[Eric SmithMember]

Serves you right for trying to buy a Bridgestone Al!

Never found the prices there to be much different to other places around for the same item. You must have got the price for the gold-plated tyre!:laugh:

Given the ease of buying things for a good price over the net, it has be buggered why bike shops are so useless and expensive! I’d rather deal with Ballards than most of the local shops. JRD is lucky to have Picton to deal with I think.

[Eric SmithMember]

Garry once more you raise the bar in ride reports! You bugger, you make it hard for the rest of us! I personally think it is because you get so much practice at them! :laugh:

Thanks for sharing!

[Eric SmithMember]

Moto wrote:

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Check out you two fatties having digs at each other :dry:

…must have ignored a heap of chain emails eh??

[Eric SmithMember]

Ktmrat wrote:

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Moto you would appreciate my dilemma , its all here-say stemmed from jealousy, they are all in awe of my stunning good looks and then go slow, and as a result, it makes me look fast, I am actually really bad at riding, I am way better at falling off them than staying on;)

Now Moto, there’s a signature quote!!

Dave I have the same problem!:blink:

No, really!!!:huh:

I do!!:S

:woohoo:

[Eric SmithMember]

That was a great old bike that XL. Big step up from the old “Skipper” CT185 that you had before that!

[Eric SmithMember]

JRD, what about your twin-carb XL250? That was a weapon – at least it was until it lunched itself and stuck a valve through the piston! Even had combined headlight/taillight so you could ride at night if one went out (well OK, JRD’s headlight failed and he rode about 15km using the light from his taillight and braille?)!

[Eric SmithMember]

Makes me wonder whether the bigger brand’s dealers are getting complacent. When you see the service a smaller brand like Gas Gas offers it makes me wonder why I put up with crap from the local dealers for Yamaha, Suzuki and KTM. (Have no problem with the Honda dealer in Dubbo, other than the fact that I don’t have a Honda!)

[Eric SmithMember]

This can only end with someone using Bluey’s poetry, and then in tears!:laugh:

I call it a clear win to JRD myself!

[Eric SmithMember]

I don’t know, I think mine has a lot to be said for it!

[Eric SmithMember]

Can’t tar you all with the same brush moto, as I said about my brother. But you must admit that mechies have a fair bit to do with design on engines and so on.

[Eric SmithMember]

I rate Steve over the local dealers, and I have only met him once or twice.

[Eric SmithMember]

Maybe design engineers are ambidexterous, multi-jointed, small-handed contortionists? It would explain a lot!:woohoo:

[Eric SmithMember]

Moto wrote:

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ECKS-Man wrote:

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When things go right when dealing with a council, you feel great! The rest of the time, which is the majority of the time, you feel like headbutting something…

Yeah, like a council member :laugh:

No comment!

[Eric SmithMember]

Overdraft is at max it can be, but we are getting a small cash flow which will keep me ticking over. Days like today annoy me though, no jobs on, doing accounts (what fun) and wracking my brain to try and think of who else to call for work! At least the floor will get swept! :laugh:

Wellington Council has such a bad record with DA processing times they no longer report them to the Department of Planning… they say the planners are too busy to compile this information! Its a joy.:S

[Eric SmithMember]

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It should be taught in engineering that once YOU have designed and had something manufactured, YOU become the first operator, suddenly things would be better. Imagine if TMs engineers had to try and ride their 300 ENs suddenly a whole new engine would be on the boards, imagine if hondas engineers had to pay for valves, suddenly valve longevity would be paramount, and imagine if KTM engineers had to ride their product over sharp midsized obstacles, what would they do I wonder?

BC

Ab-so-bloody-lootly!!! And further to that, they should be made to WORK ON said machines! How many of us swear when working on machines – can’t get a socket on that without taking off the other bit, but my hand won’t fit in there to get that so I have to pull off the whatsit…

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