Tigger to Trumpy

What with Xmas on the horizon and all the expense that can bring I thought it better to lay up the Tiger and get the impending service done early next year. The Sprint can come out of temporary retirement and be pressed into service. Oh-er he had different ideas about that, that'll teach you to snub me for that shiny new boy he muttered to himself as the press on the starter produced 1 lazy revolution and some clicking. Plug in battery charger and get a cuppa. 2 hours later he reluctantly struggled into life so we whizzed off up the motorway and back down the A roads for about 30 miles. Lucky I didn't stop anywhere coz not a spark of life in it when I got back. £60 lighter and a new battery on charge over night and we are ready to go out with Tim and some other chaps for a run this morning. Tim on a 400 Yam Exup, two chaps on Can-am rotax trike thingummy jigs and a chap on a mint 1000 Honda Firegrate none of the latter three I knew. Didn't know people drove bikes that slow and we had soon lost them on the motorway and they didn't turn up at Broxton where they said they would. Trumpy still in a major strop despite having had a new battery was mainly running on two cylinders. Bloody naff fuel  I suspect as I had last put some in in April, filled up at Broxton and no improvement by the cuppa at the Raven. tootled around Shropshire for a bit and then headed home. Now the balance was more triple than twin and the twin bit only came in under 3k revs and then not all the time. When we stopped at Smithy's Chester Tim said you seem to have a triple again. Realised how easily one could lose a licence on this thing as I'm afraid I did see some highly illegal numbers on there that would have had the Midget bashing my helmet furiously.
Sorry no pics today too much frenzied riding need to chill again