digisol
17th August 2007, 20:44
Everyone has seen that group of people who should never touch anything mechanical.
Some years back I sold a 250 yamaha roadie, bought cheap for a quick profit, the bike is nothing all that simple for a 250, it's 4cyl 16V DOHC 4carb thing that did a zillion rpm, most know the full fairing beast.
I sold it in very good condition, stock with no problems, the know it all "I know bikes" buyer stacked it the very first night so he was going to learn the hard way.
A week later he said the gearbox was stuffed and wanted me to inspect it, in a hint I gathered he wanted his cash back, sure there was a nasty noise but a quick look around saw a highly polished, very dry chain that grabbed on each tooth as it rolled, the required oil applied and the damaged gearbox was fixed, simply mechanical genius on my part.
Now I watched this 32 year old fool play with everything until he eventually wandered over and asked for a lend of my grease gun, "NP what ya need it for" ? "the front disks are noisy" so I bit my tongue and watched the mechanic go to work silencing a perfectly good brake system, sure enuf he comes back and tells me the grease nipples are blocked ! "ummm what grease nipples" ? "the one on each caliper" of course I had to tell him they were not grease nipples but were brake bleeders.
By now you have the joke and I did everything not to ROTFLMAO, but this bloke was dead serious and he had to silence these disks one way or another, most know that disk brakes occasionally squeel under hard braking.
This happens and it's not a fault, a softer pad change usually does the job, so now educated in bleeding nipples V grease nipples he was on a mission to now RP7 the disks where I had to step in and stop the insanity.
The rest is history, the bike after a few more serious scrapes down the road ended in pieces never to work again.
But this episode shows that some people are just not meant to ride bikes or cars and should never touch tools or drive anything more complicated than a trycycle.
True story BTW
Some years back I sold a 250 yamaha roadie, bought cheap for a quick profit, the bike is nothing all that simple for a 250, it's 4cyl 16V DOHC 4carb thing that did a zillion rpm, most know the full fairing beast.
I sold it in very good condition, stock with no problems, the know it all "I know bikes" buyer stacked it the very first night so he was going to learn the hard way.
A week later he said the gearbox was stuffed and wanted me to inspect it, in a hint I gathered he wanted his cash back, sure there was a nasty noise but a quick look around saw a highly polished, very dry chain that grabbed on each tooth as it rolled, the required oil applied and the damaged gearbox was fixed, simply mechanical genius on my part.
Now I watched this 32 year old fool play with everything until he eventually wandered over and asked for a lend of my grease gun, "NP what ya need it for" ? "the front disks are noisy" so I bit my tongue and watched the mechanic go to work silencing a perfectly good brake system, sure enuf he comes back and tells me the grease nipples are blocked ! "ummm what grease nipples" ? "the one on each caliper" of course I had to tell him they were not grease nipples but were brake bleeders.
By now you have the joke and I did everything not to ROTFLMAO, but this bloke was dead serious and he had to silence these disks one way or another, most know that disk brakes occasionally squeel under hard braking.
This happens and it's not a fault, a softer pad change usually does the job, so now educated in bleeding nipples V grease nipples he was on a mission to now RP7 the disks where I had to step in and stop the insanity.
The rest is history, the bike after a few more serious scrapes down the road ended in pieces never to work again.
But this episode shows that some people are just not meant to ride bikes or cars and should never touch tools or drive anything more complicated than a trycycle.
True story BTW