I now have 600 miles on the Wing and its is time for its first service. Trouble is that I can”t get it done until 31st May which is especially galling as the weather is just perfect at the moment. I had a great ride yesterday down to the New Forest which was full of this year’’s new foals

I imagine I shall get my regular servicing done at Doble’’s but for ad-hoc work on the bike and even just thorough cleaning, it seems as if it would be useful to get the bike up in the air, so I have been looking at bike lifts. The one that seems to be the best is here

I have also got myself a set of DVD’’s by Fred Harmon that cover the maintenance of the bike and even though he is not talking about the 2007 model, I think they will be very useful for occasional forays under the skin. One of the first things I want to do is to install a charging lead for my Optimate battery charger.

I gave the GPS a bit of a workout on this trip and whilst it is not nearly as feature rich as the Tomtom, it does do a very good job of point to point navigation. As others have said, it is a bore that it doesn”t show the names of towns - seems completely daft.