People who just can't resist touching things....

[Antallica]

Need to have a rant about it...

6pm I pulled up to see the g/f, parked the bike outside her building on the main street here in Whangas. Came out and put on my helmet etc. and went to start the bike.... hang on!!... Some F$@K%R has decided it's his right to have a sit on my bike, and fiddle with my mirrors and the kickstart lever. Immediatley jump off and inspect the rest of the bike to make sure I don't crap off down the road. Nothing else was moved or damaged by the looks. Man that pissed me off. As far as I'm concerned they might as well have put her on her side and pissed off.

And you know what I reckon, if it were a bloody GSX-R 600 or a ZX6R or whatever, then they probably wouldn't have touched it.

:mad: :mad: :beer: :mad: :mad:

Anyone else had their ride parked in town, and come back to find some wanker couldn't keep their hands to themselves?

[Ms Piggy]

Need to have a rant about it...

Anyone else had their ride parked in town, and come back to find some wanker couldn't keep their hands to themselves?

I have to (unfortuantely) park my bike outside and I use to quite often come to ride off and find the mirrors pissed about with.

People are stoopid & that sux! :crazy:

[rodgerd]

I have to (unfortuantely) park my bike outside and I use to quite often come to ride off and find the mirrors pissed about with.

People are stoopid & that sux! :crazy:

I often find the mirrors out of whack when parked in town. The telling sympton will be a scooter parked next to the bike, since it appears scooter riders are programmed to park too close to be able to leave their ride without nudging mine.

[wari]

I dont know what to say really ....

Thats quite a violation init ... :yeah:

Makes me mad ...

[wkid_one]

Here is a funny story about exactly that.....

KiwiDan and I went to the Botanical Gardens to meet his partner (we were rubbing in the fact we were riding and she was working). Well, as all good bikers - we parked the bikes up next to the cafe in the pedestrian area and wander in. I get a drink and decide to go outside and drink it. What do I find when I come out - some fuckwit of a guy - putting his kid on KD's bike. I duly start to stride over - by then he has pulled the kid off, however before I get there - the kid grabs the pipes straight out of the manifold on my bike.....well fuck me......burnt was not half the issue.

The parent starts to lecture me about the hot pipe blah blah blah. I listened and then asked him for his car keys. He asked why. I politely told him so I could climb all over his property like his kid did on the bike and kindly informed him that it wouldn't have happened if he respected other peoples property. I did use copious swear words however.

Some people have no idea. Felt sorry for the kid tho - mate - he must have lost all the skin on the palm of his hand.

[Magua]

I get people playing with the gears on my bike while it's parked outside of school. Not a big inconvieniance but how would they like it if I were to hop into their car and have a play with the gears?

[Antallica]

Here is a funny story about exactly that.....

KiwiDan and I went to the Botanical Gardens to meet his partner (we were rubbing in the fact we were riding and she was working). Well, as all good bikers - we parked the bikes up next to the cafe in the pedestrian area and wander in. I get a drink and decide to go outside and drink it. What do I find when I come out - some fuckwit of a guy - putting his kid on KD's bike. I duly start to stride over - by then he has pulled the kid off, however before I get there - the kid grabs the pipes straight out of the manifold on my bike.....well fuck me......burnt was not half the issue.

The parent starts to lecture me about the hot pipe blah blah blah. I listened and then asked him for his car keys. He asked why. I politely told him so I could climb all over his property like his kid did on the bike and kindly informed him that it wouldn't have happened if he respected other peoples property. I did use copious swear words however.

Some people have no idea. Felt sorry for the kid tho - mate - he must have lost all the skin on the palm of his hand.
I can't believe the guy had the nerve to lecture YOU. Man some people...

[Warren]

On my old scooter :scooter: I have had people play with the mirrors a couple of times. Once someone stole one of the floor mat's, I spent ages looking for it to no avail GRRR :mad: :mad: .

My dad had had someone cut the HT Lead to one of the clyinders. It was a 4cyl so he managed to get it home on 3 cylinders.

The people who mess with other peoples property, steal stuff and vandalise things should get a royal kick in the nuts.

[matthewt]

And you know what I reckon, if it were a bloody GSX-R 600 or a ZX6R or whatever, then they probably wouldn't have touched it.

