New Arrivals

Ducks for her a Sportster for me. I'll post pictures of the bike when I collect it. It's got loads of chrome stuff on it which is destined for ebay.

Stafford Shite Old Bike Show

Went to the Stafford Classic Bike show. Weather was sunny. Birthday money was spent. Bikes were looked at.

This Triumph on the Amal stand was so pretty I even forgave the heat wrap on the exhausts..

8V Triumph was for sale, didn't dare ask how much

One of the Tritons there caught my eye

Vincent special (Egli?)

Indian

Prescott Bike Festival

Went over to Prescott Bike Festival on Sunday. It seemed well attended considering it is a new event but I've no doubt it was aided by the good weather.

There was a nice mix of cars and bikes. This car caught my eye in th car park.

First time I've seen one of the new Nortons in the flesh.

Triumph 8V (Nourish?) hill climber

Ironhead sportster, I could see myself living with something like this one day (although I'd have to change the colour)

First Show of the Year

Made it to not one but two events today. Main one was the Bristol Classic Bike show which confusingly is held in Shepton Mallet. On the way there I dropped into a Bike Jumble at Bristol and met up with a bunch of people I hadn't met since the Hotrod Drags.

I then managed to persuade Stuart that a day looking at shite old bikes was better than a day doing shopping and housework so picked him up and headed off to the show.

This Triumph was on the Hill Climb Association stand.... I like it and think that Hill Climbing is something I might have a go at.

Picture is from Stuart as I had forgotten my camera.

The main reason I had gone to Shepton Mallet was to collect a load of powder coated parts from Nick at Griff's I'll be updating http://tribsa.blogspot.com/ with details at some point.

The powder coating used up most of my cash so the only things I bought were the latest couple of issues of DiCE. I also met up with some of the Dirty Bobbers crowd which was nice.

Books that changed my life

Just think if I hadn't discovered the NEL biker books when I was a teenager I might have ended up putting on a suit every day to go and work in a bank.... oh arse, I do.

Snow....

It's been snowing so here is a picture of my bike in the snow

...I really must get around to fixing the clutch slave cylinder which has been shagged for weeks (I've even got the parts just a bit short of round tuits)

New Music...

These days I usually find new music from Amazon's 'people who bought this also bought this' feature. Which is why a CD by the Urban Voodoo Machine arrived yesterday.

I've got to see them live....