Todays - What Grinds my gears

[stinkwheel]

Went to service and reassemble my clutch master cylinder today. I bought a master cylinder service kit and a new lever and set about assembling it.

Failed.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/honda-vfr750f-1997-v-england-clutch-master-cylinder_bigect4l41f__0500_d7df.gif

The service kit contains all the parts labelled 4.

The lever kit contains all the parts labelled 22

Neither contains parts 2 and 3. they have no direct mechanical connection to the assembly when the lever is removed, they are free to fall on the floor (and presumable have done at some point in the last 10 years).

They cost more than a good pattern service kit and lever combined off honda. Only one seller of pattern ones on ebay and even that was £15.

If you crashed the bike and broke the lever, these bits would be very likely to disappear and your replacement lever would be totally useless.
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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.

[Diggs]

Just got a NIP for doing 38 in a 30, in a Skoda. I'd have thought congratulations should be in order instead....
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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...

[pepperami]

Had plans to go out on a bike this morning.
Well that went pear-shaped .

God must have unblocked his drains, cause it poured down here like the apocalypse .
Fug that sh*t! I’m not going out in that!
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[A100man]

[Diggs]

[Polarbear]

[Diggs]

[Diggs]

Years ago I got a tug for doing 80-something on the A1 on my old Guzzi. I got congratulated by the Durham Constabulary for that one
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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...

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[recman]

The subscription on my Ring doorbell camera going up by 40%.
Unsubscribe.

[Ribenapigeon]

[grr666]

[stinkwheel]

Bastarding fucking computers. They get worse the longer time goes on.

This particular issue is not helped by the fact all our consultation PCs have been set to go onto a lock screen after 3 minutes so I have to log back into them every bastarding fucking time I want to do something.

Anyway. I'd forgotten to click a button that releases the record on our database to so the receptionist can charge it out.

As usual, fucking lockscreen. So I click it. Only I accidentally clicked one of the uneecessary bits of random shite microsoft insist on putting on their lockscreens so instead of going back into my terminal session, it opens the Edge browser to show me pictures of whateverthefuckitwas. Only nobody uses this as a PC, it's a terminal access point so edge has never been opened. Can you close it? No you fucking can't, so I had to go through all the fecking popover setup on edge, then close it, then log back into the terminal session, then log back into the database, THEN click the button.

Wait 3 minutes and I might have to do the same again. I have raised an IT ticket about the imminent danger of a thin client PC with monitor attached getting ripped off the wall and landing on top of someones car via an open window if someone doesn't at least triple the lockscreen timeouts.
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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.

[Polarbear]

^^^ ^^^

Go find a cows arse to stick your hand up. You will, I'm sure, feel much better.

Actually I'm totally sympathetic. Our Shell office computers ust to go to screen savers of happy Shell people all over the world if you so much as looked away from the screen. Thern you always had to log in again. Once a month it forced you to change passwords, cretinous system that it was.
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[stinkwheel]

[UncleFester]

Oh the new shite stops that. Different random non similar required each time. 16 characters, one special, one cap, one number etc. Passwords remembered for 2 years.

Yawn bored etc.

Doesn't stop some chunt from clicking on shite they shouldn't but does make everyone else's lives that bit more irritating.
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Module 1 and 2 passed - October 2014. Happy owner of a 2017 Z1000SX, ex owner of a YBR125 / CB500 / VFR800.

[stinkwheel]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Password rules became so convoluted that they have in fact weakened passwords, and to get around this inane must be this that and the other, which nobody can remember as they're directed to change them often, people write them down, or save them in a file, so even fucking worse you can now get full access to all apps, rather than guess just one.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Islander]

[Islander]

[stinkwheel]

It's getting to the point where I just don't do stuff because i can't be arsed tracking down the login. I've stopped using two of our labs because they use online submission forms. It's FAR quicker and easier to fill in a paper form and put it in the package. I actually challenged one of my nurses to a race to submit a blood test. Paper was twice as fast, and that was with the printer playing ball, which they often aren't.
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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.

[Islander]

[stinkwheel]

[stinkwheel]

While I'm grinding gears.

Lying, bone idle, incompetant tradesmen.

The door lock at work is malfunctioning. It's secure but it rattles about and won't stay on the sneck so people keep being locked out. The current solution is a fresh piece of duck tape every morning.

Got a "locksmith" in to fit a new one. He fucked about for a bit then told us it's an obsolete door and they don't make locks for them any more so we need a new door Kthnksbye.

I smelled a rat so had a look. It's an aluminium door and has a high-end, totally industry standard lock plate with screw in locks. Too me all of 30 seconds to find all the exact, direct replacement parts for them online. The lock cylinders are absolutely fine, the lockplate is beyond worn out.

What he actually meant to say was "I'm really sorry, your lockplate is badly worn and I've burred out the head on one of the grub screws and stripped a thread on the door trying to overtighten them to take up the slack. Thing is, I'm too bone-idle to drill out the screw so I can remove it and too incompetant to fix the stripped thread."

I've told the practice manager I can fix it but it'll take me two hours now instead of the 15 minutes it would have taken because I'll have to centre burr and drill out a grub screw and fit a helicoil.
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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.

[pepperami]

Neuralgia , I’ve got it, my head fugging hurts
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!