If you had a different bike they still would of messed with it. Some dick jumped on my MV F4 when it was parked outside a shop once. When he got off it it fell over because the sidestand had come up. Wanker!!

[FROSTY]

dang wkkd I feel for that kid-- Not his fault mum n dad are idiots.
I guess because Ive got a kid myself i'm a bit more tollerant of the kid on bike bit. Actually I'd most likely have put the kid on my bike and shown him the controls and stuff.
I figure that theyre the next generation of bikers

[Slim]

I guess because Ive got a kid myself i'm a bit more tollerant of the kid on bike bit. Actually I'd most likely have put the kid on my bike and shown him the controls and stuff.
Yeah, if they'd come looking for the owner of the bike first & asked permission!

Wkid - I wouldn't have asked for the keys. I would have just asked where his car was & gone and sat all over the bonnet/boot/roof & made sure to slide around a bit so there was some nice scuffs in the paint job.

Matthew - hope insurance sorted that out. I know from personal experience just how much damage can be done to a bike if it's knocked off the side stand. :shit:

Luckily, I've never had it happen to me.

[bgd]

Someone wrote "clean me" on my plate the other day :)

[White trash]

Had a parent abuse the shit out of me after his kid knocked over a GS1200SS in the shop by climbing up on the R/H footpeg. The look on this kids face as the ol' Suzi came up and over was hilarious.

Then the old man starts ranting, all the while I'm laughing at him.

Then we sent the silly prick an invoice for the broken mirror.

[spudchucka]

Back in my Harley riding days in Aussie I was having a feed with some mates in the Seaview Hotel in Townsville, we watched this drunk stagger out of the pub, sit on my bike and start twisting the throttle making brmm brmm noises. Myself and my mates wandered outside and snuck up on him. We all stood next to the guy and just asked him what the f**k he thought he was doing. He just about wet his pants when he was confronted by four big Harley riding types and took off running, no harm done. Of course if this happened now I'd have to think seriously about locking the idiot up for Unlawful Interference.

[James Deuce]

My wife bought me an alarm for my RG250F which had a 108dB siren attached to a mercury motion detector. I could hear it two stories up and 100m away, and one day after it went off I came out to find a size 10 running shoe caught by the laces on the kick start. I laughed until I cried.

It used to go off every couple of days outside work though. I can't understand by what rationale people think they can muck about with other people's property like that.

[Jackrat]

Back in my Harley riding days in Aussie I was having a feed with some mates in the Seaview Hotel in Townsville, we watched this drunk stagger out of the pub, sit on my bike and start twisting the throttle making brmm brmm noises. Myself and my mates wandered outside and snuck up on him. We all stood next to the guy and just asked him what the f**k he thought he was doing. He just about wet his pants when he was confronted by four big Harley riding types and took off running, no harm done. Of course if this happened now I'd have to think seriously about locking the idiot up for Unlawful Interference.

Interesting sig' spud.
Been watch'in a bit much TV huh.

Pity about that kid.Lots of my mates have young'ins.
The hot bits are the first bits they get shown.
Parents must of bin' right wallys.

[rodgerd]

Had a parent abuse the shit out of me after his kid knocked over a GS1200SS in the shop by climbing up on the R/H footpeg. The look on this kids face as the ol' Suzi came up and over was hilarious.

Then the old man starts ranting, all the while I'm laughing at him.

Then we sent the silly prick an invoice for the broken mirror.

Wouldn't this be the shop with the signs everywhere saying, "Don't sit on the bikes"?

Undortunately there's a class of parent that thinks their kids should (a) be allowed to run amok and (b) they should never come to any harm as a result. Those would be the parents who see nothing wrong with their kid poking a dog with a stick, but demand it be put down if the kid gets bitten...

[spudchucka]

Interesting sig' spud.
Been watch'in a bit much TV huh.
I wasn't aware that it had been used on TV until wkid mentioned it was used on Law and Order. Its just one of many "one liners" which makes me laugh especially given some of the topics discussed on this forum. I'll get rid of it if plagerism is frowned upon.

[danb]

Wouldn't this be the shop with the signs everywhere saying, "Don't sit on the bikes"?

