the new - what have you done to your ped today thread.

well shes out, cleaned again, polished again and sitting on my front garden again. going for a bit of a ride to go and look at a flat

 

Scuba, sorry to hear you are in pain.
I hope your operation went well.
I am 60+ and had a pretty physical life. I was dumb when young and broke this body all to shit. Waking up daily is a new experience in discomfort, but I caused all my own problems.
You are a young guy (compared to us geezers). It is not right you have to experience this.

Why were you selected to receive the burnt Karma burger in the restaurant of life award?

Sorry my friend.

 

Mark, sounds like you could use a truck. I have a little Nissan Desert Runner pickup, and use the hell out of it. No problems in 11 years so far. I also have a bumper mount to carry scooters and small motorcycles under 400#.
These are handy if you don't have a trailer.

 

I love having use of a flatbed towtruck + a new citroen dispatch + being on a traders policy which means I can drive + ride anything my licence allows me too without the necessary documents aslong as im going straight to the unit/to a MOT

 

dealer plates - I don't bother. because im a mechanic, I can drive a customers vehicle to/from a place of repair/to and from a MOT. if its being test driven I can drive it.
I haven't had my driving licence long enough to have dealer plates, my boss` son has some but we don't bother, we have two tow trucks (The merc and my ford transit) that can two anything that isn't driveable, if its driveable then it just gets driven through the traders/mechanics policy, I don't know the whole ins+outs of the whole thing but the dealer plates that you have to display sometimes are mainly for people delivering a new vehicle to a new owner

 

:O shit the bed!!??

 

Link it up bert

 

Finally, got the bleedin' nrg to rev into its powerband with the wheel on the ground. Turned out to be the clutch springs, too weak, changed them for some white ones, and away it went.
Still bogging badly at low end, idle screw still in all the way and wont idle at all, have to stay on the throttle, moved the slide needle through every position, no better, so has to be the idle jet too small.
Just ordered some so will see what happens later mid week.

On a lighter note, had a new customer bought in, got an 05 cbf 125. His list so far is:
New front pads and disc (he has been stopping on the caliper piston and gone right through the pads)
Right now one pad is hanging out the caliper, unbelievably dangerous.
Rear brake is completely siezed, no movement whatsoever. Needs complete rear hub stripout
Chain and sprockets, chain is hanging like the gardens of babylon, most of the teeth on the rear sprocket are chipped badly.
Rear indicator is hanging off.
No speedo cable.
No ignition barrel at all, he cut it off because he lost the keys.
He doesn't know if it has any MOT.
And he's only had it 2 months.
And he was giving someone else a backie with all this.................and NO FRIGGIN BRAKES AT ALL!!!!!
He'll either have no license or no life shortly i think.

 

In the past I have refused to sell a bike to a person because I thought he would kill himself right away. The first hint: he didn't want to wear a helmet on the test ride. When forced to, he would not buckle the strap.
second hint: he didn't know how to start it or how to find neutral.
I just shut it off and took the keys. Said "Sorry man, I will not be responsible for you getting hurt."
I am pretty sure I saved a life that day. The next guy brought his own helmet, jacket and gloves... He bought it.

 

Does he need an exhaust heat shield still got this one in the scrap pile lol

 

I let one of my good customers have a little blast on my zip earlier, i've got his runner in for repair and a pair of tyres, he went round the block, came back, asked if he could pop home for something;
he actually went home to show his mom MY bike, then came back and said he'll give me his bike and cash for mine!
I'm still not selling it.........yet.

 

Actually Ginge, that was one of the good parts on it

 

Damn it lol no one wants it haha