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...

Today I called in to the BMW dealer to get a settlement figure as the online page is not showing my agreement, even the dealers online system didn't show it for some reason but after a phone call we have it and the insurance should cover that. In the words of Tony, You are fully comp and the bike is...

I can't think of anything but the frame which would write it off so I'm going to let it go, I can get another in a couple of years after the insurance calms down a bit. The most sensible option would be to get the payout, settle the finance and wait until spring to get another, cheaper to insure bik...

Got a message from the repair company and they are recommending to my insurance that the bike is beyond economical repair.

So it looks like that's it for this one.

My stitches came out today and I'm back to work later, so I've mostly been doing bits around the house to see if my back can take some bending and twisting and I can vouch for bruised kidneys hurting a bit... The whole thing is a learning experience.

Spending money Bought a replacement Packtalk and upgraded to the Edge as my bold does turn on but just blasts static at full volume, and a new helmet to stick it to, a Scorpion Exo tech evo Carbon, with the Packtalk being on sale and them price matching the helmet I got about £136 off the normal ret...