Topic: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.

[Trevor from Warragul]

No blown fuse, wires seem fine.....just won't fire up

My 350F did this recently.  Using the sage advice from here I tracked it down to a broken black wire somewhere within the right hand switch block.  A repro switch block from David Silver Spares cured the problem. 

[jgger]

What pisses me off today? Reproduction carb inlet rubbers that don't fcuking fit! Fcuk me sideways, in 2017 when I built my "Bitsa" K2, I bought a set that didn't fit, so threw them back into one of my tubs of new parts, and bought new OEM ones. 3 years was enough to forget that there are some sh1tty repros that don't fit, so I ordered another set from a different seller, and guess what? They don't fcuking fit either! Fcuk it, I threw in the towel, jumped on Ebay and bought a set of OEM ones from the same seller I bought the last set from! Oh well, that'll teach me for cheaping out, again......

Terry, write yourself a note and put it in the box of spare carb boots!  Or you can just save them for your next project............the latter is the route I usually end up doing!

[Don R]

 I bought two boxes of 2 1/2" stainless steel exhaust tubing, the X kit is 304 polished stainless and the other kit is 409 not polished. Dang I could be rolling on it by now. I cut down the 3 x 2.5" reducers to make flare adapters for the ram Air manifolds and got the measurements for the middle.

[Don R]

Woooah, one of my bike buddies has a dirt bike he rides around town, Last night he ran over a loose running board off of a truck. Didn't see it at all, it tossed him off and he did a face plant in the street. Thank goodness he had a full face helmet on. He needs a new helmet but has the same face as the day before. Minimal damage to the bike too.
 Loose sh1t in the street pisses me off. A couple years ago I was leaned over on my favorite tight low speed 120* turn and just missed a piece of sheet metal laying there. I stopped and took it as a souvenir.

[BomberMann650]

Whoo doggie, domestic disturbance on my block.
Big man shouting out what he's gonna do when he gets his hands on.
Pissed off I gotta go deal with that b s. again.
Ready to light someone up when the realization strikes.  This tough guy is screaming into his video game.
What an Idiot.

Real talk though, witnessing domestic violence sucks.  Knowing the victim is afraid to be honest and the cops don't have a second poop to give.  Also pisses me off.

Life lesson, don't be an abusive piece of trash.  That pisses people off.

[Terry in Australia]

Woooah, one of my bike buddies has a dirt bike he rides around town, Last night he ran over a loose running board off of a truck. Didn't see it at all, it tossed him off and he did a face plant in the street. Thank goodness he had a full face helmet on. He needs a new helmet but has the same face as the day before. Minimal damage to the bike too.
 Loose sh1t in the street pisses me off. A couple years ago I was leaned over on my favorite tight low speed 120* turn and just missed a piece of sheet metal laying there. I stopped and took it as a souvenir.

That is scary Don. in 1999 I was riding my BMW R100RS on the new opened Western Ring Road @ 60 MPH, and an aluminium extension ladder fell off the roof of an electrician's van, and landed on the road filling my lane, at right angles to my bike. All I could do was hold on and ride over it, but it then flicked the ladder up into the windscreen of a Mercedes behind me.

The electrician had pulled over to the side of the road to retrieve his ladder, but when he saw it hit the Merc, he decided that discretion is the better part of valour, and took off. I pulled over to where the van had been parked, took off my helmet and lit a cigarette, and watched the Mercedes chasing the van into the distance. The ladder continued to bounce around off cars on the the freeway like a pinball until it landed on the median strip. I finished my smoke, put my helmet back on and rode on, congratulating myself on yet another survival.........  

[ekpent]

 I had a good chuckle one day riding. I was getting gas and taking a smoke break in a hick country town on one of my favorite quiet country roads. The classic old pick-up loaded down with scrap metal went through. Shortly after I took off knowing he had enough time to get ahead of me and not ruin my ride through the curvies. Well I came up on a nice fast sweeper and guess what was laying in the middle of the road. It was the old rooftop cable TV dish I saw sitting on top of his pile  I turned around and got it off the road.

[Alan F.]

Terry what do you do in a situation like that?
Take a small handful of throttle to unload the front suspension and plant your feet on the pegs?

Your rattlecan paintwork looks great btw, very inspiring.
It's too cold to paint here, that pisses me off.

[ken65]

Only a week or so ago down the gold coast way Terry if my  memory serves me correct. A poor bloke lost his life because of a ladder.
Swerved the ladder and got collected by a car. Pisses me of.

