Clips have arrived, photos to follow, two perfectly secured bikes 
Bracing bar done, clips on rail
Rail clipped to seat pillars
Rail supports marked at ends
Rail supports fixed to ply lining
Rail fully functional
It is now a 2 minute job to load one bike or 2, no bungees or ratchet straps, job done
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Just when you thought you had found the perfect van, if you search hard enough for a flaw, you will always find one
Nothing that canât be sorted, thatâs life 
Took the van today, its got a port on top of the dashboard which a cradle is plugged into, this houses the sat nav
Finally got round to commissioning the Carrera with the twist grip throttle, done a few smooth miles
Feeling legal today, about to load the Kalkhoff into the van, two minute job.
Design cock up, when i set the distance for the support bracing rod, it was done with two Carreraâs in the van with the front wheels tight against the bulkhead to prevent forward motion under braking. The Carreraâs have 27.5" wheels, the Kalkhoff has 26" wheels so is a shorter wheel base so, when clipped into the bracing rod, the front wheel is a couple of inches short of the bulkhead, this allowed the bike to move forward which I heard from inside the cab.
Before I could proceed I had to pack the gap out with the case for the Sat Nav
To enable a combination of Carreraâs and the Kalkhoff To be carried, the bracing rod needs to be left where it is and a spacer block built for the shorter Kalkhoff.
Its all hoff, innit
Problem solved.
The new season starts next week, communication may become sketchy, no disappearance without explanation here, no false collections for the wake 
I expect my moneyâs worth.
You have great expectations
Its a van day today, bit of hard braking and a couple of speed bumps to check the prototype support system
Mission successful
See these two properties
A quarter mile new road had to be built by HS2 to get access to them
And a bridge
Surely it would have been cheaper to compulsory purchase
Just noticed the last company I was in direct employment with has gone, 3M at Atherstone, itâs hardly surprising, they wasted money like no tomorrow. One debacle I particularly remember was being tasked to procure a replacement Windsock for one of the chimneys, the purpose of this windsock was to determine wind direction, pre, exhausting some gaseous substance into the environment, not into the airflow in the direction of local housing, I spent 3.5 hours sourcing one at a negotiated cost of ÂŁ300.00 I think (well this was 2004), when it arrived, I took it to the engineering manager who said, who authorized that, we havenât discharged that material into the environment for at least the past decade.
It turned out some manager or other felt the old one was looking a bit threadbare
Correction, didnât work for 3M, but for a Facility Management Company within it.
It was a long time ago
Spring Clean done, fueled up, ready to roll
You gotta roll with it
You gotta take your time
You gotta say what you say
Donât let anybody get in your way
Yep, Rock and Roll, goes on in Campervans at bed time, that is no good for pensioners 
