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29/6 Been looking forward to a Friday night ride all week, left home about 3.30pm and had a good clean run down the freeway then Parramatta Rd to Camperdown. After hanging round b s ing for a while we shot over the Harbour Bridge where Mr Impatient raced ahead straight onto the wrong off ramp....

After 20 minutes cruising round fuck knows where I headed back to North Sydney, back up the freeway and off the correct off ramp, and straight into the boys who were just ordering at the Pizzaria.

Very pleasant place, tho sitting around outside in the middle of winter only to be recommended if ya all wrapped up for the bike. A few wines, beer, ports and pizza and garlic bread ensured protection from the cold and  complete sobriety, but the added center of gravity kept me reasonably stable.

I headed up the Pacific Highway and then jumped into the Lane Cove Tunnel for a (moderated) blast up the M2, the M7 and then cold and dark Richmond Road towards home.

BBit wobbly...aaah its Friday Night! Almost forgot to mention it was the Hard n Fast social club that organized the evening, cheers boys.

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21/6 Yeehaa , finally after nearly 3 months out of rego, I'se got it again. So I decide to ride to work yesterday morning..wont be too cold..Off I trot at 5.30am  to do the trip from Penrith to the city. Its about 65kms and mostly straight as a die freeway. Bit foggy, not exactly hot, wet, tho not really pissing down, and Ive got a  freaking headache for some reason...On the freeway in a bout 10 minutes, and the bikes a bit skittish, Ill have to stop for air in the rear tyre at the servo halfway in. As I do I realise, by changing vehicles, Ive left the workshop key at home... ho hum so much for my usual 6.15 start...Ill have to wait till someone else turns up to let me in.

Back on the freeway and the 7 or 8 odd minutes Ive been in the servo has seen the traffic bulk up so now all 3 lanes are congested and running at about 60 km/hr if Im lucky. Ill pull back in and weave slowly towards the city...

Slow uneventful ride but damn good to be doing it again. Not so good stopping at the other end at a another gas station, just running on to reserve and it costing $28 to fill up!

25/5 Jesus, finally had a ride yesterday, tho only down to Mick Dyers shop in Penrith to get a pink slip, Nice friendly shop, so now I can do the rest of the rego....For the last few years every time my rego falls due I spew on the price of the Green Slip here in NSW. I get quoted between $680 and $750, and end up paying around $688.00. Which is why the bikes been unregistered for nearly 2 months ffs. Christ nearly $4000 to shift this month.

One of the boys said he got third party insurance and for some reason it made the green slip cheaper, so I thought Id better check. Watching TV Saturday arvo and a crowd advertised , insuremyride.com.au. I got a quote for third party, which if paid online, is $64, which I thought was bloody cheap. Then I went to NRMA.com.au and got a quote for the Green Slip. From $750.00 down to $460 odd! So the total is $524 instead of $688, and Ive got some insurance. Well worth doing, tho why it makes a difference im stuffed if I know. Still dearer than my Jeep tho, christ knows why, when I drive the jeep every day, and the bike once a week if Im lucky...

30/4 Well havent had much time to spend here, shifting house working etc....not much news lately either so its all looking a bit stale...3 degrees when I stepped outside at 5.30 this morning, so winters on its way, oh the joy...

27/4 Well that was fun, been shifting house since Friday...backs fucked, garage is too small, pools still cold, but at least we're settled for a while.Best part was riding the 40 odd k's over here yesterday, (albeit unregistered...) sun shining, f all traffic, and Windsor road is a nice piece of pavement these days...

19/4 Heres a hint, if yr an old fart like me and on blood pressure medication, dont stop taking it.! My script ran out a week ago, and being busy at work and not feeling like sitting at the docs for 2 hours after work, thought Id be ok for a while. Fine for the first few days, then the headache starts....and wont go away no matter what I take. Well it eases off for a few hours then back again...by Thursday I have to leave work early and collapse at home for a few hrs, then drag my arse, chauffeured, up to the docs. Seems my BP had rebounded after the meds wore off to 198/ 110, and I was in serious danger of a heart attack or stroke...(I should be so lucky!) that'll learn me...Anyway the docs laid me down gave me a handful of pills and 1/2 hr later Im semi human again. Be nice if they told ya this sort of thing when you were put on these pills tho dont ya think...?

