What Grinds my gears archive B

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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Usually just mildly peeved that people on this housing estate park cars and work vans on the circular main road instead of on driveways or outside their own houses, and always close to junctions. However this evening there’s a highways truck carrying cones, and a flippin’ bus.

[MCN]

[grr666]

[Diggs]

Getting hit in the face by a meathead at a gig last night. Apparently he thought someone behind him was flicking beer at the back of his head. Turns out he was standing under an air conditioning duct and condensation was dripping... I was closest to him so he thought it was me. I won't press charges as I don't want my folks to have the hassle of statements, court etc and the venue doesn't need that sort of publicity. May wasps nest in his arsehole....
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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...

[P.]

What gig was it?

[MCN]

[to v or not to v]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

My second venture into Facebook Marketplace confirms it’s a 50:50 split of genuinely nice buyers and chancers. On the chancers-side some bloke in South Carolina wants to buy my lawnmower, a foreign gentleman is angling for my bank details because his cousin wants to buy, and another has offered to trade whatever he’s offering with additional cash but I’d have to click on the dodgy link. Then there’s the ‘entrepreneurs’ who imagine they can negotiate a discount on an item already priced to sell so they can make a small profit. I just want to flog some unused stuff cheap to someone who’ll appreciate it and make some space!

[Easy-X]

[MCN]

Pepsi added to my Boycott/Block list of idiot companies/products.

I spat the dummy out a couple of weeks back over sweeteners in Pepsi.

I assumed it was an error on my part that I'd bought the wrong formula.

It appears not.

I got a can today and soon as I tasted it I got that chemical sweet tates.

Pepsi Bastirts.
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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[stinkwheel]

[blurredman]

Ordered parts from the States. But been stuck since the 10th at a status that I can only imagine that means it is now lost between the scanning processes between local and more major sorting offices. As far as It has to be lost in transit.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.

[Diggs]

[hellkat]

The Italian shrink is doing my nut in.
He's been proper dicking me around all summer (worse than he usually does) with appointments on and off and different dates, half days, being on holiday, clinics cancelled at the last minute, etc.

Fortunately it's the end of the month and I am about to send him my August invoice - that should wake him up a bit - at least it will cheer me up.

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Easy-X]

If you don't want to do something double the price.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

Thing is, I actually quite like doing it.

It's been a bit chaotic since they (he, wife, 4 kids, 2 dogs) decided to move back to Italy and now four days before he's due to come back here for face to face clinics, he's lost his bloody passport

I tend to be his ground anchor - but only on the private patient side : he pays for the privilege, believe me.

But actually, he has a very extensive and interesting patient list - and he's really very nice: charming and super intelligent. Once he gets his life in Italy straightened back out, things will be fine *fingers crossed* (I keep telling myself, LOL)

But sometimes he's just more ... Italian ... (i.e. infuriating) than other times.

If I have to cancel these patients (again) I will charge him a whole extra day's work
What I'd charge him for a day, he charges for half an hour.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Diggs]

Great weather this weekend, chores done, a few tinnies in the garden. What's not to love? Until that is the neighbour's lad comes round in a frock and asks to be called Harriet. Fair enough we thought, until he went back next door and proceeded to try to cut his cock of with a pair of scissors... That got the curtains twitching on the cul-de-sac!
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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...

[Polarbear]

[TbirdX]

[stinkwheel]

FItted a tyre to the 18" rim for my trials bike today. Usual hot sweaty mess by the time I got it on. That's normal though, not what ground my gears.

What really annoys me is when you buy parts for on a bike that are unfit for the use they are sold for. They clearly made the thing -possibly based on a picture of a proper one- but have never attempted to fit it to an actual motorcycle and test it because if they had, they'd see it doesn't work. Wassel are particularly bad for this kind of shit. In this instance, I've fitted a rimlock. Supplied as specific for this size of tyre. Can you see the problem?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AIL4fc9E72lBtj22GvF4w1B1b8GKeF0Ljki6CCQki9p9VjI80Gn7olHHmf_Ph9AciIFKiWIPMs2j6NbMvCfw9mdRZYH1WuAGaGVrVgRZCY6rQIghsoAxT6jV7JLeVMpbhW1QaYiEUVk2e9hN9B2LuxkHLRz_=w1547-h870-s-no

It's going to be hard to clamp that down against the rim with the thread stopping short. It's a pretty chunky tyre bead and a steel rim so it's not like I have a skinny setup here either. I'd send it back as unfit for the purpose intended but that would mean dismounting the tyre again so I've just made a spacer. Fitted a locknut too because I'm uncomfortable with that just being held on with one nut.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AIL4fc9VvlvnC8sjfgMgS5kmavtaTq2Vc9XOH_fLYZdQag7x4vb9P3pbAjSq3bqRDxhm_RU6-JsPV007fr6Vhz5X3RJvL0wYG2roSOG1xd8f5HSVxYcNIYjQeXUNhPWE8Ru7hm3F2mstuVxzBXcZCHGsIdxl=w1547-h870-s-no
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[hellkat]

The little old lady next door is concerned about me cheering (quite vociferously, admittedly ) when someone (anyone) scores a try in my current bout of constant rugby-watching - as she can hear it through our joint wall.

Oh.
Is that right?

Well, thinks me ... I don't remember complaining to you when you parked your husband's hospital bed on the wall right beside my telly and I could hear him groaning all the way into his coffin for the last six months of the poor bastard's life.

FFS

Maybe her son can ask the builders that they have so kindly advised me will be knocking down the garden wall and making a lot of noise with PNEUMATIC DRILLS in my back garden for the next couple of weeks, to soundproof her living room for her whilst they are there

(or is it mine that needs soundproofing, so she can't heara me?) oh well, fuck it.




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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Easy-X]

[stinkwheel]

[blurredman]

Two punctures on the one wheel within 10 miles (both screw/nails).

I don't get them for years, and then suddenly i'm so very lucky.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.