Nothing In Particular

[jack]

https://www.facebook.com/XPhaze/videos/ ... 504190863/

[Mike H]

Remember it well!

All in German as I recall

[jack]

Camping in desert near Al Qudra, UAE. Dark skies,
noone except us.

Sunset last night

Sunrise this morning

[Mike H]

Now you're just showing off.


Getting jealous. Last time I did camping was clocks back weekend, bluddy cold. I was reminded why I stopped doing camping in Autumn - Winter


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[Dave the bass]

Cover them dunes in concrete and you'd have a brill skatepark!

Right, a motorbike question... For the MOT, does a 1993 bike have to have mirrors fitted to pass the test? It did originally come fitted with rear view mirrors but hasn't got them at the moment, would that be a fail? Anyone know off hand?

[pre65]

There is no legal requirement for a motorcycle to have rear view mirrors, therefore it is not part of a motorcycle MOT test.

Whether they were fitted as original equipment (or not) is irrelevant.

Hope that helps.

(information was passed to me by an active motorcycle MOT tester).

[Dave the bass]

Whahey! Thanks for finding out Phil, much 'preciated.

Here he is (with mirrors!), looking out at the sunshine, 1st time in 18 years....

[Ant]

That dave, is a proper job

Lovely thing, and lovely work

[Dave the bass]

Thanks Ant, its been on the back burner for so many years,

That bike was my 'temporary' work bench for the last 16 years down the old shed, I made Saburo, Fonkens, FH3, FE167 MLTL, FE167 Fonkens and LS3/5a's on that saddle with a lump of chipboard spanning the Tank to the rear rack which I've now removed. There's a few dents and dings in the paintwork but its survived being loudspeaker workbench

Not unsurprisingly there was a ton and half of sawdust in every orifice of the bike i had to clear-out during the rebuild.

[andrew Ivimey]

Crikey! I dislike motorbikes but that is a sight for sore eyes! I likes it.

[jack]

Whahey! Thanks for finding out Phil, much 'preciated.
Here he is (with mirrors!), looking out at the sunshine, 1st time in 18 years....

Looks wonderful - is it a UK or Indian manufactured one?

My younger son spent the summer-before-last in Northern Kashmir riding an Enfield he'd bought and modified up and through mountain passes in the foothills of the Himalayas up to about 18,000ft - photo is of him driving with mate as pillion. Modifications were mostly to the carb to allow the bike to run at altitude.

I know that there's some decent hills round your way too...

Rob & Kumar in the Himalayas...

[Dave the bass]

Looks wonderful - is it a UK or Indian manufactured one?

In my best BBC Goodness Gracious Me accent....."Indian!", I think the last UK (Redditch) built bikes were about 1962 or so. Mine's a Miracle from Madras and based on the 1955 design built in 1993, a late-Friday afternoon job judging by the quality of the finish/assembly/longevity of the bike originally. I've owned it for ~20 years, 2 of those it actually ran for albeit intermittently....

I've watched a few of those Himalayan trips aboard Bullets, they look flippin' awethumne. They go up Everest or summat on 'em and I can't even get mine out the garden yet

[jack]

've watched a few of those Himalayan trips aboard Bullets, they look flippin' awethumne. They go up Everest or summat on 'em and I can't even get mine out the garden yet

Rob did this himself with one of his Indian uni mates - another civil engineer - it wasn't particularly organised - they just set off as a group (a bunch of his Indian friend's mates came along too) and bought some bikes - fixed them up and went off for a month - as a bunch of engineers they had to fix the bikes reasonably often... sold the bikes at the end. He took some GoPro video that was quite cool too...

https://www.instagram.com/p/6QcfQhjzhR- ... robdesmith

[andrew Ivimey]

In some ways Kashmir, Ladakh, Hunza & Swat and so on are favourite places for me.

[jack]

Awesome Lissajous patterns...