Yep! Ya know those wee puncture repair kits that have the wormy things, tools and gas cylinders? Well I bought one a couple of years ago and it has been stowed under my seat ever since.
Anyway this is a bit of a tale, I never do things half-arsed... LOL.
Yesterday I was leaving work, the bike had been sitting idling while I fluffed around putting gear on and then when I sat on it I thought WTF? she seems to be sitting a bit low in the arse end... of course I knew what it was even as I was getting off.
FARK! back tyre was flat-as-a-pancake. We are talking soooooooooooflat that I couldn't even contemplate riding it to the nearest garage.
Said rude words, loudly and repeatedly.
Then I remembered "THE KIT".
So pushed it (bloody heavy...) out of the parking building and across the alley into my works loading dock which has decent lighting. It was pretty chocka with stuff and there was only just enuf room but it squeezed in.
Anyways the culprit was a easy to spot hunk of metal!
So I went back inside to grab some pliers to pull the metal out and in passing hit the loading dock door close button...
WELL F**K ME! It seems I had misjudged things and the door came trundling down and met resistance in the form of my number plate... so it cut out.
Refused to go up or down!
Saying VERY RUDE words at this point but got the bike out from under the door, just a bent plate so could have been worse.
Well I got to work on the puncture repair and honest-to-god-truth I had the metal out, hole reemed, worm inserted and tyre inflated in roughly 10mins! I couldn't believe how easy it was. I HIGHLY recommend these kits...oh yea you can get them for tyres with tubes as well...
However there is just one thing that I would point out... when you've got the CO2 cylinder attached to the tyre put your gloves back on before depressing the little valve and releasing the gas. The outside of the cylinder freezes, my fingertips are burnt from the extreme cold of it. LOL.
So repair done and feeling quite chuffed with myself there still remained the problem of the door. My boss says "3 of us should be able to get the bike up the steps and into the building". YEAH RIGHT! In your dreams! Anyways because it was in a tight space we couldn't turn it to get the right angle for the steps...
Eventually one of the guys stood on tippy-toes on the top of a ladder and just manged to catch hold of the end of the rope attached to the over-ride mechanism. He pulled on that while the boss and I manhandled the door up.
YEEEEEEHA!
I had just finished gearing up for a 2nd time when the door repairman arrived... figures... LOL...
...it is better to live 1 day as a Tiger than 1000 years as a sheep...
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Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
now wheres that bloody Murphy
.......can't beleive the bad luck what was attached to that flatty!
Originally Posted by riffer
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