I used to be good at posting my Sunday ride reports, but I think I spent the time last Sunday finishing typing up my notes as Secretary of the Scottish IAM Forum. I now need to process it into more legible minute type quality that can be published.

I finally found a Sunday morning when I didn’t have an Observed Car run and the bike was in one piece and not having any problems. So I met the three other chaps at Dreghorn Services for a run to St Mary’s Loch in the borders.

From Dreghorn we went South to Peebles, East to Innerleithen, then South (I think) to join the A708 and head to the Glen Cafe. They do excellent Bacon Rolls there, and I managed to get them to do me two after the official breakfast time. The Borders group had also made a trip there – I think they had more out that we did from EDAM.

Then back over towards the Megget Reservoir through the sunshine and falling snow, then up Tweedsmuir way and back towards Leadburn and Penicuik.

I nice run, though I need more practice at maintaining progress for that amount of time. I get left behind a bit.

Headed over to see George in South Queensferry this afternoon to look at the petrol drip. It looked like it was coming down the outside of the three breather pipes that come down the right hand side of the R1100RS. Having looked under the seat, the breather pipes looked a bit cracked, but trimming and reconnecting them just had the drip coming out of the pipe.

The breathers connect to a plate on the bottom of the fuel tank, which itself connects to lines inside the tank to connect to the fuel filter and petrol filler cap drain hole – channels rain water away. Sounds like one of the breather pipes inside the tank is allowing the petrol of the tank to seep in and run down the pipe. That means a tank-off job to ferret about inside to check the pipes for leaks and make sure their connector seals are ok.

So I left the bike with George and should be able to pick it up soon.

Spoke to the man from Sherlock’s a couple of days ago to get bits in anticipation of fixing the petrol leak on the R1100RS tomorrow. Turns out the service kit was returned to them with a hand written note saying “Not Collected”.

I phoned three times a day for almost two weeks, and visited the sorting office in person three times. Argh.

Seems I spoke a little too soon when I said the bike was serviced for another year. I was up in Perth last weekend for one of the two a year meetings of the Scottish IAM Motorcycle Forum and spotted a petrol leak, which has continued since.

So off to South Queensferry tomorrow to see why my RS is leaking petrol down the right hand side.