Haldanes

[F5 Dave]

Fair enough I think slaging off bike shops is usually one sided.

But if someone tried to charge me $50 to change a freaking tyre I'd go postal. I mean Fuck off that's like $150 an hour, more like $200 p/hr. I've seen a lot of tyres changed. Not even Plumbers charge that. They don't pay the chaps doing that anywhere near that amount so fuk that.

[Hitcher]

Mister Hitcher.
Please explain....upsetness?

The degree or extent of upset. Patent pending.

[koba]

Fair enough I think slaging off bike shops is usually one sided.

But if someone tried to charge me $50 to change a freaking tyre I'd go postal. I mean Fuck off that's like $150 an hour, more like $200 p/hr. I've seen a lot of tyres changed. Not even Plumbers charge that. They don't pay the chaps doing that anywhere near that amount so fuk that.

I'm glad I never got into being a man hoer.
If people extrapolated a standard fee into an hourly rate it would be terrible for business.

[F5 Dave]

After so much time as an apprentice. _what made you walk away from the career?

[jaffaonajappa]

Off topic, but which side of 40 are you........?

Ahhhh, gotcha. Gee, I was asking in a bucket forum, albeit an odd kinda thread in the forum, about weight vs HP.
And all I got was this.
My wieght hasnt changed for the last 20 years. Basic physical activity combines with excessive caffein, moderate doses of Rum, and not Toooo many pies. But HP? My Horse power may have dropped a bit, top speeds slowed down. But my Thrusting power increased, rapid acceleration is the norm.,

Bought a wee bucket, dropped it in the rain today, slippery damn track. Need some better rubber - wider stuff would help. And some brakes. So contemplating doing some jobs on it....and wondering while I am at it, just how far to go. While I want to focus on its handling, more grunt is always cool yes? Just wondering about value for money - decrease the bikes weight while increasing its handling - or.....I thought your signature block was bucket related.....focus some time on increasing HP.

To answer your Question. Im no where Near 40. Stuck at 19 still. Gona be stuck here for a while yet too

[Dutchee]

That huge chip on your shoulder must be distracting at times.

Sorry dude, the chip on my shoulder ain't nothing to do with bikes. I accept I'm an old female who started riding in her 30's and will never be fast. I ride because I absolutely love it, and when I'm not having fun, I stop riding and just spectate. The chip on my shoulder goes way back before I even knew what a bike was.

What I do seriously get fucked off about is motorcyclists, of any description, slagging off other motorcyclists because they do not ride the same sort of motorcycles as them. Oh, excluding cruisers, but that's because I don't understand them yet.

Have a look in the racing forum and see how often buckets, sidecars and motards get slagged off. They've commented that none of those three classes should be allowed at race tracks they're at, because sidecars spill oil, buckets crash and motards are just boring to watch. I've been to race events off and on since the 80's (teens), and I've enjoyed watching the sidecars. I've enjoyed watching motards. I used to hate seeing Robert Holden, Roger Freeth and other crowd favourites crashing, but they did. I hated waiting for another ambulance to take the patient to the hospital so the race meet could continue.

My bucket "racing" is a f'ing joke, and I don't consider my riding racing, I consider me a mobile chicane, but so long as I'm having fun, I'll continue to do so. I enjoy watching close racing, and will cheer on whomever I like.

If that constitutes a chip on my shoulder, get a f'ing life. I will pull out of a race because a) I'm hungry b) I'm trying to watch the racing in front c) I need a pee d) I'm bored and not paying enough attention to what I'm doing, so therefore a danger to myself and anyone coming up behind me

Yeah, I enjoy watching super bikes, I enjoy moto gp, but the racing in superbikes is better than gp, I just am a Rossi fan (oh, these days more an anti Stoner and Lorenzo person, but there's life in Rossi so don't rule him out just yet, he still has more character than anyone else in the GP paddock, wherever he finishes).

I seriously am sick of the nz "premier class" riders putting down other classes just because they're out there having fun. Never mind they help to pay for the "premier" class track time. And yeah, I'm passionate about it. No one person is better than the next person, they may have had more luck, been born into a better financial family, blah blah blah, but we've all had choices to make over time, and background can sometimes help with that.

