The BOGSTER.

Geoff Duke no less!

This little animation shows the way that concentricity of the steering axis and the axis of the steering mechanism can only exist at one point in the suspension travel when the connecting system is a scissors linkage.

This is my second attempt to calculate the frontal area of my KawaBanana and this time I remembered to put the rectangle of white card of known size back near the rider's hip where the perspective would not make it look larger than life. So, cue roll of drums, the more accurate measurement of frontal area including rider is 10.9 square feet, which seems, quite a lot! But it does explain why strong headwind gusts were able to reduce my speed from 55mph to 45 mph at whim on the way home from Wales after 680 miles.

I went mad with that roll of reflective tape off ebay...now we dazzle everybody!

Those Feet Forward fairings will all land up here one day.....never rot you see!

All the serious touring bikers bought these, despite them causing steering wobbles!

Yeh it's a racing crank mate!

We fink it's orf a factory racer actually......anti-foaming prototype.

What? Yes I 'ave got a drill as it 'appens!

On the way home from Wales. Robin Thomas told me that The Classic Show and Autojumble was at Stafford and encouraged me to go - luckily pensioners get in for £8 instead of £9.....

Andrew Gibbens deserves a prize for the lines of that box, no apparent aero faults at all revealed by mud streaks.....cheapest wind tunnel in the World!

The dirt will all wash off for the part exchange deal......note the chain oiler, too afraid to use it in case oil gets on the back tyre and brings me off at the next roundabout, the muddy lines in the road frightened me to death that the front would wash away.....and that was at only 40 mph!

Coffee time!

Hey look you can see Bobbe's bald head reflected in his crash helmet!

I tend to cruise at 52 mph - Don't laugh!

I am only a 500 and have to drag all this 222kgs around. Mind you the Honda version of me had 300kgs - Whew!

Of course it is dirty, it gets ridden!

And with the factory second air intake remade in the airbox it no longer runs rich, 8 and a half UK gallons to travel 680 miles this trip is 80 miles per gallon, this engine cannot do any better.

Anglesey Trackday - Will I be in the Fast group, the Improvers group or the Novice group then?

What do you mean I didn't book so cannot race!!!