Monday 30 March 2009 at 10:10 pm
Woo. I've finally got round to attacking the default
Pivot templates and beating them into submission with my mighty CSS skills. Go me. I thoroughly expect to find some stuff I've broken over the coming days/weeks. Let me know if you spot them first - dave at wildchild dot org dot uk.
In other news, Sarah's going to Poland for a few days, leaving me to my own devices (ie to spend all evening in the garage). The weekend is free as well, so there should be an update on the ZXR400 in the next week or so.
Wednesday 18 March 2009 at 9:20 pm
At the start of December I picked up a 1993 Suzuki DR800 to use for commuting and general winter hackery. I'd got a bit bored of riding Sarah's GPZ500 and fancied something a bit different, and besides, having got a shiny new lease car to go to work in she's looking to get rid of the GPZ, her old Golf, and the CG125 in order to buy something else (probably an SV650) to play on in the summer.
My musings led me to the idea of a big single-cylinder trailie, and then (perhaps unsurprisingly to those who know me) to the temptations of the
biggest single-cylinder bike of them all. A bit of eBay impulsiveness later and I was on the train to King's Lynn with a helmet in one hand and a wad of cash in the other.
Since then I've fallen for the 'King of Thumpers'. I've put over 2500km on it in less than three months, and ridden it in the snow, the salt and the mud of a UK winter. While there's still no beating the ZXR400 for playing around in the summer sun, the DR is the first bike I've owned that's incited me to take the long way home on a frosty January afternoon, or made me enjoy - and even seek out - badly-surfaced, mud-strewn single track roads.
However while it's certainly utilitarian, and perhaps even good looking in a rugged kind of way, the big red DR is certainly not beautiful - especially now it bears the scars of a slide down the road on its side a couple of weeks ago. So why the title?
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