Undortunately there's a class of parent that thinks their kids should (a) be allowed to run amok and (b) they should never come to any harm as a result. Those would be the parents who see nothing wrong with their kid poking a dog with a stick, but demand it be put down if the kid gets bitten...

I work @ Bike Direct, the amount of times we have had whole rows of bike pushed over is ridicules. Parents think is OK to go off shopping and let the kids come into out shop unsupervised :angry2: . It's hard enough to keep customers under control with out bloody kids screaming around the floor on bikes crashing into things (They are worse than drunks on bikes :no:). I just try and give the kids an evil look till they leave :msn-wink: . Haven’t had heart to tell the parents what I think of them (Probably loose my job at the same time), It’s mostly the Parents fault. God we are not a darn baby sitter. One day a bike is going to fall on a kid and may have some nasty consequences, and who would get the blame.. I know the shop would. As for osh I wouldn’t them as far as I could kick them....


As for the kid being burnt I say good job... The parents might not have learnt a lesson but the kid would have. Just a shame the kid was basically forced into the situation etc..

[aff-man]

Yip my mate jumpd on my old bike when i wasn't looking and managed to crash it into his next door neighous car. But the a good way to get past all the legalities of it is to do what i saw a harley guy had done. On the shiney cromed battery case was a small sign that said "if you value your life as much as i value my bike, DON'T fuck with it"

[matthewt]

Matthew - hope insurance sorted that out. I know from personal experience just how much damage can be done to a bike if it's knocked off the side stand. :shit:

I didn't claim on it. Lot's of little scratches I decided I could live with. The clutch lever cost just on $200 so that was the only expense out of it. I was pretty f**ked off for the rest of the day thou. My wife stayed well clear of me until later that day.

[moko]

I had a real nasty,pulled away from college years ago and luckily only got a few yards(yard=a bit over a metre I think) before it being obvious something was very wrong,some bastard had taken the split-pin out of my rear-wheel nut and slackened off the adjusters.Pretty sure who it was,kind of a gang thing going down.Best story i`ve heard recently was about a guy I know,real hard rep locally,some drunk was annoying him while he sat on his bike talking to a mate,idiot grabbed the throttle and revved the nuts off it so he head-butted the guy,lost his balance and several hundred kilos of badass biker and Kawasaki Drifter flattened the poor bugger.Rider`s an ex-Foreign Legion psycho so the other guy`d better have left town by now.

[jrandom]

(yard=a bit over a metre I think)

Bit under. 91.44cm, as a matter of fact.

[Wenier]

Your full of information arent ya JR. Yea i must be lucky cus at college noone sat on my bike except if they asked me so everyone there was real good bout it cus anyone could have where it was parked. The same with uni noone even bothers they jus keep going and dont touch it. I dont mind if someone asks me first if they can sit on it. I've seen some asian get on to WTs bike out front of the shop when i went to meet up with them for a ride on a thursday a while ago so i said do you own that and he got the message and hoped off.

[Dr Bob]

Need to have a rant about it...

...crap off down the road. Nothing else was moved or damaged by the looks. Man that pissed me off. As far as I'm concerned they might as well have put her on her side and pissed off.

...Anyone else had their ride parked in town, and come back to find some wanker couldn't keep their hands to themselves?

Although no one has ever stuffed up my bike, I was responsible once for adjusting a car. I had a mini in my earlier days and I popped into a shop, ran back to the car, unlocked the door, adjusted the seat - for some reason it was too close to the pedals, looked in the rear vision mirror and fixed that - thought something was strange and had a look around the car - it wasn't mine. My mini was about three cars back along the street.

[Jackrat]

Although no one has ever stuffed up my bike, I was responsible once for adjusting a car. I had a mini in my earlier days and I popped into a shop, ran back to the car, unlocked the door, adjusted the seat - for some reason it was too close to the pedals, looked in the rear vision mirror and fixed that - thought something was strange and had a look around the car - it wasn't mine. My mini was about three cars back along the street.

Ha, I woke up in a strange car in just me undies after a big night.
It was parked about 2 Hundred meters up the road from where the party took place.Took me half the day to find me clothes.They were on the back seat of somebody elses car parked on the front lawn of the party place.
Stiil trying to work that one out.?????

