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Ye had it a few months now.
Weathers kinda nice - time to ride!
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Another early alarm on Sunday with a planned 200+ mile route southwards into Dumfries & Galloway.
-3 DegC up over Breich, but I knew things would improve.
But no.
Another fuckin’ road closure on the A70 before Douglas, requiring a long diversion northwards to Strathaven then southwards to Muirkirk.
The upside to this was me enjoying the twisty B743 for the first time.
Then it was game over with a rear puncture as I headed west again on the A70.
Congratulations to BMW for the flashing red triangle on the dash with a real time display of my rear tyre pressure spiralling down to almost zero in a few seconds.
And conveniently coming to a halt beside a nice wide gateway where I cracked open my flask and enjoyed a banana as I planned a repair.
Long story short - finally found the hole, got a plug to stay in place, unfortunately plug was leaking slowly. Probably due to the hole not being perfectly round and/or the mushroom was sitting on a less than smooth internal tyre surface.
So my 200+ mile day was over. GPS showed me home was only 50 miles away via the shortest non-motorway path.
Got home in one piece with 3 stops to let the Slime Pump do it’s thing for a few minutes. Then I rode along watching the pressure decay till the next time.
And I discovered the hard way that supermarket air lines are fuckin’ useless. Letting air out instead of blowing air in. 2 different ones simply refused to seal onto my valve stem after open the valve. The seals were totally worn out. I don’t know if any car users persuade them to work.
ps - the good thing is my new tyres were already waiting in my garage. The bad thing is they were supposed to be fitted at the end of the year after adding a couple of thousand more miles to the old set.
pps - the CO2 canisters worked OK, but were almost useless compared to the pump. I’ve had them knocking around for years, but probably won’t replace them
-3 DegC up over Breich, but I knew things would improve.
But no.
Another fuckin’ road closure on the A70 before Douglas, requiring a long diversion northwards to Strathaven then southwards to Muirkirk.
The upside to this was me enjoying the twisty B743 for the first time.
Then it was game over with a rear puncture as I headed west again on the A70.
Congratulations to BMW for the flashing red triangle on the dash with a real time display of my rear tyre pressure spiralling down to almost zero in a few seconds.
And conveniently coming to a halt beside a nice wide gateway where I cracked open my flask and enjoyed a banana as I planned a repair.
Long story short - finally found the hole, got a plug to stay in place, unfortunately plug was leaking slowly. Probably due to the hole not being perfectly round and/or the mushroom was sitting on a less than smooth internal tyre surface.
So my 200+ mile day was over. GPS showed me home was only 50 miles away via the shortest non-motorway path.
Got home in one piece with 3 stops to let the Slime Pump do it’s thing for a few minutes. Then I rode along watching the pressure decay till the next time.
And I discovered the hard way that supermarket air lines are fuckin’ useless. Letting air out instead of blowing air in. 2 different ones simply refused to seal onto my valve stem after open the valve. The seals were totally worn out. I don’t know if any car users persuade them to work.
ps - the good thing is my new tyres were already waiting in my garage. The bad thing is they were supposed to be fitted at the end of the year after adding a couple of thousand more miles to the old set.
pps - the CO2 canisters worked OK, but were almost useless compared to the pump. I’ve had them knocking around for years, but probably won’t replace them
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Wow - great to see. Must have been amazing to suddenly see that.
That'll be this lad, according to Mr Google. Well spotted
Piper
Location: Glen Esk (Angus) - Waters of Lochlee
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 19 June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A great and popular piper was once taken by little folk donned in green across the waters here - once a year we mortals have the chance of listening to his tunes.
Piper
Location: Glen Esk (Angus) - Waters of Lochlee
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 19 June (reoccurring)
Further Comments: A great and popular piper was once taken by little folk donned in green across the waters here - once a year we mortals have the chance of listening to his tunes.
I've just finished reading "The Last Enemy" by Richard Hillary and Tarfside features large in a couple of chapters. (He was on detachment at Montrose with 603 squadron and went shooting on an estate in the glen but he and his pals spent more time playing with the local children than shooting.) Must take a birl up there, once the feckin weather warms up a bit!
They were flying south to take part in the Battle of Britain. Poignant stuff.
Bit more info here ... https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...led-by-childhood-summer-with-spitfire-heroes/
They were flying south to take part in the Battle of Britain. Poignant stuff.
Bit more info here ... https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...led-by-childhood-summer-with-spitfire-heroes/
Crikey even weirder when I saw this piper a low flying single engined aircraft flew overhead going south and it sounded like the engine was stuttering hence why I was looking in direction of this hill.
Spooky
Spooky
Over Glen Quaich to meet up with friends at Glen Lyon. Dreich sums the weather up nicely!
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My favourite Chipper is here at Gourdon. 
Nice bikes, always had a liking for the Boxer Cup variant.
Nice bikes, always had a liking for the Boxer Cup variant.
Today I took the long way across to the road to Skye.
Cluanie dam in the background
Loch Cluanie
Took a left at Sheil Bridge and rode up the bealach to catch the views . . .
The view towards Skye and the Cuillin hills
And in the other direction Loch Duich from the view point
And the 5 sisters . . .
Then the “Must do” photo when passing this place . . .
Viewed from the other side of the inlet
SteveT
Cluanie dam in the background
Loch Cluanie
Took a left at Sheil Bridge and rode up the bealach to catch the views . . .
The view towards Skye and the Cuillin hills
And in the other direction Loch Duich from the view point
And the 5 sisters . . .
Then the “Must do” photo when passing this place . . .
Viewed from the other side of the inlet
SteveT
Just home after 787 mikes.
Day 1 - dry and very pleasant.
Day 2 - lots of pishin’ rain, wild winds and dirt track
Day 3 - mostly dry, dodged a hail storm in Blairgowrie, bike filthier than ever
Great weekend.
Day 1 - dry and very pleasant.
Day 2 - lots of pishin’ rain, wild winds and dirt track
Day 3 - mostly dry, dodged a hail storm in Blairgowrie, bike filthier than ever
Great weekend.
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I did that canoe “trip” thing in the past too. Quite interesting to go that little bit further in.
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Just West of Dundonald.....
