mins on the way back
from Frankfurt. I must have found about 15 different gears and most of
them didn't involve forward motion. Felt remarkably sporty tho, which
was a surprise.

 

mups wrote

Provided you plan well ahead and are in the right neutral the handling
is surprisingly smooth. It quite likes being slung through a roundabout
chicane with a bit of enthusiasm. Opening up the throttle on the exit
is a lesson in patience though.

 

Don't shut off. If nothing else, that was the lesson from the Frankfurt
run.

 

The endless French roundabouts; one of the bits Sean wanted Tony to film.
Shame we never got our act together for it but time was against us [1].

It's an abiding memory of that run. Four little bikes throttles jammed
open whizzing through empty, smooth, clean roundabouts banging pegs on
the floor.

Never thought I'd say it but ground clearence was a *real* problem on the
TS - the fixed pegs unloaded the backwheel once or twice.

Incidentally on gearchanges: slowly and positively; "feel" the dogs
engage. I hardly get false neutrals, just practice though.


[1] Perhaps it wouldn't have been the same if we'd all stopped and
got organised for filming. The whole very snatched, shaky and
almost grainy footage Tony took sums up the whole weekend.

 

sweller wrote

I am adopting the two step approach, rather like the double de clutching
of old, one tweak of the boot to get it out of gear and another to put
it in the next one. The second action has to be the gentle one as a bit
too much enthusiasm and you go straight through the gear to the next
neutral. Which is a bugger when you are doing you best to out drag
kiddies scoots.

 

snip

Fortunately my experience of thier roundabouts was also mostly that they
were empty.

I say fortunately advisedly as I never was really sure on Frog roundabouts
whether you're s'posed to circulate clockwise or counterclockwise. On the
logic picking the wrong one would be 100% risk exposure I either followed
something else (they mostly seemed fairly random about which way to go too)
or alternated clockwise - counterclockwise. People seemed to follow me too.
In both directions.

Which is the official you are *meant* to do it this way way?


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few
bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
Homer (Simpson).

 

Surely no-one can be this stupid?

 

This is the man with a broken main beam switch.

 

(SteveH) struggled to ejaculate:

I just thought that - the only time I can recall sitting looking at
the screen, jaw agape ... then I realised that this is Nidge the Main
Beam Man, here.

 

At last, I get to do this for the first and possibly the last time, so
I'm going to revel in this one:


Ginge!

 

Arse. Beaten to it by a VFR rider. Arse.

 

<blows nose, sneezes>

If it wasn't for those pesky Paracetamol, ibuprofen, codeine and
whisky I'd have had you, mo'fo.

Arse again.

 

Snot just me then.

Paracetomol - check
'profen - swap for Phenylephedrine Hydrochloride
codeine - swap for caffeine

The above masquerading as Tesco cold relief capsules.

whisky - once I've finished this bottle of vino collapso.

<cough>