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[FROSTY:Me]

I got a call this morning from my ex.Shes got semi permanant use of my tow car.
"um tony this $%$%$ car doesn't go"
Oh really--um dya mean it wont start?
"no NO it starts -I was driving it -now its doesn't go"
Could ya be a tadd more precise.?
"it makes all the engine noises but it doesn't go anywhere"
Have you put it into gear?
"yes but its not moving"
Did you hear any FUNNY NOISES ?
"No but its been needing a lot more accelerator lately to go anywhere"
"on the motorway the engines been really loud at 100km/h"

Yep shes fried the clutch and it aint going anywhere.
Guess what I'm gonna be doing on sunday
No trip to Welly for me now

[James Deuce]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.

[Blakamin]

Yep shes fried the clutch and it aint going anywhere.
Guess what I'm gonna be doing on sunday
No trip to Welly for me now

Oh man, that blows!

[Artifice]

like forget to disengage the hand brake. then wonder why its going so poorly.

[toads]

Hmmm - Chicks and clutches. Bad mix that.

Bummer mate, I was really looking forward to meeting you, ya reprobate.

Just exactly what do you mean by that????, as far as I'm aware, vehicles are totally non-discriminatory when it comes to clutches wearing out and needing replacing, could just have easily have happened to a bloke, back luck frosty, bloody murphy's law!!, can't ya borrow a vehicle to tow the trailer????

[dhunt]

like forget to disengage the hand brake. then wonder why its going so poorly.

Nah they still go just you get a burnt rubber smell and and you have to use the clutch a bit more to get going and have better engine braking

David

[James Deuce]

Just exactly what do you mean by that????, as far as I'm aware, vehicles are totally non-discriminatory when it comes to clutches wearing out and needing replacing, could just have easily have happened to a bloke, back luck frosty, bloody murphy's law!!, can't ya borrow a vehicle to tow the trailer????

Admittedly not ALL chicks, but in my experience, everyone from my grandmother, to my wife's grandmother, to my wife, to the previous two girlfriends to my wife, have all destroyed clutches in either my car, their car, or both in rapid order compared to my own consumption. Heather's grandmother was particularly bad, in that should dial in the revs she felt she should have, usually about 5500-600rpm and change into top as quickly as possible while moderating speed with the left pedal. Just before she gave up driving she went through 4 clutches in 2 months.

Edit for those who think I'm a clueless mysoginist: 3 months as a driving instructor (car) taught me that it is almost impossible to teach clutch control to anyone over 40 regardless of gender. It is also difficult for older people with little or no experience of driving to understand they need to steer out of a corner as well as into it. I have no idea why those two points appear to be truisms. However the fact remains that most (not ALL - like I already said) women are horrendously mechanically unsympathetic. My mantra when teaching women was, "The clutch pedal is not a footrest. The clutch pedal is not a foot rest.....".

toads - most blokes, let alone most women wouldn't have a clue about thrust bearings, except to make a crude joke about the word thrust and then snigger and grunt. And people who subscribe to this site are largely excluded from the mechanically unsympathetic list by dint of the fact that mistreating your bike can kill you, and you either learn the hard way (through experience) or the easy way (by listening to old farts - who aren't ALWAYS right btw). Having to be "PC" on an "interest" site is tiresome, and I would have thought by now that most people know that a good 90% of what I write is in good humour. I also thought folks'd get the fact that I am more Michael Moore than Brian Tamaki - a fat, shambling trouble maker with good intentions. Hell, here I come!

[riffer]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am.

[Deano]

I remember an elderly lady in a carpark revving the absolute snot out of a mini as she pulled away in first gear. I think she may have been half deaf and couldn't hear the engines screams for help. A tachometer would have helped somewhat.

[Cajun]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am.

thats the same for me, but i must say i only drive a car once or twice a month and she drives every day

[toads]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am.

Congratulations, I bet that you are the first guy to ever post something like that on the net YOU DA MAN!!!
Hey Jim, Pete's grandfather used to ride the clutch something shocking and needed a new clutch with nearly every service!! LOL, I think it's an old person thing, I am very mechanically aware and wouldn't let any thrust bearing noise, or clutch slipping get away on me, I'd be ordering a new clutch kit pronto, it's a shame frosty wasn't aware of it earlier, then he could have got it fixed before hand so it wouldn't bugger up his plans, hopefully someone can help him out though.

[Cajun]

Congratulations, I bet that you are the first guy to ever post something like that on the net YOU DA MAN!!!
Hey Jim, Pete's grandfather used to ride the clutch something shocking and needed a new clutch with nearly every service!! LOL, I think it's an old person thing, I am very mechanically aware and wouldn't let any thrust bearing noise, or clutch slipping get away on me, I'd be ordering a new clutch kit pronto, it's a shame frosty wasn't aware of it earlier, then he could have got it fixed before hand so it wouldn't bugger up his plans, hopefully someone can help him out though.

yeah i just sent him a pm i might be able to get his bike back as far as tauranga, next weekend make wife fly down and she ride my bike back i ride the zxr750 back

[toads]

yeah i just sent him a pm i might be able to get his bike back as far as tauranga, next weekend make wife fly down and she ride my bike back i ride the zxr750 back

that sounds like a good scheme.

[Firefight]

ah well I must be bloody lucky then cause not only does Mrs F/F drive a car okay,she also gets less tickets than me, and over the years she has learned how to hook up my bike recovery trailer, load up broken smashed motox bikes and there dumb arse riders, she can reverse trailers into tight driveways, she could drive my old heap of shit bike transport van that I manged to dump on Motoracer. , she can change a tyre,
check the oil dipper thing, and has even driven a tractor when needed.

So yeah I must be lucky.. 21 years no burned out clutches

F/F

[Hitcher]

I must be odd one out. My wife is a better DRIVER than I am.

The best driver I have ever met is my Mum. She has all of her heavy vehicle licenses as when Dad taught her to drive he only owned a truck.

On the farm we always used to get a truck-and-trailer load of superphosphate delivered and spread it ourselves. The trucking company either came and reclaimed the rig once we were done with it or we delivered it back to them. When I was about 16 we got a call one day in the late afternoon asking if the truck could be delivered back to the yard in Stratford before 5:00pm. Dad had to milk and I only had a car licence, so Mum got to drive the truck. I took the car so as to retrieve her and arrived in the trucking company's yard about five minutes or so before Mum arrived. To this day I can still see the look on some hard-bitten truckers' faces, after having reversed the trailer into its park, my Mum complete with sensible skirt and shoes, twin-set and pearls hops down out of the cab. Priceless!