Well, the Picasso has gone to a new home. Got less than I'd have liked, but not by much considering I'd lost the service history and it needs a couple of tyres soon. Lady with 3 kids bought her mum and dad to look at it. He crawled over it with a fine-tooth comb. He says.."Discs look like they're getting thin".... I say "hold on, I'll go and get my micrometer out and we can measure them". He decides not to bother trying it on any more.
Much as motorcycling sometimes annoys me, I went out for a 2 hour ride yesterday and loved it. Nice to potter along through the countryside and also nice to be able to overtake a line of traffic simply by looking, indicating and cracking the throttle open in 2nd , and dispatching 4 cars and a tractor in no time at all. A move totally safe on a 'bike but impossible in any car, unless you want to spend a few hundred grand..
The 107 continues to do what it's supposed to do. I'll be taking some pics and putting it up for sale shortly.
The Scenic. Well, I discovered why my sis-in-law gave it to me with a duff N/S headlight bulb. What an arse of a thing to replace. There is *no* way to get at it from the top - and that's from me, who can do a 107 bulb with relative ease without removing anything! Apparently there are 3 ways - 1) battery out, do it from the top. 2) Bumper off, remove lamp unit. 3) Remove arch liner and go in from there. Have to do it all by feel though, as the lens is frosted and the bulb can't be seen from the front. Here's me doing an impression of a vet attending to a cow's innards...
Why that is upside down, I have no idea. Perhaps a mod can fix it please?
Then I decided to do the air filter as I had one, and I know it's not been changed for at least 5 years..
The air filter is here...
- Why put it there?
All this lot has to come off to get at It!
- Grrr
Then you can finally change It..
- Found It
After all that I then gave it some new wiper blades to replace the at least 5 year old ones that were on it. I also installed an aux-in cable to the back of the standard head unit and routed it to my little Bluetooth receiver box, so we now have streaming music via Bluetooth/Spotify/Internet Radio. There's just the timing belt to do if I can get a decent price for doing it. I'll leave it a couple of months and see of we still like it. I also want to do a dreaded autobox fluid change....
So, after all that, I needed to go and blow the cobwebs off...
- Hambleden on a V-Twin
Always nice when a deal goes smoothly like that 
