Bruce Curtis

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  • in reply to: trady’s rate of pay. #138479

    Bruce Curtis
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    It also depends on how efficiently the workplace is run, and I don’t mean undercutting the wages or anything like that.

    IE: we had a main street refurbishment done.

    Can’t use our own blokes, apparently too lazy and too complacent.

    18 months later the contractors (huge company) had finished the southern side 20-30 workers working night and day, 25% over budget.

    What the hell the moneys getting tight can our blokes start the northern side?

    12 months, and 250k under budget later, including locating and safely removing 8 previously forgotten underground fuel tanks our 6 “lazy idiots” had done the job, including finishing off the bollards for the other side and redoing new Ped crossings.

    My morale? sometimes overheads are pure gluttony, I know one little firm that had 12 workers and off them 8 of the owners family members drawing huge salaries, all the while paying base award and charging customers top dollar. They no longer have that business.

    BC

    in reply to: more bits and pieces #134929

    Bruce Curtis
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    singletrackmind wrote:

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    Where from Mr Blue?[/quote]

    Sorry STM didn’t see your post until now.
    Kyogle Motorcycles owned by one Cowboy Bob, a well known figure in domestic and international circles, and as down to earth as a Bloke can be.
    He just got my mate a topend kit for an ’06 300 EXC for under $300 the lot.
    Bought a set of Solar bars off him for the young blokes bike lifetime warranty for $70, a set of Thor Ally googles for $45. I reckon when he retired to the valley from Qld he got bored so started a hobby up for himself, and seeing as I’ve been buying things off him for 30 odd years since I was a young wannabe, across two states he’s sorta good to me :P.

    Bruce C.

    BTW Menace I like your blinkers I’ll be doing that myself I reckon, sick off breaking my stalks everytime the YZ gets away from me (which as I get older is becoming more frequent I tells ya :dry: )

    in reply to: Whats missing in Dan’s shed, now? #138396

    Bruce Curtis
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    Blokiness and a honda?

    BC

    in reply to: Bike thieves follow you? #137813

    Bruce Curtis
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    Austblue wrote:

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    I’ve often wondered why people cover their cars and covered trailers with sponsors stickers drawing attention to themselves. If I ever find enough money in the couch to get an enclosed trailer I’ll be putting poodle breeder stickers on it :D

    Yep they’ll follow you it’s happened here and to two of my nephews in Beenleigh.

    bugger poodle breeders, Big Bold stickers Australian Blue heelers breeders Association

    and maybe a police association sticker or two, mine are fairly safe much easier picking than mine.

    Besides I keep a sacrificial KTM300EXC in front of the good bikes.

    Bruce C

    in reply to: HELP #138165

    Bruce Curtis
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    xy-transit wrote:

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    Mr Blue wrote:

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    I was always taught elbows up, but that was motocross,

    Bruce C.

    ha ha that’s so when you pass someone you knock ’em off their bike:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :silly: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    That is part of it hard to pass a wide load, but it’s mostly about bike control and leverage.

    Bruce C.

    in reply to: 5000 posts #138163

    Bruce Curtis
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    TB everyone needs their Share of “feelgood” days otherwise it ain’t worth it, Money and position mean nothing without having people to share good times and relate to.

    If upon Burial day a few dozen people say “the world was better for him being here, or he was a decent Bloke” it was a life well lived.

    That and riding motorcycles in a silly and fun fashion.

    BC

    in reply to: 5000 posts #138160

    Bruce Curtis
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    All good stuff methinks, TB sit back have a cuppa and bask in the glow of happiness.

    Well as happy as a Honda owner can get anyway:P .

    BTW what bike did you end up buying for the young fella?

    BC

    in reply to: Moto’s Pumpkin #138143

    Bruce Curtis
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    It’s ok Moto, just oulling you’re hairy leg, you’re doing alright, it’s actually not a bad choice, and truth be known I don’t conform to the stereotype either, just think it’d look better with a tray on the back with a large cream coloured dog hanging his tongue out in the breeze:P .

    Not a big fan or commodores or falcons myself, spent my life around “musclecars” when I was young, since have owned a six pack chrysler, EB falcon, three forestors and a laser liata, Nissan navara, Holden rodeo and one turbo 13B 78 corolla with full chassis, our first house and 10 years of my life poured into it.

    Now all you need to do is buy that Husaberg and you’ll know you’re an individual.

