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Pol Anorl |
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Pol Anorl Banned
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Posted: 08:00 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: Totaly lost my passion for biking already :/ |
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Been into bikes for years, passed test blah blah
Fork seals needed doing so more cost but fixed it then 2 days later got caught speeding, haven't got a nips yet been over 2 weeks, that dis heartened me a lot.
Then that same night i hit a stupid ass curb and blew my fork seal ont he right hand side
Then my rear brake pads wore down too much so i get a real anoying sound from the brakes, currently waiting for new ones to come
Now my chains got one siezed link been like it for about 5 days its really anoying me! click click click, more cost that i can't afford.
Its kind of depressing what do i do ? ____________________ GOOD GAME BODYGUARD: https://i.imgur.com/8WePGgf.jpg
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Get a better job or a smaller bike that is easier on consumables.
You've not lost your passion, you're having a moan about being skint. ____________________ Triumph Daytona 675 track bike + girlfriend's Honda Hornet 600
Selling a hack/winter bike for less than a grand? PM me.
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P. Red Rocket
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Posted: 08:34 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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Look... just dont ride and waste fuel until you can afford the parts?
Brake pads, cheap ones are like £8 a set, chains you can get cheap ones for £30-£40.
Fork seals are a few quid and you can do in an hour.
Just need to learn to look after it |
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Posted: 09:11 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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##Paddy## wrote: | Look... just dont ride and waste fuel until you can afford the parts?
Brake pads, cheap ones are like £8 a set, chains you can get cheap ones for £30-£40.
Fork seals are a few quid and you can do in an hour.
Just need to learn to look after it |
I have the 2nd new pair of seals, need to get some more oil and the effort to get up and do it, i don't know what happened to the chain its always oiled, proof on the floor where i park outside the gf's house lol. ____________________ GOOD GAME BODYGUARD: https://i.imgur.com/8WePGgf.jpg
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Posted: 10:01 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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To be fair, I sort of lost the passion over the last couple of years. Hence why I havnt posted in a VERY long time!
Since I passed my driving test and started driving the van for work, the insurance on the hornet has taken a back seat. I cant afford to insure both. But hopefully the new job I'm looking at will solve that problem and I'll be back at box hill, hungover, on a sunday morning before I know it!
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Posted: 10:21 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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Another +1 for man up.
I know where your coming from. Had my bike raped by a mechanic last year. Totally wrecked my bike, got left in their warehouse for months where it rotted, bike lost all its shiny bits. Where it sat it got condensation rust (sp?) so my wavey disk brakes and upside down forks got replaced with the bland stock Rieju set. The engine needed replacing, chain and sprocket, whole front end / sub frame. It was done for free, but its never felt like 'the bike I bought' scince. I haven't been on one single leisure ride throughout the whole of 2011. 2 thefts later it feels even less like my bike. I required a double dose of these.
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On the upside, I am currently consoling myself with the thought that after 2 thefts and a claim, it ain't worth much, despite being mechanically sound. May as well keep running it until it drops. Its a nice ride (for a 125 and all) and pretty cheap to run. So I am regularly checkin ebay for cheap bits, and as a Christmas project I might have a go at painting my own design on it and throwing on some tart pretty bits. Aim to spend no more than £200. Something to look forward too. |
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Posted: 10:32 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: Re: Totaly lost my passion for biking already :/ |
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What exactly was it that you liked about bikes?
Bikes do cost money, time and effort - often more so in time and effort that a car per mile, but you do get benefits for that.
If all the hassle and expenditure isn't worth the positives to to you, maybe you should get a car or get the bus.
Though, hitting a kerb badly in a car can also do a decent chunk of damage that can be much more expensive/hassle.
Anyway, maybe you should find what you do like about bikes and do more of it . If it's riding a cheap bike without spending much time or effort on it, then I'm afraid this just isn't likely in reality . |
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If everything is getting a little out of hand then start from the beginning as best you can and work up.
