About this time in June, every year, Sheringham hosts the annual classic car and bike show. We've had a wander around most years and the Square Four has been to a few; this year son Thomas came, bringing the Huntmaster back to Sheringham from his garage in the city.
It's time for the 500 mile service and general checkover and the bike appears to be going well.
He says he has a list of jobs for me - some of which I'll do and some of which I'll quietly ignore...
It's quite mucky and appears to have leaked all of its fork oil over the rest of the machine. It's also smoking as it always has done but that really needs looking at.
He says the clutch is slipping - and it is adjusted rather too tightly. On entering the show the marshals made us ride at walking pace behind a Rolls-Royce Corniche which was quite testing for these air-cooled machines. When it came for departure at 16:00 the Huntmaster started straight away and I rode it home but it was clear that the Square Four clutch was slipping far too much to start the bike. I got the tools out in front of The Crown - the garden was packed full of people so I had an audience as I slackened off the clutch cable.
Fortunately that was enough to get sufficient torque through the clutch to kick it over and start it - which it did first time. It's slipping really badly and it's clear that it's been too tight like the Huntmaster one and that the slow ride through the town was too much.
Note to self here - keep enough play in the clutch cable!
