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

[Alan F.]

Yellow? You may need to adjust your tint or saturation.

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, or maybe he needs to go back to the tanning salon for a respray...........

[Alan F.]

I don't want to piss anyone off, opinions vary around here where I live. But then there's this, it's not me, I'm rounder and my beard has more gray....

[Terry in Australia]

I don't want to piss anyone off, opinions vary around here where I live. But then there's this, it's not me, I'm rounder and my beard has more gray....

Well it looks lovely Alan, and everyone needs something to aspire to.

[Alan F.]

Thanks, just trying to keep orange where orange belongs.

[ekpent]

10 days since I ordered some fuel tee o-rings from E-bay seller oringsandmore. Ordered from them before and was quick and according to tracking they were shipped that day but have been lingering around Sandston, VA since. GRRRR I burned through my stash doing a couple of rack of carbs recently and ordered these early knowing I had another set to do.  Must be hiding under a pile of voter ballets under a bench or something.  Well  the carbs are clean and ready to be put back together now just that crappy waiting game.  Another GRRRRRR
  All the stuff we have been mailing to Grandchildren etc. has been showing up when expected at least.

That's no good Eric, those little O rings might be floating down the river with those 7 million Big Chief Yellow Face's postal votes? Are they a common size that you can just go and buy at an engineering supply store? Anyway, you're probably up to your waist in snow about now, so you probably don't have a pressing need for motorcycle carbs right now, maybe start a new hobby like making snow shoes or toboggans?

No snow here yet and is supposed to be 50F here Wednesday so was shooting for a first start-up on my 3rd and last 750 I bought this late fall. Good luck on the other two so far. Snow and cold for Christmas and soon the curtain will come down for good. I will be watching you turn some 100 milers while I sit lonely in my corner weaving smelly wet rawhide through my snowshoe frames    O-ring is a 8mm x 2mm and hoping another 50 show up sometime.  I know you have played the waiting game many times for stuff to show from all over the place 

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks Eric, I’ve got an O ring kit out in my garage, I’ll have to see if that’s a common size. I’ve been waiting weeks for my headlight ear reflectors, gas cap and petcock for my K0 tank, thank God I have the old dinted original paint one so I can at least ride it around. Gonna go for a ride with Spotty on the weekend, will probably take the Rocket III and FJR1300 out for a fast 100 miler, should be great fun!

[Don R]

 It was 50* F yesterday, I got to play outside with my grandson, now we have wind, snow and -0 F wind chills. I'm sure they salted the streets last night.

[Don R]

 Nuts, that's what pisses me off. I want to preassemble the anti roll bar on my car project but the hardware is locking and I don't want to wear out the lock nuts. I was going to buy some plain ones today at the farm store but forgot them. Spent some time trying to buy 22 standard velocity bullets. They had a lot but will only sell 3 boxes at a time to anyone due to the shortage.

[Terry in Australia]

How many bullets do you need Don? Are you planning an uprising? I think I’ve got a couple of boxes of subsonics left over from my silencer making days, but might have problems sending them to you? I don’t want to go on one of those FBI lists, being raided at 3am would piss me off....

[Don R]

 Thanks Terry but Nah, we're just punching holes in paper. I got a gorgeous Savage 22 target rifle with a multicolor thumbhole Boyd's stock, BSA scope, barrel is heavy as heck.  I got some today and won't shoot them in a year most likely. I have an old 1930's Savage gill gun, click clack, ranger #5, it has lots of names but it's fussy about hi velocity ammo so I'm testing different types to see what semi auto loads reliably. 
 Folks here are hoarding guns and ammo like they were toilet paper last year. Makes no sense.
 We already typed "bullet" so I'm sure we're on a list in that big computer in Virginia anyway.

[Don R]

  I get the feeling there's a guy on the here just jerking our collective chain. But then, I've thought that before. Maybe we have a computer literate funster just checking to see how much help can be ignored before our top blows. Then again, maybe I'm just funnin you and the guy I'm referring to is really that needy.   No names please. L0L!

[jgger]

I think i know who you mean. Several have been round and round with him. I think he is just one of those guys that has a hard time soaking up info, but he isn't afraid to jump blindly into something. We will see how the trailer works out. I hope he doesn't hurt himself or someone else.

