Well the lad at the garage has sent me a video of the bike running which is great, but even after their working on it yesterday it's still not ready.
I plan to go in tomorrow and say that if it's not ready by the end of Thursday I'd like them to trailer it round to my house on Friday and I'll finish it myself.
Although no actual deadline was agreed, at the beginning in early May they said that finishing it by the end of June should be no problem, then they promised to have it ready for Friday (two weeks into July) in time for yesterday's meet, and now it still isn't ready and we're approaching three weeks into July. I understand that unexpected business can happen, but there have been no major setbacks with sorting it and really all that's left is fitting the front fairings and general tidying up of some cables etc. Plus an MoT.
What irks me is that there hasn't been any acknowledgement whatsoever from them that it's taking rather a while or any explanation as to why it is. Then, the last straw was that on Friday morning, when they got me to bring a coolant hose in to cut to size for the little hose on the back of the RH rad (which split in the crash and which I brought a replacement in early on which they seem to have lost), they said they'd phone me on Friday at 5.30/45 and by 6.30 I'd heard nothing and ended up texting the lad who's helping with it whose number I have, to be told only then that they hadn't finished it.
Anyway...yesterday's meet in Birmingham was great fun. Had a nice ride down with uk13iker and an even better ride up (better roads and no rain), and it was brilliant to see the museum and to be together with a load of Firestorms (even if I was on my little 500 twin), and especially to have met some of you. I look forward very much to joining in some rides in the future!
I will probably abstain from posting to this thread now until I have a nice photo of the finished bike with a backdrop of Snowdonia when I'm out for a first blast on it