Ok. Update time again. The water pump pixies were obviously offended when I said they'd fixed my leaky waterpump and popped back to break it properly. My oil now resembles a lovely Mocha Latte and is possibly not very good for my bike. I'm off the road until my new waterpump kit arrives and then it'll be large amounts of tea, scratching of heads and if need be human sacrifices. I would probably stay out of the local area just in case it gets to the sacrifice poin...

Hello again to the three people out there reading my drivel. Where to start, well the water pump pixies appear to have stopped my water pump from leaking. I can only assume they have done this so it can start leaking again at an even more inopportune moment. Probably half way up a piste in Morocco whilst being charged by an angry camel! Who knows but at the moment it seems to be fine again. I've ordered a replacement kit which will hopefully be here by Friday so ...

Ok, Good news and bad news......... Good news is my bike has nice new tyres and chain now. Both my brakes work and for a whole half an hour my bike was clean-ish...... Darren is also the proud and slightly excited small child wrapped in a fat bloke type owner of his very orange KTM. All good news indeed and watching Darren riding home in the rain on knobbly tyres for the first time did raise a bit of a smile, in fact after a few corners I was smiling so much m...

I'm back again......... Just! All was going well in my world until that little red light came on. Now in BMW's mind I'm sure a temperature gauge isn't necessary when a heart attack inducing warning light that gives you no warning of impending doom will do....... but anyway, I made it to Darren's and after much fussing and generally not knowing what I was doing the cooling system seems to be full of cooling coolant and not nasty hot air again. All good we hope. T...

Ok. Update time. Not being used to these Blog type thingys I keep forgetting to write stuff! Well, the weather here in French France is great. Lots of sunshine and the odd storm just to keep things interesting. Every type of weather is interesting when you live in a caravan but hopefully getting my garden shed soon. More on that later but to bike matters first. My panniers have arrived courtesy of G&G in Germany. A little bit fiddly to fit but that's more ...