The smell of it.

It had been a long week of not being able to ride and I thought I'd wheel it outside and kick it over for no other reason than to get a whiff of the good stuff. Here's a short clip of the engine ticking over.

You can see a character graze I got when I slipped on the moss in the shed and it fell against an rusty old rotary hoe.....I took it out for a quick ride and in true Victorian style it rained and it cut my fun short anyway...she's running well, I put a B7HS plug in and gave the mix screw an 1/8th turn out and the hesitation I had was gone. I can say that it's just hungry for throttle, if it's not flat out it's begging for it.  Once it's warmed and I'm out riding the idle is a little faster than when I start it up, but after about 20 seconds it settles down, not sure why?
900kms on the new DR kit, 5305kms on the clock.

The freedom

A good few days of dry weather has given me a chance to ride in to work each day, despite the frosty mornings and misty fog the old girl has been firing up on the third kick, run for a few cycles and stop, one kick and 10 seconds and stop, one kick and 30 seconds and stop, then I give her some throttle to get the revs up and then she'll sit there and idle away, I dont blame her for being a little cranky in the morning when its only 5 degrees C.
I go the long way of course and it gives me some chance to open her up a bit as well as the usual morning traffic, She loves the cold weather too, I get her up to 75 on the speedo before I even get to fourth gear, I haven't pushed past 90kmph just yet but there is plenty more there, I still want a couple of hundred more kms on the cylinder before I get too excited, a clear weekend coming so theres a chance to get some decent miles on the clock. She doesn't like the slow cruising of regular traffic, much happier getting some decent throttle. I couldn't be happier to be back on the road and reliable again.