Sunday 14th Meet: White Horse Tavern out East. Time: 8.30 meet, 8.45 departure Route: Tootle around the beaches Brunch: Takeaway Bar Kawakawa Bay Pace: Cruisy Duration: approx 3 hrs all up Sorry for the early meet time but ya have to beat the dang shoppers and cyclists and clear the city outskirts before 9am and get back in time to mow the lawns
Eye on the weather, if it's crappy at 8am, I'm going to flag it. Forcast is erm... dodgy.
so, you moved down south?
i should be ok ....as long as we stop on hills.....
No psy, not yet. cmoore- I stop for fish & chips
does pootle mean my chicken strips will be ok to leave on.
so you fellas not doin the charity ride i take it
Yes Volty, now go get a WOF, toast or pannini?
it seems the weather's looking fifty-fifty, says it should clear during the morning
Wof....gotta finish the shower lining first....no it'll be the SS...toasty hasn't moved since the Coro loop....still in shock from you trying to scrape its tits in the tarmac.
so you fellas not doin the charity ride i take it Not to start with, maybe towards the end.....ay Max...
Got me WOF I go to Sylvia Park as they are 'sympathic' to old bikes..... Well not anymore....' they' did everything....touched it... rode it..... and then I lost sight of it..... Man comes in and tells me " next time you see your mechanic get him to check the steering head bearings as there is detectable play" " wow...he's good....there is no mainstand and you can't put a jack under it...more of a tilt on the side stand" ...I've had this before and I've asked how many 100ths of a mm play can you 'feel'.....in a king pin......have your hands got a calibration certificate?
Voltaire - Today 09:21 " next time you see your mechanic get him to check the steering head bearings as there is detectable play" i recon that is their all time favourite. i also had an addition to that (and this is with NO test ride) - "i bet it handles REALLY POORLY". and also on another occassion: "those bearings are probably all rusted and dry". to this i actually asked: "uhm, how can one tell that without looking inside the steering head?" the guy replied: "i'm not saying anything else". lol
Testing Stations are where failed mechanics ( with delusions of power) go to die.... I had the testing station fail a Commodore on front wheel bearings, bought new bearings took the car back, showed him the receipt, he checked them all good and then got a credit on the bearings. I wrote in and " .....better to be safe than sorry..." I have only had wheel bearings fail once ever....at 70 mph on the M25 going to the TT the front wheel on the R100 felt like the brakes were coming on....the bearings were munted but I dripped oil on them from the dipstick and got there and back. I'd be guessing mechanical failure causing an accident would be fairly rare.....
I hate testing stations, they have a list of faults for different cars and trot them out when the feel like it. SWMBO's car failed for a rear suspension bush. The guy told her that it was a common fault on this model blah blah blah. I took the car to the another garage got them to do a WOF, then showed them the testing station sheet. They couldnt fault the bush. A year later SWMBO took the car back to the testing station (dont ask) and the car flew through the test. 2 years on still havent changed the bush....