[RAFster122s]

Had a truck sometime before me lose a concrete construction form, the heavy angle iron and plywood forms they buttress up against each other and are used in commercial construction. I didn't spot it quick enough that morning and managed to hit it tryibg to straddle it. Cost me a bent alloy wheel and new tire as it did a sidewall pinch through or gash causing it to leak out. Leaked slow enough to get two miles slowly to next exit. Went back later and got the form and took it with me to show insurance adjuster...
Insurance guy could care less... Pissed me off. $150 wheel used and $80 tire. Should have skipped insurance altogether. This was in late 80s or early 90s in Columbus Ohio.

[Terry in Australia]

Only a week or so ago down the gold coast way Terry if my  memory serves me correct. A poor bloke lost his life because of a ladder.
Swerved the ladder and got collected by a car. Pisses me of.

Yeah mate, some guys are just unlucky. Jeff at Ace Wreckers had a near minty Yamaha R6 a few years back, that he bought from Stafford Yamaha, with 13 Kms on the odo. A young guy had ordered one new, Yamaha City in Melbourne rang him in the morning to say his bike had arrived, he went over at lunchtime to pick it up and ride back to his office in Southbank.

It was lightly raining, and he was doing a right hand turn when his bike hit a metal plate (roadworks) and he laid it down. Bike was hardly marked, but he rolled onto the incoming traffic, and went under a bus. He was killed outright, the family didn't want the bike so Staffords collected it, and sold it to Jeff, for cheap. Jeff offered it to me for cheap also, but I said, "No thanks", a death bike with 13 Kms on the odo was just a bit too weird for even me.........

[ken65]

Only a week or so ago down the gold coast way Terry if my  memory serves me correct. A poor bloke lost his life because of a ladder.
Swerved the ladder and got collected by a car. Pisses me of.

Yeah mate, some guys are just unlucky. Jeff at Ace Wreckers had a near minty Yamaha R6 a few years back, that he bought from Stafford Yamaha, with 13 Kms on the odo. A young guy had ordered one new, Yamaha City in Melbourne rang him in the morning to say his bike had arrived, he went over at lunchtime to pick it up and ride back to his office in Southbank.

It was lightly raining, and he was doing a right hand turn when his bike hit a metal plate (roadworks) and he laid it down. Bike was hardly marked, but he rolled onto the incoming traffic, and went under a bus. He was killed outright, the family didn't want the bike so Staffords collected it, and sold it to Jeff, for cheap. Jeff offered it to me for cheap also, but I said, "No thanks", a death bike with 13 Kms on the odo was just a bit too weird for even me.........

A mate of mine buys mostly damaged bikes and more often than not dismantles them. In the last 10 years or more ,he has moved about 2000 bikes in one way or another. Amazing how many were involved in a fatal.  Even my next door neighbours father died in an accident and he ended up with that bike a couple of years later.

Heard a story from a reliable fella. The wife bought a new cbr1000rr for her husband for his bday . As he was riding out  of the dealership he give it a bit and ended up under a car at the first set of light a few hundred metres up the road.  When ya numbers up, its up.  Bloody sad.

[Trevor from Warragul]

One time I was scooting around my favorite bit of highway that passes under a railway bridge.  Downhill sweeping left, little bit of straight, then a sharp right.  As I came around the sharp right at a fair rate I saw a roll of paper slap-bang in the middle of my lane - a ten foot high roll of paper that took up the whole lane!  I let the bike drift around it and continued on my merry way...

[Don R]

 I've often thought I should write a short story about all of my close calls, most of them not on a bike but a few were on one. We were in a group of 13 bikes near Indy heading to the flat track at Louisville Ky. when a small mattress blew out of a pickup truck, the first couple bikes somehow safely passed over it, the ones further back made it around. I remember gritting my teeth as they hit it and seeing dusty looking stuffing come out from under the bikes. 

[Old Moe Toe]

Pisses me when you strip your tank to find a bucket load of bondo/bog lurking underneath.

[Terry in Australia]

Go to Bunnings and buy a nylon strip disc for your 4 or 5 inch angle grinder mate, that'll rip the bog out, and take the tank back to bare metal, without removing any metal, unlike a sanding disc, which is a no-no.

What pissed me off today? I drove over to the nut and bolt shop and bought some stuff, and as an afterthought, bought a packet of "Stanley Knife" blades. I got home, retrieved my purchases, and realised I hadn't taken the blades. Bugger. By now it was peak hour traffic, and I didn't feel like turning around and driving back to the shop, so I gave it a miss. I don't need any more nuts and bolts, so won't be going back there anytime soon, and have plenty of knives anyway, but it still pisses me off. Oh well, it could have been worse.........

