Crescent and stiff links

Crescent Suzuki is a well known dealership that sponsers some BSB and can be found at most bike race meetings in some capacity. Despite it being a mere 30 miles away I had never visited it until yesterday. Me and Dean rode down (via Burbidges) in glorious sunshine and admired the fine machinery they have on display. One GSXR thou with a custom orange and black paint job caught my eye as did the £30K thou with the superbike spec 202 bhp engine. Sweet. The biggest smiles were saved for the old race bikes on display which include some awesome late 80's two stroke GP bikes, some old Kevin Schwantz 500's being my favourites. I'm just a lottery win away from creating my dream garage which would resemble that dealership and workshop.

Tomorrow the Viffer is in for it's recall notice work. I'll be taking a CBR600RR out for a test ride whilst it is getting done. A quick call yesterday sorted it out and they seemed very accomodating. Maybe they could hear the impulsive edge to my voice and knew that I often buy with my heart not my head. I'm not desparate to sell the VTec but I do fancy something with a little more passion, I'm just not sure my back agrees with my decision to have a look at bikes with a more extreme riding position. We'll see.

Dean returned from a ride with Laura tonight and asked me to help him identify a strange noise coming from his bike I could hear his concern in his voice so I threw a jacket on, grabbed a coffee and went to help. After getting the bike onto a stand and inspecting the rear wheel we discovered the chain was far too tight and there were a few really stiff links which looked like they just needed cleaning and lubing to correct. it was dark, and we were using torchlight to do it but I don't think it is anything serious to worry about. The chain felt really dry but as I'm used to wet lube rather than Dean's choice of spray I didn't know what to expect. I think he'll have to spend some time with a can of chain cleaner and some rags to get back on the road.