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

[Terry in Australia]

Well we all know that chicks dig scars Brian, and with all the work you've had over your life, they must fcuking love you, you're like a patchwork quilt!

The dull thump thump thump of the music transformed into a full on gangsta rap party last night, so I walked outside to see where it was coming from, and it wasn't my neighbours kid at all, it turned out to be a house 500 yards across the paddock, fark! It was so loud I was having problems hearing the TV 10 feet from me, so I rang the cops.

The cop on the other end of the phone couldn't believe that the house I was complaining about was 500 yards away, but agreed to send a couple of uniformed cops around, but also explained that it was a Saturday night and they were pretty busy, but would get to it ASAP.

So around two hours later the music stopped. Thank God. Then about 15 minutes later, it started up again. I'm thinking they waited for the cops to bugger off, then they cranked it up again, only louder. This went on for another 15-20 minutes, then it went quiet again, and didn't come on again. Good.

Drunken drugged out "gangsta's" listening to c-rap (the last bastion for the few black people who can't actually sing) piss me off..............  

[gypsyrider]

hey folks I'm new to this so please be kind. Been a biker all my life now 67 years old,have two fours first 75 i bought new it's now a chopper with 90'000 miles on it. Second is a 1969 i bought last year out of a barn in Michigan it had 4,000 miles now 7,000 miles also have 5 other bikes have had two over thirty years.What pisses me off? The price on some of the parts for 750s hell of a rip off as far as I'm concerned. Hope to meet some of the riders in Michigan next year. Be cool and ride the hell out of them.  Gypsy

[mick7504]

Well, it looks like Deere John will be outa action until at least next weekend.
Yesterday was a bloody big mowerthon that mainly stirred up a lot of dust although the yard looks better now that the grass is level and the crunchy leaves have gone.

So I mowed until well after dark last night while it was a bit cooler.
That meant that quite a few beers were consumed in the process.
At one stage I remember thinking that Deere John was handling like  mattress but I kept going and just put that down to the alcohol.

Anyway, this morning while Deere John was getting a tub, I noticed a slight misalignment issue with the front wheels and I've got no idea how that happened.

What pisses me off is that the fcuking drag links aren't adjustable so nothing can be done today except have a few beers and sort it out next week. 

[Terry in Australia]

hey folks I'm new to this so please be kind. Been a biker all my life now 67 years old,have two fours first 75 i bought new it's now a chopper with 90'000 miles on it. Second is a 1969 i bought last year out of a barn in Michigan it had 4,000 miles now 7,000 miles also have 5 other bikes have had two over thirty years.What pisses me off? The price on some of the parts for 750s hell of a rip off as far as I'm concerned. Hope to meet some of the riders in Michigan next year. Be cool and ride the hell out of them.  Gypsy

Welcome from Oz Gypsy, yep, I guess the price of 750 bits has increased somewhat since you bought your first "Fat Four", I'm 12 years your junior, but I remember buying a new RC 4 into 1 for my 1975 F0 (that I bought new in 1978) for $129, or a fibreglass Rickman or Dunstall (can't remember) front fender for 20 bucks. What the hell, they're good bikes and don't often need new parts, and there are bargains out there if you look hard enough. Have a good one mate. Cheers, Terry.  

[topperharley]

Haindst piston rings. Or the fackt that i cant find a replacement. Conclusion. I piss my self of.

[Terry in Australia]

Haindst piston rings. Or the fackt that i cant find a replacement. Conclusion. I piss my self of.

What for mate? If it's a CB750 you can buy new 836cc kits on ebay for $130 US, and there's a guy selling several HA big bore kits, he might have some rings for sale too? Cheers, Terry.

[Terry in Australia]

Fcuking useless "tradesmen" are still pissing me off. I bought a new hot water service a month or two back, had the plumber who installed it come out 3 days in a row to re-light it when it kept going out, finally I re-lit it myself and it hasn't gone out since, but the plumber couldn't tell me why it kept going out. I suspected air trapped in the gas line, but he "poo-pooed" it, so who knows?

Ever since he installed it, the pressure relief valve has dribbled water out at an alarming rate. I rang him, he came out, said the the pressure relief valve was too small, and Rinnai needed to replace it. I rang Rinnai, they sent a tech out, he said that there should have been a water pressure reducer valve installed by the plumber.

