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Had to dash off last night. Now where were we? Broken down in the middle of nowhere. But at least it was a sunny afternoon, not stuck on a busy main road at night in the rain. Spent some time looking for anything obvious that might have shut the engine down. We wuz at a remote group of...

A few miles into the ride home, came round a bend and found the straight before Midfield full of stopped traffic, must have been a mile of it, as I started to filter past the queue, a van driver open his door and said 'The roads been shut, you'll not get through!' Did a u-turn, two or three...

Two adventures with he Orange Peril yesterday. Rode down to Wooler to meet Elliot for tea and a teacake. He came on his 1972 R75/5. It's a thing we do time to time. I think it gives Elliot the incentive to get out on his bike? Hour and a half of tea and chit-chat, then we were off home again.

If you're looking out for things, cylinder base is held down by tall alloy sleeve nuts and if these have been exposed to salt water, they explode - corrode so bad they swell up and have to be chipped out. Corrosion is of course always going to happen on an older bike. All alloy parts like the...

Gonna be spoiled fer choice . . .

When I were a kid, folk used to buy fresh sliced bacon and you would see the shop assistant using the sharp rotating circular blade to cut it for them.

and you're far too kind to mention a Yamaha DT175 and a 440 Victor and uhm, certain paint jobs and uhm, a van and uhm . . . and then Jim'll be done. Be able to concentrate on proper projects like Gonzo boxes then.

The days are getting cooler and the nights are drawing in. This morning felt cold and there was frost on all the parked cars. Been out on the Bullet couple times today and the good news is there's no salt been shovelled out. The other good news is the weather's supposed to be a bit warmer over...

Wot he said!

This is one of them conversations usually held in the pub. The more beer consumed, the more seems possible . . .

Hi Rob, welcome to the mad house. To my untrained eye, that to diagram looks correct but there will be people along later who are better at these things. Nice, tidy-looking hardtail you have. Cheers, Raymond

I don't think that could be done in a million years but I met a man many years ago, worked in India repairing army lorries at the end of WW2 told me how they did a rebore without the proper equipment. They cut the old piston down the middle, put the block on the ground, replaced the piston into...

Fantic Caballero 50? I remember them.

Mrs leans the opposite way, more 'Oh, go on, go on . . . you'll only regret things you didn't do' I swear, it's her indoors as has talked me into buying so many motorbikes, honest, Guv.

Liking the style.

We need to see photos of this. Uhm, before I forget, warm welcome to the forum, @Paul Chip Chapman. But this is one people want to see. Cheers, Raymond

I wuz told as an impressionable kid the bacon slicers were supposed to enhance a bikes front brake by adding cooling surface to aid heat dissipation. Didn't some racing brakes have exaggerated hub ribs to reduce fade from heat of friction with huge drum brakes? But really the ones like on my...

It's clear the factory believed they were building what would be a good money spinner in the important USA market. Hard for us to believe now, looks ridiculous, I'm being kind here, and seems so far away from our nostalgia about a great sporting make of motorbike.

Regular readers will have noticed that riding the Bullet is funny. One little joke the bike tells on sunny days, you're riding along, look down at the shadow on the road and the flaming thing has gained disc brakes. Those bacon grinders when they're spinning, the shadows look exactly like it's...

Actually own a Stadium open-face helmet, wear it maybe once a year? Safety over style in that area, methinks.