[754]

People that claim to have a manual , but don't know the wiring has quick connects piss me off.
 Some people create their own problems. .
 People that can't undo their wire connections , should not modify a trailer. .

[Terry in Australia]

Standing in line for 2 1/4 hours to get my K0's "Club Permit". Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have it finally legal so I can rip up all my favourite roads, but because of mandatory mask laws, social distancing etc, it took 90 minutes just to get thru the doors, then I realised that I didn't then go to the counter to get served, that got me a seat in the waiting area, with a ticket, waiting again, to get served.

Vicroads (DMV) staff are trained to try to refuse whatever you're requesting, because that's the "Public service Way" of dealing with customers, they don't give a sh1t about making money for their employer (State Government) they look for excuses to send you off to have more expensive inspections, or just tell you to fcuk off, leaving you with a shiny restored bike that you couldn't legally ride. Luckily for me the lady behind the counter, who couldn't find any record of my bike ever being previously registered in Oz, re-read the regulations and saw that if the bike was built pre-1975 I didn't need an engineers certificate, so I got my plate.

No biggie, all good now, and tomorrow I'll be riding the old beast, legally. I would, however, be pissed off if I'd spent 2 1/4 hours standing in line only to be told to bugger off, like the guy being "served" beside me. Happy days!

K0 Tuesday 29 Dec 2020 5 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

   

[Trevor from Warragul]

Luckily for me the lady behind the counter, who couldn't find any record of my bike ever being previously registered in Oz, re-read the regulations and saw that if the bike was built pre-1975 I didn't need an engineers certificate

Yep, I recently had a young fella in my club buy a 1976 CB750 that was previously on a Victorian club permit.  I could tell from the VIN plate it was a USA import, and as the build date was 10/75 (taken by VicRoads as 31 October 1975), which is after 30 June 1975, he needed proof of previous Australian registration history, or a VASS (engineers) certificate.  Turns out the "friend" he bought it off had imported it in 2010 & put it on a club plate before VicRoads tightened the rules on 31 January 2015.  So, even though it has previously been on a club plate, it now needs a VASS certificate.  This is something to be aware of when buying a bike...

As an aside, there is a reason I'm a bit leery of people who play loose with the club permit rules.  In 2015, when VicRoads changed the club permit guidelines, they made ALL club secretaries sign a legally binding "agreement".  This agreement basically obliges secretaries to police the Club Permit rules, and notify VicRoads if they become aware of situations where the Club Permit rules are being breached.  This applies to ALL breaches, not just your own club.  If VicRoads become aware of a secretary not complying with the agreement, then their club can have its club permit privileges revoked.  That's some serious sh*t!  I haven't dobbed in anyone yet, and I don't really want to...

Cheers

Trevor   

[Terry in Australia]

The problem with the club permit rules was when VICROADS left it up to a "club" to certify a bike as being "Roadworthy", without an actual "Roadworthy Certificate" being required. The Man bun wearing hipsters quickly registered their own "Clubs" and allowed anything with two wheels on the road. I still remember a member here bringing over his CB450 "Black Bomber" with no air filters, and straight out pipes that ended an inch or so from the carb bellmouths. How that thing didn't explode, I still don't know.......

My Club (BMW Club) always mandated an actual RWC before the rules were changed, and so all of my bikes are road legal, which is probably why I haven't been spat down the road like the hipsters on their home made sh1tboxes a few years ago. The club permit scheme is a great system, it allows guys who own old bikes that might not see the light of day back out on the road where they belong.

The only thing that annoys me is that once all the paperwork is done, there's really no need to physically front up at Vicroads, it should all be done online, standing in line for 2 1/4 hours really pisses me off...........

[Trevor from Warragul]

Renewals can be paid online now (the club secretary still needs to sign the renewal though).  If you have a VicRoads online account, it should also list all your club permit vehicles & their expiry dates.

[Terry in Australia]

Renewals can be paid online now (the club secretary still needs to sign the renewal though).  If you have a VicRoads online account, it should also list all your club permit vehicles & their expiry dates.

Thanks Trevor, I do have a Vicroads account, but I still have to stand in line for hours to be issued a new plate and log book when all the paperwork is in order. Why can't I just mail it in, and get a plate sent out? It's dumb.

