Chris
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Spent last week with a big smile on my face. Managed to get out at Donington. Something I did not think was going to happen. Got home from work on Thursday night & started to pack the van, finally finishing just before midnight. Yep load myself from the get go! Then had the jockey wheel on the caravan collapse! Not much of a slope on my drive way but I had to pick up (my pop up caravan) & drag it to the tow bar. All good no hernia visable I tested the electrics & found the brake lights out on the nearside. Torch in mouth I stripped the lights of & replaced all the bulbs. Van light working caravan not! Tested the circuit & found it was the 7 pin connector. Well Im not playing with that in the dark so I pumped it full of cleaner & went into wash. Only ten past one, not bad really. Somehow managed to get up two hours later & drive the couple of hundred miles to Donington. Many thanks to John Davidson for his efforts to get me out. For some strange reason ie how badly I rode at Croft I actually did the right thing & entered the parades.
Six rides over the three days. Bike only buggered about twice. Didnt charge up the Interspan enough & missed the last few laps of one session & then had the same problem as Croft. Changing gear going down the box when tramping on a bit the engine stalled. Seems hanging on while braking hard, I cant blip the throttle enough! Well broke a few rules & jacked the tickover up. It did it again on Sunday but I managed to restart it at the esses. New carb cables required as they see to be compressing?
Met a lot of people who were building Commandos & a fair few into race frames. None were going to be raced. Met a nice man with an original Seeley Commando purchased last year to parade. In his first meeting the barrels cracked at the flanges! Highlight of the weekend was meeting up with Bernd Schaefer from Germany who was in England to take in a few events. Donnington being one & a track day at Oulton Park on his 675 Triumph Daytona another. Well invited Bernd in for a tea & a chat & found out he is a member of this forum & has a race Commando that has a frame nearly as bright as mine. Even more suprising I found out he was a rider in the Spa four hour endurance race on the Gulf Rob North triple. I am a TR3oc man. Well I have decided that the project Rickman Commando may have a German pilot if Bernd comes over next season! We had a great weekend & a few beers as well as a good laugh.
Sorry about the photos but they but a smile back on my face.
My brother Steve on the North
Spent last week with a big smile on my face. Managed to get out at Donington. Something I did not think was going to happen. Got home from work on Thursday night & started to pack the van, finally finishing just before midnight. Yep load myself from the get go! Then had the jockey wheel on the caravan collapse! Not much of a slope on my drive way but I had to pick up (my pop up caravan) & drag it to the tow bar. All good no hernia visable I tested the electrics & found the brake lights out on the nearside. Torch in mouth I stripped the lights of & replaced all the bulbs. Van light working caravan not! Tested the circuit & found it was the 7 pin connector. Well Im not playing with that in the dark so I pumped it full of cleaner & went into wash. Only ten past one, not bad really. Somehow managed to get up two hours later & drive the couple of hundred miles to Donington. Many thanks to John Davidson for his efforts to get me out. For some strange reason ie how badly I rode at Croft I actually did the right thing & entered the parades.
Six rides over the three days. Bike only buggered about twice. Didnt charge up the Interspan enough & missed the last few laps of one session & then had the same problem as Croft. Changing gear going down the box when tramping on a bit the engine stalled. Seems hanging on while braking hard, I cant blip the throttle enough! Well broke a few rules & jacked the tickover up. It did it again on Sunday but I managed to restart it at the esses. New carb cables required as they see to be compressing?
Met a lot of people who were building Commandos & a fair few into race frames. None were going to be raced. Met a nice man with an original Seeley Commando purchased last year to parade. In his first meeting the barrels cracked at the flanges! Highlight of the weekend was meeting up with Bernd Schaefer from Germany who was in England to take in a few events. Donnington being one & a track day at Oulton Park on his 675 Triumph Daytona another. Well invited Bernd in for a tea & a chat & found out he is a member of this forum & has a race Commando that has a frame nearly as bright as mine. Even more suprising I found out he was a rider in the Spa four hour endurance race on the Gulf Rob North triple. I am a TR3oc man. Well I have decided that the project Rickman Commando may have a German pilot if Bernd comes over next season! We had a great weekend & a few beers as well as a good laugh.
Sorry about the photos but they but a smile back on my face.
My brother Steve on the North
