What Grinds my gears archive B

[grr666]

Five days of non fucking stop rain since getting the new bike.
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[Easy-X]

[grr666]

It's pissed down all morning here, really heavy rain at times. It's stopped a couple of times for 20 minutes here or there
and is stopped right now but my back garden is like a swamp. Just been out to change the batteries on my shed alarm
which has been beeping at me all morning to tell me it needs new ones and it was a squelch fest walking across the lawn.
No way I'm rolling a minter out across all that mud and the roads are still soaking wet so it's going nowhere today even
if the rain doesn't come back.
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[Ribenapigeon]

KwikFit: The upselling is mad. Take the car in because the front brake pads are truly shot and the discs very likely shot as well so prepared for that then after their "free inspection" they quote £950 worth of works; the pads, discs, flexi pipes, brake pipes, universal joint boot, suspension bushes and front shocks! Its like there wasnt a single bolt on the car didn't need replacing. Anyway thanks but no thanks just do the discs and pads, how much will that be. £270 ok just do that. Sheeeshh. If I had a garage or at least a driveway id do it myself but my days of scrabling about in the street mucking around under cars is years past so im sanguine about the extra cost to go to a garage and I knew KwikSting would attempt to upsell but jezuss they sure go for it big time.

Yeah, I know KwikFit

[ThunderGuts]

[Ribenapigeon]

[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

[Diggs]

Been for hearing test - put it off for years. The quack described my hearing as like listening to music when someone's punctured the treble cone. Sadly, unless you are Barry White, that is the bit of range that normal speech sits in. Too many years riding bikes without earplugs methinks.

Going for my aids fitting next week. The quack said it should be like when I first tried on glasses - a revelation! Lets hope....
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Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

[Ribenapigeon]

[stinkwheel]

[grr666]

[MCN]

I now wear attenuated ear plugs when Im in Tesco. They play that shyte moozak over the PA. Not original artist. Its loke listening to karaoke when your sober.

B&Q have been piping shite into their stores for years too. Plugs in for a visit to those bastirts too.
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[stinkwheel]

[Nobby the Bastard]

A company was selling a system that made sound that wasn't hearable by adults but was unbearable for teenagers and younger about 15 years ago. Funnily enough it was a vets just round from my old house where my kids always complained about the high pitched loud noise.
It's down to the fact the older you get the lower the highest pitch sound your ears can perceive.


The company was eventually done in by age discrimination laws, no idea what they were called and can't be arsed to look it up.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

They can sell it but people/companies cannot legally use it.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Islander]

[Polarbear]

Youngest daughter has just got a new job as yard manager of a riding school in Richmond, where the toffs live

It's living in and she can take her horse down with her and put it in the stables. All good and I have access to a horse lorry, an old vehilce but in good condition to take said horsey down to Richmond from it's stables in MK.

But the ULEZ charge levied by Gruppenfurher Khan, for 24 hors for the horse box is..........................

£300

Fcuk me sideways. It's cheaper to hire a horsebox for £50 a day and hitch it to my mates Dacia sh1t box. Bloody ridiculous.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Itt's such a shame that a horse doesn't have legs, otherwise it could go from the edge of the ulez area to the sables with, for example, someone riding it to direct it to said stables. It's such a shame that horses can't carry riders.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Polarbear]

[Robby]

I know it's the wrong thread, but hearing someone who owns a horse and assorted horse accessories moan about paying a tax really oils my gears.

[ThunderGuts]

[Polarbear]

[stinkwheel]

Confirms that London is a waste of space and not worth the effort to visit.

I shall continue my boycott of the place.

It will eventually disappear up its own arse/under Thames.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.