What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

This adventure trail riding is a piece of cake.



Biscoff cheesecake with toffee fudge sauce and a pot of tea..... very nice.
This is at a cafe in Sowerby bridge next to the railway bridge



A very convoluted route but using the absolute minimum of main roads.

 

This is what some of the off roading looks like. Ripping down here listening to Kaiser Chiefs on one ear bud ..... what could possibly go wrong!
Nothing today as I kept pinching myself



How many bikes can do all this?
Sit on the motorway at a comfortable 65mph, do this off roading lark, and entertain me chasing my eldest on his ER6 last night around Pateley Bridge.



Look at these for peppered chicken strips

 

This weekend Helmut and I went to see both sets of parents; we planned to bite the bullet and go on the M5 on the way there as I had finished nights that day (Friday) and Helmut was working until mid afternoon. It was BOILING hot and we filtered for what seemed like a huge chunk of the journey - thank goodness for motorcycles as cars were well and truly stuck for hours. I have to admit to being VERY hot and grumpy though . Lots of considerate drivers and a few thumbs - up from van windows etc. Still, the motorway is always my very last resort on the bikes.....

We had planned to come back on a nice interesting route on Sunday, however absolutely biblical rain, being later away from his parents than we had perhaps anticipated and the fact he then had to drive back to work when we got home meant that we took the motorway again....and again did plenty of filtering, although nowhere near as much as the trip up there.

About 430 miles done in total and at least I got to use my birthday gift from my stepdaughters and their other halves - I can confirm that it is indeed waterproof and very handy!! https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/649396

 

My beautiful Fireblade has been admitted to an inpatient facility (local mechanic!) after a wait of several months to see what the slow oil and coolant leaks discovered during the MOT are about. I am missing riding it very, very much, especially in the gorgeous sunshine!

 

With Hondas reputation for engineering, reliability and quality, then hopefully it will be something trivial. Please do keeps up posted though as I for one am curious as to it's cause.

My Kove developed a very minor leak of engine oil at around the 700 mile mark. It turned out to be a minor issue as it was a hidden copper washer on a 6mm bolt, tucked right up on the head behind the radiator.
Totally hidden from any angle and can only be seen with a small mirror without stripping it down.

 

Hopefully it will as you say, be trivial. There is no sign that there is a leak until the fairings are off; I check the oil level regularly and it has not dropped. The mechanic was happy for me to "ride and watch", however I would rather get whatever it is sorted before it gets worse!!

 

Flippin' eck Mrs V, I'm in shock! Honda may have made some "boring" machines (Fireblade excluded of course) but they're (nearly) all known for being boringly reliable.
I had 3 Blades backin the 90's, RRP, RRS and RRV and never even changed a light bulb in any of them.
I'll be very surprised if it turns out to be anything remotely serious.

I had a very small coolant leak from new on my first R1 in 1998 which I could smell but didn't find until I took the fairings off. It looked like a leak from the head gasket but on further investigation by the dealer it turned out to be a flaw in the head casting requiring a complete new cylinder head which really peed me off somewhat but fair play to the dealer who did a top job of replacing the head and putting it all back together. That wasn't a Honda of course!

 

Good times at Glasgow Bike Night yesterday - plenty of chat and the punk rock band were ripping it up! I wish the crowd had shown their appreciation a bit more.....

By a funny coincidence, I was parked right in front of the West Coast's Triumph stand...... on my new Honda!

Back again next month - 31st July 6-8pm.

 

Another fairly local ride out on the Kove yesterday. Thoughtfully, the highways even painted the stripes to match my bike



And obviously a bit of unmade road thrown in