On the Road Again!

We picked Molly up from the storage campsite at Daleacres. I got all the locks off and then the silver screen. In the fortnight she had been there as well as every bird in the area taking turns shitting on her, it had rained. I ran the wipers and then the washers. Wipers worked. No water. I drove the short distance home. Had the bonnet up and filled the washer bottle with the premix water and cleaner. Then tried the washers. Plenty of motor action. No water on windscreen/windshield. Bonnet/hood up. Try again. Water squirting out sideways. Bugger. There's a hole in the pipe near the filler. Closer inspection. Two holes. It looks as though the have worn through by rubbing against the metal jubilee clip holding the windscreen trough pipe! I am hoping this is the only problem.  It looks like cutting the pipe and fitting a length of hose in and rerouting to avoid chaffing the metal clip is all that needs doing. Keyhole surgery!!! The photo doesn't give a true impession of the tightn...

With the pathetically low mileage I am doing I seem to hardly use any oil in Pepé! But I like to keep it topped up. I have always used a semi-synthetic oil in all the bikes and a 10w40 range oil. The manual isn't all that helpful: So having a look on the API website SH is a well out of date specification. I know the Rocket is getting on a bit in engine terms but SH is positively antediluvian in comparison! A bit more poking about on the various websites or forums it seems that Triumph shifted from Mobil to Castrol oils, Armed with a 25% off "friends and family" voucher from fellow  Meldrew, Trevor Rice, I checked out the Halford's webpage. I have ordered Castrol Power 1 4T Motorcycle Engine Oil. It's £39 for four litres and I guess it's formulated for motorcycles. The 25% off makes it less painful. Not being an expert I have no idea whether the modern turbo car engine is more or less oil conscious than motorcycles!  We were told in the 80's that motorcycl...