{"id":10892,"date":"2015-10-11T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10892"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:30:07","slug":"hectic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10892","title":{"rendered":"Hectic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy weekend.<\/p>\n<p>There was the trip to B&amp;Q to buy paint.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the painting.<\/p>\n<p>There was the trip to the datacentre to pick up a few things that will enable the local Girl Guides to have a film show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the Girl Guide Film Show dry run.<\/p>\n<p>Obv.<\/p>\n<p>There has been something of a reorganisation in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a huge amount of geekery on datacentre-related tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Automation in the datacentre is now down to a fine art. And the sign-up email that new users\u00a0get is personalised to their domain\/account, and goes so far as to tell them how to access their webmail, and how to set up an email client on a computer, and how to set up an email client on their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Manuel for helping set up a replication server which will failover to a secondary datacentre, in the event of something critical happening at the primary datacentre.<\/p>\n<p>And there was the trip down to Northampton to buy a new bike.<\/p>\n<p>The ZX9R has been my faithful commuter for the last 14 months.<\/p>\n<p>In that time the clock has risen from 18,750 miles to just south of 50,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p>In 14 months we&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>replaced her front indicators, &#8216;cos the LED ones developed a short<\/li>\n<li>gone through two sets of tyres<\/li>\n<li>and two clutch cables<\/li>\n<li>given her three extensive services<\/li>\n<li>had two new chain and sprocket sets<\/li>\n<li>had a professional spend a good five hours on her, tracing, finding, and fixing a break in her wiring<\/li>\n<li>and had various parts replaced, as they&#8217;ve been worn down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an average week, she does 600 commuting miles, plus whatever the weekend brings.<\/p>\n<p>And while I admire the bike for its nimbleness (we filter like we were born to it, on the heaviest A-road and M1 logjams), its brilliant turn of speed, and its blunt, no nonsense attitude in all weathers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really liked the ZX9R.<\/p>\n<p>The key words there are *really liked*.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed her.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve liked her.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve never *really* liked her.<\/p>\n<p>Not in the same way that I really liked my first car.<\/p>\n<p>And not in the same way that I really liked my first big bike.<\/p>\n<p>And definitely not in the same way that I really liked the Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>But (apart from the two clutch cables snapping) she&#8217;s been a hardy, rough, tough, motorbike that has never left me feeling unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed at how big she looks (or how small she makes me look), when I see photos of us in motion.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re heading in to winter now.<\/p>\n<p>And motorbike prices are easing down from their summer high.<\/p>\n<p>For the last two weeks I&#8217;ve been trying to buy an Aprilia RSV4.<\/p>\n<p>But the vendor twatted me around and messed me about until eventually I gave it up as a thing that just wasn&#8217;t meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>So on Saturday I went down to Northampton and bought this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NewDaytona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10893\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NewDaytona.jpg\" alt=\"New Daytona 955i\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NewDaytona.jpg 540w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NewDaytona-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/NewDaytona-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not quite identical to my last Daytona 955i.<\/p>\n<p>Being a year older, she&#8217;s got twin swing arms.<\/p>\n<p>And that adds to her overall\u00a0weight, which is disconcerting somewhat, as I have to work much harder against the increased centrifugal force, when I want to bank her over.<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s got an aftermarket gear display (which is quite odd!).<\/p>\n<p>And a Triumph burglar alarm (which my more modern Daytona didn&#8217;t have).<\/p>\n<p>But she&#8217;s passed an HPI check and, with just 22,000 miles on the clock, has loads of miles left in her.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the run back from Northampton, I haven&#8217;t taken her out yet.<\/p>\n<p>But even that one trip left me smiling so much more than a trip from Northampton on the ZX9R ever would.<\/p>\n<p>I really like her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy weekend. 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