Off
Road Bike Show 2021.
This Kempton Park show brings us up to date but in
the preceding week was quite busy with visits from the grandchildren over the
weekend and our son’s birthday on the Monday and a visit to Whitewebbs Museum
on Tuesday with George coming along. The visit was to ask about doing a curry
event there with a view to promoting Gita’ cuisine. As usual things have to go
to committee and we have to wait for a response. The gem of the day were the
deliveries of two famous sports cars, both having been driven by the late
Sterling Moss, the Cooper T51 and Connaught ASLR. Beautifully turned out they
will make an impressive display. Don’t delay as they are only stabled at the
museum over this winter and will be gone in the spring when the new season of
classic racing begins.
This week has deteriorated into colds and nasty
coughs for both of us. Problems with the show as two of the exhibitors had
become ill and would not be there. Plan B was put into action by Janet and
backups were substituted to keep the display up to par. I was not too bad on
Thursday as I got bits ready for the show finding all the ratchet straps,
bungey cords the things that hold the bike to the trailer. The car had a wash
and polish, the LE had a wash and polish and a start up. Friday I was not feeling quite so good with a
streaming nose as I assembled the trailer. I managed to get the LE on the
trailer on my own and successfully strapped it down. Trailer board lights
worked and I was ready to go. Things were stable on the trailer and I was
making steady progress to Kempton Park. That is until I got to Feltham and the
engine died. I pushed of the road on to a wide pavement in front of a Florist
where removed the pilot jet to find it was clean and the fuel pipe for
blockages which had a lot of pressure inside it. Adjacent to the fuel pipe is a
built in fuel filter in the carburettor which I removed and refitted and lo we
were mobile again. It was not long before I was on the allocated stand with the
LE waiting for reinforcements to arrive. It did not take long to create the
scene with our back drop being a large picture of an open road. The remaining
bikes would be arriving tomorrow as there was no more for me to do I went off
home not feeling well.
Janet on Friday
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