Saturday 20 April 2024
Friday 12 April 2024
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Beach ride from North Berwick - Winter Storm damage
We rode west from North Berwick to see how much damage has been done from this winters series of big storms...
Music by Boards Of Canada
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Monday 8 April 2024
Saturday 6 April 2024
A return to Glentress!
We went for a cycle midweek to Glentress, on the fatbikes for a giggle and to see the new trails recently built, which we had a go on after a ride around the blue route...
It was a damp day and the rails were muddy in places, as expected after such a damp winter but we still had a good laugh!
Wee film, Songs by Phontaine
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Friday 5 April 2024
Hitchcocks Performance Camshaft test on Royal Enfield Classic 350
Out on the bike with the performance Camshaft fitted...
Is it an improvement? watch and find out!
More soon!
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Hitchcocks Performance camshaft fitting...
Here is a film fitting the Performance Camshaft sold by Hitchcocks UK for the Royal Enfield Classic 350,
Some helpful tips that make fitting easier after I took onboard comments from other people who had fitted them.
At the time there was only 2 other Youtube films of doing this job, The Hitchcocks UK film, and a really good film by Tiger Ness - Ian mad a brilliant film which I have linked on my film Description
In the next blog we will see the improvements to the torque of the bike!
More soon...
Monday 1 April 2024
Willys Jeep; Steering Knuckle replacement
Another good job done this winter was replace a Steering Knuckle which had stripped threads, Always quite hard to film while fixing things and not get a camera lens covered in grease or oil! but managed to cobble something together which should be of use to someone having a similar problem...
Part 1
And Part 2
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Monday 25 March 2024
Saturday 23 March 2024
The Jerry Can, a secret weapon of WW2
We have a look at the WW2 Jerry Can, amazing invention which was crucial to many victories of WW2 on both sides...
Who invented the can, and how did both sides manufacture a similar design which is still re manufactured today, and how well the original cans were made, that they are still being used 80 years on...
More soon...
Friday 22 March 2024
Wednesday 20 March 2024
The Lowry Trail - Berwick Upon Tweed
A winter day in Berwick Upon Tweed, and we walked around the town from across the Tweed at Berwick following the Lowry Trail.
The artist Laurence Stephen Lowry visited Berwick Upon Tweed many times before his death in 1976, and some of his most famous paintings were here around the Town of scenes of people going about their lives, and the Matchstick people and cats and dogs...
Here is a film of the walk, Music is `Pictures of Matchstick Men` by Kasabian