[toads]

This sort of thing really pisses me off, it's amazing how many people think it's ok to touch a bike parked up, I think it should be legal to electrify them whilst parked up a nice 7500 volt electric fence unit would be great for the purpose, it's just a shame the bike electrics wouldn't cope I've often thought about how to fix car and bike fiddlers, and I like the electric shock thing best! :ar15:

[Ms Piggy]

:angry2: Well! I've just discovered today that my bike ignition has been tampered with over the w/e!! :angry2: I was away & I chain it up. My flatmate has used it but also chained it up. It has already been stolen once (before I owned it) and I'm guessing someone was trying to steal it again! I can see marks from a screw driver (I guess) where they have tried to pop the ignition out and the little bit where you slot the key in doesn't slip into place when I take the key out! :crybaby: Now I'm a bit worried that it will only be a matter of thime before they come back & do steal it! :confused:

[Omega1]

Yes, I dont know what it is about bikes but have you all noticed that even if you have Guests to your house you show them around....then they see your bike in the Garage its like Wow its a bloody magnet.. wham.. they have to either touch it or climb aboard...I had seen them stroll in and swing a leg over...like sure dont ask my permission first?????????????

[scumdog]

Yes, I dont know what it is about bikes but have you all noticed that even if you have Guests to your house you show them around....then they see your bike in the Garage its like Wow its a bloody magnet.. wham.. they have to either touch it or climb aboard...I had seen them stroll in and swing a leg over...like sure dont ask my permission first?????????????
Yep, bikes and hot rods, the public think they are in a car yard at hot rod shows unless the officials are alert, man where do these guy that ef with your scoot or rod think they come from? most of those types never owned anything worthwhile but seem to think it's ok to meddle with somebody elses pride'n'joy(or so it seems to me) :angry2:

[maybe]

No one should touch other peoples stuff without permission......Where I work it comes part and parcel of the job.....all I can say is thank christ it is not amongst the staff.

[Jesus Christ]

all I can say is thank christ it is not amongst the staff.

No need to thank me :sunny:

[spudchucka]

Finished work tonight to find some arse had thrown a brick through the drivers window of my car. Nothing taken, just a pure act of vandalism.

[James Deuce]

Finished work tonight to find some arse had thrown a brick through the drivers window of my car. Nothing taken, just a pure act of vandalism.

Aaargh. That sucks Spud. Bet society made him/her/it do it.

[RiderInBlack]

Aaargh. That sucks Spud. Bet society made him/her/it do it.Only a bit more fun than vandalising letter boxs:crazy:
Never could understand the mentality behind that.
"lets have some fun. Lets go and beat up letter boxs. Hehehe har har.":stupid:
I mean how moronic is that. That sort of person has obviously on evolved much:wacko:

As for the cu*t who is putting Z-nails in Wellington tunnels, I hope the police catch him/her/what ever, and do them for attepted manslaughter. Fu*k, if a bike picks up one of those in the front tyre......:gob:

[James Deuce]

Only a bit more fun than vandalising letter boxs:crazy:
Never could understand the mentality behind that.
"lets have some fun. Lets go and beat up letter boxs. Hehehe har har.":stupid:
I mean how moronic is that. That sort of person has obviously on evolved much:wacko:

As for the cu*t who is putting Z-nails in Wellington tunnels, I hope the police catch him/her/what ever, and do them for attepted manslaughter. Fu*k, if a bike picks up one of those in the front tyre......:gob:

The nail thing was stupid. Especially as I'm testing out commuting on the bike in preparation to dropping down to one car. I went off at Aotea Quay yesterday, just in case the clean up crew missed one.

OT - The bike is so much quicker to commute on. Leave homw at 7:15, and even with my chicken approach to lane splitting, I'm at work by 7:30-7:40am. Used to leave at 7:15 to get there by 8am in the car!

[spudchucka]

Aaargh. That sucks Spud. Bet society made him/her/it do it.
They aren't "juvenile criminals" they are "rough diamonds" and just need a little polishing. Yeah right!

[Motu]

Finished work tonight to find some arse had thrown a brick through the drivers window of my car. Nothing taken, just a pure act of vandalism.

I see a car parked up the road today with the drivers window smashed and glass all over the road - you are not the only one pissed off this morning,form a support group,get government funding.

