Good point David, the tyres are expensive Metzler semi-slick race tyres and while they look like new, they were slipping and sliding last time I rode it, so seeing as how SP1's are becoming quite valuable, spending a few hundred bucks freshening it up won't hurt, and now that I own another SP1, I can probably swap bits between the two, the second bike will be a track day racer, so those tyres might still be ok for flogging around Phillip Island. We'll see.
Up in the air now on my way to Darwin, not without incident though. This is an Army funded trip, and as such, all bookings are made via QBT the defence preferred travel agency. The clowns who work for QBT are the most useless bunch of bottom feeders this side of the public service. I booked my travel a month ago, or at least, it was booked for me by one of the executive officers at my unit. At my request she organised an exit aisle seat for the trip, and paid extra for the privilege.
When I received my itinerary I noticed that there was no seat allocated for either flight, so I rang QBT, and of course, they'd "forgotten" to book the seats that defence had paid an extra $75 for. It didn't go as easy as that of course. At first "Wayne" wanted to argue that we hadn't asked for them, so I had to send him the emails to and from QBT confirming that we had, and then he finally accepted that someone (probably him) had fcuked up, anc he begrudgingly allocated me window exit row seats for both flights.
A couple of weeks ago it became apparent that I was going to Tasmania, straight from Darwin, so once again the lovely Jenni booked my flights and accommodation, organised premium economy seating etc. great.
When I arrived at the airport this morning and started to check in via the Qantas "kiosk", I was horrified to see that I'd been allocated a standard seat! "So what?" I hear you say, well apart from being 6'4" tall, I have a number of old injuries that would make a 4(+) hour flight less than comfortable. I cancelled my electronic check in and joined ghe mile long queue for ghe service desk. I explained the situation to the Qantas service desk lady, who wasn't particularly interested or keen to help, but she eventually gave me an exit row aisle seat. Great.
The thing that pisses me off is that I'm not asking for a favour, I'm just asking for what was organised and paid for a month ago, and now I'll have to call fcuking Wayne at fcuking QBT again to try to get what I'm fcuking entitled to. If the exit row seats are gone I can't schedule another flight because I'm booked on an adjoining flight to Hobart, so I'm fcuked, all due to the incompetence of the mindless drones at QBT. End of rant. For now......
