We visited the hill fort at Maiden Castle which is an English Hertitage site, free to visit and park. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/maiden-castle/ On yonder hill you might be able to make out a 21st century settlement known to the locals as Dorch (Dorchester). Tacked on the end (left hand end in this photo) of this is another settlement called Poundland (Poundbury officially, but the non locals like to refer to it this way.) This is the entrance to the west end. Looking out from the West entrance towards Poundbury in the distance. It was a fairly windy day, so bitter up on top of the well exposed hill fort, still fun was had we will certainly return.
We had a windy time on Chapel Porth beach on Saturday. There was a significant on shore wind and some decent waves. This photo was enhanced somewhat by Google. The photos don’t show the wind very well.
Do you see the cockerel / rooster / big chicken in the clouds? I had this pointed out to me by a sharp eyed relative.
The bike had a birthday, I bought and fitted new tyres, inner tubes, chain and cassette last night. The brutal method of chain removal that I took, given I couldn’t find, or perhaps don’t have a chain tool. I then remembered that I actually know how to change tyres, inflate the tube a little first, put it into the tyre before putting tyre and tube onto the rim. I surprise myself sometimes. I did however fail to spot that the tyres are directional, it was only having fitted the rear tyre that I noticed this. As usual luck was on my side and it was the right way first time, win. This is the rear wheel taken as per the photo below.
I think that pretty much tells the story. I bought this bike about 4 or 5 years ago for £75, thinking I would ride to work. I never did, but I did ride about Bracknell a little, I enjoyed it, but now I am riding it a few days a week and feel that it’s time to replace the tyres, chain, cassette and probably put two new tubes in it also. Wild times, I know. Obviously I’ll likely fit the very cheapest of cheap components so as not to totally write the bike off. This shows how much the chain has stretched:
Since fitting the second reversing light I have not walked behind the Land Rover and seen what they look like. I have been using them as I have been reversing around in the drive way a fair bit recently. Since there is no street lighting around these parts, having reversing lights that actually illuminate the world behind is a bonus.
When I last welded the gear stick back together after breaking it a year or more ago I did an okay job. I had been thinking that it could do with improving a little as it was narrow and far from an even diameter where the weld was, weld was burned in a bit deep. So this time I returned to it and added some decent beads of weld over it ground it back. This picture was taken after I had removed my welding mask from my head and returned to the work and realised how cool it looked glowing red hot, so by this time it had cooled a lot. I did give a quick coat of clear lacquer, but I did this too soon while the metal was still hot and I think that made the lacquer go milky. At least it’ll stop it from rusting.
I had this incredibly minor issue where when the Arduino is initially turned on it goes through the setup bit of the code setting pins to be what ever you want them to be and making them inputs or outputs. As it was doing this and where I had relays attached to these outputs, the relays would momentarily come go into the on position before being turned off in the body of the code as the input is pulled down and then the switch position read. This only really became an issue when I get the horn working on the Arduino. Each time the ignition was turned on the horn would just do the tiniest beep. I did some reading on forums and found a easy coding fix for this. This fix was to add the digitalWrite in before the pin is set to be an output. Simple eh? it’s […]
This throttle linkage caused me some issued the other day, it jumped off and left me with no accelerator, luckily this happened at home and I was able to quickly fix it. I realised in that instant at that really I need to do something better and more robust to stop this from occurring again. The old linkage was a 5mm diameter bit of aluminium bar, so very soft and the end links didn’t fit quite snuggly enough. So I purchased some stainless steel M5 thread bar and some M5 ball joints. I made up this replacement rod with ends.. That is not going to drop off I don’t think.. I hope!
We picked up some new big pots last weekend and so the other evening I got this one potted out. That little sprout on the left is going to require grabbing and transplanting soon too. There was another one that has not yet made it through the surface yet too.
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