Eunos Chump

After a miserable commute to work the other day, I've decided I'm not going to use the CBR600RR any more.  It'll be fixed and sold or p/x'ed against one of the beauties below, next year: Name: Suzuki Hayabusa Favourite song: 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor Hobbies: speeding, macho posturing, collecting eBay tat accessories Name: BMW K1200S Favourite song: anything by Enya Hobbies: speeding, being really comfy, extended holidays in BMW workshops  Name: Honda Blackbird Favourite song: 'Don't stop movin' by S Club 7 Hobbies:  speeding, cream teas, bowls, Antiques Roadshow, drinking all the petrol Name: Kawasaki ZZR1400 Favourite song: anything by Gary Barlow Hobbies: speeding, rusting, looking this hideous and 90% of the time in that bloody green colour

Today Mad Chris, Mad Ken, new recruit Mad Danny and myself went to Brackley Bike Festival.  There were race bike demos along the high street, and lots of bike dealers/bike kit/chunky biker chicks, etc.  At one point I was sat listening to a very loud and not very good rock band playing AC/DC covers - my teenage self would have been DISGUSTED by what I've become.  Nobody prevented me having a sit on a MSX125, and now I want one even more.  Though it's small, it's comfy enough for an adult.  185 MPG claimed, though probably not with an enormous lump like myself on it. I'd get fed up with it in a week... but what a week that would be.

Mad Chris and I visited Bletchley Park yesterday.  Obviously the Bombe machine and Colossus are fascinating, but NOTHING can top an ICL 2900 mainframe!   Takes me back to '88 when I first went into the CITB server room and saw near identical kit running - it was like STAR TREK, MAN!  That enormous disk at the front had all of 4Mb capacity. e All of these old mainframes actually make all those 'bloooop-bip-bip beeep' noises that big computers in movies always make, I never realised that.  The card says 'do not touch' so I couldn't practice my RESET+CTRL+1 manoeuvre to stop the incessant shriek these things made - that was the only noise the Series 39 mainframes I worked on made.  MT20 and MT21 - I have the SKILLZ to clean these.  Yeah. ME29 too!  The official name of that orange colour is hot tango - they never told me that on the training courses. Altair, Commodore PET... is that a Mac too?  I don't do Apple. ...

A snap from my holiday last week... seems a long time ago already :( MX5 is BUSTED AGAIN.  This time the PAS return pipe has rotted away, I've tried to patch it but it needs replacing.  £153 new, £60 used.  I'm not in the mood for doing either right now.