    Teach sam to ride it and he’ll be happy too.

    And I think there is laws against wearing hivisibility vests with no pants :blink: .

    BC

    in reply to: Moto’s Pumpkin #138127

    Bruce Curtis
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    Trailboss wrote:

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    But he is not an Australian Blue :laugh:

    Yeah TB but he can’t help being born elsewhere, but he can try self improvement and was just trying to help him do just that and assimilate and not just be another import in a pimped out, blinged up tarts shoebox, just trying to turn him into a fair dinkum Bloke, can’t have him hanging around as just another “Guy”

    BC

    in reply to: 1000 posts for the boondog.. #138113

    Bruce Curtis
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    Now Young Boony, imagine if you put all that effort into your riding?, you’d have worn outrow the DRZ and got youself a new improved steed, maybe in red or blue.
    Anyway good onya for having enough stuff in your head to make 1000 posts, I am sure they weren’t all regurgitated Suzuki propaganda either, just like not all of Menaces are KTM sales drivel:P :P :P .
    And I am sure the site would be poorer if you were to slow down on contributions…..:unsure:

    Bruce C.

    BTW that’s called a backhanded compliment, the best you’ll get from the likes of me too

    in reply to: Moto’s Pumpkin #138123

    Bruce Curtis
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    Moto wrote:

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    ….my old man and his old man are called Jim!

    Crewcab’s won’t be any good for the mileage I do economy wise and they just don’t look nice enough. I’d have one as a second car but lets’s not go there!

    Moto once upon a lifetime I was a travelling consultant for a particular industry and I did 80-100K a year… in a mixture of vehicles, admittedly the best were the Subarus, but i also loved my Nissan Navara D22 deisel, good economy and decent comfort with all creature comforts needed and also my Toyota V6 hilux (not good economy, but went well), so let’s face it Laddie it’s all about the image when you do that sorta work :P , and when travelling into the bush a crewcab cuts it, a sedan with low profiles and attitude just says “know it all instant expert” to the Blokes i was working with, or just another city boy driving a hoon mobile ;).

    Plus my Dogs loved it freedom to get the wind in their faces, so would yours :). Plus the KTM would look tougher, and what’s more Australian than a dog in the back of a ute.

    BC

    in reply to: Moto’s Pumpkin #138118

    Bruce Curtis
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    What’s wrong with Jim?, I have a very good fwiend from lismore named Jim, one of the Angry penguins who defined cool was a Jim, (he works with me now) Captain Kirks name was Jim, Jim Morrison was obviously a Jim, and I am pretty sure some of these Jims have mowed lawns. Besides any trailer is dorky, that’s why you shoulda got a crewcab ute, so your dog coulda hung out in the breeze on the back…. and that is way cool.

    BC

    in reply to: HELP #137975

    Bruce Curtis
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    Ollie wrote:

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    Yeh I was also going to pick you up on that Boony:laugh: The angle of your levers should be positioned to what is comfortable when your arms are straight,depending whether you sit or stand mostly when riding.

    Ollie

    I was always taught elbows up, but that was motocross, I ride that way instinctively now, so my levers are at 4 O’clock, maybe that’s why i hit things in technical tight S/T so much :unsure: .

    BTW the man who told me to ride that way was unbeatable in his day, even today he’s a force to watch on a bike.

    Bruce C.

    in reply to: Bike displacement from AB’s drowned bike thread #137965

    Bruce Curtis
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    Doesn’t matter anyway bloody 4Ts all just waiting to chuck a valve into a piston anyway, that really dimishes the displacement advantage.

    The optimum size according to several reliable sources for a single cylinder OHC dirtbike motor is somewhere around the 350CC/ML mark, a tade off between torque/power and revability, such things as harmonic distortion and other characteristics are nicely balanced, sorta like the old 54x54mm 125cc formula.

    BC

    in reply to: Moto’s Pumpkin #137961

    Bruce Curtis
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    menace wrote:

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    thupercharged V6….what, no hairdryer!!

    bigger boot than the scuby, more room for hairdressers gear…:P

    very nice indeed moto;)

    except for the front wheel drive bit.:(

    if you ever get tired of the supercharger, i will happily take it off your hands and slap it in my prado:woohoo:

    Prado bloody needs one if you ask me (which obviously you meant to:P ) nice engine but way too much pork to push around.

    BC

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