Perkles wrote:hung on to it for dear life in a very muddy field, I have never been so scared and smiled so much at the same time in my entire life on a motorbike
The weather was pretty crap on Saturday. Fair play for riding the kwak for the first time in that
never ridden a full on mx bike,never ridden it more than 50 yards ,never changed gear or been on a track before
said what the hell and hung on for dear life, it was an amazing experience and I cant wait to learn how to ride it properly
Washed the Honda. It got pretty dirty on Saturday.
Did some polishing on the MV tank. The cloth key fob has very slightly scuffed the lacquer. A coating and polish with Meguiars. Cleaned that off then a coat of liquid crystal.
Fitted an Evotech engine guard and rear bobbins to the Scrambler. Well, I fitted them yesterday and not today. Not sure whether to buy a tail tidy for it? I quite like the reg plate half way down the rear tyre. Evotech short levers are on the radar next.
With a heavy heart, I've got to look at the big picture.
I'll be moving to somewhere where I need to commute to work.
Doable on the bike but not nice in the winter.
So the original plan was to get a cheap shitbox city car that could shuttle me back and forth, and hopefully not break down.
With the revelation that sometimes my daughter will have to get the bus from Telford to Wolverhampton, and sometimes I'll have to take her in, I'm not comfortable with transporting her in the aforementioned shitbox!
So I need something a bit better, and as the house purchase will completely drain our funds, in order to do so I have to look at raising money to do so.
Hence looking at selling the machine that, for the most part has spent 2 years doing not much at all.
When I leave the RAF in 18 months or so, I'll be getting a lump sum payout as part of my pension. That'll be the deciding point as to whether to get back into biking or a mid-life crisis sports car.
