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Rogerborg nimbA
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Posted: 09:17 - 31 May 2018 Post subject: When Bike Debt Kills |
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Jerome thought he'd get rich quick as a bike courier, doing hospital gigs, stealing work from honest Blood Bikers.
Jerome was wrong.
CBF125 - the most lethalest bike. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Rogerborg nimbA
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schadenfreude
ˈʃɑːd(ə)nˌfrɔɪdə,German ˈʃɑːdənˌfrɔydə/
noun
noun: Schadenfreude; noun: schadenfreude
pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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piazza wrote: | What a fucking state of affairs. |
I did the same job years ago, but in a van for Lewis Day.
Can't remember the exact amounts but I had to earn about £300 a week before I was earning anything.
There was van rental, PDA rental, deposits on uniform, obviously my own fuel, the only thing the firm paid for was the
congestion tax. I also had typically about 4 parking tickets a week although I managed to successfully appeal
about half of them. Doing van jobs meant parking near the pick up and would often involve a few trips back and forth
with the sack barrow to get my load on. Typically this was when I'd return to find a ticket on my windscreen.
I was working 14 hours plus a day, with no paid holidays, no sick pay. If you were reluctant to take a job at the end
of the work day because it took you miles further away from home, and sometimes that would be hundreds of miles
then you had marked your card with the controller and you'd get a load of crap for the next few days.
It was during my employ here that I broke my ankle (not at work, I tripped over my mates dog. )
Cue three months of no pay while I was in plaster, and a further 3 months of crap small job work because I was
hobbling still and couldn't leg it back to the van sharpish to get away before the parking vultures got me.
Whilst away from the van you were in a constant state of stress as you were worried about the parking wardens.
The bellends in the mail rooms didn't seem to get this and often you'd come out after their faffing about to find
a ticket which more than cancelled out the job you were about to do. A W1 to W1 paid a fiver. It was just cack.
It was during the infancy of sat nav technology with a nav machine having a very cost prohibitive price.
So I did the job using maps and the A-Z. I was constantly buying local maps in other areas from petrol stations
when I was out of the capital which of course was more expense fro me. Often I'd not get to use those maps twice.
Anyhoo, the episode with my ankle was the last straw and I left for pastures new and never looked back.
The firm stitched me up in my final pay packet and kept a load of money back because somewhere along the
line I'd lost a ratchet strap, I ended up about another 300 quid down. It's only a good job if you can work in a pair
and keep the van running 24/7 like the polish lads did. One sleeping in the cab while the other drove. It also helped
with the parking vultures because the backup driver could go round the block if the African parking mafia appeared
out of the blue and the van was never left unattended. The worst one was when you had to go up to the 20th floor of
some massive building to find you had 40 boxes of copier paper or a huge print job to get down to to the street.
I was smoking 40 a day back in those days just to keep sane and often had to go find my mrs who was working
in Grays inn Road at the time to scrounge some diesel money just so I could do an unexpected long distance job.
I don't remember anybody asking to do a documentary about how much my work life sucked at the time. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Should have stayed out of bus lanes. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5 |
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Yawn... ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | M.C wrote: | It's strange (or maybe not) that the BBC went with the BAME angle, |
I was thinking the same about certain contributors here.
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Oh come on. Do you think his ethnicity didn't go some way in encouraging Al Beeb to make a story on it?
I'm also sure Al Beeb's remake of Romper Stomper will be true to the original, with no hidden anti right propaganda agenda. ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p065j489/romper-stomper-series-1-1-arrival
Quote: | Right wing group Patriot Blue hold a rally at a Muslim festival, where they clash with anarchists Antifasc.
Young stranger Kane steps in during the fighting to help members of Patriot Blue, immediately winning their trust.
Muslims also get hurt in the clashes and defiant Laila takes on the challenge of representing her community. |
That's funny. The original was about mass immigration of Vietnamese people to Melbourne and the way local skinheads fought against it. Since when were Vietnamese Muslims?
Without even watching Al Beeb's rehash of it, I can guess the agenda already. ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Don't tell mpd the bike was black
https://i62.servimg.com/u/f62/15/13/82/47/cbf11.jpg
I didn't really get the bailiff/seizing the bike thing either, on can't pay/take it away they don't touch a vehicle if it's on finance. The £400 was probably how much Honda would pay for the bike, they gave a pal £350 for his CBR125 (f**k knows why he accepted it) and sold it for 2k. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 5 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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