I rang the plumber and he said that's all bullshidt, it's Rinnai's faulty pressure relief valve. I rang Rinnai, they said they'd come out and inspect it, but if it wasn't a faulty unit, they'd charge me a $210 service fee to come out. I rang the plumber to make sure that the unit was indeed faulty, he said yes, so I got Rinnai to come out, they tested my water pressure, said it was too high and I needed a pressure reducer installed, said there was nothing wrong with their pressure relief valve, and charged me $210. Fcuking great.

Today I'm going to Reece Plumbing to buy a pressure reducer valve and some copper pipe so I can fcuking fix it. This really pisses me off, the only error I made was relying on a fcuking tradesman and paying him on time, and I've been fcuked again. One step forwards, and two steps back..........  

[Terry in Australia]

So I drove over to Reece plumbing, bought a 500 KPA PRD, (another 94 fcuking bucks) came home, and installed it, and guess what? No fcuking run off!

This really shidts me, I originally paid 1500 bucks to get a new hot water system installed, plus a $210 "service charge" from Rinnai and it's taken around 2 months and numerous visits from "professionals" to stop it pissing out water, and as fcuking usual, the only fcuking reason that it's working properly now, is because I fixed it my-fcuking-self.

Fcuking "tradesmen" are all schidt, they have no morals and no fcuking brains, and they can all suck my sweaty balls................

Before I fcuking fixed it:



After I fcuking fixed it: (how hard was that Nick, you useless Krunt?)

[mick7504]

That's good that you've got it sorted mate.
Time and time again it just pays to do it yourself and the jobs right.

I'm starting to think that "Nick the fcuking Tradesmans" brother could be working here in Darwin after getting fcuked around this morning.
Last Thursday, I ordered a Hazard Light switch for one of our trucks and took the old switch in for a sample that still had a sticker on it with the Bosch part number.
No worries I'm thinking to myself, how hard can this be.

So this morning, I went to collect the new switch, got a fcuking invoice for 187 bucks and the fcuking switch is not even close.
Welcome to the new working week and I was pissed off already by 9.30 this morning. 

[calj737]

Geez, Terry, $1,500 for a water heater? Are there naked mermaids inside using bellows and coal to heat the water? WTF! Stuffs overly-expensive in Oz. I'm pissed off for you-

[Terry in Australia]

Geez, Terry, $1,500 for a water heater? Are there naked mermaids inside using bellows and coal to heat the water? WTF! Stuffs overly-expensive in Oz. I'm pissed off for you-

Thanks Cal, I suppose I should state here and now that the exchange rate is such that an Aussie dollar is only worth around 70 cents US at the moment, which would mean my water heater cost around $1000 US, but yes, things are expensive here mate, that's what happens when a country with a land mass roughly equivalent to that of the US, has a population of only 1/15th of that of the US. Small population, not much industry, and heavy on imports. That pisses me off too............

[calj737]

Perhaps we can help: I will organize a mass exportation from us to you of our resident "alien population" to bump up your population stats, thereby helping to increase the demand for such products, and thus lowering your costs. Hows that for friendly Trade Agreements?  With all the money you'll be saving, you can buy at least 2 new bikes annually 

[trueblue]

Perhaps we can help: I will organize a mass exportation from us to you of our resident "alien population" to bump up your population stats, thereby helping to increase the demand for such products, and thus lowering your costs. Hows that for friendly Trade Agreements?  With all the money you'll be saving, you can buy at least 2 new bikes annually 

We already have enough of them Cal, we don't want you losing all your illegal aliens

[Terry in Australia]

Er, well I'm already buying at least two bikes annually now mate, so you can keep all your "aliens" and I'll be happy to pay $1500 for another hot water system in 20 years time.................

My deadlock on my front door crapped itself today (it's an American "Lane" brand lock, must be made by those Aliens, 'cos it's rubbish) and I was looking for something to fill the hole, so I rummaged around the garage and I found another lock that I'd meant to install on the laundry door (but never got around to it) and as it was keyed alike with the existing lock, I thought, well, why not? I think it looks kinda cool...................

[calj737]

...we don't want you losing all your illegal aliens

You cannot lose what you cannot find. Apparently, they simply materialize within the country. Must be a time warp/black hole thing...? Pisses me off that I can't travel abroad via the same means. How do you say, "Abra, ca-dabra" in Spanish anyway?

[petercb750]

Pisses me off that you've got 2 knobs Terry.

[bear]

Pisses me off that you've got 2 knobs Terry.

C'mon Pete..............nobody could be that silly with one.