3/4 Damn I gotta stop drinking, 4 55am here, 'king headache, woke up about 2 hours ago and caint get back to sleep.....Decisions decisions...been looking for a rental house for nearly 8 weeks, real PITA, and 2 weeks till we have to move out...Put in about 6 applications and got nothing. Then finally yesterday we get approved for this luxurious place in Cranebrook, with a heated pool, spa in the bathroom etc. So , happy as......but then another phone call and we've been approved for a home loan for about 350k...great, but now gotta house hunt in a big hurry...Didnt think we'd be able to get anything I'd be happy with for that money, but if I aint too fussy about where it is , theres some relative bargains out there at the moment. Thing is will the dipshit landlord let us stay another 6 weeks I wonder or will we have to motel it for a while...

I must be getting old(er)....out for a drive with the family yesterday, looking for another rental house to live in as our a 'ole landlord who wont fix anything has decided he wants to live here himself. What a pain in the butt.....but Im getting off the subject..Missus said a few days ago she was hanging out for some fish and chips..It was 4 30  and I was starving so we pulled into the shops on Annangrove road. Nice fresh new takeaway, lots of stainless and the food looked ok. Course as usual Ive got no cash so ask if they have an atm. They don't but the supermarket next door does. So I order up and say Ill shoot next door. Go next door and ask where it is. "out of order" I hear in her best broken engrish.....aah crap, miles from any other shops, back next door and tell em to cancel the order...Off to the next choice up in Dural which we know has another atm next door. Get the dough out first this time( see Im not thick...)and order up.

Looks ok and 15 minutes later our freshly battered baso (whatever the hell that is) is ready. Lighting like sausages for fingers raps out a tune on the cash register and says $32.50....I hand over a fifty while doin the maths in my head.....2 fillets at $6, 2 at $4, $7 chips and a large coke to complement whatever I buy next at the bottlo...I ask her if its right and she says  yes after checking it . Im getting raped $5.50 for a 2 litre coke but apart from that its all correct. Damn that seems a lot of money for what once was one of the cheapest meals around...My first year at school, which was now a distant 46 years ago , I remember there was two choices if you wanted to buy your lunch, 10p for a pie, and if feeling well off ,a shilling  (12p, or roughly 10cents!) for fish and chips. Pies for 3 of us wouldve cost about $10, but to be fair Id have needed 3 to equal the feed we got of fish and chips I suppose....I guess if you aint watching yr weight the best value takeaways out there is still mackas or hungry jacks, wouldve been less than $20 for 3 of us...

19/1 Sydney in the 19th century here this summer......Every time we get a thunderstorm here, on the rural outskirts of NW Sydney, the freaking power goes off. Usually only for a short period, up to an hour at most, but its probably been 5 times in the last few months...Then on Wednesday it happens again at 5.30pm. Fortunately my dinner was already cooked or Id have been doubly peeved....Anyway its doesnt come back on before dark so its out with the candles and a bottle of whisky to ease the boredom....No battery power radios or TV's in the house but I remembered I had a tiny wind up torch with radio in the truck that the wholesalers had given me. So hello triple J all evening, interrupted only by fighting with the 2 yr old as to who was gonna wind it up every 5 minutes....if only his ability matched his enthusiasm...Surprisingly it ended up a reasonable night anyway, but alcohol will do that for me...Missus thought this was too funny not to take a pic....good flash, the room was in darkness cept for the candles...

IIf wind this for 1400years, I might lose some gut.......

10/11 Ive been playing with breathalyzers a lot lately, and come to a conclusion: I reckon most people who get done and are under .1 are probably not over the limit at all. Ive found that if I have a few drinks, say 3 or 4 beers, in an hour or so and wait say 15-20 minutes, and then blow the machine, I may well blow anywhere from .07 to .15. But if I go and have a few drinks of water effectively cleaning out my mouth properly, Ill blow anywhere from .02 down to nothing. Proof  was a couple of months ago, had 5 schooners over about 3 -4 hrs, but the last with a meal, and finished the drink before the meal. Left the pub and was stopped a mile down the road and bagged....zero! Mouth alcohol makes a hell of a difference, and just waiting 15 or 20 minutes doesnt get rid of it, you have to wash your mouth out. Body weight comes into it of course, and at 127 odd kgs, I can supposedly have 7 drinks in 2 hrs before hitting the .05 limit anyway, but the point Id make here would be, if ya get bagged, and are over the limit Id be insisting on the blood test. Id also  be having a water after a few beers before ( not that anyone'll bother..) leaving the pub to avoid actually blowing over.