[brit_vtr]

Sitting outside the cafe Sunday morning, about 80 bikers all enjoying their bacon sarnies.
Half a dozen guy's on mopeds turn up and after sitting on their bikes for 10 minutes try to park them in the gaps between our bikes, which includes lots of mirrors being knocked about coz the gaps too damn small.......why ??.

Talk about sheep like mentality !!!.
:spudwhat:

[Deano]

Saw a sticker on a bike once "you toucha my bike, I breaka your face".

Sounded reasonable enough !!

[Ms Piggy]

Sitting outside the cafe Sunday morning, about 80 bikers all enjoying their bacon sarnies.
Half a dozen guy's on mopeds turn up and after sitting on their bikes for 10 minutes try to park them in the gaps between our bikes, which includes lots of mirrors being knocked about coz the gaps too damn small.......why ??.

Talk about sheep like mentality !!!.
:spudwhat:
Ummmmmm....did you speak to them???

[brit_vtr]

Saw a sticker on a bike once "you toucha my bike, I breaka your face".

Sounded reasonable enough !!
Break face first, then show them the bumper sticker....it would have been fun tho, scooters monkey's versus sports bike riders, hmmmm not a fare contest methinks (but they could've beaten us on on geeky looks and acne).
:argh:

[brit_vtr]

Ummmmmm....did you speak to them???

ummmm, why ??.

[Ms Piggy]

ummmm, why ??.
I just wondered what they said and if they had realised what they were doing.

[Two Smoker]

Saw a sticker on a bike once "you toucha my bike, I breaka your face".

Sounded reasonable enough !!Then there is MR's stickers, "I only stop for whore's" and "My other Car is a Fast bike..." hhehehe

Can't stand people doing it though, vandalising and tampering....... I dont want some fucker ruining what my hard work and effort has accomplished for thier amusement, ill get my own back on them hehehehe:sly:

Bad Luck about the windscreen Spud, similar things have happened at my dad's work :(

[speedpro]

I pulled into the pits at Puke and put the XS1100 on the stand (a long time ago). Some guy and his 6ish kid come bowling over. I warned the guy about the bike being hot and basically got ignored. 2 seconds later the kid touched a front disc and it got real noisy. Little wee fingerprint left on the disc. I wouldn't have minded the kid sitting on it if I'd been asked.

In another instance took the old RD350 to a student pissup. Next morning the ignition leads were swapped and the throttle cables were pulled up and just sitting on the part where they go in the carb. I really didn't need it in my condition.

[spudchucka]

Then there is MR's stickers, "I only stop for whore's" and "My other Car is a Fast bike..." hhehehe

Can't stand people doing it though, vandalising and tampering....... I dont want some fucker ruining what my hard work and effort has accomplished for thier amusement, ill get my own back on them hehehehe:sly:

Bad Luck about the windscreen Spud, similar things have happened at my dad's work :(
If the prick was caught he'd have to be kicked up the arse until his nose bled. Bugger, thats right, can't do that. What a shame!

[spudchucka]

I see a car parked up the road today with the drivers window smashed and glass all over the road - you are not the only one pissed off this morning,form a support group,get government funding.
Its usually break-ins to steal stuff from cars but this was just vandalism, they didn't even unluck the drivers door. Mind you my car is bog standard with absolutely nothing of any value to pinch.

[brit_vtr]

I just wondered what they said and if they had realised what they were doing.

Being completely elitest (and aged) not sure that many spotty 17 year old scooter monkeys would understand a word I said , they all talk in some weird code...pretty sure it aint the queens english !!

[Ms Piggy]

Being completely elitest (and aged) not sure that many spotty 17 year old scooter monkeys would understand a word I said , they all talk in some weird code...pretty sure it aint the queens english !!

Righto then. Maybe something along the lines of "WTF do ya think you're doing?" would have been effective or "Excuse us lads, ya know that you have just knocked our mirrors & as you know...they're kinda important, blah, blah, blah." :beer:

[rodgerd]

In another instance took the old RD350 to a student pissup. Next morning the ignition leads were swapped and the throttle cables were pulled up and just sitting on the part where they go in the carb. I really didn't need it in my condition.

