Its ironic that to create leisure time seems to be harder work that actually doing work! It would certainly be an easier route to keep going to the office, doing email, and moaning that there isn't enough time for leisure activities.
It seems to require a huge amount of effort to break the pattern, and get some leisure time started.
One week ago, I was of the mood that was might easily have made me back out of our plan to work on our project bikes. Could I really afford the time off work? Can I really afford the money that this is going to cost me? How on earth am I going to get all my bike parts down to Jo's forge where we planned to spend 4 days of intense metal bashing and welding. Shouldn't I be helping my daughter open her shop? etc etc
However, making the opportunity to have fun appears to be a bit like being a competitor in one of those strong man competitions where you have to pull a double decker bus with your bear hands. It is almost impossible to get it started, and is only with incredible effort and strain that things start to move... and once they are moving, it gets easier... maybe to the point that actually, it's rolling on its own!
We havent started anything yet, but I am already very proud of myself for just believing that we can!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Another restart.. again.
Crivens! Have I really let this original project slip so much??
I started this blog on November 8th 2006... over 6 years ago! At the time I thought I was going to build a Trike within a year for less than a grand...... How nieve can a man be?
Reading back on some of my older posts, it looked like I made a good start - sourced lots of the parts, and prepared to create a rather neat looking frame..... but somehow, things seem to have got in the way and despite numerous blog posts stating "A new start", or "We're back", or "This time I really, really will finish this - promise!", I just haven't made any real progress beyond laying the parts out to look like a trike with an invisible frame.
I'm not proud of my poor performance, but in my defence, I have in the interim years rebuilt a Vespa scooter (and riden it to Italy and South of France), nearly completed the resurrection of a 1958 French Manurhin scooter, and bought myself a Royal Enfield 500 efi electra Bullet.
However, the Trike has never been totally forgotten - I still love the idea of creating my own machine, and much to my astonishment I am about to make a major step forward with this project.
For the past few years, around about october, I've taken off for a long weekend with a couple of friends, Hugh and Jo - the general idea is to do something fun and stay in a B&B so we can take the opportunity to have 'one more beer' than we might otherwise have if we were driving. We didn't get the chance to do it last october, and we missed it, and so it was while sitting over a beer (only one this time, as we were driving) that we came up with the brilliant idea of taking a long weekend of not only having fun, but also helping each other make some progress with our respective dust-gathering projects...... and wouldn't be fun if we could actually get them on the road ..... and ride them to a rock festival? ;-) We put a date in our diaries there and then. And that date has finally crept up on us!
I started this blog on November 8th 2006... over 6 years ago! At the time I thought I was going to build a Trike within a year for less than a grand...... How nieve can a man be?
Reading back on some of my older posts, it looked like I made a good start - sourced lots of the parts, and prepared to create a rather neat looking frame..... but somehow, things seem to have got in the way and despite numerous blog posts stating "A new start", or "We're back", or "This time I really, really will finish this - promise!", I just haven't made any real progress beyond laying the parts out to look like a trike with an invisible frame.
I'm not proud of my poor performance, but in my defence, I have in the interim years rebuilt a Vespa scooter (and riden it to Italy and South of France), nearly completed the resurrection of a 1958 French Manurhin scooter, and bought myself a Royal Enfield 500 efi electra Bullet.
However, the Trike has never been totally forgotten - I still love the idea of creating my own machine, and much to my astonishment I am about to make a major step forward with this project.
For the past few years, around about october, I've taken off for a long weekend with a couple of friends, Hugh and Jo - the general idea is to do something fun and stay in a B&B so we can take the opportunity to have 'one more beer' than we might otherwise have if we were driving. We didn't get the chance to do it last october, and we missed it, and so it was while sitting over a beer (only one this time, as we were driving) that we came up with the brilliant idea of taking a long weekend of not only having fun, but also helping each other make some progress with our respective dust-gathering projects...... and wouldn't be fun if we could actually get them on the road ..... and ride them to a rock festival? ;-) We put a date in our diaries there and then. And that date has finally crept up on us!
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