Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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Back On Two Wheels
by admin - 19:27 on 26 March 2012
Kawasaki San today emerged from a long hibernation, his clock still set on summer time from last year. BikerMike will be outraged.
I pumped up his tyres, cleared him of spiders' webs, then, with Matchgirl's help, applied the jump leads necessary to get him moving for the first time in five months. Ten minutes later I applied them again, and this time let him tick over a bit longer.
The recent heatwave has been only a rumour around The Rural Retreat, thanks to the refreshing haar that sweeps in from the Cromarty Firth, but today we enjoyed its full benefit, so conditions for a battery-charging run around the Black Isle were perfect. Matchgirl stayed home by the phone, ready with Agent Cooper and the jump leads, but all was well.
Until I reached Jemimaville, that is, my Isle of Black TT almost complete, where I stopped to fill up a near-empty tank; £33.75 was a bit of a shock. But Kawasaki San enjoyed his run and is eager for more. Now all I have to do is get him serviced, discover the cause of the intermittent lights problem, and the silent horn problem, and the non-functioning fuel gauge problem, and the dodgy speedo cable problem, and the solid suspension problem, then get him MoT'd in time for the first of the year's bike club events, in Fife in May, at which he'll celebrate his nineteenth birthday.
How old must vehicles be before their road tax is free?
Moggy Update: The fine weather means we've seen little of the resident feline, who thinks summer has arrived and spends much of her time snoozing in the long grass on the edge of the garden. The pampered puss even has meals taken out to her. So she missed tonight's forecast, which hinted that snow may return by the end of the week.
I blame Matchgirl. Today she arranged to have Agent Cooper's winter tyres taken off.
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"Confusing things even more, for the UK enthusiast of classic cars, is the zero rated road tax, and the new DVLA classification of historic car (formerly PLG, which remains for later cars). The zero rate road tax was introduced by the Conservative Government back in the early 1990s, the idea being that the cutoff would be on a rolling 25 year basis. However when Tony's cronies got in a few years back, they froze this rolling arrangement, and ever since the zero rated roadtax applies to any car *built* prior to 1/1/1973, so even if your BMW 2002 was registered in '73, if the build date on the V5 is a '72 date, you should be ok.