Long live DST!

I love daylight saving time, it's like a modern-day ritual festival that signals the end of winter and the return of the riding season. Those who think it's a bad thing are either people who don't ride (what the hell is wrong with you??) or Scandinavians, and, well... there's your problem right there. (I'm joking! put away your Viking battle axes, sheesh!)

Down here, where it makes sense to uphold DST, we celebrate it by getting our toys out and ready for new adventures. This year, I used the excuse of a chill hang at uncle Fester's garage to test the Fastback's newly refurbished Isolastic and gearbox sprocket.

It's a long enough round trip that takes me from the Monolith up and over a holy mountain, then down towards the coast and back, so ideal for a shake down and proper test to see how everything works.

I can confirm the new Isolastic kit works a treat, and the sweet spot with no perceptible vibration seems to be from 2.800 to 3.500 rpm. There is a very, very slight increase in vibration higher up, but you can tell the rubber bushes are still effective and doing their job. I'll probably do one or two outings as is, before I decide if I want to try a different setting.

Back at uncle Fester's, the German showed up in his black E type:

and we observed him fitting a new Siebenrock big bore kit to one of his BWM specials:

Meanwhile, my cousin has finally, at long last decided to get himself a motorcycle, and scored this almost complete Honda 500 Four:

There's obviously a lot to do, but this is not as frightening as it may appear; this is just an ugly duckling guys, it'll turn out really neat, you'll see...

Get out there and GO RIDE!