Well, all got it together really early , to beat the heat --- and got 400yards when the twistgrip [accellerator] on Joes bike [my black bike] fell apart. I rode round to the Enfield dealer with said part to find it wasnt standard - a cheap copy part had been fitted yet again!! He had one anyway as he keeps any old parts that are still ok. I returned to fit it and one of the screws which hold it on had lost its head- so I went to get another one this one was about 5mm too long so we then had to hacksaw it down to size. All this done we got aboard the bikes and set off --alot hotter than expected. We got another 200 yards when the head gasket went! We couldnt believe it! The air was blue. Joe and I pushed the bloody wreck to the enfield garage where the mechanic [who is great by the way] told us it would be done by 4 in the afternoon.
So its back to the hotels that we"d just checked out of. We told them that it was so good here we didnt want to leave. A few beers later and we went to pick up the bike, and as we went for a test drive we noticed petrol leaking from the tank, straight onto the hot exhaust pipe.Removed the tank, which we had just filled up in the morning, drained it and found that it had been bodged with putty. Off it goes to the engineering works to be soldered. An hour later and we are ready to go again ---jeez this bike will be the ruin of us all! The repair bill for the head work and the soldering etc was only a fiver!
Leaving next morning, none of us had any confidence in the black bike at all, but we had to press on. I told Joe if it was going to give us any more problems we would push it over a cliff and he could continue on the back of Martin.
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