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While I haven't posted any riding videos of my own I'm fortunate that The Mighty Garage often had the cameras rolling when we go somewhere. Bike is running great. I keep thinking about ditching the Mikuni and going back to Amal, but fortunately I'm too lazy to do that.

I've contemplated rebuilding the front end. I have a brand new set of fork tubes. Yeah, I haven't done that either.

Otherwise I'm going to see if I can sneak down to the rally in California. Maybe.



 
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swooshdave said:
While I haven't posted any riding videos of my own I'm fortunate that The Mighty Garage often had the cameras rolling when we go somewhere. Bike is running great. I keep thinking about ditching the Mikuni and going back to Amal, but fortunately I'm too lazy to do that.

I've contemplated rebuilding the front end. I have a brand new set of fork tubes. Yeah, I haven't done that either.

Otherwise I'm going to see if I can sneak down to the rally in California. Maybe.



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Swoosh,
Glad to see you back here as I always enjoyed your posts on your builds.
Mike
 
"I've contemplated rebuilding the front end. I have a brand new set of fork tubes. Yeah, I haven't done that either."

Yeah...I have been meaning to do several different projects...some for quite a while. Sadly, I have finally learned that my "meaning-to-do" something never actually gets it done! :(
 
swooshdave said:
We often get "False Summers" in Spring. A week or two of beautiful weather and then rain again. Until July... 😆
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We get that here in Normandy too. Haven't been riding my motorcycle, but I have been out on my bicycle on some nice days, and suddenly, it's too cold!
 
We have all year riding here in my State of Queensland but this year so far has been very wet and seems every weekend it rains and great weather during weekdays when I am doing other things sadly, but be getting out on the Norton Sunday for sure, it's coming up to our winter next month and we have the best riding days in our cooler winters, better than cooking our brains out in our hot summers, even now the cooler days are great if not raining, last few months we had rain, a cyclone and more rain and floods, outback Queensland still having floods although the rain has stopped out there, even in my old backyard rain gauge I have recorded more than 600mm + over the last 2 months and not far from me some places recorded over 1500mm +, our wet season has lingered on longer than expected.
 
"I have recorded more than 600mm + over the last 2 months and not far from me some places recorded over 1500mm +, "

Don't know if that's a lot of rain or not. I'm an American so, along with the men/women of Liberia and Myanmar, I don't know nuthin 'bout no millimeters. :rolleyes:
 
Dusted off the MKIII off yesterday and took her for a ride, this bike is our Rally bike and it's going to see some miles at this year's event. Old Britts did a rebuild of the motor for me in 2006 and she has been bullet proof, never let me down. This upcoming rally (Quincy, California) is at an incredible location for riding and if you can make it you should. Really nice place, who knows how much longer we have to ride??
Chuck.
 
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Dusted off the MKIII off yesterday and took her for a ride, this bike is our Rally bike and it's going to see some miles at this year's event. Old Britts did a rebuild of the motor for me in 2006 and she has been bullet proof, never let me down. This upcoming rally (Quincy, California) is at an incredible location for riding and if you can make it you should. Really nice place, who knows how much longer we have to ride??
Chuck.
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I was at the rally they had there in the 90s. I missed the last one there.
 
This is going to be a great event! Sign up now and be entered in a drawing for excellent garage art by Norton owner and artist Robert Carter, who has generously sweetened the early-bird drawing pot even further by contributing a 24" x 18' Limited Edition print of his original oil painting
 

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swooshdave said:
We often get "False Summers" in Spring. A week or two of beautiful weather and then rain again. Until July...
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hee hee...

We have early summer, fake spring, regular summer, middle of summer, late summer, fake fall, really late summer, the cold weeks, then early summer again.
 

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