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Cleaning the yard, building a grape trellis, playing with the dogs, killing funny little white bugs that eat all my citrus trees, changing soil PH, planting mint to stop frickin’ ground fleas, playing with dogs, yapping with kids & Missus Cee, digging stuff up, chasing snakes through the compost heap, tuning the chainsaws, fixing a hairstraightner, poisoning a fiddlewood, fielding phonecalls from bored mates with nothing else to do but ring me up…… you know you’re average sorta drizzly saturday….

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Nickj wrote:

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I don’t get it Mr. Blue!! :dry:

it links into the other convo, I think the big joke is on the Aussie bike rider, Pivot Pegz are Aussie designed & made.

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Pivot pegz

Aus RRP$220
Sutto group buy AUS$180(not a shot at Suttos, they do the best deal in Aust on these)
USA dealers $130?????
WTF?????/

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Well we are silly old buggers, TB i was being harsh on the statement not the Bloke behind it, play the ball not the man….. while our contemporaries are out playing evening cricket and watching test football, we’re out having fun (and hurting ourselves in never before seen ways) so silly is as silly does.

Maybe I was harsh, but silly is not meant to be a criticism as such you silly old bugger. and No it’s not stuff the supporters of OBT, but if I get poor service or blatantly ripped I will go past that supplier in future. Nick mentions a Grafton place, well I used to go to a place in grafton just like that one, and they buggered me round on several occassions, maybe because I wasn’t loud and full of myself like the benchracers were at the various times I went in there. You’ve met me TB you will understand that I don’t say too much unless I am involved in the subject. But I enquired after a brand new JR50 for my son and the salesperson never came back, another time I was given the wrong M/C kit for my 1100, and refused refund or exchange. Yet over the bridge was a shop that I got awesome deals and service at, but they went broke????

It’s not so much if they are great to you or me individually, but overall will speak volumes.

Besides I agree the shopfront is the loser, the importer/distributor model MUST change, to even give the shop a fighting chance and yes while i support our corner shop as well, I don’t support the local newsagent on the other street as she is a nasky ole rippoff who doesn’t pay her employees right and rips little kids off for their change.

Similar to some retailers no matter what services or goods they offer, uf they cannot compete with service/prices outcomes they will go down.

Just the way this silly old bloke see reality, it is the world we live in, driven by consumerism, which personally I dislike but is what the masses expect.

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Call me hardass, but times they are a changing, change your business model or face the consequences, we live in a free market weather we approve of it or not.
Remember the corner shops?
Remember the independant grocery shops?
Remember the small farmers?
Remember the indepndant timber companies that had mills in every town?

well those that didn’t adapt got swallowed or went belly up, such is life, it is not the consumers place to show loyalty, it is up to the retailer to engender those feelings, TB said something a bit silly earlier, “the industry that supports us” the INDUSTRY does not support us, we support the industry and the face of that industry may need an overhaul, SOME shops support a select group of riders, but that in itself is not an industry, just a small portion of it.

The BEST and I mean best service I get is from two seperate retailers, one local, one in the UK………the rest I could care less weather they sink or swim, someone will always take their place if the place is warranted.

Now everyone talking about import tarrifs, how much are they? truly.

The wholeale and distributorship model must change or they will squeeze themselves out of existence, the shopfront retailers will be the first to suffer, next the distributors, then the wholesaler/importer, we cannot afford to support a multi-tiered system of profit-tking, when a simple system will be more efficeicnt and far more competitive. This situation has been dealt with and met front on by many other industries that actually manufacture goods and sell them domestically, and it has resulted in a far more stable and more value-driven industry.

Protectionism is dead & buried, with the dinosaurs, face it and move with it or become one with the museum exhibits of relics of the 2oth century.

BC

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4T first thing I’d check if there is a new “noise” or feel to the engine is Camchain tensioner.

Been bitten before, the end result can be costly.

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My sympathies are definitely with you mate, give Sammy a hug from us.
You had 13&1/2 years of a good mate who had 94yrs of you two being his best mates and family, what more could a hound ask for and want.

Put him in a special place one you can see and remember you know how I feel about our hounds so you know I mean what I say and they may be here for a short time to us, but to them it’s a lifetime.

Bruce & Family

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I am very impressed with the new ride Connor, tell you what don’t let the old Bloke on it, he’ll only crash it, cause all that handling ability will catch him out.

Seriously Michael, nice bike for the young bloke you’re a good Dad in my books except one thing…

The pipe is too small to be a real YZ and it probably goes chug chug instead of Brapp brapp…..

apart from that it’s all good.

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Shoulder Cap’n Ollie be in this he’s got a little bit of time on the seas hasn’t he…..

to quote the sea captain, “what happens at sea, stays at sea”.

Have fun with it lads, the riding that is, whatever happens on the loveboat is on a need to know basis and we definitely don’t need to know.

Who is packing the Sao’s?

BC

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Those methanol breathing bitches were and are lethal, one of my younger brothers has only minimal movement in his right arm after crashing one just teasting & tuning in the paddock, that was 20 years ago and it smashed his shoulder and arm into a pulp in a millisceond of stuck throttle and a highside into a camphor laurel on the way.

Cowboy Bob Cowley just rebought his 1970s championship bike back and is restoring it, I remember him and Doohan tuning that thing and the solid 6′ flames on the overrun back when we were teenagers.

It’s probably my favourite form of bike racing to actually participate in, unfortunately the venues are limited these days.

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Bastards could still nail you though on those old laydown jawas and stuff…

Good stuff Tramo, I love flattrack used to be a good one at ballina, but it got closed down and now has these funny bumps all over it they tell me…..

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Many supervising Forest Officers (SFOs) are special counstables with wide ranging powers, they are included in the police act and carry fine books.
In fact i have one such fine book in my possession from the late 90s when i was part of the gloroius dept in it’s heyday…

We weren’t so worried then as it was all about the harvesting and recouperation of the forests, not about a few kids or blokes riding round bothering no-one in particular.

Don’t worry too much there is onlt about 1 in 10 of my old co-workers left actually working in the field, most of the staff are young specialised uni degree’ers working in regional offices now.

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Congrats PEP, nice news.

So by extension of Mick riding like a lady, that makes his bike a ladybike?

so in conclusion WTF would a real bloke ride?

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I’m with Mick, what the hell is a battered battery doing on a dirtbike, do you have a horn as well Boony?

:laugh:
:whistle:

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Alot of engine fastners end up with that white corrosion, I think it is the zinc coating reacting with other dissimilar metals, I use antiseize and regular silicone spray to dissuade it, although I don’t think it has any great dretimental effect in the short term.

BC

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