Bike, sprouts and coffee

Been a while Dave fans, sorry peeps it's been very quiet in Daveland, so here's a quick 'so far' in 2016.

Firstly a belated happy new year to you all.

For me my new years resolution was to get back out my bike a bit more and back on my diet and exercise, so a pretty standard new years resolution that lots of people make. Unfortunately my old bike was getting a little long in the tooth, so it was time to treat myself with some of my Christmas money to a new one.

My first new bike in quite a few years, great specification, rides a dream and looks good. The first ride was as you can see was a bit muddy, but the bike coped well, better than I did, when I ended up having an off and landed in swampy mud, I looked like a hippo wallowing in it!

The bike fits well on the rack, despite having large 27.5 inch wheels. It was definitely a great idea having the towbar fitted to Dave and the Mont Blanc bike carrier is brilliant.

January saw Dave hitting the 36,000 mile mark

22 months of happy motoring, no major issues (touch wood) and as much fun to drive today as it was on day one, infact probably better as the engine loosens up.

So Dave took another trip to Kaybee Motors in Banbury, once again absolutely brilliant customer service and I would highly recommend them, worth the 30 minute drive from home, despite having a more local dealer.

As always I got a courtesy car, I was early enough to have a choice, Jaybee are a Dacia, Renault and Fiat dealership and I've previously had a Clio and a Twingo from them. On this occasion I decided to try something else and as lots of people seem to rave about them I chose the Fiat 500.

The phrase a sprout squeezed into a pea pod comes to mind, but I was pleasantly surprised, quite nippy from the 1250cc petrol engine, but you had to keep the revs quite high, it was great to get Dave back and that 1.5dCi torque.

Finally on the drive back home we stopped for a quick break, a great little layby stop with a lovely fresh coffee.

Very quirky 3 wheeler coffee van and sit around the fire drinking it. On the subject of quirky how about this for an ingenious idea. A couple of old steel wheels welded together, a hole cut in the and the cut out steel used for feet, bloody clever.......now where's but welder.