Perhaps you were trying some early morning maintenance and forgot about it 8)

[brit_vtr]

Righto then. Maybe something along the lines of "WTF do ya think you're doing?" would have been effective or "Excuse us lads, ya know that you have just knocked our mirrors & as you know...they're kinda important, blah, blah, blah." :beer:

I guess we could have been a bit more polite..........but what the heck, scooters arn't real bikes and 17 year olds are all hero's and can't be taught jack shit.

[rettun]

Breaking windows is FUN :killingme
Tho, i've only done it to cars i've owned/friends have owned and the windows had to be taken out.

I cant stand people tampering with other peoples crap, u think road bikes are bad... MX Bikes are like "omfg a dirt bike "jumps on" then they genrally drop it :mad: lucky theyre pretty hard to fuck up :calm:

lol

[James Deuce]

Breaking windows is FUN :killingme
Tho, i've only done it to cars i've owned/friends have owned and the windows had to be taken out.

I cant stand people tampering with other peoples crap, u think road bikes are bad... MX Bikes are like "omfg a dirt bike "jumps on" then they genrally drop it :mad: lucky theyre pretty hard to fuck up :calm:

lol

Is it just me or is the teen subculture patois diverging so far from cultural linguistics norms that their communication attempts are almost indecipherable?

I also get the feeling that the above communication attempt has something to do with it being OK to break windows so long as they belong to your friends? I hope this chap is wearing a cricket box, because if he was my friend, his nads would be around liver level by now.

[Devil]

I also get the feeling that the above communication attempt has something to do with it being OK to break windows so long as they belong to your friends? I hope this chap is wearing a cricket box, because if he was my friend, his nads would be around liver level by now.
After switching on my young'un translatrix discombobulator device, I gathered he was talking about breaking windows that had to be removed anyway. These windows either belonged to himself or his friends, i'm assuming with their permission.

[James Deuce]

Good work. I think the flux capacitor is broken in my discombobulator and that's why I didn't get it.

[matthewt]

Good work. I think the flux capacitor is broken in my discombobulator and that's why I didn't get it.

You might want to try reversing the polarity, it seems to fix everything on Star Trek.

[vifferman]

You might want to try reversing the polarity, it seems to fix everything on Star Trek.
Yes, I think that's the problem. Rettun and Sk8RBoi seem to have polarity problems - perhaps ECT might fix that.

[James Deuce]

Ahhh! The old reverse the polarity trick!

[brit_vtr]

Ahhh! The old reverse the polarity trick!

Personally I find heating the Dilithium Crystals over a slowly roasting Babel Fish works best.
:beer:

[Ms Piggy]

I guess we could have been a bit more polite..........but what the heck, scooters arn't real bikes and 17 year olds are all hero's and can't be taught jack shit.
Polite?? Naaaaah. I find it really frusrating at Uni b/c heaps of people ride their scooters and take up all the m/b parking space with their wide arses!

[matthewt]

Ahhh! The old reverse the polarity trick!

Did you know that trick appeared in the original batman movie ??

I was watching it with the kids a while and nearly pissed myself when batman suggested they reverse the polarity of one of their bat gadgets.

[matthewt]

Personally I find heating the Dilithium Crystals over a slowly roasting Babel Fish works best.
:beer:

Or if the crystals aren't up to it find some bogus way to travel back/forward in time.....

[Milky]

Polite?? Naaaaah. I find it really frusrating at Uni b/c heaps of people ride their scooters and take up all the m/b parking space with their wide arses!

What i find annoying is the type of person who parks their bike while they are sitting on it - ie there is enough room when it is standing straight up, but then they put it on the sidestand and block you in :Oi: Either that or Uni students - usually engineers where i park - who think they can fit through miniscule gaps between parked bikes, but get stuck and have to bend the mirrors to fit through :angry:

[Antallica]

What i find annoying is the type of person who parks their bike while they are sitting on it - ie there is enough room when it is standing straight up, but then they put it on the sidestand and block you in :Oi: Either that or Uni students - usually engineers where i park - who think they can fit through miniscule gaps between parked bikes, but get stuck and have to bend the mirrors to fit through :angry:
Yeah I've done that before, sucks for all.

