So... What oiled your gears today? ARCHIVE

[Howling Terror]

[Aww shit..didn't want the page-get...Hey-ho]


Been going through a tough patch and as is often the way I didn't let on to anybody (in the scheme of things it is a very very piddly small tough patch) and I thought an old valued friend CBA'd to see me (Sorry this is going a bit ghey isn't it) anyroad-up he's just text me and is en-route.

He's going to get the HT special cup of coffee (I rub my penis around the edge) and I'll give him a slightly firmer handshake than usual.


I'm sending good vibes to all BCF'ers I like (Quite a lot of you and you know who you are).
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[Hong Kong Phooey]

[stephen_o]

The Leaf is fine today - no issues. It almost seems like it is asking me "what was all the fuss about yesterday"? As I pootle about getting meat for me and straw and shavings for the Chicks.
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[recman]

Gears oiled by how much I got done today but I'm absolutely bollocksed now.

[Pigeon]

My 10 year old bike has been in bits in garage for 2 months while I replaced.....most of it.


https://i.imgur.com/oBdetDo.jpg


Enjoyed slicing, slipping and sliding 70psi 700c tyres through some muddy stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/hxC9ce1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/K6nLrw0.jpg


21 miles in the sunsheeeiine.......arse destroyed.

[stephen_o]

Like the bike, similar to mine but with bigger mudguards. Mine has been stuck in the shed today and is filthy from last week still.

Would love to have had a sunny ride, alas snow
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[Pigeon]

Used to ride that 3 times a week between 20 and 70 miles between 2009 and 2012, then stopped.

Did about 1500 miles on it. Bike cost £180


Have replaced bottom bracket, crank, chain, freewheel cassette, brake pads, pedal bearings, wheel bearings (and rear axle as I broke it), headstock bearings. All for about £85

If it does another 1500 miles, can't get much cheaper entertainment.

Am hoping that getting fitter and having stopped drinking, it has a positive effect as I've not been overly positive this last 18 months.

[stephen_o]

compare that to paying a Gym membership on DD for all those years! Bargain mate. My story is similar, bought the bike 10 yrs ago, did here and their, rode to work a few times, was feeling the benefit then it just ended up buried in the back of the Garage litterally under shop lol. Now rescued and fixed I have done a bit but need to start getting back out now. Bought new gear thats better for the miles I want to do. Time to do it lol.
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current scoot 2009 Yamaha YBR250 + Current Pootle 2013 Nissan Leaf

[Rogerborg]

I've also been cycling on my long neglected Halfrauds' special iron lump. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to not be subject to any road traffic "guidelines".

Todays gear-oil brought to you courtesy of watching fashion victims suffering for their art by sloshing through the slush in distressed drainpipe jeans, trainer socks and plimsoles. Frostbite's a cheap price to pay for looking just like everyone else.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Nexus Icon]

[waffles]

Insurance renewal time!

Devitt sent me their attempt which I shall ignore because I hate them.

Meerkats quote gave me RAC as the cheapest quote so I went to their website for a more comprehensive quote and got it even cheaper than the Meerkats. I get a discount for being an RAC member and I can boost up my breakdown cover to European cover for only £10 more than Devitts wanted.

Seeing as I will be going to Europe in August on the bike and was going to have to get Euro breakdown cover anyway I call that a win
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[hellkat]

[grr666]

The pole arrives today. This means happy wife which means happy me. <wisdom.jpg> I was let in on the cost of
it last night, and despite a 20% discount via her contacts in the industry (The wife is an instructor now) it was still £450 quid
as it's made to measure to suit the new building. I expect I'll be installing it this weekend, then I can order a couple of eye
wateringly expensive 8 foot by 4 foot studio mirrors and a 6 inch thick circular crashmat to go around the pole. I reckon
she'll be up and running out there in a week of two, I still have to fit the soundsystem, disco lighting and some shelves and
stuff, but all the big work is done once the pole is in. Freeing me up for some spacker maintenance and a there's a couple of
parts to swap out on the scoot, I miss my shed, it's been choked up with displaced materials and furniture while this build has
been going on, be nice to get the heater on out there and get my socket set out for a change. May drop the Spacker
into Fowlers for a service, just to get the book stamped really. it's still under warranty so I might as well, they called me about
it back in October when the build started but I haven't been able to get it out of the shed for all the building clutter.
Now if this dog would just stop menstruating then that would be the cherry on the cake, so to speak.
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

My gear oilage has been sponsored today by a passenger from last night. He got in at The Cheshire Cheese, a bit pissed and smelt wonderfully of pubs.

Not in a sticky-carpet sort of way, but of that really nice "wood-panelled-couple-more-beers-than-he-shoulda-had" kind of smell that decent old fashioned pubs used to smell of.

It helps that he was chatty and interesting: had he been less urbane and witty, I would probably have thought he just smelt of booze and fags.



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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Howling Terror]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWFwdX4WAAAU__g.jpg No shares.


Only use Greggs when I've given up on life. This pie is from a trusted source.
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The Harry Turner Project

[thx1138]

burned over 1,500 calories on a bike ride, so just stuffing my face with a couple of cakes before tea,

[Beehive Bedlam]

[Polarbear]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

[Howling Terror]

I get mine then he gets his.

Dinnertime rules.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVm0KywW0AEYEhI.jpg
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Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
The Harry Turner Project

[chickenstrip]

[Howling Terror]

He's never eaten human food and the amount of salt in that pie would've killed him....I've saved his life.
In fact I've taken one for the team.... every time I eat a pie I save the life of a dog.

If you were to just give £3 a week I could save many many more lives.
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Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
Singer songwriter, Artist and allround good bloke Listen to Andrew Susan Johnston here
The Harry Turner Project