But now I'm dribbling

Tuesday I decided to get the bike out and start riding it into work to get some more miles under my belt. The round trip is 25 miles so I can easily get 100 miles a week in even if I wuss out when the weather turns.

The ride is a few twisties out of the village, a bit of a blast down the straight road into Cambridge where I can have a bit of a grin with the acceleration of the bike, and a bit of sitting in traffic at the far end (which when I get more confident about filtering I'll be able to breeze past).

The ride went fine but when I parked the bike in the garage that night, I went out an hour later to find this.



That blue coloured puddle is scottoil :(


And that slight blue tinge? You guessed it :(

It transpired that the exceedingly small under seat storage area meant that my disc lock slid forward and just slightly dislodged the joint where the lube tube attaches to the scottoiler resulting in half a tube of the stuff running out, down the frame, along the swing arm, and forming a couple of puddles. Bah humbug.

Mopping everything up it didn't leak overnight, nor again all today in the car park at work, so I'm hoping it was just teething troubles.

On a more positive note I'm managing to "make progress" better each day ...... Officer ;-)