it's what they're built for @tu*
Not "polishing" then.....? :-0)
it's what they're built for @tu*
Lol no! Get out and ride it! It does it the world of good.
Spent the bank holiday weekend doing a 1,200 mile jaunt to bonnie Scotland with my manfriends.
Blast up the M6 as the sun set on the friday after my shift to meet the guys at Moffat. I was the last to arrive at gone 10pm.
Saturday - Rode around the west coast through Inverary and Oban. Multi hatchback pileup on the A85 north out of Oban shut the road so our original plans went right out of the window. We turned around and went back to Oban, lost the VFR rider in the craziness, ended up on narrow back lanes that the locals were also using. Some delicate negotiation of cattle grids, fuel tankers, cows, gravel and sheep was involved. We pulled over to try to get in contact with Mr VFR.
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Impressive mileage for a weekend's rideout...! @tu*
The view from the Glenorchy Lodge is towards Cruachan (on the left of the picture). I'm originally from Eredine village, 12 miles south of Cruachan on Loch Awe.
The view from Cruachan looking north up Loch Etive is outstanding, especially with snow lying. Almost every calendar of Scottish scenery that is published includes a picture of it.
If not then it's always a moody shot of Kilchurn Castle, which is on an island at the head of Loch Awe, a couple of miles down the road from where you took your pic. You would've probably seen at as you rode to or from Oban.
I had the opposite problem mounting a wing rack to my carbie, the spacers were about 1mm too short resulting in cracked plastic :cry:
Oooh lucky you! We rode up the single track road running alongside the Orchy River; I could have spent a week camping along there mucking about on the waterfalls! What a lovely place to grow up.
Bob is now out of action for a little while; took his front wheel off to get a new tyre on the front and snapped the lower right caliper mounting bolt (I'd looked up the required torque and set the wrench but it still sheared off). The broken bits of bolt came out easily enough but I'm waiting on replacements.
I've also taken a crack at mounting his new wing rack, which has also thrown up a nice little issue. The spacers it came with for mounting the metal rail that sits over the rear grab rail are too wide by at least 1mm, it must be one of those tiny differences between the carb and fuel injection models. Either that or they're the wrong spacers or god alone knows what.
So I'm now on two weeks off work and denied my two wheels. I reserve the right to sulk!