Eunos Chump

The CBR has been spaffing oil from the top of the engine recently.  I've got a theory it's the cam cover gasket that's failed and is allowing oil into the spark plug wells, which then drains out just below the exhaust ports.  Either that or it's the head gasket.  So it's time to rip the bike apart again. That's a lot of pipework, and there are valves and stuff too.  It all looks very complicated and I don't understand it, so I'll just put it all back as before and trust that the Honda folks knew what they were doing.

After ignoring it for at least 4 years, I broke out the T-Cut today: Now that I've made it beautiful and summer is here... it's going into hibernation. In other news, the KTM is back with the dealer having a failed exhaust o-ring replaced.  It had reached truly unsociable levels of noise... but blimey it was a good noise!

Track day for Team Lard at Silverstone yesterday, on the full GP circuit.  Bert was in attendance, his first time out in his new clothes: Roger, Bert and official race transporters hanging around outside toilets: Silverstone is a fantastically smooth and sweeping track, it's an absolute delight.  It is a power circuit though and more grunt would have been welcome on the straights, but the little CBR handles so sweetly it's a fair trade-off.   Short video of a couple of laps below.  It's a big battle with little bikes in the harmless world of Group 1... then bigger boys barge in and show us up :( This was a Focused Events Chrono day, meaning each bike had a transponder so could be put in the correct group - unfortunately somebody made an error setting them up and all the data was useless, so it was purely random where you ended up.  It's a wide track though so no real problem.