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From: andy broadhurst on 21 Jun 2010 10:45 Nige wrote: > Champ wrote: > > This Monday is 21st June, and therefore nominally the longest day of > > the year. > > > > Anyone up for a ride to the Black Horse for dinner in the evening? > > Some of us did it 3 or so years ago, and it was quite fun. > > According to > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=1325 sunset > > won't be until 21:35, which means it'll be light-ish for an hour or > > so after that with clear skies [1]. And the weather forecast > > currently looks OK. > > > > I've checked with Mu at the Black Horse, and they serve food on a > > Monday evening. > > > > Anyone? > > > > [1] when I rode home from the evening ferry from Liverpool last week > > it didn't get properly dark until well past 10pm. > > I'm riding to Brighton & back in the day on Monday, i might well be > up for that! ok i'm up for this, was going out for food with the missus so it may as well be the Black Horse. Will be in the car as she won't get on the bike though. We'll be there about 7ish. --
From: Pete Fisher on 21 Jun 2010 11:05 In communiqu� <scvm16tips1fe38q46fkvi8kqrl45hk8pe(a)4ax.com>, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >This Monday is 21st June, and therefore nominally the longest day of >the year. > >Anyone up for a ride to the Black Horse for dinner in the evening? >Some of us did it 3 or so years ago, and it was quite fun. According >to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=1325 sunset >won't be until 21:35, which means it'll be light-ish for an hour or so >after that with clear skies [1]. And the weather forecast currently >looks OK. > It was 2006, and I enjoyed it greatly. I would have been up for it, but SWMBO has taken herself off cycling round Shropshire for three days and I am in charge of the lad. In any case, I have had my 'longest day' ride already today, which very unusually featured two 'close encounters', so I perhaps it's best I pass up the opportunity for third time unlucky. It also involved a heart sinking moment when the GFR motor died quite suddenly and I thought the ignition had gone again. Fearing the worst I coasted to a stop before discovering that it had just run out of juice, being thirstier than the Voxan and having an even smaller tank. My joy, on putting the tap to 'reserve' and finding normal service resumed, was almost unbounded. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: SIRPip on 21 Jun 2010 11:12 Pete Fisher wrote: > My joy, on putting the tap to 'reserve' and finding normal > service resumed, was almost unbounded. Your reserve pot runneth over, eh? It is close to a moment of divine revelation as most of us get, being able to twist the petcock round another notch and being allowed to carry on to greater things. -- SIRPip : B12
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 21 Jun 2010 11:19 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> typed >Pete Fisher wrote: > >> My joy, on putting the tap to 'reserve' and finding normal >> service resumed, was almost unbounded. > >Your reserve pot runneth over, eh? It is close to a moment of divine >revelation as most of us get, being able to twist the petcock round >another notch and being allowed to carry on to greater things. Unless you reach down to deftly flick it to reserve, and find that you forgot to put it back to "main" after the last time. Not that I would ever do something so stupid, Oh no, not me... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Pete Fisher on 21 Jun 2010 11:35
In communiqu� <xn0gvnji48pcdwo01a(a)news.eternal-september.org>, SIRPip <gingerbloke(a)gmail.com> cast forth these pearls of wisdom >Pete Fisher wrote: > >> My joy, on putting the tap to 'reserve' and finding normal >> service resumed, was almost unbounded. > >Your reserve pot runneth over, eh? It is close to a moment of divine >revelation as most of us get, being able to twist the petcock round >another notch and being allowed to carry on to greater things. > A classic case of what followers of Zen refer to as 'hasty closing'. It's not the first time the wee beast has gargled all its main ration, but it usually gives a bit more warning, and I'm usually not half expecting something to go wrong. I was already looking round for landmarks to give the recovery people and had pushed it along to somewhere I could get it well off the road and even taken my helmet and gloves off before trying reserve. If I had only taken the time to take the cap off and check before setting out I could have spared myself the anxiety, eh? I now recall, that in a fit of stinginess I only put a fiver's worth of petrol in it on the last time it had a decent ride (when it broke down) and foolishly zeroed the odometer, so my range estimate was wildly off. I was pretty sure I had screwed the stator and most importantly the rotor back on properly, but there's always this nagging doubt for the first hundred or so miles after reasonably major fiddling with bits that spin round at up to 13000 rpm. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Peter(a)ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |