Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

The bolts on the terminal just need to keep the leads in contact with the battery terminals, so non-conducting material would probably do it. I found the Vaseline tin of old battery bolts and confirmed they're magnetic. This latest battery is the same make (Yuasa) and size but is 11Ah instead of the stock 8Ah (thanks to Jaffa for the steer). The battery terminals look like shiny brass instead of flat grey, and the bolts are non-magnetic. Wouldn't brass crossheads be too soft?

[reavsie]

[chickenstrip]

[JackButler]

Poke me with a sharp stick, but it seems the resident BCF gobshoites think they have a bad back due to some 'Hollywood' fantasy that they have surrounding their imaginery pumping of iron & generally thinking they Garth.

The only thing I can think to ask is : "now that you're an idle bastard & a burden upon our welfare state, how are you going to pay all that back to us hard working tax paying folk?
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I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[chickenstrip]

[Polarbear]

[Riejufixing]

[panrider_uk]

Got a puncture while driving home tonight.

The (almost new) tyre is completely destroyed and I'm hoping the alloy is ok.

I had to call Autoaid (highly recommend them) because I couldn't loosen the air-gunned on wheel nuts!
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Current bike: Honda ST1100

[Ste]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

My gears are ground by the fact that one of the people who noticed I was losing weight was the pervy rastaman who lives round the corner. He was openly letching at me, and I would reject his advances except that half the time I can never understand what he's saying, his accent is so strong.

Also (2nd grinding in one morning), the cleaner appears to have permanently changed her day to Monday and I forgot, until she texted me to ask what time to come over. So now I have to go out for two hours
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[yen_powell]

[hellkat]

I've rather wiped myself out, wages-wise already
And all the rest of the bills come out tomorrow, on the first of the month

Oh dear.
Ah, never mind.
Something will turn up eventually.

And besides, I've got an Ocado order coming, and one from Asda (or is it Waitrose) tomorrow as well, I think.

I think it was those lipsticks tipped me over the edge
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Diggs]

Adverts for charities at Christmas. As an example I was eating my lunch today to be confronted with a very wonky donkey on the telly, and according to the advert narrator the worst thing you can do to a donkey isn't to break its back, it is to 'break its heart'.

Now, I am no Joseph Mengele, but even I can thing of worse things to do to a donkey than that. My immediate thought was putting it in an oversized frying-pan on a high heat...
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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...

[Islander]

[panrider_uk]

[Easy-X]

[bhinso]

[recman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[stinkwheel]

Today. Every fucking thing. Everything I have touched has turned to shite.

Job 1: Unpack new petrol tank (from India) and apply POR15 to inside. Oh, it's in primer already, that's handy. Oh wait, there's primer on the inside too, perhaps it's fuel proof? ...Nope. Now have to strip the INSIDE of the new tank.

Job 2: finish Mrs stinkwheels CBR600 flat bar conversion. All missing parts ordered so fit the screen with new wellnuts, sticky pads for the heated grip controller, terminals to extend the horn wire. Ok, test it. Won't run properly. ffs, this seems like fuel starvation.

Whip the tank off to check tap, filters etc and to get at the foat bowl drains and it starts pissing fuel from the fuel line next to the tap. In fact, it's split. Cut it back and it's still leaking. The lining is all cracked. presumably ethanol damage. And it's got a 90 degree preformed bend. Oh, and great, it also changes diameter (8mm at tank end, 10mm at filter end) so using some of the metres of standard fuel line I already have isn't an option.

Found the issue thought, the points on the fuel pump were stuck together, easy fix but now that bike is sat in bits.

Job 3: Fit the new facet fuel pump to the VFR. FFS ordered the wrong size hose-tails. It also won't fit under the plastics where I thought I could put it so instead of having two 90 degree fittings, I'll need to have one straight and take the other through 180 degrees. And they are NPT threads so none of my fittings will fit. Bike now sat in bits.

So I now have three bikes sat in bits and an waiting for parts where I should have had two working/fixed and be waiting for the liner to dry on the new tank. It's looking like the paint they used doesn't dissolve in caustic either ffs!

EDIT:

Job 4: Make dinner. Chilli con-carne. Accidentally picked up a nagalah instead of an orange habanero and made a pan something that looks like food but with all the flavour and mouth feel of magma.
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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.

[Fisty]

My grandfather was a member of Mackworth church, sang in the choir wrote a book on the place. Campained to stop it being turned into a house.

Various family members married and christened there.

Grandad laid to rest there.

Some cunt burned it to the ground last night.
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Quietly and consistently taking the piss.
TL1000R | Hayabusa | ZXR400 | TL1000S | Bandit 400 V
Fatter and faster than Fret

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Polarbear]