Bleargh

Came home today at about half four, with good light, and so had the most marvellous idea that it'd be good to clean my new baby. Of course, it is necessary, and a good thing, since I've not cleaned her yet and it's been two weeks. I think, as with house cleaning (groan) it's a task that is far better to do little and often so that all is well for an extended period - and I'm planning on having this bike for a goodly number of years and longer than the 2 I had the last one.

So, it certainly was still light by the time I got home, but not for long! Cleaning bike off in the dusk and semi-darkness, and in the end, absolute darkness is not the cleverest thing to be doing. Still, it needed it and I'm not likely to have gotten up early of a morning to so do. I still miss greatly the presence of a hose (maybe I need to ask a favour of someone local with an outside tap?!) which would make regular rinsing a lot easier. Still, I'm less covered in road cack, am sprayed with FS365 to keep off the salt, muck and corrosion, and am lubed up with this new-fangled dry lube stuff that you are supposed to just keep reapplying and have reassurances is easier to clean (:-) and does not spray over your back tyre (:-))))) like wet lubes. I now just need to retension my chain and daub it up with copper grease, and I'm set! Regular grease monkey, I'll have to get some overalls.....only things left to worry about is polishing/buffing (nice idea, but I dont have the spare cash for umpteen products and chamois at the moment!) and finding where to put the bloomin' oil in, hidden by fairings as it is! I forsee that I will eventually be removing those fairings for a good clean at some point in the summer.......

Other interesting facts of the day: I'm hungry and have not that much time to cook. Also, you can look up how to say daft sentences in Manx, a most useful pastime!