Padmei
21st April 2009, 21:19
Finally got my bike back from the shop after having its' service a couple of weeks ago - started titooing with it then realised noones home so i could shoot out for a quick ride & not be missed.
Riding down the road & heard a slight rattle - stopped & looked around - everything there -all 38 horses counted for- up the Maungatapu over rocks & mud, careful on the way down & when I get home, satisfied that I really do have the skills to not only participate but give those damn soppy girlyboy europeans a good tootle upthe gunga din at the erzburg enduro, I realise my crappy little stock toolkit isn't there but the buckles are undone:doh:
So you know how you look at them & think how useless the stock tools look - all cheap looking with that thing in there that noone knows what it is but you keep it in there anyway cos that's what came with the bike.... Well when you think about it it has all the appropriate sized silly spanners for axles & allenkeys & of course the aforementioned thing that noboy knows what it's for, & realise that although the plastic case is shitty & will split at the sides when you sneeze on it whilst carrying it over that muddy puddle to your mate who "likes to ride lite man" & the galv pressed Russia grade 38 steel pliers that never close the way you want it to unless the inside of your forefinger& thumb is in their direct path of closure (what is that part of your body called) & the little spanners that aren't little spanners at all cos the guys at Kawasaki were having their end of year drinks & wondered if they put in a couple of off cuts from the production run of brake calipers if the stupid round eyes would try to use them...
Anyway where was I ...
Oh yeah they can be quite useful at times.
So I'll have to put off my first job & ride back up there tomm morning & hopefully see them.
As you were...
Riding down the road & heard a slight rattle - stopped & looked around - everything there -all 38 horses counted for- up the Maungatapu over rocks & mud, careful on the way down & when I get home, satisfied that I really do have the skills to not only participate but give those damn soppy girlyboy europeans a good tootle upthe gunga din at the erzburg enduro, I realise my crappy little stock toolkit isn't there but the buckles are undone:doh:
So you know how you look at them & think how useless the stock tools look - all cheap looking with that thing in there that noone knows what it is but you keep it in there anyway cos that's what came with the bike.... Well when you think about it it has all the appropriate sized silly spanners for axles & allenkeys & of course the aforementioned thing that noboy knows what it's for, & realise that although the plastic case is shitty & will split at the sides when you sneeze on it whilst carrying it over that muddy puddle to your mate who "likes to ride lite man" & the galv pressed Russia grade 38 steel pliers that never close the way you want it to unless the inside of your forefinger& thumb is in their direct path of closure (what is that part of your body called) & the little spanners that aren't little spanners at all cos the guys at Kawasaki were having their end of year drinks & wondered if they put in a couple of off cuts from the production run of brake calipers if the stupid round eyes would try to use them...
Anyway where was I ...
Oh yeah they can be quite useful at times.
So I'll have to put off my first job & ride back up there tomm morning & hopefully see them.
As you were...