9/10  On the road again, about bloody time too...Got a couple of clutch baskets off ebay from the states for $150 all up, which was cheap, tho they both had stuffed ring gear. My original one was ok tho, so drilled and punched out the rivets, and resecured with 10 bolts and nuts. Reassembled using the old clutch hub, (which I gently hammered back into the basket bearing, who needs a press?! ) which needs replacing due to the splines disappearing from the outer end, but it'll have ta do for now......Threw in my 1 litre mix of 20w-50w and auto trans fluid, and its all happy days again.

15/9  Found this song on You tube and grabbed it, dunno how Ive not heard it before, but i like it , so here it is Pancho and Lefty (clik to hear or right click and save to download it, 6.5mB) Willy and Bob, so it must be ok..:-)

2/9

aah what a mess, engine had a leak from the rocker boxes so

pulled the tanks and took off the top covers, just as well, almost every bolt in both of them was loose. Awkward little Allen keys to get at, had to bend and cut standard ones to fit......Got the new valve plate for the compressor, so the clutch is out now on the bench waiting for a replacement. Might wheel the bike outside and hit it with degreaser later, after the tanks back on.Gonna remake the tank dash plate I made so it fits better, and both sides are straight, so up to Bunnings for more checker plate.

26/8 Now this pisses me off....A month or two ago, a poor family of 5 was killed on the Central Coast, when they drove into a collapsed part of road during some pretty bad weather. Well the papers the other day ran a story about how police/whoever  had analyzed the father and mothers blood for drugs and alcohol.

They said that the fathers blood alcohol was just over .05 (the legal limit) and that the mothers was twice the legal limit! Now as far as Im aware the father was driving, and as far as I know THERES NO LEGAL LIMIT FOR PASSENGERS!  So what the fucks the difference what the mothers blood alcohol limit was? Why are they publicizing it? It couldn't be the powers that be trying to obviate responsibility for maintaining the roads in a safe condition by trying to apportion blame on the hapless couple and there children could it? Wankers...

2/8 Wimmen, aah ya gotta luv em....Ive got a 12Gb a month allowance for the internet, and the last 2 months, a week or so before the month is up Ive run out, so I get slowed down to 65kbps ,from 1500 so ya sorta notice it....I change the plan last month, or updated so I had an extra 2 Gb which I figured would last ,then this morning I see we're slowed again. Thought I might have a look at the usage meter, on the bigpond site, which took 5 minutes to load...However once its loaded I see that we've downloaded about 5Gb this month, but uploaded 7Gb. How is this so? I know I aint sending up f all, so ask the other half,"you havent got that ares (music swapping) or anything running non stop have you?"  She looks at her monitor, cliks something and says, yeah...so?   AAAH! freakin things being set to come on every time her pc starts and running basically 24 hrs a day since god knows when!

"I didnt know you had to pay for that " she says.....

I was not amused....changed the plan again, from tomorrow so we get 8000bps downloads, for $20 a month more, be interesting to see if it makes a big difference for what I use it for....