Anyway, the chip on my shoulder is fine thank you. I'm not a race head, will never be one, but enjoy riding whatever bike I'm chosing to ride for the moment. I do road, bucket, these days very limited trials and trail riding and used to love riding my adventure bike. I commute to work on my bike, tour the countryside, spectate where I don't have enough balls to participate (but totally admit to that).

Sorry I don't bow down to racers who think they're god (read previous posts, Rossi is god, get over yourselves, Agostini was god before him, and we don't know who's next but if it's Stoner, he's an Aussie and I'm now atheist).
An old hag, with no real competitive edge, having a lot of fun on the bucket and road bikes.

[koba]

After so much time as an apprentice. _what made you walk away from the career?

Shhh, you will get people talking!


Have we dragged this thread off topic enough yet?

Wait, NO! It's in the bucket forum, off topic is THE topic.

Or maybe the topic is Man Hoering. Or maybe Haldanes. Or maybe Mainstream KB interlopers.

I dunno, I've been drinking, could you tell?

[koba]

I seriously am sick of the nz "premier class" riders putting down other classes just because they're out there having fun. Never mind they help to pay for the "premier" class track time. And yeah, I'm passionate about it. No one person is better than the next person, they may have had more luck, been born into a better financial family, blah blah blah, but we've all had choices to make over time, and background can sometimes help with that.

Don't mind slowpoke, he's been banging that can for years.
Most of the "Premier Class" folk just don't understand, no worries though 'coz they are the ones missing out on all the shits and giggles we have!

[Dutchee]

Shhh, you will get people talking!


Have we dragged this thread off topic enough yet?

Wait, NO! It's in the bucket forum, off topic is THE topic.

Or maybe the topic is Man Hoering. Or maybe Haldanes. Or maybe Mainstream KB interlopers.

I dunno, I've been drinking, could you tell?

Awww, your name came up in discussion today. I had to laugh but we'll tell you about it next weekend. We'll have to find new rumours after that one.

You drinking, nah, can't believe that for a second. But someone's about finished my blardy rum.
Let the rumours begin (continue).

[koba]

Awww, your name came up in discussion today. I had to laugh but we'll tell you about it next weekend. We'll have to find new rumours after that one.

You drinking, nah, can't believe that for a second. But someone's about finished my blardy rum.
Let the rumours begin (continue).

I look forward to hearing distorted rumors about something dastardly I have done!

[jasonu]

They will change tyres for me for my bucket, dirt bike road bikes etc always for small fee and mostly nothing for mt bucket...

The most serious thing I have noticed in this thread is all of this talk about getting shops to change bucket tires!
Get some tire spoons, they don't cost much and have a go yourself. It is not that hard to do. Even dirt bike tires with beadlocks are not that hard. A bit of technique and some elbow grease is all it takes.

[White trash]

usually in the smug knowledge that those whose reputations they are impugning are unlikely to read what has been written.

Got to disagree here mate. I don't know of a single bike shop who doesn't at least monitor KB and what's being said about them. Simply chucking the bikeshop name in the search box brings up the latest threads that shop's been mentioned in. Whether they choose to respond or not is another matter.

[Kickaha]

Bought a wee bucket, dropped it in the rain today, slippery damn track. Need some better rubber - wider stuff would help.

Don't get sucked into that line of thought, plenty of buckets going fast on narrow rubber

They don't pay the chaps doing that anywhere near that amount so fuk that.

That's because if you pay the chaps doing it the same as what you're making you don't make much money

They also said tyres so I'm picking it was more than one

$30+ a tyre is the norm for car stuff to fit and balance at the Major national retail chains, so I wouldn't expect bikes to be much different especially as they're quite often more difficult to do

[Maha]

they will be in like flin.

Its Flynn...as in Errol Flynn the actor, he had a massive cock, hence they saying.
''In like Flynn''.

[Buckets4Me]

That huge chip on your shoulder must be distracting at times.

just because we can fill the grid and have leftovers