[Alan F.]

This type Terry?



I just did a little reading and they sound great. Lower heat than sanding (no surface distortion), negligible steel removal and they never clog. Not good for rust removal as it will wear them down.

I'd wonder what grit to begin with.

Having tanks to repaint pisses me off.

[Terry in Australia]

Yes mate, that’s the sucker! I used to paint cars for money, and used a bigger one on my 9” sander polisher, great for removing paint and bondo etc. For a bike tank, use the finest one available (I didn’t have a choice at my big box hardware store, they only had one grit available) as you don’t want to remove any metal.

You’ll still need automotive paint stripper around the filler and in the badge recesses etc, and one of those cheap little steel wire “tooth brushes” to agitate the stripper in the tighter spots, but the strip disc will make short work of your paint everywhere else.

[Old Moe Toe]

Go to Bunnings and buy a nylon strip disc for your 4 or 5 inch angle grinder mate, that'll rip the bog out, and take the tank back to bare metal, without removing any metal, unlike a sanding disc, which is a no-no.

What pissed me off today? I drove over to the nut and bolt shop and bought some stuff, and as an afterthought, bought a packet of "Stanley Knife" blades. I got home, retrieved my purchases, and realised I hadn't taken the blades. Bugger. By now it was peak hour traffic, and I didn't feel like turning around and driving back to the shop, so I gave it a miss. I don't need any more nuts and bolts, so won't be going back there anytime soon, and have plenty of knives anyway, but it still pisses me off. Oh well, it could have been worse.........

Well I am glad you mentioned that Terry!, because guess who went out to bunnings yesterday and bought a 120 grit flap disc?.
The tanks has so much bog in it that it is going to be a major job re-bogging it and getting it to look straight. Was even considering just getting rid of all the bog and somehow brushing or lightly sanding the steel and finishing with a clear coat straight over the steel. Paint shop in town says they have just the product in a rattle can. Have not yet made my mind up, I will wait till the bogs off and I have put my POR tank sealer kit in.

[Terry in Australia]

If it’s an old K0-K2 tank, the seams are brazed, so you can grind the braze off, seperate the two halves, pop all the dents out, then braze it up again. I did that on the blue K2 that won BOTM back in 2009 or 2010. Make sure you pressure test it after brazing, and before painting.

[Old Moe Toe]

Way beyond my skill set Terry. I have only ever braised beef.

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, nothing wrong with braised beef mate, I do a mean braised steak, onion and rice patty meal, apart from building bikes and brewing alcoholic beverages, cooking is one of my favourite past times.

I was gonna post how I was pissed off with Oz Post today. Yesterday I messaged the seller of my much needed K0 parts if I could have them by the weekend, and he said he'd send them "Express Post", woohoo! This morning he messaged me to say Oz Post hadn't collected my stuff, so could I give him a call to sort something out?

I rang him straight away and I said, "how about I come pick it up at lunchtime?" and he said yep, come and get it. I've been buying lots of stuff off Eddie since I built the Bitsa K2 in 2017, and it was great to meet him, he's a top bloke. A rider like us, with some interesting bikes including an old Ducati 860, a turbo Suzy GS1000, a Harley, and some others.

We got talking about bikes and stuff, he had some used wheels to show me which I didn't take him up on, but then I saw a near complete engine, and we did a deal. Supposedly it has an 836 kit in it, I popped the cam cover off and all looks good, there are no busted fins, and tomorrow I'll drop the sump pan off and see if anything falls out. If it's all good I'll clean and prime the oil pump, throw an alternator and stator in it, and when I've finished the K0, I'll shove it into the K2 bitsa, to replace the engine with the blown gearbox.

So what started out as a piss off, ended up as a good day! Oh, and I dropped into the nut and bolt shop and picked up my Stanley Knife blades that I forgot to collect yesterday. Sweet.........

K0 Thursday 3 Dec 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

K0 Thursday 3 Dec 2020 7 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr   

[Old Moe Toe]

Yes Terry, Eddie is on the HD forum too.
My pissed off thread about all the bog in my tank is slowly growing into a not so pissed off thing. Posted it it the normal section (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,185191.0.htmlhttp://)as it was going off topic here.

Reminds me of the old saying.
"Two men looked out of prison bars.
One saw mud, the other stars."

[ekpent]

 That spare engine looks like it has had some love Terry. Not all covered in spewed out oil and dirt like its been sitting in a shed for years. Hope it all checks out for you.

[grcamna2]

Terry,Good to see the extra engine you've collected.I imagine you don't go out to pick up even 'small parts' anymore without having the hatchback automobile.