Well it’s been a while.  Life has got very busy lately and with the weather the way it has been the opportunities for the Old Dragon and I to get out have been severely limited.  For my sins I have also been doing some work on the Ulysses UK website.  Hopefully there will be a new version up and running soon.

Anyway, more work has been done on Jessica all brought on by a planned 4 day trip around Wales at the end of the month with my little brother.  The rear suspension was stripped done to re-grease pivot points etc etc which revealed that the seals on the shock absorber were on their way out.  Strangely I have been finding the rear end a little bouncy around corners recently so it wasn’t that much of a shock, no pun intended !  Fortunately a cost effective used item in very good condition was sourced from a breakers yard and one worn out spacer in the linkage was found at Pro-Bike in Newbury.  The end result being a bike that handles considerably better and sailed through it’s MOT.  The only thing left to do now is to fit a 12v socket to charge a phone from and run a sat-nav and we will be ready to go.

On the subject of the MOT, I found a wonderful workshop that, if you’re in the area, you really should know about.  2 Brothers Motorcycles are fantastic guys.  I had heard rumour they were good but the reality is even better than I had been lead to believe.  These are proper bikers with a real love for bikes and utterly nice guys as well.  Please, support them if you can.