3/7 Well the bikes back together again, decided to weld the clutch, due to a lack of funds for a new one at the moment. Going ok, but I wouldnt expect it to last forvever.....now heres a bleat about telstra and bigpond, christ theyre useless. I had a cable internet account at my old address a year ago, and  as cable isnt available at my new address, I had adsl installed. After a few months I realized I hadn't had a bill, or accessed my new email address that comes with the account. I ring Bigpond and they tell me there is no adsl at my address! After arguing awhile I give up and forget about it. About March this year I get a ring from Bigpond......we're gonna cut you off, you havent paid your bill.....I HAVENT SEEN A BILL! Turns out theyre sending the bill to the old address.....but I had my mail forwarded for 3 months, and theyre werent any bills...ho hum. They send the accumulated bill from October to March to my new address, and I duly pay it. About this time I start getting phone calls from some idiots in Melbourne, that appear to be an accounting firm. Fuck knows who they are, so I dont take the calls, and hang up when they want to do the "we need to check your details for security purposes" bullshit...I mean ffs, they rang me! After about 3 of these calls, I start to wonder if its something to do with the bigpond account, which Ive paid....so I take a call thru to hearing it they are chasing a bigpond account that's unpaid. I hang up and ring Bigpond. NO sir, all your accounts are paid up! Thankyou...but the phone calls keep coming. Eventually talk to the idiots enough to get an account number, and after about 4 phone calls to bigpond find out YES there is an unpaid bill the CUNTS have passed on to their debt collection agency.

What is this unpaid bill? Well it turns out its for the cable account at the old address from June to October 06. This is for 5 months after I left!  I obviously advised them I was shifting to get the new service at the new address....Now Ive got the shits, these wankers have passed on ,to a collection agency, a bill that's completely wrong! Not only that, but I dispute the bill was even sent, cos if it had been, Id have received it for three months after I left....So I contact complaints again, and advise I'm  complaining to the telecommunications ombudsman. Eventually a woman rings and apologizes and says the bill has been removed from the system, however they cant remove the 20 points on my blood pressure......

Anyway that's forgotten about till yesterday when I realize the internets been bloody slow the a last few days.... Do the phonecall and wait 10 minutes bit...eventually find out its because Im past my allowance of 10Gb...but there a new plan available, at $30 a month cheaper that I could have been on for the last six months or so,that includes an extra 2 Gb, if Id gotten the emails! But I couldn't get the emails, because you said I didnt have an account at this address! (and when I access the account this morning, there aint no such emails there anyway). What a bunch of fucking thieves....they wont credit me the $30 extra Ive been paying for the last six months....why didnt they just drop the charge to everyone? great customer relations....Come the revolution!

4/6 Stopped by the constabulary (just for a change ) on Friday night as I headed home from a meal at the pub at about 10pm. Blew zero as Id only had about 5 beers all night( pays to be a fat c!@# as I mentioned to the officer...) Take off slowly and miss a gear, then another one, then another one...drift to a halt in the middle of a roundabout....Too old to be embarrassed thank Christ, so drift backward, only holding up 2 or 3 cars, and park against the kerb. Fortunately its a quietish bit of road on an approach to the harbour tunnel....Get on the mobile phone and call the pad. Boys turn up with my mates f250 40 minutes later and its heave ho, and back to the pad.....Lynny picks me up an hour later, only got moderately lost, so Im home around 12 30.

Up Saturday and its about time I sorted my trailer out so it'll take the bike. Its always been too short, but years ago when I used to drag the old girl occasionally at Canberra, Id cut the front out  to elongate things. However as times passed the trailer has had a couple of other incarnations...dirt bike hauler, and general use for my electrical work. Id put a back door come ramp on it a couple of years ago for the dirt bikes, so the back was OK, just needed to sort out the front. Been doing some steel work at a job, building a gate and handrails, and had some bits of steel left over. I bought myself a cheap little gasless mig a couple of months ago off ebay, and what a little beauty...$290, .... I expected it to be crap, but it does a bloody good job.

So I welded the frame you see in to take the front wheel, after getting the boys to measure the bike for me that was still in town. I had a sixteen inch front tyre to play with to get a width and length, so everything shouldve been ok........if id remembered the discs....I had the side  rails too high when we went to load the bike...threw a piece of wood in to lift up the wheel, and it worked ok, got it home anyway. Lowered the rails today.....Really looking forward..(not..) to pulling everything to bits this week....I suspect mainshaft 5th gear, but talking to a more knowledgeable mate, this might be unlikely....

Ill update as I pull the beast to bits...

3/5 Off to the Brissy show tomorrow at their Pad. Just under 1000kms Leaving about 8am, should get there around 7pm tomorrow night or later if Im taking it easy and having a few rests...Beautiful weather and the forecast is good, what more could ya ask for......Well a new back tyre would've  been nice, but the cheques didnt come in so Ill have to chance it...take a few pics and post em Monday probably. Bikes the cleanest and shiniest its been for years, had a few weeks off, so with f all to do I've been titivating it daily...