[mick7504]

Well, the new rear hub for the Postie Bike arrived yesterday and hopefully by the end of this week some other parts that have been ordered from Cyclone City Motorcycles should be here.
The Cyclone City mob are the Honda dealers here in Darwin and their prices are good.

By the time that you freight in the parts from David Silver mob and the likes, there's not much in it.
Plus when you want it right fcuking now, it's just a phone call and a coupla days.

So the plan this weekend is to kick some Postie Bike goals.
The only hurdle that I'm facing is that the missus had a weeks holiday last week and I know that she's got a list of jobs for me to do.
It certainly won't be mowing after I bent the steering on the ride on mower when I was drunk the other night and mowing in the dark.

Anyway, intuition tells that a little domestic could be brewing and someone is gonna be pissed of .........With Me. 

[Terry in Australia]

Flying pisses me off. Don't get me wrong, if I had the super power of unassisted flight I'd be rapt, but relying on airlines to get it right is an entirely different matter. That's why I prefer to drive the 800 mile round trip to work each week.

On Tuesday I had to fly first to Canberra in the morning, then Sydney in the evening. My morning flight was scheduled to take off at 0720, so I got up at 0500, had a cab pick me up at 0600, and was standing at the counter at 0630, only to be told that fcuking QANTAS had over-subscribed my flight, and so they'd have to put me on the 0900 flight. Fcuking great....

To be fair, they did bump me up to business class and sent me off to the QANTAS club for a lovely breakfast, and the in flight entertainment beat the schidt out of staring at the back of the seat in front as you do in "Cattle Class", but I had to remind myself that I'd gotten out of bed in the middle of the night, just so I could be Fcuked over by the flying Kangaroo. Fcuk you Allan Joyce, you little Irish priick....

The trip to Sydney would have been crap if it wasn't for the fact that the "Dash 8" was only half full, so I had two seats (which of course are half the size of a proper seat anyway) to myself, so apart from being scolded by a hostie for changing seats without her say so , (who the fcuk did she think she is anyway, all air hostesses are just one step away from prostitutes, everyone knows that) and enough turbulence when we flew into Sydney to make one woman scream, it was a pleasant enough flight.

Ok, so tomorrow arvo I've got to fly directly back to Melbourne, And I'm betting it's gonna be another dick-around. Fcuk I hate flying, and I've got 6 more fcuking flights to go before Christmas......

[Demon67]

Terry think about it! It beats bouncing across the country side in a jump seat with a transport pilot that's pissed that they didn't make him a fighter ace and I'm pretty sure the stewardess was better looking than some of the load masters/flight sargeants I've flown with including the one that put his oxygen mask on and dialed it up to 100% to try and get rid of his hangover before we took off. So it's all gravy.
Bill the demon.

[Terry in Australia]

Well most QANTAS pilots are ex-RAAF pilots Bill, and back in the day when I jumped out of perfectly good aircraft for a living (I've still never landed in a Caribou, do you know if they can actually land,  or are they just dumped in the sea at the end of each flight?) those dopes dropped me in trees, on buildings, on roads and even on a poor bloody sheep once, so I've got less respect for QANTAS pilots than I have for your average taxi driver.

Fcuk flying, I'll take my chances on the mean streets in my new Ford Territory Titanium.......

[krusty]

For some reason Bill reminded me of the time when I flew from Butterworth, Malaysia to Darwin in a C130. We had some Malaysian military officers onboard. When it came time to break out the inflight meal we found that the nice RAAF caterers had supplied us with boxed ham sandwiches. That pissed off a few of the guest passengers.
BTW Terry, Caribous do land and no one ever made me jump out of one on a few trips to and from Shoalwater Bay. I would be real pissed if they handed out parachutes at the start of the flight.

[Demon67]

That always makes you twitchy doesn't it Krusty.
Bill the demon.

[Terry in Australia]

Well as a loggie, the only mistake I can see is that someone told them? I had a similar situation, I was posted to a RAEME unit, and we had a Navex that terminated with a BBQ. I'd forgotten that we had an Indian Officer who didn't eat beef, (sacred cow, and all that) and all I had was steaks, burgers and snags, all beef. He sidled up to me and asked me what sort of meat I was cooking for him, so I told him it was all Pork and Lamb, and he happily tucked into all of it. Job done.

[Don R]

 I had a great day. My wife even thinks my new guitar is the same one I always had. shhh. Now if I could just play it. OK, that pisses me off.