It was wet yesterday with a bit of thunder too. It wasn't as bad as as I thought it was going to be and it had stopped by lunch time. I was able to get a bit of the garden done in the afternoon. It came out sunny at about 4, but it was too late to do much outside. The farmers will be pleased as it hasn’t rained much lately and they will be complaining soon.The days are drawing in now, but on the bright side it will be the shortest day soon.
Eddie has been wanting a motorbike for quite a while now and I kept saying you will need to get a job to support it. So he has got himself a casual job at the local quarry at Awakeri. He went and did the induction on Monday and came home with a huge pile of A4 paper with all the things he had to know. I wonder what happened to common sense ha ha.
He found a Ducati ST2 at Turner’s auctions last week. We went and picked it up on Friday.
It was a bit fraught at times as when we got there, they said did you know the battery was flat. Well no we didn’t. They gave us a battery charger to get it going, but Eddie couldn’t get to the battery. He thought it was under the seat and the key to get the seat off wouldn’t work. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. He had taken his riding gear and was going to ride it some of the way home, so that didn’t happen. He finally got the seat off at home, only to discover the battery wasn’t there, but tucked up under the fuel tank. More fairings had to come off to access it. What a mission. He did get the lock for the seat fixed though. A nut had come off at the back of the lock mechanism. He got that all fixed on Saturday. He went into the motorbike shop on Saturday too. The battery took ages to charge and he thought it had had it. He was told it was the wrong battery anyway and another one isn’t available until July. What!! So, when the registration, WOF, insurance and the new tyre is on we will be able to go for a ride. Eddie took it down the road and back on Sunday after he had got all the fairings back in place. He was a happy chappy.
He has taken it for it's WOF today and registered it. Just the insurance to go and we are there. We are looking forward to some biking adventures.
It looks orange in the photos, but it is really a nice red. I am not sure why it came out orange.
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