Monday 22 June 2009 at 10:19 pm
This is my mate Tom. He has a bit of an obsession with Moto Morini, the most obvious result of which is the rather special Dart he's riding in the photo. Naturally, he's a member of the
Morini Riders Club, who hold an annual trackday at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire. Tom has been trying to get me to come along to this pretty much every year since I've known him - but there's always been some reason why I couldn't make it.
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Tuesday 09 June 2009 at 9:05 pm
The previous installment of the story left off on the Saturday evening of the bank holiday weekend, with a good few inches of chassis now consigned to my scrap metal bin, and the new tail light/plate hanger just about bolted on. Sarah and I decided to celebrate this fact by venturing into town for our first proper night out since moving to Derby in January. And getting a bit drunk.
So I find myself shaking off a hangover on Sunday morning and venturing back into the workshop, realising that we are due to spend the afternoon and all of Monday at the British Superbike round at Donington Park. There's still no indicators, the side panels are in a corner, and half the wiring loom is sat on the back wheel, in the absence of anything else to hold it up.
Time to sort out a few details then...
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Monday 01 June 2009 at 10:26 pm
Saturday comes, and it's time for the first step - getting that new cross member welded in to the frame - it barely compromises anything, and is the key to the whole plan. As I pick up a hacksaw and walk across the garage towards the bike, I paused to reflect that there are definite advantages to running bikes which are barely worth anything.
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Monday 01 June 2009 at 9:27 pm
So on Friday afternoon (as it's now taken me over a week to write this up, that's a week ago last Friday) I came home from work, took a final photo of the bike as it was, then decided to take the topbox off. Then the side panels. Then everything else.
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