Saturday, September 28, 2019

Shocking Repair

A job I've been meaning to do since I bought "The Glide", a previous owners "Ah that'll do repair" at some stage in the past, the wires from the regulator to the alternator were covered with random piece of plastic and then wrapped in insulating tape, they didn't even try to put tape over bare wire,... FFS






Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Started new heat shields for The Glide,...

So started a winter project early, seeing as the weather is so crap, mocking up used heat shields removed painted black, back to metal, getting them to fit before chroming, the rear lower needs cutting back to move forward about 2" to fit properly, and rear down pipe cover needs shortening a wee bit to fit,....



Thursday, September 19, 2019

Unexpected Sunny Day

The sun arrived back again today spent the day in the garage
cleaning The Glide after last weekend wet run




Sunday, September 15, 2019

Blessing of Bikes


Biker Mass for blessing of the bikes and fallen riders, from Burt Chapel to Neds Point RNLI Station with a collection from the Mass for them, they set up a great spread of sandwiches for us,...!!









Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Waterford Motorcycle Festival Parade July 2019 The Charity run arriving ...


Great run down to Waterford for the bike festival 1,020 miles round trip great weather there and back the bikes arriving from the charity run,...



Saturday, May 18, 2019

Donegal, Dublin, Bray Two Days, One Tattoo

So took a last minute decision to take a two day run down to Bray Co Wicklow Thursday back Friday due to a cancellation for some ink with Badger at Atattoed Ink.
400 mile round trip
2 countries
7 seven counties
4 bars
1 Tattoo
And pissed down with rain all the way home, Job Done

















Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Preparing new heat shields for "The Glide"

No matter how many restoration, builds you do, Its always so satisfying making something good from old,.... Donated heat shields for The Glide preparing for chroming..!!







Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Monday, January 21, 2019

Mild weather salted roads,...

Great mild weather but the salt on the roads not good for The Glide, a few hours cleaning and shiny again,...




Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Cool Malin Head Sky

https://youtu.be/-iKjljgkm0k