Winter work on Ethel

Ethel has been treated to a new Odyssey maintenance
free battery. So far this does what it says on the tin. It has sat there untrickled through all that minus degree weather and really does spin up the motor much quicker than before. I also fitted Goodridge braided hoses,new pads and fluid.As a disc brake novice I was inundated with horror stories of bleeding out air bubbles. I bought a Mnotrax Little Bleeder one way valve kit - it took 15 minutes each side, job done !
Ethel went straight through her MOT with an advisory that the exhaust clamp has deteriorated. Bit of a mystery this as it appeared to be all there but the end can did wobble - it always has ! Solved by the Flying Brick Forum. There is a mica sleeve insert that slips over the manifold and the can goes over that. Got one next day delivery from the very efficient Motorwerks and now have a very quiet Ethel with less whistling sound and no pops on the over run.
Ethel seems as ready to go as I am and is running sweeter than ever. I'll do an oil change before we go to Europe and hopefully that will be it.
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Winter over at last ?

In the words of the old Cream song " You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever, so you rode upon a steamer to the glad lands of the sun "
Well the fast cat to Caen may not exactly be that but it's a start. At the end of April we are off to Europe again - at last.
Trigger for the trip is the Gabfesters forum taking a 4 day dash to France and back so we'll start off with them. At the end of that we'll go South with a member of British Bikers France and then off on our own in the direction of Carcassonne - equipped for camping !
After that it's up the East side of France and over to the Eifel to join The Flying Brick forum for their weekend meet.
Cannot wait to get going.
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