[Draco]

Perhaps we need to educate (some) scooter riders. I saw an asian chick the other day on the HUGEST scooter ive ever seen in my life, but she was so small i doubt she would have ever found two wheels to fit, but at least she was riding. Aren't we all supposed to be on the same side?? :ride: When i'm too old an cripled to ride two wheels, im gunna build three, and i hope im still classed as a "biker chick". Anyone with handlebars and less than four wheels i class as a biker, let's educate these guys on biking etiquette! :Playnice:

[vifferman]

I haven't had too many problems with scooters, as they're mostly pretty narrow and light, so they're easy to pick up and move (done that a few times). A lot of them also have centrestands, so they stand fairly upright.
Anyway, if I get stuck, I take a leaf out of the scooterists' book and park on the footpath. :laugh:

[rettun]

Is it just me or is the teen subculture patois diverging so far from cultural linguistics norms that their communication attempts are almost indecipherable?

I also get the feeling that the above communication attempt has something to do with it being OK to break windows so long as they belong to your friends? I hope this chap is wearing a cricket box, because if he was my friend, his nads would be around liver level by now.


The "above communication attempt" didn't imply that it was ok to break the windows of your friends. BUT the windows that i've broken/watched being broken were with the respective owner either there or knowing about it and not being concerned as the window had to come out anyway.
Hence my "nads" are still hangin where they're supposed to be <_<

I hope this is more understandable than my last attempt which came across as "a teen subculture patois diverging so far from cultural linguistics norms that made my communication attempts almost indecipherable" :Oops:

[Antallica]

Part 2 of what really fucks me off

Gidday lads/ladies.... as we all know there is no respect these days for peoples property. Basically this is what happened last night:

Parked Fixxer in town to go see movie with my lovely g/f, came back to find out that some dickheads had decided to have a play with her. Cops were called by someone (cheers) and they came round to find it on it's side. They propped it back up and notified a guy at my g/f's place. At this stage I think it was dropped on it's right side, only damaging the right peg housing completely snapping it off. Luckily enough the mirror didn't smash off as usual, so at this stage I can't ride her home.

But here's the real killer, about an hour later some more guys decide to have a play (probably the same dickheads) and this time it's found on her other side with the guys running down the road. Left mirror smashed off and the left rear cowling cracked to shit. Windshield is snapped in half with cracking going down my front cowling. Oh yeah and the pillion handle bar is snapped right off.... don't ask me how the fuck they managed that.

But it's all good.... $500 later and I should be ok, and it's not as worse as it could've been.

Post pics tomorrow when I get Aunty's camera.
Plastic welder anyone?

[marty]

WHAT?? the cops got there before you??????? holy fuck - what is this world turning into????lou????hellllooooo!!!!!!!!what have you done???????????

[Ghost Lemur]

That bites the big one Ant. Glad it isn't going to sting you too bad. Still it's five hundy you could have put a side for a bigger bike *cough*errr I mean spent on the gf. :D

Damn some of us need to start catching these shits in the act. This is happening too frequently. :angry2:

[Skyryder]

Saw a sticker on a bike once "you toucha my bike, I breaka your face".

Sounded reasonable enough !!

Just reminded me of a biker cartoon about the very thing we are talking about.

The cartoon had this big big Harley parked outside and two bikers painting a building. On the seat was a big sighn WET SEAT.

Skyryder

[Antallica]

Yeah I might invest in an alarm too, heh heh.

[RiderInBlack]

I'd like to see the little Wa*kers:tugger: do that with one of the Hika boys' bikes:angry2:

They would have got their heads smashed in:bash:

Sorry Ant, but really fu*ks me off:finger:

Is there anything you need a hand with re:your bike? You've got my number so just hollier if'n ya need a hand.

[Antallica]

Cheers mate, give me a few weeks and I'll be up and running.

Not sure if I can get that Rear Set welded back on though, I don't think it can be done on that material. That's all that's stopping me riding the bitch.

[fastford111]

over here in aussie we have this sort of plastic glue comes in a powder form with a eye droper of fluid you grind a v shape put the powder in drop a couple of drops of stuff on and a couple of seconds later strong as new comes in a range of colours and is about $30 made for motor cycle plastic first saw it at the expo tent at phlip island moto gp i think death co took some back to nz from their if u need more info would be glad to get the web adress

[RiderInBlack]

Cheers mate, give me a few weeks and I'll be up and running.