29/3 Sad news this morning, another old mate passed away in NZ overnight. RIP Tiny. Wasnt called Tiny for nothing, about 6'3" and 24 stone when we were in our 20's back in Wellington....Condolences to his family.

5/2 jees Im a bit slack with this blog.....but I spose I aint been up 2 much.....Fitted the bike with a new seat, and tinted screen off ebay,  el cheapo, as well as doing the tank panel and footboards in checker plate... and been for a ride down the south coast but that's about it..

1/1 Well I guess thats christmas..ho hum....had a few days on my mates property a few hours north , in a tent, which was ok, fished a bit, drank a bit...gotta make an effort next year to plan better......Oh started the bike again after about 3 weeks, lost the keys for a while there....Got a project or two in mind for the bike soon...I bought a 16" twin disc harley mag for the front, so that'll be interesting.The spoke Ive had on for years has a few dings, and when I last replaced the tyre I noticed its about 1/4 inch out of true...Id prefer to run tubeless so I can fix a flat if I get one on the side of the road.Not too sure if Im gonna like the look tho...Also bought a smoked screen to replace th clear one Im running, might improve the looks a bit...if not it might be out with the trimmer.....

24/11 heres another moan....my mate who gives me a bit of work asked if Id pick up a water blaster from Kennards for him on the way to the job the other day, as he's down from Queensland, and only got a small rental car. As the back of the jeep aint too big, and its still in good nick, I thought Id take the trailer....I hadnt got round to buying an adapter yet as the jeeps plug is flat, and the trailer ' is round. As its a 50km drive across Sydney to this job I thought Id do the right thing and buy one, as Id seen the local garage had em. $22.50 later, plug it into the truck, then into the trailer, test the indicators.Nothing.Pull plug out..still nothing, looks like its blown a fuse. Walk round to passengers side to open the glove box where the hand book showing the fuses is.....Glove box wont open.Hmm is it locked? cant really tell...either way it wont open, and I cant f around, as its 6:45 and the traffic is building. So its 50km across Sydney in peak traffic with a trailer and no indicators....managed to do it without too many people hating me I think...

Pick my mate up and we head to Kennards I am loading the thing with the back ramp of the trailer down, as a Kennards truck turns past me. Its tight and he manages to roll over the edge of the trailer as he completes his turn, which bends the tailgate frame. He continues on his way without stopping...I appraise the manager of the situation. He's ok ,and says they'll fix me up when we come back...We go back to the job, and while I carry on with the electrical, my mate tries to get the blaster going. It wont go, cos he cant find the choke knob ffs, so he uses the firehose.....which he could've done the whole time....

I get the pleasure of helping him return the blaster which they dont charge for as payback for my tailgate...Then its another 50 k's back across Sydney with no indicators...I still havent got the glovebox open, jeeps are a hunk of junk, but Ive managed to get the manual out and find the fuse....

11/11 Dragged the bike outa the shed yesterday and cleaned it,christ 3 weeks since I'd ridden it , so it was about time to do the decent thing.Id pulled the windscreen off last week, as i aint to keen on its looks. Anyway spent a good hour and a bit cleaning with towels and mr sheen, and was fairly happy with the result, altho after the run I shoulda pressure washed the front of the engine....Any way about 4pm jumped on and headed to town...Got up to the main road about 5 kms away, and the traffic comes to a standstill. Sat there like a good little citizen for a few  moments, then , f this and shot up the lhs...Get 75meters up the road to the corner and theres about 10 cops there. Slip back into the queue of traffic. Bloody booze bus, holding the traffic up. naturally I get pulled in...but only just,  the car in front stops so my arse is still in the street...moan loadly to policeman.Get to front of queue and 6'8 skinny d head wants to 'go over me' after I blow zero, cos Im wearing colours. complain loudly, followed by , f ing hurry up, Im in a hurry. Not appreciated. 4 of them want to talk now...anyway ta cut a long story short, no tickets thank christ, but then it started raining....I wonder why I bother sometimes...

Ive combined the new subdomain international biker news into this one, to stop me having to do shit twice...

