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Re: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.
« Reply #21575 on: September 18, 2024, 04:12:39 pm »
Tim went to the towing company and found the truck! Still had my paint stuck to the steel tee bar on the back! They will cover it!


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Re: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.
« Reply #21576 on: September 22, 2024, 12:39:20 pm »
 Seen on F/B, I was putting my Honda together, this way that I thought was right doesn't work and this way works. What do I do now? 
 
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« Reply #21577 on: September 22, 2024, 04:50:24 pm »
Seen on F/B, I was putting my Honda together, this way that I thought was right doesn't work and this way works. What do I do now?

How come I'm laughing, not pissed off?  8)
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1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000 LTD                                   1985 GMC S15
1978 Kawasaki KL 250
1980 Suzuki GS 1100E
1982 Honda CB 900F Super Sport
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Re: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.
« Reply #21578 on: September 22, 2024, 08:17:40 pm »
Seen on F/B, I was putting my Honda together, this way that I thought was right doesn't work and this way works. What do I do now?

How come I'm laughing, not pissed off?  8)

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« Reply #21579 on: September 23, 2024, 05:34:22 am »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all. 

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« Reply #21580 on: September 23, 2024, 05:44:07 pm »
  A guy has been known to cut his motorcycle tires into 4 pieces and stack them like Russian nesting dolls. They take up much less room in any space where they end up that way. They also don't fill with water.
 A little creative cutting can also make a nice tire swing out of a fat bike tire.
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« Reply #21581 on: September 23, 2024, 09:02:35 pm »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?
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« Reply #21582 on: September 24, 2024, 02:48:31 am »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?

Yes.  Only this place accepts tires and they require county sticker or ID check for residency.

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« Reply #21583 on: September 24, 2024, 11:33:24 am »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?

Yes.  Only this place accepts tires and they require county sticker or ID check for residency.

and they wonder why people illegally dump stuff

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« Reply #21584 on: September 24, 2024, 12:47:04 pm »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?

Yes.  Only this place accepts tires and they require county sticker or ID check for residency.

VA.  they have strict regulations.
Have the motorcycle inspections been strict also ?
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« Reply #21585 on: September 25, 2024, 02:23:59 am »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?

Yes.  Only this place accepts tires and they require county sticker or ID check for residency.

and they wonder why people illegally dump stuff

It crossed my mind, I admit.    :)  With all the taxes they collect.

Sometime they do free tire deposits to fight mosquitos, but I.dont think it happened this year. 

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« Reply #21586 on: September 25, 2024, 02:26:36 am »
Did some cleaning and loaded 15 old tires on my trailer.  10 motorcycle tires and 5 car tires.

At the dump they told me only 4 tires at a time and that pissed me off.  I considered getting a coffee and coming back to deposit 4 more tires but I prefer to chose the hill to die on.  :)

At $3 per tire I would expect them to take it all.

Prokop,does your county require you to go Only to that dump ?

Yes.  Only this place accepts tires and they require county sticker or ID check for residency.

VA.  they have strict regulations.
Have the motorcycle inspections been strict also ?

I would not think so.  My regular mechanic is awesome, we just chitchat while he gets sticker ready.

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« Reply #21587 on: September 26, 2024, 08:32:44 am »
The "Contrôle Technique" or technical inspection has now been extended in France to some classes of motorcycles, scooters, 3 wheelers and quads. My 1980 XL125 goin' to town bike had it's rendez vous last week (and passed).
At the moment it's a fast visual inspection, but next year it gets tougher and the net gets extended to pretty much all classes.
Possibly as many as 50% of sports bikes in France have miniscule licence plates, turn signals the size of garden peas and the loudest pipe possible.

All of these are potential causes of failure.

Expect pissed off French motards taking to the streets to express their displeasure next year.

Kev
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« Reply #21588 on: September 26, 2024, 01:22:34 pm »
The "Contrôle Technique" or technical inspection has now been extended in France to some classes of motorcycles, scooters, 3 wheelers and quads. My 1980 XL125 goin' to town bike had it's rendez vous last week (and passed).
At the moment it's a fast visual inspection, but next year it gets tougher and the net gets extended to pretty much all classes.
Possibly as many as 50% of sports bikes in France have miniscule licence plates, turn signals the size of garden peas and the loudest pipe possible.

All of these are potential causes of failure.

Expect pissed off French motards taking to the streets to express their displeasure next year.

Kev

That doesn't sound good. I don't modify to the extreme but I would hate to have to stay totally stock because of some overbearing rules.
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1974 Honda CB 550 K0                                            1971 MGB/GT
1975 Honda CB 400F Super Sport                          1972 MGB/GT
1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000 LTD                                   1985 GMC S15
1978 Kawasaki KL 250
1980 Suzuki GS 1100E
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« Reply #21589 on: September 27, 2024, 04:45:07 am »
The "Contrôle Technique" or technical inspection has now been extended in France to some classes of motorcycles, scooters, 3 wheelers and quads. My 1980 XL125 goin' to town bike had it's rendez vous last week (and passed).
At the moment it's a fast visual inspection, but next year it gets tougher and the net gets extended to pretty much all classes.
Possibly as many as 50% of sports bikes in France have miniscule licence plates, turn signals the size of garden peas and the loudest pipe possible.

