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February 16th, 2013

2/16/2013

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In what is now a fairly rare event, I'm not seeing Sarah this weekend. She's at a hen party thing, so I have decided to make good use of the time. This morning, I took the Ninja out for an hour or so, which felt great especially after last weeks lack of riding. Despite its age, its still a fantastic road bike and I doubt I would have enjoyed myself if I took the Ducati out instead. She felt good, sounded good and apart from one moment where she popped out of second gear, ran good as well. Tomorrow I plan on taking her up to Oxford where I'm meeting a good friend for coffee. I don't get to see him nearly often enough since he moved North out of London and its a great excuse to spend most of the afternoon on the bike in the process.
I started installing my Samco hoses as well today, which was interesting. I had to take off all the front body work, including the right ram air duct, which then gives unrestricted access to the rad cap.  Whilst that was off, I took the opportunity to inspect the air filter, which was fine but then proved to be an absolute shit to get back in place. Eventually, and by that I mean about an hour later, I managed to coerce the blasted thing back into place. Ha take than inanimate object. Man 1, air filter 0.
I managed to replace about half of the hoses, but got to the point where I needed to take the tank off, but the light was fading (I've got terrible lighting in my garage), it was getting cold and I didn't want to make a massive mistake and regret it. I had planned on changing my levers to, but there's no hurry. The road conditions aren't perfect and my next track day isn't until April.
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    My name is Matt Brown and I'm a UK journalist formerly based in London, but now calling the South of England home. I've been riding bikes since 2007, but got hooked straight away. Nothing gives me the feeling of freedom, even when stuck in a city. In 2010 I became a RoSPA gold rider, but when it comes down to it, I'm Just a normal man, riding his bikes as often as he can.

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