31/10 After being shafted by Google a few weeks ago,(my own fault) I thought Id try again with a parallel site featuring just news. Ill build on it in time I guess but for now, its just news, with google ads, which by the time Im 126 might have made me $50....new site

30/10, well the ebay shop has worked well the last week, sold about 10 items so far that were collecting dust in the garage.Id also shifted em about 4 times from house to house, an was getting heartily sick of it...so its good all round.

26/10Seeing work is slight at the moment Im determined to make some money somehow, so theres now an Adult links section...jees did I have fun this arvo changing the link buttons, simple little job when I remembered how Id done it originally, but brain refused to cooperate...

21/10 Just got back last night from 2500km odd trip down NSW coast, into Victoria, across to Melbourne and back up thru Bendigo and Albury. Bike went good, apart from throwing out some smoke occasionally, the old body suffered a wee bit, but with f all rain it was a great ride. My thumbnail program is refusing to cooperate so pics will be later today or tomorrow....heres a shot of getting ready to leave the pad....

2/10 Interesting video on steroids and their non-harmful long term effects.Guess what! something else we're being lied to about....

                                                                                                             Steroid Video clik

24/9 Well bush fire season came early to Sydney, today...Took my son and his mate up to Pacific Park for moto x riding, and about 2pm a fire was over the other side of the river, It was blowing a gale,32 degrees, and everyone started packing up. The 4wd in front of me had just moved from under the trees when a 3m branch came down...Course the boy didn't want to hurry off, but the the fire jumped the river  about 200m away from us. so it was pack up quick and make a run for it before all the bush went up and we couldnt get out...Made it out ok , but on the main road back it was still blowing a gale, tree branches down everywhere, some big buggers too, and we copped one right on the windscreen on my side. Gave me a hell of a fright.....Stopped a few miles down the road , and it had dented the roof a little, and taken the aerial out too, so seeing I opted not to take windscreen cover it turned into an expensive day out.....

small vid of the fire before it jumped the river    Clik here

14/9 Well that was short and not particularly sweet, google cancelled me for click violations, so now I gotta go and remove all the ads from the pages....what a pain in the arse..wankers they are.

13/9 5 freaking days its taken me to get a bearing out of the rear axel of my Jeep. It'd been whining like a woman once shes married . Strange design where the rear axel is held in place with a c clip inside the diff.... Did all that without too much bother, and it was particularly pleasant over the weekend as it was wet and cold....The bearing needed to be extracted using a slide hammer...however repco wanted $350 for one so that wasnt gonna happen. Saw one on  ebay for  $65 but doubted it was heavy enough...So I made a puller.Then I made it stronger.Then I made it again when I stripped the threads. Then I bought a $20 slide hammer and welded it it on the end.Then I heated the housing. And still the f ing bearing wouldnt move. Then on day 4 using a pinch bar on the seal the seal flew out and I saw Id been fighting against the seal..JFC...Now it will be easier. No it wasnt.Back to the slide hammer idea. Remake puller again with longer threaded rod...use large socket as hammer

Heath Robinson eat ya heart out..

Still no go....eventually smash sides off bearing to make it a bit weaker, and add heat, and it came out with the puller action. now to buy bearing,seal,  handbrake shoes and put it back together....

7/9 If ya watched American Chopper tonight, you can win the bike they made by donating to the charity it was made for...

wasnt a bad bike i thought so I  did, heres the link....http://www.victoryjunction.org/aa_misc/news_sunoco.html then clik the pic down the bottom of the page,

6/9 The day started well....up at 5:30, on here for a while, then at 7 ish leave home, as Ive an appointment at 9, and its possibly gonna take 90 minutes to do the 45 odd kms to the city. 90 meters up the road, think Ive left my wallett at home.Turn around,  back down the drive and jump out of the truck and run inside, leaving the truck running. Come out 5 seconds later when I realise my wallet is in my jacket pocket, and go to jump in the truck.No such luck, the f!@#ing thing has locked itself somehow, and we dont have a spare key... Ring NRMA. "your road service for this vehicle has lapsed" Bullshit!! They tell me I still have road service for two other vehicles. However one of these is the vehicle Ive rung up about twice now to have changed to the new vehicle.....Meanwhile the truck idles away merrily, and Casey Chambers belts out somewhat muffled through the closed windows. After yelling for 5 minutes more at the NRMA( Not Really Much Action) they say theyll send someone...Fortunately he was quick, and as he'd done it before had the window open and thereby access within 5 minutes of arriving. I trundled off , wondering how I havent had a stroke yet....

