Our annual kickstart bike only ride

Well that time of year again our annual kickstart only bike run, last time last year 20 KS bikes turned up so be good if the numbers are bigger this year, meeting at Matty place at 7:30am for a 8am start off, I just fired up the Norton so I could check the oil level after a warm up, fired up first kick as usual with the Joe Hunt, the last time I rode it the carbs needed an adjustment as one carb was idling a bit higher than the other and I forgot to take my small screw driver with me so once warmed up gave the idle screws a bit of an adjustment and now idling great.
Not sure where we are heading but be a 200 mile ride somewhere in the hills and hopefully evade the cops, last year we got pulled up for breath test up at Mt Mee but the police woman was very friendly, Matty and another rider got a speeding camera ticket in the mail a week later but no one else didn't, a hidden camera somewhere hiding along the way on the Clear Mt road, we didn't even see it and I was right behind Matty but it missed me and both riders were on BSA's.
I prob be the only Norton again, but then you never know who will show up, this is a ride from mates we all grew up with and we all know each other from our local area of Sandgate on the northside of Brisbane.
My Norton has been running so well and has never missed a beat in the last 15 years with only minor adjustments here and there and normal oil changes, haven't even looked at the valve adjustment in that time as I know when they need doing, my Norton speaks to me and coming up to 50 years of ownership I think it knows me as well lol, since running with the Joe Hunt I have clocked up 40k+ miles in the 15+ years I installed it and haven't touched it, while it starting first kick and running great I leave it alone except for pulling the front cover off to check on the point and a few drops of STP on the point cam lube pad when I do an oil change, I also mix STP with my motor oil and have done so since 1982.
Taking my good camera tomorrow so will get some great pics to put up.

Ashley

"Matty and another rider got a speeding camera ticket in the mail a week later"

I call them "outstanding performance awards"

concours said:

"Matty and another rider got a speeding camera ticket in the mail a week later"

I call them "outstanding performance awards"

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Or they took a bullet for the rest of us.

At 2 am it was pissing down rain here but at 5am emptying the tea pot and unlocking my shed the sky was blue and clear as the sun has already risen, so looking like a nice day, predicting rain from Monday for the week and run up to Xmas.