Catch-up
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.