For years I pissed around with 2 strokes, I had more than I care to mention now and at times I felt like it was just bad luck.
I started with some simple maintenance and a few years later and I’m adequate to do most things as long as I have the tools. So really the little niggles can be sorted with a nice selection of tools and some time put aside for the bike. Things like buying a new chain, or brake pads is like a little investment. It might be only a ‘consumable’ but it will repay you in the long run.
I’m not saying this is the option but the way i did it was to get a loan. I got a loan and bought myself a bike that wasn’t on its last legs to begin with, I spent some money of tools and it really took a weight off my mind. I could spend 45 minutes to an hour a couple of times a week and know in my mind she was good for the next few hundred miles.
A shi* bike can destroy the passion i know, I’ve been there many times. Debt is not the ideal solution but i guarantee it will give you a new outlook, even if you are repaying for it for 12-18 months. ____________________ Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
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Posted: 17:14 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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OP, get forks and brakes done... come do trackday with me and flat mate? Sure i'll find a few more people to button on too. |
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Posted: 19:29 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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Pete. wrote: | Quote: | Its kind of depressing what do i do ? |
Stop abusing your bike, start doing maintainance on it, and get some serious miles under your belt (I mean tens of thousands) so you don't do silly things like run into kerbs.
All we've heard from you is 'how can I make it go faster?', when you can't even make it go round corners. If you hit a kerb hard enough to blow a fork seal you need to think about your riding.
Learn to ride it, and then the enjoyment will come. You haven't lost your 'passion' you've just run out of thrill-seeking ideas. |
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There are people that have had far more significant 'knocks' to thier passion than you.
Circumstances have left your 'enthusiasm' dampened; that's all.
Question is; did you have 'passion' for bikes to begin with, or merely enthusiasm? And HOW much of either was for BIKES or merely what bikes gave you by way of the cudos of ownership and the thrills of riding?
Ie are you a biker or a rider?
You're NOT getting the cheap thrills you are used to from it; you are getting 'experience' of the 'whole' that surround bikes. Time will tell.
If you get past this and redefine your enthusiasm. As said there's a heck of a lot more to biking than JUST riding and riding quick. If you down scale to a cheaper bike and can find the 'fun' in it; if you can find the enthusiasm to apreciate fixing for seals, rather than blowing them; and taking pride in a job well done..... if you can discover the joy of going to a ride out and simply talking bikes, having been bunnied there.... where its NOT all about the thrill you get from the saddle or the reflected glory of a posey bike...
THEN you'll transend from merely being a rider to being a biker, and THEN you can claim you have 'passion'......
Or enthusiasm will dwindle, and you'll get a car, and a mortgage, and in thirty years time, bore your neighbours kids when they are working on a 125 in thier Dad's drive with how much of a biker you were and what it was like in your 'day'..... and make excuses about how you had to give it up to pay the mortgage, or becouse you needed something with a baby seat...... ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Posted: 22:15 - 19 Oct 2011 Post subject: |
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Though I didn't mention it very much (barring a few workshop posts) I was getting pretty pissed off over my Bandit back in the warmer months, fucking thing always worked but just never right and for the money I spent sorting everything out it really didn't feel worth it. (Also just when everything was sorted something minor went i.e. speedo cable, brake bulbs and brakes seized.
Despite all that I never let it get me down, just sorted the problems out, all part of routine you see, shit goes wrong even on Jap bikes when the old age gets to them can cost some £ but generally most repairs can be done.
Bike aren't like partners in a relationship, when shit starts going wrong its up to you to fix it, its a machine its not going to look after itself and in your case, like me, its a aging one at that so some things can be expected to go tits up.
Asking for some help for any maintenance or repair is just fine even for the simple stuff (everyone starts somewhere) but don't just whine about it and put it away in a dark corner letting anxiety build up won't solve shit nor will complaining alone. ____________________ Current: 02 FZS 1000 Some Bike Pics...
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