Lord Gruntfuttock

My kitchen island chairs were tatty, years old, surface rust and the upholstery had ripped. Briscoes had the same ones marked down to $60 so a no-brainer to replace them. Was resigned to throwing the old ones out, but realised the mechanism still worked sweet. Looked at various options to re-seat them, but couldn't really be arsed cutting and sanding timber, or spending money. A bit of a polish with steel wool, some $9 bamboo cutting boards from Kmart and furniture insert nuts I had in my junk pile and done. Perfectly functional bar stools. If something better turns up I'll just swap (old metal tractor seats would be cool)... Now I need to build a bar I guess...

Aw man that is so motivating. Damn you

Cromwell car show has a similar cruise, loads of folks out on their driveways in deck chairs, kids with signs etc, cool to experience. There's a 4th of July run here (Merican cars) that diverts through an old folks home on the way to Te Anau. Great to see the old folk enjoying the old cars cruising through their complex...

and I hope it was old motor oil you used, for that lovely burnt 10W-50 ambience...

Actually, I have these on file. Item 33 is Igntn switch...

I think it's Acc... Can confirm tonight.

"Alex, an affable gent with salt-and-pepper hair" LOL (Thank you mods for shifting comment to discussion) Can we now hit that article with comments about Imp handling mods...?

Cool... Quick tip (you prob already know), but lightly dragging the rear brake at low speed stabilises the bike and makes tighter turns much easier. Might be useful for such a behemoth...

man that's a lot of bike for the money...

Barry up some musical air horniness pls...

Ironhead's the same. High flow low press, lucky to get 5 psi...

Loads of Gixxers have glass panels replacing the broken plastics. I'd be surprised to find original ones...

Man those are big numbers... Spoken as someone with an ironhead that runs at near zero. Like my old HQ ute that had a pressure gauge, all it did was worry you...

Oh in that case, come further south and let her watch you ride a postie bike around a bonfire drunk on terrible home brew in my paddock. Can even throw in a broken JAP stationary engine to tinker with. Can't get more romantic than that...

Sweet. Yeah I was thinking a moulded fibreglass type cover with stainless trim, just for looks. Obviously don't want to restrict access or airflow and add too much weight, but would really accentuate the aesthetics...