Bullet contact breaker point saver

I decided to fit out my Royal Enfield Bullet with an electronic points saver. I was happy to keep the points and the mechanical advance/retard mechanism – I really just wanted to take the load off the points and the capacitor. The advantage is that the points will not wear although the heel of the … Read more

Bullet – 2 months in

Changes so Far I fitted a pair of new Heidenhau K34 tyres with new Michelin Tubes I have changed the handlebars to the standard for the bike. I have re-routed the speedo cable to behind the bottom yoke instead of in front of it thus taking out an unnecessary S bend. I can now tell … Read more

The Pooper Scooper

I got done today. My own fault I suppose. Last week as I came out of Tesco, my receipt blew away as I was packing the car. I spent a half hour trying to find it but to no avail. But a licensed litter picker managed to find it. Maybe she caught it almost as soon as it blew away, I don’t know.
Anyway, the letter came today…
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Biting the Bullet

It was an impulse buy. I had started to restore my very rusted 1984 BMW R65LS and it was dawning on me that, with the time I could spend on it, this would be a 1-2 year project. During that time I had no bike. So I thought how about getting a little runaround? I … Read more

Putting the Earth into Perspective

Usually when the statistics of the earth are described, diagrams are used. Somewhere in the description is the disclaimer “Not to scale”. There is a reason for this, it’s almost impossible to show the relative dimensions on a paper diagram.

But it can be done… Read more

Spend a Penny

On March 13th 2018 Philip Hammond made possibly the only sensible suggestion he has ever made while in government – to scrap the 1p and 2p coins. One day later Theresa May overruled him following hysteria in the tabloid press.   When I was around 8 or so I used to be sent to the … Read more