Eventually put the bike in to fix the seized caliper arm on Monday morning. They lent me a Suzuki Burgman 650 to replace my Triumph Trophy 900. Um. It's not even a BIKE, ffs. It's a scooter. An automatic one at that. The left lever is the back brake! Oh the shame. Even the staff of Cheltenham Motorcycles were laughing at me.
At least they didn't have the gall to charge me the normal £20 insurance money to take it. Anyway there's good news and bad: the bad news is that the arm is seized; the good news is that they don't have to buy the whole assembly so it looks like the whole job is going to cost around £150 all in.
My bike is being expensive. I want to do some more work on the engine soonish too, in addition the rear disc and chain and sproket set are going to need replacing. At least the saddle is great now :) This is due to
Well the weekend at least went according to plan :)
However the garden is now reclaimed! Not much use during winter, but I think it's a start on clearing the house out. It seemed to inspire
I had the idea to have a roast on Sunday as there were enough people around to warrant it;
I also managed to reinstall Win2k on the Athlon computer to fix the graphics card crashes. It's fixed, but now is exhibiting other strange problems *sigh*. I will mess around with it some more another time and get it working properly.
We tried to watch Army of Darkness on the repaired Athlon on Sunday night. I got second wind (sorry) and was awake but
Monday I had the day off and we went to the hospital, after which I drove the Escort that's normally
- I have some dignity left (somewhere)
- It made my arms ache on just the short journey back from the shop
- I wanted to take a load of stuff back including my computer project so I can work on Gateway 2 :)
stuartl is going to be there with his car until Tuesday afternoon to assist
kissycat1000 with any mobility problems anyway..
Looking forwards I have the rest of this week to get some sort of draft version of my program ready for work. I'm going back up to
[1] - Apart from Jordan, who eats nothing but original Hula-Hoops and drinks nothing but Sainsbury's own reduced sugar orange squash due to his Autism, and