Pit crew!

Well were pit crew in training...lol my wheel was easy to remove BUT tyre was a pain in the rear to get off and after much gnashing of teeth and bashed knuckles we took it to the garage before I ruined my rims totally! Nice to know I'm riding such a sturdy beast but I pray to the god of roadside maintenance I never have to do it on the move......

Great TT this year....hope to go sometime soon :)

New tubes

Good effort Guy Martin in the TT, great win John McGuinness, brilliant racing.

Attemted our first inner tube changes on the bikes today, since my valve bust off and Paula had her puncture. Back wheels off in a flash thanks to the wonders of center stands, nice neat 30mm nail pulled out, but the rear tyre on the F650 was a real ****er to get off the rim, so we resigned ourselves to being inept grease monkeys and gave up.

Moved onto the Transalp wheel and with a bit of swearing, grunting and carefully applied brute force we had the tube out and replaced with relatively little hassle. Back on the bike, inflated - sorted. Didn't even pinch the tube like a proper rookie should.

Does make me wonder what BMW are playing at by welding their tyres onto the rims .. oh no, I just figured it out - "please contact your nearest BMW dealer to change the inner tube". Yeah right. We did however, content with our 50% success rate, chuck it in the local - (non-BMW certified) - bike shop for pick up monday (since they were just shutting up shop).

Hopefully the recently purchased Ultraseal will do the trick and avoid the whole road-side puncture fixing drama anyway, but we'll see. Was good fun being out in the sun getting the hands greasy anyway .. note to self - Scottoiler needs some kind of shut off valve.

- Mark

All change please..

Spent a couple of hours at the local Bike Safe event at Castle Combe saturday, was a pleasant enough wander around chuckling at the stunt rider having a few glitches in his performance etc. Then we made the mistake of finding an Ultraseal vendor and had a discussion on the pros and cons of using it. I've pretty much made my mind up that I want to try it and make my own mind up, but decided not to buy on the day..

Sods law: The physical form of ironic bad luck in relation to ones actions or inaction.

.. so Paula got a rear puncture at some point. Bugger!

So with my knackered valve, that's both bikes in need of a tube change/repair now. I can feel a forced tyre removal practice session is on the cards this week then. No problems, I been watching the TT pitstops.. how long can it take?!

D-day -100 encounting..

Getting bleedin closer all the time now...