What Grinds my gears archive B

[hellkat]

Son of a bitch. I wanted that to be at the top of page 100
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[ThunderGuts]

Can't decide if gears ground or oiled by this one; out running last night and some lunatic on a (probably nicked) 2T dirt bike flies by (20mph residential road) at about 40mph. Ground by the fact the rider is a kn*b and is being a general idiot, but oiled (literally) by inhaling the lovely 2-stroke smoke after it went past.
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TG.

[Polarbear]

Impressed by our boys in blue? And no, I have no idea in what context he is wearing high heels but the speil sais it was while he was on duty.

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/300759731_2336486523168348_3921238834650309295_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=8nAcxD-_858AX-aGucS&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=00_AT8EBbkxPIclKsEFzl7gNq0s9Aobdvc6A7FzUSqNXes1Tg&oe=630BA097
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[M.C]

^I genuinely don't get why our police want to be a laughing stock.

Anyway some cnut keeps parking in the motorcycle parking... me There's a corner of the carpark which occasionally has bikes in, next to it a parking bay which today had two scooters in which I thought was a bit odd.

Came back to the car and realised the sign (which tbf is in the corner) that I've always read as 'motorcycle parking' actually says 'motorcycle parking bay'. In my defense I'm not the only one who does it but still...

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Pretty severe carb icing on the way to work today making 5 miles of filtering on the A1(M) a bit dicey. It shouldn’t but it always catches me by surprise.

[Ste]

[Ste]

Oh and that high heels photo is at least five years old.

Here's the same photo in 2017: https://cambriandissenters.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-politicization-of-police-and-demise.html

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[to v or not to v]

[chickenstrip]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[B1N]

I'm sure I remember reading something about Kawasaki fitting heating elements into the airboxes of affected bikes.

[Islander]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[chickenstrip]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Islander]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Long-ish stretch of roadworks on the A600 north of Hitchin, both ends stuck on red. Gridlocked.

[M.C]

eBay nuking listings but also removing them from your watch list.

...it's my watch list

[Jmoan]

[ThunderGuts]

Two incidents on my ride back home from Wales yesterday, both involving filtering.

1) Busy roundabout near Chester, queuing traffic all around it (traffic light controlled), start filtering through as it's a massive roundabout and I can see the queue is continuing beyond and up the road I'm going on. Some utter w*nker decides he's not happy about this and pulls his car over to block me. Fortunately his lack of general spatial awareness meant at this point he was almost touching the car in front (so couldn't move across any more) but hadn't completely closed the gap, so I managed to squeeze past. As I did, he was leaning on his horn and shouting "queue like the rest of us!" or something. If he didn't have his (passive and embarrassed looking) wife in the passenger seat (he was in the outside lane) I'd have been tempted to retort but I figured it'd be unfair on his wife to have me shaking a fist through the window, so I just left him fuming away behind me.

2) Second incident occurred on the M56. This wasn't anyone in particular's fault, but an unfortunate combination of events. A bad accident, miles of stationary traffic but within roadworks with very narrow lanes, almost impossible to filter through with my wide handlebars. I did get through slowly, but it was stop start as I had to wait for people to wake up and try and make room for me and even then it was millimetres of clearance quite often. This quickly became hard and hot work in 20 odd degree heat with a very hot V4 beneath me (which also sounded very unhappy given the constant radiator fan action).

Got home safely though and I guess that's the main thing, just a bit grinding along the way.
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[A100man]

[ThunderGuts]