Self Isolation Day 3

Rather than go cabin crazy, I decided to get the bike washed after its dirty trip out to Oxfordshire.

In the end I made a deal with myself. I'd ride to the jet wash at Seabrook and hose and brush it down.

So £3 later it was nice and clean leaving the rust showing on the iffy Triumph chrome to good effect.

From there a short ride to fill the tank at Tesco in Cheriton.

The trip back from Oxfordshire via John's was 181.7 miles. It took 17.06 litres to brim the tank, or at least fill to the bottom of the filler hole. Giving an mpg of 48.4. Amazing.

The ride back home was quite sedate though.

The self isolation idea that sees cities across the globe empty doesn't seem to have reached us here yet.

Still. A few more miles under the tyres.

End mileage is 9557.

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The weekend showed how weak the battery has become. Having had to use the dbPower unit on four separate occasions during the day in Belgium was the giveaway. We are in the second winter of this problem where the battery isn't strong enough to start the bike. In the summer it charges and holds that charge and although I keep the dbPower unit to hand I rarely have to use it. But in winter it barely has the power to turn the engine over. It's simply "clunk". The lights come on though and that probably doesn't help. So what to do? Being a fair weather biker nowadays I won't be using the bike that often until the new year. Do I get a new battery sooner rather than later? It might end up freezing away in the garage. I have a garage in a block away from the house with no power, so a trickle charger is no use either. I have been looking at a replacement though. A Motobatt with a high cranking power should be around £75. So unlikel...

Cup of Tea - Having a go at it!

Well that didn't work out as I expected. The TomTom satnav/GPS had a wobbler and so I only managed P, O and E before calling it a day. I need to connect it and delete the routes it thinks it has and update the one that I will amend on MyRouteApp. The E wasn't the one I was expecting. That both village signs were in quite dangerous areas meant a stop wasn't very clever. Some of the roads TomTom chose would be difficult on a DR trail bike. But we managed it in the end. P - Peene Railway Museum O - Ottinge Court Farm E - Eythorne Maybe a POE challenge! In the end the stats were:

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