Sneaky

Very fast turnaround on the seat for the Triumph. I cannot wait to have it in my sweaty mitts. Cheers again Steve at lucky7moto

Words

On The Move 'Man, You Gotta Go.'

The blue jay scuffling in the bushes follows

Some hidden purpose, and the gush of birds

That spurts across the field, the wheeling swallows,

Have nested in the trees and undergrowth.

Seeking their instinct, or their pose, or both,

One moves with an uncertain violence

Under the dust thrown by a baffled sense

Or the dull thunder of approximate words.

On motorcycles, up the road, they come:

Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boy,

Until the distance throws them forth, their hum

Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.

In goggles, donned impersonality,

In gleaming jackets trophied with the dust,

They strap in doubt--by hiding it, robust--

And almost hear a meaning in their noise.

Exact conclusion of their hardiness

Has no shape yet, but from known whereabouts

They ride, directions where the tires press.

They scare a flight of birds across the field:

Much that is natural, to the will must yield.

Men manufacture both machine and soul,

And use what they imperfectly control

To dare a future from the taken routes.

It is part solution, after all.

One is not necessarily discord

On Earth; or damned because, half animal,

One lacks direct instinct, because one wakes

Afloat on movement that divides and breaks.

One joins the movement in a valueless world,

Crossing it, till, both hurler and the hurled,

One moves as well, always toward, toward.

A minute holds them, who have come to go:

The self-denied, astride the created will.

They burst away; the towns they travel through

Are home for neither birds nor holiness,

For birds and saints complete their purposes.

At worse, one is in motion; and at best,

Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

Thom Gunn

One off the list

Trying to do the little things that still need doing and take an unequal amount of time.

Tonight was fitting the median of the recommended jets and needles to the FCR carb for the DR for base settings.

Bored?

Read my self-indulgent book!

Gestation

He'd had it for some time, but today the seat for the DR returned from Steve at Lucky7moto and very nice it is too.

He will see my business again. Great job Steve. Cheers. I suppose I had better get on with the bike now.

More Jawa

Some internet browsing has turned up a few Jawa scramblers, with a fetching red and silver colour scheme.

Also this cutaway of a Jawa single powered car-

How tidy is that?

Slippers

Useful for directing things.