Lockdown Pics

Scout63

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I’m interested in everyone’s bikes and lockdown routines. Here are mine and a friend’s bikes in the garage. Although we are essentially quarantined in the house I go for at least one spirited ride each day here on Cape Cod. The weather is warming and roads are almost empty. I remember reading Nevil Shute’s On The Beach as a child, and this feels eerily like that. Feels like riding a little more aggressively is just fine. My best to everyone.
Lockdown Pics
Lockdown Pics
 
Scout63 said:
I’m interested in everyone’s bikes and lockdown routines. Here are mine and a friend’s bikes in the garage. Although we are essentially quarantined in the house I go for at least one spirited ride each day here on Cape Cod. The weather is warming and roads are almost empty. I remember reading Nevil Shute’s On The Beach as a child, and this feels eerily like that. Feels like riding a little more aggressively is just fine. My best to everyone.
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No pics as everything's back under wraps till it's all over but just been sat in the sun, not a cloud in the sky, thinking of past lockdown experiences. Addis Abeba listening to gunshots and missiles getting closer while waiting for the last plane out, Gabonese jungle during early ebola breakout, Bandar Abbas when the Afghan war kicked off, Niger Delta during curfew during civil unrest and Cairo when the revolution started. How lucky I feel to have to endure this one.
 
My "lockdown" has been anything but locked down.

Our FAMILY has stayed essentially contact-free from the rest of the world, but we've been out for drive-up dinner collection and necessary groceries from time to time. We've also been out (on our own, away from others) to walk the dog, and get some exercise.

As for MYSELF, I had things that were essential enough that I continued on with only a stop or three at Lowe's which has a decent "distancing" regime in effect.

Meanwhile, I completed my new shop building, emptied the rental storage units, and brought the bikes and stuff to the ranch-
Lockdown Pics

Lockdown Pics

I've also been working on the complete mock-up of my Quicksilver, in order to determine what parts and fasteners need ordering...
Lockdown Pics

Plus, a MAJOR MILESTONE! I now have a functioning toilet...
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Here's my lockdown photo. Waiting to go visit Dan Clark to reassemble it with him. New rings, gaskets, seals, hone job. Also taking care of modifications / repairs to the oil tank.

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Didn’t Steve McQueen have a toilet like that in Cool Hand Luke GP? But seriously it’s great to see your bikes coming home.
 
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Not much changed here still working, but don't go anywhere else unless it is something for the shed.
Still have enough projects to last me till I am 150, too ashamed to post any photos, well maybe one or two of the new bathroom and kitchen in the workshop. Wife wasn't real keen on my red kitchen, but after she painted it she liked it?
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GP you work a lot faster then me, I have been plugging away on the bathroom and kitchen work about 4 months now.
Also looks like you will need to live a fair bit longer to finish your projects as well.
Anyway chaps take care and live to ride another day.

Burgs
 
Burgs said:
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GP you work a lot faster then me
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Realize, I didn't personally build that building, I had a crew of concrete guys, and a crew of steel erectors doing 95% of the work.

Burgs said:
I have been plugging away on the bathroom and kitchen work about 4 months now.
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If that room with the swivel chair is a bathroom, that sheetrock should have been the green-skinned moisture-proof variety...

Burgs said:
Also looks like you will need to live a fair bit longer to finish your projects as well.
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No man knows the day he will be called to his eternal reward, and what project is ever REALLY finished?
 
Hi GP
Still a fair way to go , bathroom walls are Villaboard 6mm compressed cement, yep still got to waterproof yet, tiles finish plumbing etc. etc. might be finished before the lockdown is finished?
Had concreters in for the slab, bought the shed from manufacturer, son, grandson and I did the rest, 16m x 9m x 4m under the eaves, used my old 1948 TEA Fergus to stand the portal frames up.
Other job I am working on is fixing the MF40 Backhoe to do some landscaping, for the house renovation that's also started.

Otherwise not much else happening.
Burgs
 
gortnipper said:
Paul - is that a Shoei 1/4 faring on your Honda? I had one of those on my '81.
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Technically, that was my late kid brother, Zed's bike, THEN it was my bike, NOW it's my SON'S bike, but he's stationed in Germany and only took his Foggy Ducati with him.

Yes, it's a Shoe, I also have another one with the "flares" for hand protection. They are great for winter/highway riding in Texas, just enough protection. (I also have an EMGO knockoff I just got for Sally's '02 Bonneville)
 
Hello Burgs,
Old fergusons are good things
Plenty of parts available too.
I just restored a 35x

Graeme
 
grandpaul said:
My "lockdown" has been anything but locked down.

Our FAMILY has stayed essentially contact-free from the rest of the world, but we've been out for drive-up dinner collection and necessary groceries from time to time. We've also been out (on our own, away from others) to walk the dog, and get some exercise.

As for MYSELF, I had things that were essential enough that I continued on with only a stop or three at Lowe's which has a decent "distancing" regime in effect.

Meanwhile, I completed my new shop building, emptied the rental storage units, and brought the bikes and stuff to the ranch-
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I've also been working on the complete mock-up of my Quicksilver, in order to determine what parts and fasteners need ordering...
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Plus, a MAJOR MILESTONE! I now have a functioning toilet...
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Jeez, I'm impressed - You have toilet paper !!
 
I am in maintenance mode on Mk3.

New bars
Head torque and valve clearances
Putting podtronics ignition in
Some new stainless fastenings in various places
RGM rack
Mud flaps, needed for Colorado
New rear tire and inner tube
I am going to fit and test the cNw /John starter stuff and test. That will be a different thread

cheers


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I know I should be out there fixing it, but I cannot. Grief is a horrible thing and every time I go near my bike, I remember my friend dying and the sheer hypocrisy which erupted afterwards. Some people are simply incredible. These days I stay away from the car guys who control our local motor race circuit.. I am not angry, but I just cannot go there. - Do you think I am being precious ?
 
Al the only way to get over grief is to get out there and do it, I have lost a few good mates who we all got into motorcycles when we were 15 years old and the funny thing none of them died from motorcycle accidents, more alcohol, work accidents to heart attacks and health issues, none from motorcycles, and I still ride with some I have been riding with since we left school back in the 70s.

Jerry that workshop is way to clean maybe you should get a few of those fake oil patches for the floor lol.

So far with this lock down I haven't even got to my bikes yet been to busy doing reno work inside my old house so been to busy and have enough to keep me busy for months, but am hanging to get the bikes out, but I am doing the right thing and staying put, I am glad I put these reno jobs off for so long.

Ashley
 
acotrel said:
I know I should be out there fixing it, but I cannot. Grief is a horrible thing and every time I go near my bike, I remember my friend dying and the sheer hypocrisy which erupted afterwards. Some people are simply incredible. These days I stay away from the car guys who control our local motor race circuit.. I am not angry, but I just cannot go there. - Do you think I am being precious ?
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Precious? Not sure, not sure about that.

But IMHO you either gotta use it or lose it.

Having something like that lying around unused is like psychological anchor, dragging you back to former times (and in your case bringing bad baggage with it) and reminding you that you can’t / won’t ever be back there again.

Race it, parade it, track day it, show it, or convert to a road bike... Or sell it.

Jus’ my humble opinion.
 
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