Not sure if I can get that Rear Set welded back on though, I don't think it can be done on that material. That's all that's stopping me riding the bitch.I'll ride in to Whg after i finish triming horses today with the soldering iron and plastic welding rod and have a look at it if you like. If I think I cannot do a good job on it I'll let you know. Kevin Povey 0211164199 does a good plastic welding job (he's not far from Planet Honda and does their stuff for them).

[amylou]

Wouldn't this be the shop with the signs everywhere saying, "Don't sit on the bikes"?

Undortunately there's a class of parent that thinks their kids should (a) be allowed to run amok and (b) they should never come to any harm as a result. Those would be the parents who see nothing wrong with their kid poking a dog with a stick, but demand it be put down if the kid gets bitten...


This reminds me when i was shopping with mum in whangarei at the big fresh this lady was shopping with her baby, i was looking at how cute the baby was and i saw it drop and lighter full of gas , i picked it up and gave it to the mother and said here i think you may have dropped this. she then gave it back to the baby and said ooh bubba here your to y OMFG what a stupid woman and i thought she will be the first to scream omg my baby's on fire !! help help!!
stupid fucking woman

[Deano]

Cheers mate, give me a few weeks and I'll be up and running.

Not sure if I can get that Rear Set welded back on though, I don't think it can be done on that material. That's all that's stopping me riding the bitch.

Ive had the alloy rear set welded up before - just need to find a good engineer (they might need an oven so it doesn't cool too quickly - I think that was the difficulty)

[Bleck K6]

Part 2 of what really fucks me off

Gidday lads/ladies.... as we all know there is no respect these days for peoples property. Basically this is what happened last night:

Parked Fixxer in town to go see movie with my lovely g/f, came back to find out that some dickheads had decided to have a play with her. Cops were called by someone (cheers) and they came round to find it on it's side. They propped it back up and notified a guy at my g/f's place. At this stage I think it was dropped on it's right side, only damaging the right peg housing completely snapping it off. Luckily enough the mirror didn't smash off as usual, so at this stage I can't ride her home.

But here's the real killer, about an hour later some more guys decide to have a play (probably the same dickheads) and this time it's found on her other side with the guys running down the road. Left mirror smashed off and the left rear cowling cracked to shit. Windshield is snapped in half with cracking going down my front cowling. Oh yeah and the pillion handle bar is snapped right off.... don't ask me how the fuck they managed that.

But it's all good.... $500 later and I should be ok, and it's not as worse as it could've been.

Post pics tomorrow when I get Aunty's camera.
Plastic welder anyone?

We saw your bike on the road on friday night, outside the backpackers on bank st.The cops were just pickin it up off the road at about 7:30.
I was wondering if it had been knocked over by some asshole.

[Antallica]

Yeah Tiller, I got back around 9pm and was going 'wtf is it doing in the foyer of the Backpackers?'. *Looks at lack of mirror* "OH FU*K!!!!!!

RIB came and offered some good advice, going to suss out the plastic welding tomorrow. Seems it will be WAY cheaper.

Next bike I get is going to be naked!

[vifferman]

Next bike I get is going to be naked!
Won't stop arseholes messing with it, but it should make it cheaper when it goes down (for whatever reason).

[Antallica]

Here's the pics of the damage, fairly simple but a huge hassle all the same.

http://homepages.maxnet.co.nz/antallica/damage/

[Devil]

Here's the pics of the damage, fairly simple but a huge hassle all the same.

http://homepages.maxnet.co.nz/antallica/damage/
Heh, looks good in silver :)

Pretty tiny with the fairings off! had a close look at Frostys one when it was in that state.

The thing that worries me with naked bikes (I has one), instead of fiddling with cosmetic stuff, would the fuckers be tempted to play with engine shit instead :(

[vifferman]

That's a real bugger, Ant. And so pointless and unnecessary.
Hope it's all fixed and on the road again soon.

By the way - what on earth is "Cybermatic"? Is there a robot who lives inside the fairing or summat?

[Devil]

That's a real bugger, Ant. And so pointless and unnecessary.
Hope it's all fixed and on the road again soon.

By the way - what on earth is "Cybermatic"? Is there a robot who lives inside the fairing or summat?
Nah, Cybermatic make hydrocillators.

[Antallica]

Well there you go, I thought it was just bullshit too :)
Learn something everyday.