Counting Down

Less than 3 weeks to go now, till I head off to Europe, in search of memorials and motorcycle racing. I've managed a few trips to Spitfire Club on Ginny this last month and am really looking forward to putting another couple of thousand miles on her clock. Here's an interesting fact; I put fuel in Ginny on Monday 3rd June. The last time I fuelled her up, was 4th September! It's even longer since she last had a bath, so I'm hoping to get that done before we set off.

As mentioned in the previous post, Ginny's warranty expires whilst I'm away, least it was to have done. I've renewed again, taking Mark the mechanic's advice. That done, I'm currently working on getting all the necessary paperwork together, and starting to think about what I'm going to pack. How few pairs of pants can I get away with for the fortnight, leaving enough room for some beers on the return journey? 🤔

Apart from the odd day, we're still waiting for summer to arrive, so I'm hoping things perk up soon. I don't fancy spending 2 weeks in my waterproofs! In prep for this trip, I've washed my mesh jacket. Not sure it had ever been done since I bought it in 2018, and it's been through some sweltering temperatures in the interim period, so definitely needed it. Having done that, I decided to upgrade the armour in it. That it came with, was thick rubber. Probably effective but quite uncomfortable. One of the shoulder pads had come loose (velcro shagged) on tour last year, so I needed to do something. So, on the way back from Bognor, a few weeks back, I stopped off at Motolegends in Guildford, the place where I bought the jacket, and purchased some more modern, thinner and more comfortable armour. It took some fiddling, to get it in the right position but now it is in, it is so much more comfortable and flexible. I bought some extra for my jeans but have yet to fit that, as I need to get some heavy duty sticky backed velcro to fix it in place.

The Old Armour

The New Armour

Some other prep I've been up to, is washing all the padding from my crash helmet (again, not been done since 2018), installing the latest Tomtom maps (and the route maps), and updating the firmware of my Sena headset, so, I'm not far off being ready to go.

Think that is all for now.