Todays - What Grinds my gears

[thx1138]

Drivers stopping to let me out in the village i work in. Almost never helpful, usually no one at all behind them, it was a rural village fast being built up, but there are a few rural roads with tricky junctions on bends, and i just want predictable not random “helpful”

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I’ve just realised that electrical contact cleaner doesn’t do anything on corrosion, which always needs abrasion to remove. Waste of money.

[to v or not to v]

[A100man]

Wanky contraptions and always the same - usually the most neglected part of a bike IME.
The SRX requires at least nine new parts (bushes, bearings collars etc..)
amounting to much potential spending..
..I am though trying to source 'alternative parts' and spend about 50 ponds rather than 200+ on OEM bits.
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Now: A100, SRX250, XJ598, FZ750, SL1000

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600, Skorpion, GT 250

[to v or not to v]

treated the wench for to a couple of new rear tyres for the car. paid and booked online at a localish place.
when she arrived they told her there would be a half hour wait because they are running late and it would take another 45 minutes to replace the 2 tyres.
i guess they took liberties because shes a woman. and to top it off, they left the 2 new tyres on the rear of the car instead of putting them on the front and the pressure was 4 ft/lb different between the tyres.
Sunday morning i had to crawl around on the drive swapping car wheels front to rear.
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Moto Guzzi V7.

[panrider_uk]

What grinds my gears is writing a long post about what was grinding my gears only for the forum to be blocking posts.

Now I can't remember what ground my gears at the time.

So I guess failing memory is grinding my gears!
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Current bikes: Honda ST1100 Pan European. Moto Guzzi V85 TT Travel

[UncleFester]

Royal Mail and their pi55 poor attempt at customer 'service.

Asked our temp postie VERY politely to not short cut over the front garden and hop the fence, relatively minor, not expecting an issue with that. Damage to the grass / broken fence where he keeps tripping over the green wire mesh etc etc, whatever, it's not an access route.

Fully expecting a pleasant "no problem mate" but then get a load of lip back about time pressures and how he'd go where he liked / what was I going to do about it. He then got the fat hump when polite request turned into a barked order and then failed to see how the change in request tone was anything to do with him.

45 minutes after being on hold to RM i log a complaint ( this is after spending an hour trying to find a way to talk sensibly to the local deliver office and no, they won't do face to face) and then the automated no reply reply email from the customer service centre - 30 days to investigate but no actual reply and no plan for one.

Now i'm far more irritated than i was at the start so it's off to their CEO mailbox with a number of complaints. Not least the fact that we're down to 1 or 2 mail deliveries a week as it is or that the price of everything is up.

1st world problems for sure but for whatever reason, that really irked me.
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2017 Z1000SX

[A100man]

[UncleFester]

Tbh most of what now arrives is just spam and circulars. The only folk who don't know Royal Mail is on its last legs are the staff.

It's going the same way as coal mining did.
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2017 Z1000SX

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I had some post regarding my retirement and giving me one month to make a decision about employee shares, but the letters were two weeks old by the time they were pushed through the letterbox.

[thx1138]

Written instructions with sentences beginning SIMPLY..

Simply plug x into y, and connect to z. Etc..

If it says simply, it’s gonna be a 3hr faff, and the product has evolved to past the device shown in the illustrations.

[Easy-X]

If there needs to be written instructions, the design has failed and the word "simply" is anachronistic
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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

[UncleFester]

Or antagonistic
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2017 Z1000SX

[Easy-X]

Am I getting old?

The weekend is almost here and rather than the pile of computer games I never seem to have time to play, I'm focused on how much daylight I have to tinker with motorcycle wiring vs. what bass guitar I buy next
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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

[Polarbear]

Do Americans have idiot design gurus?

The battery on my American tractor is not where you would expect it, under the seat or behind the side panel. Its behind the oil cooler grill and under the oil cooler. I'm embarrassed to say I actually had to look in the online hand book to find it.

The other ludicrous design arrangement is the reg/rec is under there, on the outside where all the shit from the front wheel gets thrown. I might have to see if I can place it elswhere but from the size of the cooling fins it must get bloody hot.

https://www.victoryforums.com/attachments/imag2165-jpg.9304/
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Victory Cross Country American tractor.