5/9 Vale Steve Irwin: Quite shocked when I heard the news yesterday.... I saw him at Australia Zoo a couple of years ago, when  I took my kids there.Worth a visit if ya havent done it.. I saw him jump out of an enclosure and from one fencetop to another then down to the ground, bloody athletic he was. Sad for his family, and a great loss to Australia.

5/9 Talking to a mate the other day and he told me how I might be able to make some money out of this site at long last, which is why you're now seeing the google ads.Christ taken me all afternoon to redo the pages to include the relevant code.So anytime someone cliks on an ad  Ill get a small remuneration...no idea what...but if it pays for the hosting Ill be happy....Whipped the front wheel off the bike on the weekend to get a new tyre at long last, and I see I could do with brake pads too...

29/8 Back yesterday arvo. The trip was almost magical till the ride yesterday...hit some storms south of Coffs Harbour, particularly on the freeway coming into Buladelah that had us slowing down or stopping due to being able to see sweet FA.....Fortunately I ended up completely soaked and f ing cold as usual, to prevent the possibility of my ever believing there actually  is a god...However managed to blow dry the outer layers by the time I got home so the missus couldn't actually see what I was moaning about....But hey I feel so much better this morning...not!

24/8 Oh good its raining....off to Brissy tomorrow morning, and was hoping it might be fine...Ive got to sort out some waterproof pants ..again...I bought some oilskin jeans a couple of years ago, and theyre not bad, but Ive outgrown the f ing things...What Id like is a waterproof bib overall, in something not too disgusting a colour, but I don't want to pay the earth either....Theres a boating shop that sells this type of thing so i might have al ook today...nothing like leaving it to the last minute...

9/8 Census smensus, what a load of crap. So the information they collect will help them build better hospitals and transport systems! Will they know where all the schools with prefab buildings are and build decent classrooms now and plan better in the future? Will they not spend billions on licking George Bushs arse, because the Australian people would rather they spend the money on better facilities? I dont think so... They havent yet so why should this round of gathering far more private information than they need be any different ? I refuse to even read it. It might have been a good idea once , but its information has obviously never been heeded appropriately, so why persevere with it?

16/5 After f ing around with it for an hour, I decided I cant fix it so........ring Frasers for a speedo drive for my 94 Dyna....seeing Im on a good behaviour license ffs from June...."No we dont have any, seems theyre obsolete...when we did have them they were $136....none in the country" f me the bikes only 12 yrs old... arent we supposed to still be able to buy parts for all models still? FAct is i can buy one from MAS at parramatta for $60 ,but Frasers is easier to access sometimes...

22/4..I hate work...so I had a lazy week after the show and all...hadnt done any work for 2 weeks after f ing up my back kangoing concrete etc at a job Im doing. So yesterday when my 14yr old son became available again, the 2 of us and another mate hit the same job again...Trenching 165m of bitumen near the airport and laying mains for a scaffolding company. So we leave home at 6am, get to town, empty the trailer so we can pick up a trencher from Coates Hire....but theirs comes on a trailer, and looks a bit big. Go to Kennard's, suitably small one available, but same price as Coates..ho hum...get it and head to site. Gosh my mates almost on time, its 8 20 now...However he gets on the machine and starts cutting. And Christ its slow.. 100m took all morning and I want to get the job done today...Me and Dyls start rolling out the mains... hmm 4 x 165m of 25mm cable is forking heavy...but Dyls rolls it out as I instruct , and we start putting the conduit on.....Its about 1.30 and I can hardly walk already...(thankyou c!@# in a commodore 7 years ago..) but if we want to go home tonight better keep going....at least its hot.... Anyway we manage to sort of finish at 4:45pm and rush the trencher back to Kennards where they cant get my refund to come thru...thankyou god...Mate rings me as we're leaving, "seen the news?' "uhh no..still working"...anyway we're all over the news as youve probably seen but no-one knows who it is...get home 1.25hrs later and me and dyls both nearly fall out of the truck and stumble inside as sore as f!@#. If that girls drunk all the bourbon today, there's gonna be trouble...Fortunately she's finally looked up the word 'temperance' and there's a tipple left...However instead of  elcollapso on the couch there's phone calls to make, people to talk to etc...all to no avail so far, ho-hum yet again...At least I was still sore as when I woke up...

