So... What oiled your gears today?

[grr666]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

Mr Methane performed at Glastonbury 1997. That was the best line up of acts ever by far would love to have gone.
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[grr666]

[Easy-X]

[grr666]

[P.]

[RhynoCZ]

My recently purchased car oiled my gears today and to be honest the whole month. It's got two sets of cabin air filters that I replaced recently, one regular set of polen filters and the other set is the activated charcoal 2µm (iirc?) filters selectable by a press of a button. Now, I work in an industrial city, so as the winter starts smog is a thing there. Also, since energy prices are sky high people heat their homes by burning whatever flammable to which the gov. says alright. So, outside is smog, bad sulfuric smell of whatever people burn, I just wouldn't cycle to work in that and so on... well, not in my car! The air inside the cabin of my car is actually so clean, I could compare the air quality to spending time in the wilderness in the middle of the nowhere. Air free of pollution and irritants, my airways so clean I enjoy driving the car even more.

It's a 1998 car, but that filtration system is just amazing. And it's also rwd with 137kW/270Nm engine and I can turn the ASR completely off, ... so it's a plenty of fun regardless of all the above.

The picture does look like 20+ years old, but that's just my digital camera being set to mimic the 90's film stock look.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/bcf_benz.jpg
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[recman]

Maccy D looking into the idea of printing your car's reg on your packaging in an attempt to curb littering.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[hellkat]

Although I was very ambivalent about leaving NZ this time ... I am quite pleased to have returned, also.
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[grr666]

[grr666]

Made contact with my tattooist this week, he's been a bit unavailable for most of this year due to things going on
in his life but after a quick natter on Whatsapp yesterday we've arranged for him to come to my house for the day
and draw all over me next Thursday I had a concept in mind for a design with a Star Wars twist, using the
traditional trucker style naked chick as a basis.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Mudflap_girl.svg/180px-Mudflap_girl.svg.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflap_girl

What we've come up with between us for that looks great, way better than I had imagined.

Also there's a design of a broken spear we've been working on. This guy does great dotwork so I have high hopes
for this piece too. The concept is very personal to me and something I've had in mind for years.

My guy will be at my house all day so I have 4 tattoos planned, two very small ones in addition to the two
more detailed designs. I didn't think I'd be able to get any new work in before the year was out so pulling this
visit together at such short notice has really made my day.

Also, my mother and sister are in the west country from tomorrow until Tuesday. I haven't seen them since August,
so I'm going to head over to Cardiff where they will be staying and catch up with them there , they plan to swing by
my place on their way back home, neither have been to this house before. I'd better start tidying up.
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Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

[recman]

Managed to restore my old arthritic die grinder at work.
Finding the correct size main load bearing in the maintenance stash was lucky and now the grinder is like new.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I sanded doors and door frames at a local hospice yesterday ready for painting. Today I can’t get fingerprint recognition to work.

[pepperami]

[Easy-X]

Surprisingly mild day to be out on the bike, I wore my summer gear
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Easy-X]

Just been sent a video: my 8-month old granddaughter pulling herself up on the furniture and standing. The "look at me!" expression, priceless.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

The Senior Consort has decided (without mentioning it to me) that he would pay for half of my new biking trousers as a Christmas present.


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[recman]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[hellkat]

Well ... the the top half of them will be larger in order to accommodate my fat arse, I guess it would be good if he paid for that half rather than the legs which even I can see are much slimmer than they used to be .

Twisted female logic.
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Today has been very gear-oiling due to the fact that I have sunk my teeth into the email mountain in my work inbox and SO FAR ... ... have not encountered any major disasters. I even managed to get myself invited to a Health & Safety meeting which I sat through without flinching, although I may have lost the thread at some point in the proceedings.

It feels very pleasant to have arrived back off holiday on payday and I still haven't felt an urgent need to check how much *actually* went into my bank account.
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[grr666]

I have the buyer for the Akrapovic from the old bike 2/3 of the way along the M4 coming to collect it. Managed
to covertly swap contact details through ebay's messaging without finalising a deal through them. Subsequently
I shall be ending the listing as soon as he pays and leaves and they can whistle for their commission. I had it down for
collection only because I didn't much fancy packaging it up and sending it away with R/M or anyone else for that matter.
I'm watching this fella whizzing along the M4 via whatsapp's live location feature. I have knocked £30 off the asking price but
that's still only half what I'd have had to pay ebay in fees. Saves me a trip to the cashpoint to withdraw my tattoo monies
for tomorrow, the buyer only messaged me a few hours ago. Be glad to see it gone from the middle of my living room floor.
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Ste wrote: Avatars are fine, it's signatures that need turning off.

[hellkat]

Went into the office for a meeting with the boss, only to discover he had forgotten he was supposed to be out at Harefield so we had to have a Teams thing instead. He's a duffer, that chap.

Wasn't at all annoyed that I had to drag all the way in to Chelsea for nothing, as its nice to pop down there, put my face about and see how everybody is getting on. If I didn't work in such a salubrious area, I'd probably prefer to work from home all the time but its so nice to pop down there, even if the journey home is full of sweating gruffaloes and albonians with hefty toolchests on wheels

Hybrid working really does work well for me.
happy hellkat
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