SHOCK HORROR!!!!

Cubbie won't start.


:-(


And I'm off to work in Fort William for a few days, so no time to investigate.


See y'all when I get back, and who knows, I might even get a chance to stick some pics up from Alford.

RIGHT, I'M BACK! Hope to get time to have a quick look at Cubbie today, but we've got to catch some sheep and catch up on essential chores before any bikey stuff can happen. Really great to come home to about 6 or 7 comments on the blog, thanks people for logging in / on and being a part of it all. To anyone who emailed me while I was away, I'll reply to you as soon as I can....

Alarm Call

C'mon, wakey wakey! I'm up, so why aren't you???

Alford Convention

Hmmm. Well, I haven't had much time this week to go through my Alford pics, although I do know there is one of a naked man. Cubbie did about 3 or 4 laps of the track in the classic parade, my lap times weren't quite up to that of Timmy the Twister on his borrowed R6, but I put it down to having to borrow Johnny's helmet, which was a fraction on the large size and kept falling over my eyes. They had supermoto things, a trials display, the moped marathon and some special guests riding special bikes, but I missed them all cos I didn't hear a thing on the tannoy. I did watch a bit of the fashion show, but it was affa dark in there. We attracted a few new members to the Grampian Classic club, lots of Haggis entry forms were taken as were the forms for the UCAN charity motorcycle ride (see www.ucanbikeride.co.uk) and good old Mrs BC manned (womanned?) the stall for most of the day, making tea and coffee for members, dishing out paperwork, selling tee shirts and generally keeping busy. The sun shone and all I did was wander around taking photographs for my write up for Old Bike Mart. Might do something for the other Mortons mags too.

I shall be up at 04:00hrs tomorrow for to catch me a train to Burton Upon Trent for the VMCC meeting, now where did I put all those books I bought for the journey. But between now and then we've got to change the dressings on Crumble's abscesses, catch and worm some sheep, I've got to go to work, and I'm sure there are a million and one other things to be done, it's just a case of remembering them all!

Enjoy the lack of pictures, you'll have to visualise Cubbie flying round the track, 'cos no one got any pics anyway :-(

New arrivals

A few pics from our trip the Rare Breeds sale at Thainstone last weekend. Thought you might be interested in some of the old junk that was in the auction. Plus, can you identify the wooden 'machine' with the number 11 label on it? Crikey, how did it get to be 13:09? Now I'm late for work.

And our new purchases....Hilda (Not her real name...) and her two lambs, and Solly (Sunday name "Solgar") the Soay.

Duff House and Shed Painting

The Duff House show isn't usually well attended by us classic motorcyclists, but this year however, the turnout was much improved. Someone said there were a couple of hundred classic and specialist cars there, but I didn't bother to count, all cars look the same to me, unless it's something like a Model T. Alfie Cheyne's steam engines were there too (the chap we went to visit a few weeks back as a club trip) as well as a selection of tractors.




Cubbie suffered a bit of a fuel tap leak. It was ok at home, but by the time Cubbie had waited around a few hours, I came back to find a big petrolly puddle beneath the wee bike. This is my brand new tap, which I purchased for the very reason of replacing the old one - that leaked. This new one seems to bleed from the threads where it screws into the tank and no amount of tightening by the chaps (using a wotcha-call-it, wrench thing with big vicious jaws - ouch!) would stop it. Mr P was going to perform the 'string trick' but the others outvoted him and simply tightened it up even more. To be fair, the leak did ease a bit, but the application of a bit of string wrapped around the thread when back at home, dried it up altogether. Well, it'll save me buying a wotcha-call-it-washer that everyone said I needed!

And onto shed news.....calm down.....it's not that exciting.....

Every time it's rained, heavy or not, I end up with a big puddle of water in the shed. It came in under the left hand wall because as a novice shed floor builder, I made my concrete base bigger than it needed to be, which meant that rather than the walls sitting right on the edge and overlapping it, one side sits about a couple of inches in from the edge. Yes, that means that the rain runs down the wall and under the shed. My Bright Ideas Man came up with a slightly better sounding suggestion than a bead of silicon - fix a length of roofing felt along so that it directs the water off the base. Simple. So I did that the other day, before I did the painting and am pleased to report that even after nearly 36hours of non-stop rain here in the north east of Scotland, the shed floor is bone dry. Well, apart from where it leaks between and under the doors...but they'll be fixed on properly soon and probably have a 'weather board' of sorts too.

I was just about to upload a piccy but blogger is refusing to work, so that's all for now.

For sale

MZ ETZ 251, H Reg., MOT June 2010, Tax May 2010. Immaculate, one owner from new, 25k miles, new front Michelin M45, Grimeca master cylinder, stainless braided front hose, Lucas solid state regulator, voltmeter, new screen, heated grips, fibre optic telltale rear light, side-stand, carrier, top box, pannier frames & pair of Pneumant 32-litre panniers. Maintained r.o.c. Ready for a Continental tour, ride away for £550. Bike is located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. ((OOOh, think Cubbie was there a long time ago....at that Falkirk Wheel thingy...http://gorgeousbikerchick.blogspot.com/2008/07/all-bar-first-and-last-mile.html))

Contact me at cubbiescounties AT aultan.com (change the AT to the proper email symbol)

Bonny Scotland

Tis such a nice day today that I've spent all morning outside, pottering around doing a few odd jobs on the shed. But the big question is, should I paint or creosote the single door? I've got a small amount of green paint, and larger quantities of brown and purple non drip gloss I could get rid of. What do you say? Leave a comment and let me know...you know what us girls are like when it comes to making decisions!

This afternoon, I was going to write up my trip to Duff House (last Sunday) but to be honest, the sun is still shining...so I hope you don't mind....but I'm off out again....