Bring on the beast

The Mile Eater that is. Freshly fettled, back wheel all lovely and refurbished, chain freshly cleaned and oiled, all levels where they should be, my god... even the tax disk bolted on. Went out for the first blat of the year last night, and all is well, all is groovy. A nice local run up to Barton, then back via the back roads. This will be a year of fettling; the front wheel needs treating to what the back wheel had; the front forks want repainting; the luggage rack needs restoring and if I can afford it, so does the suspension. But the engine's doing exactly what it should be and the beast is handling well; considering I've barely rode it for four months, and not much before that since last September, even the rider dropped into role pretty well.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.