How are you doing??

I secretly hope you’re just wildly enjoying summer and good health…..or tooling around on that motorcycle….or are creating something so spectacular with any of your looms that you haven’t had a minute to blog.

I’m pretty sure the whole blogosphere misses your presence!

Happy September!

Sue

There’s reason for hope. I read your blog, and found you’ve been struggling with health difficulties also. Best wishes to you, too.

Tim

I’m very late in replying to everyone also. I hope to be able to pen another installment soon.

The British should stick with singles and twins built on a British pattern — which unfortunately were perfected not in the UK, but overseas.

Your road conditions are daunting for even hard-core American motorcyclists. I recall being on a “dugway” near Devon with a friend in his “hot” Volvo back when I had hair. “Damn,” I said, “Nixon is going awfully fast, considering this road is about six inches wider than the car.” “Oh well, I thought, he knows what he is doing, and 80 kph is just about 50 in statute miles.”

Then I looked again at the speedo, which was calibrated in the old (and proper.)

Best,

Tim

My previous bikes have been: Ducati 600SS, which was too tall for me and top heavy, and couldn’t cope with the local roads as it had a 26′ turning circle; Honda CB250RSA (built 1980) super reliable and sturdy, lots of torque and kick start - loved the kick start - and lovely single cyclinder “chug” sound, best bike ever for heavy city traffic as it would go as slow as 3mph and then a flick of the throttle left the cars standing; learnt on a Yamaha 125c custom, a clumsy beast and on a Suzuki GS500.