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Thanks for dropping by, this blogger is about my up's and down's, tear's and laughter that my interests can bring as I go about them in my own fashion..

This Blogger started through my fishing, and I enjoyed many a happy day enjoying everything that comes along with that, but times change, job changes, and wanting to do different things was to see the fishing gear making way for Motorcycles, and that is how you find me...
Hope you enjoy the Blog.

Nick.


All the best

Nick.

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Erm.... well, its like this....

 its all been a little hectic...

the CRF, yes, Could have done better, costs going out of control, and covid tax really did hurt, the Chinese motor didn't want to play, and after some soul searching, rebuilding a blown 450 motor to be doing it all again a few hours down the road really wouldn't have sat well at all, so, a look around to see whats out there, soon had me thinking it was not going to be happening, CCM, Rotax, framers etc all well out the price range, so a home build was going to be the way forward.

XT, TT, XS, something along those lines would be good, but again, few and far between, but hang on..MT03!?!? 660 motor, and plenty about..

yep, you got it, I found one, no MOT, but all there and a runner, perfect!

Time to strip out the CRF bits, swap out what I could, and lets see where it goes...It all started really well, and I even got in a flat track school day, which was great, and proved the point of getting the MT ready, but, ah yes a but, on a return from a weekend at Santa Pod, the trusted Big Tranny started to make some very strange noises, and was soon at the side of the road rather ill.. 

A new turbo, cat and tappet bridge with a recon set of injectors had the old girl up and running again, but only for a short run, as the bottom end went south, and that was it, time to cut the losses, and move on, I found a Custom, reasonable money, and perfect for what I need, So campervan 3 is underway, and fingers crossed on this one, but the flat tracker is well behind, so maybe out for a practice before the end of year...we will see!
never easy, never straight forward, and never to plan.. Wouldn't life be boring!




The Custom, the Dirt day, that MT!