¡InvictaMoto!

I can't remember the last time Vera was out on the road.  Looking on Fuelly I did a small fill up, and not a full tank, on the 12th September last year. So today I fired up the bike on the drive. I had my bike gear ready in case it started. It needed the dbPower 600A to get it started again. Of course, it maybe the low battery but the FI code appears alternating with the odometer mileage on the instrument panel. It usually takes three cycles of off and back on again. Not really bothered as I expected it was actually the exhaust valve again.  I got as far as the fuel station at Stelling Minnis to fill up. The FI was flashing still. The bike did feel as though the fuelling wasn't right so I was convinced it's the exhaust valve. I filled up there and once clear of the pumps I ended up with three more off/on cycles before the FI disappeared. From there I headed up Stone Street to Canterbury and onto the A2, back down through Hawkinge.  I went to find the Battle of Britain Mus...

A plug for the other blog I do for trips away in the campervan.   https://malibu-molly.blogspot.com/2025/03/summer-2015-alsace-beyond.html At the planning stage at the moment.  Come and have a look! The blog title comes from the first line of this song by the lovely Sonja and Curved Air back in 1971. Yes. I did buy the single!

There are no words!  What a performance.

MAG has launched a petition calling for the motorcycles in bus lanes consultation outcome to be reversed.  Sign the petition now ! Last year’s motorcycles in bus lanes consultation resulted in a decision against adopting a national default policy.  MAG vowed to mount a full campaign to get the outcome reversed. That campaign launches today with the publication of a government petition.  The petition was raised by MAG’s Director of Campaigns & Political Engagement, Colin Brown. The petition format allows for only a very brief description, so MAG has also published three supporting documents.  The first is a longer version of the petition wording, better laying out the argument of the petition.  Secondly there is a detailed analysis of the consultation responses from 46 key stakeholders.  These consultation responses were provided via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request lodged by MAG.  These responses allow us to see the detail of arguments agains...

The one that I bought about 18 months ago for the Autoquest 175 was really good for the manual gearbox motorhome.  The pedal lock fitted over the clutch and the brake. The "experts" on Facebook and other groups poo-poo the idea as they say that the thief will simply chop the pedals off and drive on the stubs.  Maybe. But the longer you slow the scum down the better? Of course a professional thief will take whatever and whenever. So with that in mind I decided to get one that fits the two pedal automatic Ducato that our Malibu is built from.  This fits over both pedals. The manual model could only go over the brake and the rest was idle at the side and could be twisted to give some braking. This one is a very firm fit with no play at all. It fits easily enough and comes in a bag for when not in use.  For under £70 all-in it gives peace of mind.

After trying several times to login and getting weird error returned at HTML, I finally got logged in and kicked it off. The time and date clearly visible.  I have never once downloaded and installed the upgrade to my TomTom without it falling over and having to be restarted.  Let's see how it works this time now that I am documenting it! So this time it only failed once.  At 6% updating it lost connection with the device. Except the device screen says it is connected to the laptop! When it restarts it goes back to downloading from the TomTom site. The device came up to say the update was commpleted but whern I go back to the laptop it's updating! Again? The same one? This is a crap system.   Finally at 17:24 it finished!   Hurrah!