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I could ask around . What are your size restrictions? I might know where there’s a 100ah

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jtb2879 wrote:

You got any gear to try and straighten a brake lever?

Of course I do! I have to make my own parts!!! :blink:

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Yep, not a bad report that. Hafta say the flat at the farm is good to stay in with the fire. The food out did what I normally do…but then I don’t get my missus to prepare it for us!!!

I am happy to advise that the guvmint now thinks I can drive a 4WD AND I’ve decided against the purchase of a new Hilux. Not very impressed. The Ford Ranger on the other hand… :woohoo:

as an aside re. that line up of old cars. Clearly when I turned up that night I was more intent on parking the car and cracking a beer open than looking around. Because later that evening when I went outside to shake hands with an unemployed fellow I know I looked up and saw a line up of cars a short distance away. I couldn’t see in the dark what they were and didn’t know why all these people had lined up their cars in the middle of nowhere. Was a bit of a ‘shit self moment’

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Yep Mitas now make them…but without the coloured bands…

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It’s a pity one can’t get hold of Trelleborgs anymore. You know, the ones with the coloured bands on them. Other riders knew you were hardcore when you sported Trellies!

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yz80h-thebeginning wrote:

yeah mark, he king hit a sheep went down on his left side was smiling when I got there but that could have been the 2 cute ambulance girls or the green whistle not sure!
They put him in an ambulance drove him into a paddock where he was helicoptered to Orange base hospital intensive care, he will be in there for 2 weeks Gavb was saying, gav went and saw him last night.
Cheers,
Jeremy

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark! Green whistles don’t make you smile, just give you something else to concentrate on! The smile would have been due to the Ambos!

Fast healing fella, spleens are useless!

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Job’s done, truck’s good to go! Starts first time everytime now! :whistle:

No need for a new one just yet.

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twobanger wrote:

just keep on swearing and sweating it out in the garage and do my own tires at home.

It really is the best way to do it. in my humble opinion of course.

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I’ll bite.
$55 is a bit different to $70, which I believe was the basis of the original rant. So what’s that? 25 bucks? Half a carton.
I reckon $55 supplied and fitted is okay, especially for some of those ADV bikes, I understand those things are a bastard to change, but I’ll never know! :laugh:
Even as a keyboard warrior I have enough integrity to admit when I’ve made a mistake.
I’d change tubes for a carton as I imagine many others here would as well, but it’d be a lesson as well, so that I wouldn’t have to do it again.
In the Old Bulls spirit everyone is here to help.

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You idiot.
If you supply the rumbos I’ll have a go. No promises though!

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When I was impressionable I bought a lot of Spy v Spy albums ON VINYL! Also had a Nevver mind the bollocks tape.

I now have one of those ipod thingoes and spend my time on the line finding the music from my yooff. I have something like 15 thousand odd files…apparently my yooff was extended somewhat.

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Let me outline some experience I’ve had with local motorcycle shops. Notwithstanding the original post which, it appears, has been dealt with

I’m a tightarse, no doubt, and on occasion I have purchased bits or parts from OS, but mostly for convenience.

A loooong while ago I visited a local shop to order some oil filters, now as the reader may or may not know, VOR oil filters are not easy to come by, but the local shop ordered a few in for me (obviously knowing that I’d be in reasonably regularly for them). While I was there I heard the young bloke behind the counter explaining carb jetting to some boofhead. What he was saying was spot on and was excellent advice. I was impressed.
Some time later I took my bike there for a repair. They couldn’t do the repair but spent some time on it. They still billed me and I had a bit of mini-sick come up when I paid but I know that they had a good hard go so no real dramas. This shop also fitted my first tyre I ever bought and allowed me to watch(at their first shop), so I guess we have a bit of history.

They are the first shop I visit for oils or parts to this day (and it still is fun trying to explain to the parts ‘person’ what bike the part is from!). They’ve moved a few times, but it’s still the first place I visit.

Before that I used to visit regularly the place that is now a roller skating rink in Penrith. Why? Because their customer service was very good. I liked their tyres (Trelleborg), but I don’t think I’ve visited them since they down-sized.

It is a pity the OP hasn’t poked his head up and made contact with the shop in question. I guess that’s the nature of the game these days.

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48 volts! Probably more reliable than the petrol version too! :woohoo:

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Nice write up. Won’t see me on one of those grasshopper bikes though. A bike with a windscreen is…a car!

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Sound advice that. But I’ve nearly set mine on fire in the garage…but I couldn’t find a lighter!

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