All of these are potential causes of failure.

Expect pissed off French motards taking to the streets to express their displeasure next year.

Kev

In the Czech Republic a cop can write you a ticket if your tires are not the size the bike came from the factory with - among other things. 

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« Reply #21590 on: September 27, 2024, 06:21:54 pm »
Yep, when I took my little Mitsubishi truck to get a Roadworthy Inspection for the transfer of registration from the turd I bought it from it got knocked back, for (amongst many other reasons) the tyres on the aftermarket rims were too wide so I had to go and find some original rims and tyres. Spotty and I took them to a swap meet recently and sold them for $100, which was better than throwing them away. ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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Re: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.
« Reply #21591 on: October 02, 2024, 01:14:19 am »
I got my "Home and contents" insurance renewal today. It's increasing by a whopping 29.3%! The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the current CPI is 2.7%. As Mark Twain famously said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics".
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« Reply #21592 on: October 02, 2024, 09:11:34 am »
I got my "Home and contents" insurance renewal today. It's increasing by a whopping 29.3%! The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the current CPI is 2.7%. As Mark Twain famously said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics".

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« Reply #21593 on: October 02, 2024, 09:47:52 am »
Insurance prices are on a huge kick up in cars and homeowners or renters insurance due to claims all over the country or world it seems...
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« Reply #21594 on: October 04, 2024, 08:06:58 pm »
I don't want to sound like a racist (which every racist says before they make a racist remark) but when I worked on a Melbourne city council contract I worked with a lot of Turkish guys. Some were great, but some, including their supervisor who was the same level as me, were thieving turds. It was so bad we had to lock our private cars in the carpark or some of your co-workers would steal anything out of it, or steal your car.

That "Supervisor" boasted to me that he'd paid for his house, and his fathers house, from fake insurance claims. They'd buy a couple of damaged late model cars, stage a car crash, and put in a claim. I asked him how he hadn't been caught and he told me that he was insuring all the cars in his friend's and family's names, then he'd submit the claim. Apparently he was questioned as to why he was always submitting the claims and he replied that he was the only one who spoke, and could write in, English. It's arseholes like these guys who cause insurance premiums to go sky high, here in Oz. Racist rant out. ;D 
I was feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't afford new bike boots, until I met a man with no legs.

So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #21595 on: October 04, 2024, 09:35:54 pm »
I don't want to sound like a racist (which every racist says before they make a racist remark) but when I worked on a Melbourne city council contract I worked with a lot of Turkish guys. Some were great, but some, including their supervisor who was the same level as me, were thieving turds. It was so bad we had to lock our private cars in the carpark or some of your co-workers would steal anything out of it, or steal your car.

That "Supervisor" boasted to me that he'd paid for his house, and his fathers house, from fake insurance claims. They'd buy a couple of damaged late model cars, stage a car crash, and put in a claim. I asked him how he hadn't been caught and he told me that he was insuring all the cars in his friend's and family's names, then he'd submit the claim. Apparently he was questioned as to why he was always submitting the claims and he replied that he was the only one who spoke, and could write in, English. It's arseholes like these guys who cause insurance premiums to go sky high, here in Oz. Racist rant out. ;D

The best thing to happen with corrupt individuals/officials like what you describe is for them to be caught,so they can't get out of it.
I have no patience for corruption.
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« Reply #21596 on: October 16, 2024, 06:40:36 am »
Yesterday, this idiot in a pickup puts on right turn signal and turns left, across the whole road, and starts backing up into his driveway.  I lay on my horn and he flips me off.  That pissed me off. 

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« Reply #21597 on: October 16, 2024, 01:23:59 pm »
Yesterday, this idiot in a pickup puts on right turn signal and turns left, across the whole road, and starts backing up into his driveway.  I lay on my horn and he flips me off.  That pissed me off.

It's all your fault because you didn't read his mind properly. 8)
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1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000 LTD                                   1985 GMC S15
1978 Kawasaki KL 250
1980 Suzuki GS 1100E
1982 Honda CB 900F Super Sport
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« Reply #21598 on: October 16, 2024, 02:04:35 pm »
 I always worry about this when I back my 28' race trailer into the driveway. I've been known to go around the block when a car shows up behind me. Lately I drop my wife off at the mailbox so she can give warning if a car comes from behind.
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« Reply #21599 on: October 16, 2024, 04:19:18 pm »
Stuff like that makes me so happy about living on acreage. I can turn into my driveway off the dirt road and drive past the house down to the shop. I can pull a 20' trailer all the way around the shop without backing up.
When I moved here I couldn't drive around the shop. I spent a month and a half 7 days a week on my small tractor moving earth from the front to the back to make it possible. It was so worth it. 8)
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1974 Honda CB 550 K0                                            1971 MGB/GT
1975 Honda CB 400F Super Sport                          1972 MGB/GT
1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000 LTD                                   1985 GMC S15
1978 Kawasaki KL 250
1980 Suzuki GS 1100E
1982 Honda CB 900F Super Sport
1983 Honda CB 1100F
1984 Honda VF 700S Sabre
1984 Honda VF 1000F Interceptor
1990 Moto Guzzi 1000 Le Mans
1994 Kawasaki Concours ZG 1000A9
2005 Harley Davidson Fat Boy