[ekpent]

 Only 2 1/4 hours, that's quick compared to our branch here in Kazoo Mi. Last time I went to our Secretary of the State (dmv) to get a couple of titles pre-covid days I waited close to 5 hours.Was kind of pissed when I left. Now if you need a title you make an appointment and wait a couple/few months 

[Terry in Australia]

Wow, that sucks Eric. I was happy enough that when I got inside the building after an hour and a half standing in line I only had to wait another 35 minutes to finally get called up to the counter to spend 10 minutes waiting for the Vicroads lady to process the paperwork, print me off the permit, fetch me a number plate and give me a logbook that I need to fill out every time I go for a ride. And take my money, of course.

My oldest boy left his 2002 Ford Explorer in my back yard, unregistered and unloved 8 years ago, when he moved interstate for work. He moved back just before Christmas last year, and when the lockdown happened, decided that as he was "working from home", he'd spend all his spare time fixing the car up and get it re-registered.

He did a really good job, I gave him a few pointers and let him use my tools, but he did all the work, so he replaced the dead fuel pump, new brake rotors and pads, flushed the brake lines using Spotty's "Suck-O-Matic" $27 dollar chinese brake bleeder, replaced the headlights, blinkers, front bumper, side steps, wheels and tyres etc. He took it to a local mechanic with a good rep to get it inspected for a Roadworthy certificate, and got ripped off to the tune of $3K for a basic service and lots of quoted work that was never done, most mechanics are just crooks, period.

Anyway, finally with paperwork in hand he made an appointment to have it re-registered, and even though he was the last previous owner and had the old registration documentation on him, they couldn't find his car in their computer system, and like you, they screwed him around for 5 hours before they finally, grudgingly gave him the new number plates.

As much as I'm happy that I've got my red plate and can now ride my K0 legally, Vicroads is a disgusting example of "Big Government Bureaucracy". I'm happy to have government bodies employing public servants where necessary (hospitals and nursing homes in particular) but as a government contractor, I could happily contract out the whole Vicroads department, convert as many "face to face" systems as practical to mail in or (better still) online transactions, which would reduce the amount of employees needed, and save the customers a huge amount of time and red tape. It makes sense, so of course, it'll never happen.........

[754]

 Log book ?.  We know you were OK with them this time , because you did not call them Serpents..
 Until  the last while here,  I thought VicRoads was a motorcycle shop..

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, the club permit system is great Frank, to register a big bike annually (including mandatory personal injury insurance) is over $500 USD, but with a club permit red plate (for any bike over 25 years old) it's only around $50 USD per year. For that you get a log book that must be filled out for every day that you use the bike for a max of 45 days per year. You can extend it to 90 days per year for an extra $45, but with all my bikes, 45 days is more than enough, as most of my riding is done on weekends anyway. My Harley Sportster is 27 years old in 2021, I must put it on a club permit too.

[Kelly E]

Wow, our vintage plates are $121 and good forever. They even transfer to a new owner with the bike. No inspections or logbooks. We have them for cars and trucks too. I have them on both of my MGB/GT's. I just have to have one vehicle on a regular license plate.

[HondaMan]

Thanks Terry but Nah, we're just punching holes in paper. I got a gorgeous Savage 22 target rifle with a multicolor thumbhole Boyd's stock, BSA scope, barrel is heavy as heck.  I got some today and won't shoot them in a year most likely. I have an old 1930's Savage gill gun, click clack, ranger #5, it has lots of names but it's fussy about hi velocity ammo so I'm testing different types to see what semi auto loads reliably. 
 Folks here are hoarding guns and ammo like they were toilet paper last year. Makes no sense.
 We already typed "bullet" so I'm sure we're on a list in that big computer in Virginia anyway.

Hey, Don, while we're typing "bullet"....I recently bought some (hard to find!) 22 LR that wasn't specially marked (just 'High velocity", but only 1150 fps), but the tips are so long that I can't load them in my revolver(!). They are also loose...have you seen anything like that? They are CCI, too, my fave.

Pissed me off, wasted the prime reason we went to the range that day, to break in a new Rodent Ruinator...