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Timo Geusch - 20 Jul 2007 09:38 GMT

FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess myself
up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to Chimay, even
if I found the key.

The K *should* be fixed today (hopefully) so I may still go if I feel I
can handle that bike.

Can someone please turn up Global Warming a notch as these old bones
don't seem to be able to take this relatively cool and wet thing we
think of as 'summer'?

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mike. buckley - 20 Jul 2007 10:23 GMT

>FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess myself
>up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to Chimay, even
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>don't seem to be able to take this relatively cool and wet thing we
>think of as 'summer'?

Apparently Birmingham is about to get 2 months rain in 1 day, with
torrential rain, storms and flooding forecast until later tonight.

Makes me feel slightly better for binning Chimay, but I see the forecast
for tomorrow in Charleroi has improved somewhat. Ho hum.

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Timo Geusch - 20 Jul 2007 10:26 GMT

>>FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess myself
>>up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to Chimay, even
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Apparently Birmingham is about to get 2 months rain in 1 day, with
> torrential rain, storms and flooding forecast until later tonight.

*Nice*. That'll be a proper English summer then.

> Makes me feel slightly better for binning Chimay, but I see the
> forecast for tomorrow in Charleroi has improved somewhat. Ho hum.

Yeah, noticed that. One reason I'm kinda glad I was only leaving
tomorrow morning.

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Paul - xxx - 20 Jul 2007 10:41 GMT

>>> FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess
>>> myself up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
> Yeah, noticed that. One reason I'm kinda glad I was only leaving
> tomorrow morning.

Probably predictable, but this might help ..

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or http://tinyurl.com/3yzh9a

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Buzby - 20 Jul 2007 15:14 GMT

mike. buckley wibbled:

> > FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess
> > myself up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Apparently Birmingham is about to get 2 months rain in 1 day, with
> torrential rain, storms and flooding forecast until later tonight.

It's on the way having just passed through Aylesbury in your general
direction. Enjoy.

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Champ - 23 Jul 2007 10:31 GMT

>Apparently Birmingham is about to get 2 months rain in 1 day, with
>torrential rain, storms and flooding forecast until later tonight.
>
>Makes me feel slightly better for binning Chimay, but I see the forecast
>for tomorrow in Charleroi has improved somewhat. Ho hum.

Pity - would have been good fun to have two turbos there.

The weather was lovely, btw.

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mike. buckley - 23 Jul 2007 11:07 GMT

>>Apparently Birmingham is about to get 2 months rain in 1 day, with
>>torrential rain, storms and flooding forecast until later tonight.
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>
>The weather was lovely, btw.

Yeh, I can see from the pics it looked ok when you got there. I really
wouldn't have liked the trip down to Dover on the Friday though. Glad
everybody got back ok.

Btw, that TPS and throttle body part got re-listed on ebay - went for
over 100 quid last night!

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Champ - 23 Jul 2007 13:25 GMT

>Btw, that TPS and throttle body part got re-listed on ebay - went for
>over 100 quid last night!

Wow!

Mine is running really well after the adjustment I made (tho it's
burning a lot of fuel!). But, you're welcome to borrow my TPS to see
if it makes a difference to yours.

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Hog - 24 Jul 2007 11:55 GMT

> FFS. Thanks to riding some 'sportier' bikes I've managed to mess
> myself up rather well so I doubt I'll be able to ride the 400/4 to
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> don't seem to be able to take this relatively cool and wet thing we
> think of as 'summer'?

If I'd made it on Thursday night I would have dragged you by those long
greasy locks. Couldn't stop on Friday unfortunately as those feckin' M25
roadworks held me up badly.

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