16/ 4 well almost recovered from Friday....christ I had a headache yesterday.More from dehydration i think..only had a couple of drinks in 24 hrs, but sat at the show all day and was too busy to drink anything almost except diet coke, which doesnt help at all...feeling a bit better this morning. Gotta change the carb back on the bike..got 122 hp on the dyno, which was bertter than last year..but I had 119.6 with a 103' motor, so Im still not too impressed..The D series would probably tune up ok, but f!@# running round with no air cleaner and an inlet a small bird could nest in...

15/4 F!@# me police state or what??...breath tests at 10am from the wankers this morning taking my boy to the bus stop,....I dont know about everyone, but I get sick of the sight of them, must've seen 4 cars at 9am yesterday morning riding across town to the show...

Bought a D series carb a couple of years ago,  2 1/4" choke size, and I've had it on the shelf as an ornament, as its about 300mm long all up... Was about time I bolted it on and tried it on the dyno at the show on Friday. Took it for a ride yesterday, and apart from a bit of hesitation if ya snap the throttle open, (no accelerator pump on these..) it flies...Its running a .90 main and a 32 mid range jet, as I bought it, and seems about right...Only problem is the strange angle the throttle cables come off it at, might have been meant for a forward facing manifold. Sharp eyes might notice no fuel line, had to stretch the original to fit, new one coming today, Now Ill go and clean it...

8/4 Aah just like when I was young last night...out on the bike, coming home from Sydney, riding up Victoria Rd then onto Burns Bay Rd. There's often a booze bus on the city bound side at the bottom of the hill, and I was thinking about going the other way, up through Hunters Hill, then down Pittwater Rd, but traffic was heavier that way....There's a bit of a straight section, and I was just sitting at a reasonable speed, and out jumps a man with a glo stick..bugger! 97 in a 70, wasnt too bad, at least its not double points this time...Carry on my merry way, up Castle Hill Road, and theres another one 2 cars in front of me. Dutifully pull in a respectable distance behind him and sit there bored...At a set of lights the left lane has a long tail back so I slip into the right lane and overtake him, all at a legal speed. Leave him behind at the lights, but, when Im at the next set, he's a couple of cars behind me. I manage to get the next light, and everyone else gets the red, so I open it up a bit and get to enjoy the last mile home, tho checking my mirrors. I pull into my driveway and up to the shed, get off the bike, and  walk to the shed, and the world turns blue and red...Christ he must've moved to catch up that quick....Old bastard (probably my age....) jumps out, accompanied by pimply faced kid, looking decidedly worried,  and asks if I live here..yes I do, whats the problem? You seemed to be pulling away from us a bit he says....I dont think so  says I. Listen dont argue with me mate, he says, Ill argue with you if I want to , says me...

Anyway Im pretty sure he caint do f all, as he couldn't have actually checked my speed....He takes my license, makes a few notes, to be sent back to the unintelligence unit no doubt,  while I put the bike away. aah ok, no dramas mate he says, and hand back my license, gives me the usual speech about keeping my speed down...You can get out this way I say indicating he can drive round the circular driveway, taking full view of the grounds and gardens...just to piss him off...( he wont know Im only renting...). 

Hadn't been stopped twice in an hour  since the good old days in Wellington...bought a smile to my dial..

1/4 Ive got a conspiracy theory.....How come every one of the 7 CTP insurers in NSW now charge almost exactly the same for motorcycle green slips over 300cc? For the last few years you've always been able to find a divergence in price of a couple of hundred dollars, so you could choose a cheap one if you so desired.(and who wouldnt..) Now they're all the same, and dearer than ever...last year I think I paid in the $300's......looks like price fixing or collusion or both to me...

 

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