What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Done it!
Breakfast, Tecsos, then off to the lock-up with a freshly charged battery
(I hope ). Should be rumbling through the Northumberland sunshine by late morning.

 

Yesterday I took the Hyperstrada the couple of hundred miles to visit my parents and then back home again today…it was freezing. However the temperature was a tiny issue compared to the bolt and bits and pieces that retain my gear lever falling out at some point, leaving me stranded by the side of the road…luckily only about 10 miles from my parents’ house. Also very luckily for me, my elderly and extremely fit and competent father came out with assorted bits and pieces and did a repair that got me to their house. He then spent several hours having consulted the relevant parts diagram for the bike, fabricating in his workshop precisely what was required to effect a top - notch repair. I went on my way home again today with the gear changes feeling far better than they have done since I bought the bike.

Just proves you’re never too old to cause your Dad stress and never too old to need him .

It wasn’t quite how I wanted to show him my newest acquisition….

 

A good dad is always there for his girls. Glad you got home safely.

 

Another outing on the rough stuff after a bit of a hiatus.
New front tyre, oil and filter change plus screens cleaned, a quick chain lube and hit the (off) road. After riding nothing but the Scrambler 1200 for a while, this thing feels like a high powered bicycle!

A deserted Abney Moor......

 

3000km round trip on the R1300GS

 

Stunning scenery - I can't wait for some lovely hot weather!!

 

Thanks for your comment
Here is another image with more detail of the sierra, this is in the state of Oaxaca Mexico
The road from the coast up the sierra is perhaps one of the best roads I have ever riden, stunning views and it climbs up to 2500 meters above sea level, temperatures vary from 30+°C to 10°C and fog.
I only had my mobile so image quality is meh ...

 

Wow! Truly lovely. What are the roads like for traffic? Light?

 

Traffic while up in the sierra is very light, only local vans instead of buses as the road is way to narrow for big trucks, barely any cars, some small motorcycles

The route from Huatulco to Oaxaca took about 5 hrs, 3 hrs of constant turns in 2nd gear, maybe 3th on the short straights

Pavement is 90% ok, but there are some very rough patches and speed bumps on the edges of small towns keeps you on edge all the time.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/wAXergUNEe77vku68

 

A quick nice ride out with my eldest son to JnS Doncaster the other day.

 

This week the weather forecast announced sunny weather and increasing temperatures. BUT: At my today's start at 0515 it had -5 degrees celsius. Therefore I used my BMW for my 60 km office ride. I arrived at -2. In the afternoon it will be much warmer
I love my heating grips and my heating jacket.

 

Spent the afternoon getting the acf50 cleaned off the 400four, wee shakedown run ,it's eye opening when you try come to a stop with 48year old brakes after getting used to brembo stylema

 

@Pedro1340 That is a fine example of a classic bike, proper mudguards, and a main stand.
Enjoy your shakedown run whenever it is.