So... What oiled your gears today?

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[Easy-X]

My wife does a selection of meats. Pork and gammon do about the best with turkey limping in third.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[BanditsHigh]

Finished off the subwoofer cabinet I made for a friend, made from 40mm thick bamboo worktop, looks great at the moment but will be better once finish is applied and it weighs a ton!

Driver is in the bottom at the far right of cabinet (as requested) ... the little scoop out of the end (at both ends) is to assist in pulling it out of the cabinet it'll be in.

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Which goes nicely with the bamboo speaker cabinets I made for him earlier in the year

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[hellkat]

The Military Type* is returning home tomorrow to his allegedly idyllic life as an ex-pat in Turkey.

It's been very nice having him to stay, in an entirely platonic sort of way.
He is an interesting and challenging source of motivation for me.
But I shall be glad to have a smoke-free home again.


*A very manly man, who unwittingly used my ridiculously expensive perfume as an air freshener, instead of the actual ridiculously expensive air freshener.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[stinkwheel]

Mrs stinkwheels latest bicycle crash. About 20mph into the Christmas tree. In the living room. She didn't hurt herself so I'm allowed to laugh.

Protip. When riding in heart rate zone 4 on rollers while watching a first person video of someone riding an alpine pass on a projector screen, do NOT lean for the corners.

The helmet on even when riding inside rule still stands!
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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.

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chocolate coated pistachio nuts.
why havent i encountered these things before.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[Easy-X]

Built my mum a greenhouse. I would say "more man-points again" but this was more a case of Advanced Puzzle Engineering. Lots of extruded aluminium with rails to capture nuts, the trick being to strategically slide in extras for things happening later. It all seems very obvious now it's built but the instructions were pretty awful. Still, can't expect much for £180*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQMPTSP4

Nobody uses glass any more so the panels are some lightweight translucent shite akin to corrugated cardboard. We'll see how the whole thing fairs across a season, might get some decent polycarbonate cut to replace 'em.

*Egads! Now even cheaper.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[recman]

Repairing my vacuum cleaner by replacing a flexible hose in the lower sucky part.

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[recman]

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[hellkat]

The good thing about thinking whilst walking the dog is that you can talk out loud to yourself, and people think you are talking to the dog.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

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[virus]

[recman]

[Pete.]

I vacuumed the entire rear garden at about 9pm one night using my wet & dry vac. I went out and found hundreds of tiny juvenile slugs had all emerged simultaneously and were spread across the garden. We were having a yearly battle with slugs eating away our plants and after I did this the problem all bit went away.
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a.k.a 'Geri'

132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Nobby the Bastard]

Did you find that the vacuum was a bit sluggish after that.
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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

[Easy-X]

Lovely sunny day to be out on the bike. Quite bracing with the visor open! Feel quite energised now though
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Robby]

Christmas, new year and all of that shite is over. No more forced socialising with drunk relatives.

[DaddyStu]

[hellkat]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

My £400 Delonghi dehumidifier* stopped working but I found it had a 2-year warranty and it was still 6 weeks shy of that. The warranty said we’ll fix it if possible but will not replace it, which seemed like an odd, possibly unenforceable warranty. Anyway, they sent DPD to collect it and now I’m told it was beyond repair (I think it had lost its refrigerant and there was no recharge valve) but I can have a new one.

* Shut in the back bedroom with damp laundry on clothes horses it’s cheaper than running the tumble dryer, although it will be a while before it covers that purchase price.

[RhynoCZ]

Brand new brake rotors, brake pads, chain, cables...and cleaned and re-lubed every single bearing on my road bike oiled my gears today.

So smooth, so nice to ride.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[RhynoCZ]

Today, new PSU for my PC oiled my gears. Brand new 1kW PSU for i7 7700K, RTX 4070 Ti Super... no more random reboots in demanding games and the new PSU is also very quiet regardless of the load. Under 30% load the cooling fan doesn't even spin. That being said, the games also run somewhat smoother, like if the old 600W PSU couldn't deliver clean enough (stable) power for the components. Two hours of RDR2 in native 4K, locked 60fps, CPU and GPU near 100% utilization in demanding areas, ... no reboots, no freezing, no stutter so far. The PSU expels mildly warm air.

Also, yesterday, I did a good job while jobbing at my job... and as a result got a small bonus £££ from my bosses.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor