Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[Howling Terror]

Gas powered conversion.
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[Polarbear]

[thx1138]

[hellkat]

Cunts who wander about on the motorway without indicating
Had to make do with waving a fist in the shape of a wanker signal and very clearly mouthing "Fucking Wanker" at him out the passenger window.

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Beehive Bedlam]

I've had three serial fantasits walk up to me this week and start babbling on about bikes with a stupid overly excited grin across their face.

Not sure if it's that time of year or because I washed it before it was like the Tardis and just blended in.

And today has just been.

[grr666]

[duhawkz]

[stephen_o]

Twas the AGM of the Rifle and Pistol Club tonight and they set the start time for 7.30pm which with them means 7.25pm START not a minute after. I had a dead day at work so decided to close up at 5pm instead of 5.30pm to try and get ahead of the traffic and give me time to get my tea before going, I needed to be on the way from home at 6.40pm to stand any chance of getting there on time.

SO - CUE CLASSIC POTTERIES GRIDLOCK and I arrive home at 6pm which is the time I would normally get home. No chance of getting anything to eat and getting there - night abandoned.
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[MarJay]

Resignation day +2

Received an email fobbing me off. So I wrote a long snot-a-gram in reply on my phone. Big mistake.

I removed all the 'To' field people, and all the 'CC's and added only members of my team so that I can get it checked before it's seen by the person I was aiming at. I sent it.

I then found that Android email seems to have a bug where it re-adds all the CC's and one of them was a distribution list on which the person in question resides.

Luckily, reading it back it doesn't seem that bad, and I'm leaving now anyway so what the heck. Actually... I'm not sure it ground my gears as much as oiled them!!
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British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[Beehive Bedlam]

Asian people are like fucking maggots.

[MCN]

[recman]

[LustyLew]

[BTTD]

Autoglass replaced the cracked windscreen on my car yesterday.
The new screen looked good, however I subsequently find that the washer jets which had been perfect were completely miss aligned so I had to dick about adjusting them. They still need a bit of fine tuning and they are a real pain adjust.
Something about the wipers didn't seem quite right either, but I couldn't quite figure it out until about an hour ago when I realised that the passenger side wiper wasn't clearing right. On closer inspection the rubber insert is about 3" short of the end of the holder. wtf?
I changed out the rubbers a couple of months ago and I know they were spot on. I bought a whole load of wiper refills so I have some in the garage and can swap a new one straight in, but wtf!
Why has the Autoglass monkey cut my wiper short and fckd with the washer aim?

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Polarbear]

And after new front discs and pads on my youngest daughters car, new disks, pads and wheel bearings on wifies Megane and a new steering rack on my C-Max.............................

The Megane has decided to throw up an ABS warning light

FFS more money unless the garage say it was something to do with the work they did a couple of weeks ago

Yes, I know. Fat chance.
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[chickenstrip]

Going out to find the car battery flat. 10.2 volts. No warning it was headed that way, but I knew all these short trips to the shops would take their toll. Put it on charge, but not much hope if it got down to that level.

On the plus side, discovered the Kriega bags are great for picking up the weekly groceries on the bike. Just got to be careful I don't do the same thing to the bike battery.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Sudden gusty cross-wind, heavy rain and then a tremendous hail-storm on an exposed section of dual carriageway had me worried I'd be blown off the side of the road. Normally I guide/wrestle the bike through it and then there's the "Jimbo, you crazy bastard!" chuckle when I get home, but on this occasion it didn't seem cool at all.

Visibility remained acceptable throughout.
#Rainpal

[CBFcarl]

Yesterday, 8.45am and I was coming off my estate when I noticed that the road that I was going to was filled with Police cars, ambulances and a fire engine (later found out that this was due to a car crash). 10 minute detour the wrong way meant I was back on track, but due to a car crash on the A1, traffic was at a standstill, and what is normally a 5 min stretch of road took me 35 mins to clear.

This morning, set off to work (early again), and 10 mins into my trip, the main road into Doncaster was closed due to a 2 car smash. I ended up having to go across Rotherham and get on the M18. Cars really need to stop crashing.

Oh, and colleagues who can't do the job (THE ONLY JOB) that they have, meaning triple the work for me whilst putting their fuckups right.
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thx1138 wrote: Well if you had a car, I'd bet it would smell like urine had had drunken sex with vomit and made a poo baby.
Polarbear wrote: They are all old now. Probably had more abuse that a Rotherham schoolgirl.
Hellkat wrote: I want to know if Nigella smells of garlic, or just minge.

[Beehive Bedlam]

Coming to terms with the fact it's highly unlikely I will never own a Bugatti Veyron.

[recman]

[Polarbear]

[duhawkz]

[Beehive Bedlam]

[recman]