Well! with it now being British Summer time, I thought I ought to blow the dust of my 21. Although I had had my battery on an Optimate during the "laid up" period it was as flat as a Witches T*T. One new battery later it was time to turn on the juice and get kicking!!!!!!!!Phew! me old legs aint wot they used to be!! Plan 2, bump her down my street. Select 3rd, get up a head of steam and drop the clutch.......NOWT! Puff, puff, pant, gasp, try not to lets the watching kids see that you are knackered, turn her round and set off back the way you have just come. My georgeous baby ticked into life, but only whilst I was manualling her down the road. As soon as I pulled in the clutch, the motor died. I pretended that I was inspecting the clocks, little did those that were watching know that I was close to throwing up, I was sucking in great lung fulls of air and was unable to speak. Once I had gained my composure and was able to function as a human again I repeated my athletic antics down the street. On the return pass, again, my Roby Rep chimed into life with a gentle pop, pop, pop. This gave me renewed vigor and even Lynford Christie would have eaten my Sh** ooops I mean dust. The motor gained an angry resonance and with each of my herculean foot falls became stronger and stronger. I pulled in the clutch and blipped the throttle, brAAAP, brAAAP WAAAANG! Pussy cats dived for cover under cars, little girls cried and neighbours who were out mowing lawns peered over hedges to see what the "Bloody Hell" is all that noise. "That Bloody noise! is sweet music to me, I replied.
Call me selfish, or just plain stupid if you like, but the bike does not have a current MOT or road tax right now. You know what I HAD to do next don't you?........... Yes! get me my helmet and gloves. I came back from a short ride and I was shaking all over, boy! does this motor shift! I had forgotten just how thrilling and enjoyable a sweet handling motorcycle can be. Roll on next weekend, I shall MOT and Tax the bike. Hold back the rain, Dave is out for enjoyment.
By the way, how was your day?
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Hmmmmm!

To here my dads NSR burst into life I thought for a minute I was in the Jerez pitlane/paddock because the 21 just sounds like Dani Pedrosas RSW 250 michine when he fires it up by the way it sounds Sweet my dads 21.
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Chaz Davies Rules

There are some things in life you just gotta do.



I creep around at night a lot, I've found a road where a 'Chavved up' BMW parks up. 'Chav' see - http://www.chavscum.co.uk.
It's alarm loves to go off if you gas it hard when you go by

Ahh, being a kid again - love it !
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.

hoping to hear mine fire up soon, the carbs are now back to standard and the chain is nice and shiney just the usual spring clean, set up the SP shock i have just fitted and hopefully will get her fired up real soon...cant wait
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MC21SP - Roth-tax
CBR400 - track
MC21R - sold
MC21SP - sold

I think I'm going to be even more seriously depressed when I open up garage number 5 next time.

Andy and Stephen are going to drop 2 bikes off tomorrow, I've spent some time moving things around from lockup to lockup to make the space for them but I realised how 'behind' I've gotten with everything.

Sigh - s much work to do to the bikes and so little free time and dosh.


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These aren't the droids you're looking for.

How's my day been?

Well, I was woken at 2am by some bloke who forgot I was in the States so didn't think of the time difference.

Then I woke myself at 5am to chat to my girlfriend.

Then I went to work at 6am, to get yelled at by some aircrew who didn't want me on their flight deck, despite their boss telling me to go fit some equipment prior to the mission.

Then I hung around a lot while they flew.

Then I sat though the de-brief where all my efforts went un-noticed, and finally knocked off at 9pm.

Still, I'm in the sun, on rates, and no-one is shooting at me. Not a bad day!
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MC21SP Plaything
BMW F800GS Bumblebee
Triumph 9551 Daytona Big boys toy
FJ1100 Sporting relic
GTS1000 oddball

Well, good week for me so far. All bodywork bar the tank is now primered, rear light fitted along with nice mini indicators and no. plate holder. All electrics look to be working fine on the seperate loom I had to make just for lights / indicators / horn, and have intergrated it with the HRC loom so they both work of the ignition switch.

She also fires up first time, even if I push the kick start with my hand.

Got the Telefonica sticker kit and now just need to order the paint.

Then its off to the MOT station and see if it fails on anything.

So, I'm quite happy at the mo!