JUST SAYING HI

[Milky]

Ah. Haveyou by any chance in your travels learned any really vitriolic, blisterering, totally soul destroying German curse words or imprecations. Suitable for addressing at the diabolical misbegotten never to adequately damned lump of scrap iron that masquerades as a gearbox on BMW bikes ?Swearing at in English just makes it sneer at me and klonk and krunzch and klank all the more. Perhaps a verbal hosing in its own native language would bring it to heel.

Hahahahaha...

I know exactly what you mean. I think you have to resign yourself to the fact that the 'box has triumphed and slowly adjust your style to suit. These german devices have a habit of being stubborn, and as much as we might like the box to emigrate to Japan, it just doesnt have the capacity to do it itself

[Milky]

...Knowing you machinery helps too. Methinks the box is slightly more than iron - a little bit of alloy here and there, some rubber, maybe some flash wear-resistant coating on the gears

[Biff]

Welcome

[magnum]

hi back at ya