Black Betty beaten up again.

[pete376403]

If you don't mind leaving it next to a Suzuki there's room in my garage. 'Cos I'm in U/Hutt it would be more suited to long term storage but if thats any use, you're more than welcome.

[Panther]

Chin up hun, .

[Clivoris]

Bummed for you mate. I often see bikes parked out on the street in Welly, especially Newtown. Have often wondered how they get on. Now I know. Good luck with finding some local gargaring.

[Skunk]

Cathy - I'd offer you my garage if there was any room. Hope someone near to you has some space.

[sels1]

Not again! Sorry to hear it Cathy - maybe you guys should get a place with some off street parking.
Oh, and there is space in my garage if you want to store BB for a while.

[Ms Piggy]

Thanks everyone for your sympathy & offers of places for BB to cuddle up...maybe I will do a leaflet drop around my neighbourhood and see if there's anyone close by that can oblige.

In an ideal world I would move and find a flat with a garage but this aint the ideal world and finding a flat like that within my current price range (plus that is okay with a dog) proved quite a challenge last time we moved.

I still feel sad.

[janno]

Thanks everyone for your sympathy & offers of places for BB to cuddle up...maybe I will do a leaflet drop around my neighbourhood and see if there's anyone close by that can oblige.

In an ideal world I would move and find a flat with a garage but this aint the ideal world and finding a flat like that within my current price range (plus that is okay with a dog) proved quite a challenge last time we moved.

I still feel sad.

Poor you.

Find a flat - two weeks.

Find a flat that will take a dog - six weeks or more . . .

I always flatted with a pooch in tow when I was younger, but it took a LOT of looking. Had great success putting a wanted to rent ad in the paper though.

Letter drop sounds like a great idea - good that you're being so proactive.

[xwhatsit]

I am just so sick of my bike being a target for deliberate vandalism! I am gutted and instead of feeling an overwhelming sense of rage (like I did last time, Feb this year) I just feel really upset and sad.

My partner & I went out to take our dog for a walk today in the brilliant Wellington sunshine and I noticed glass by the front wheel of my bike, I knew straight away that the headlight had been smashed...this is because it's been done before (on a separate occasion to the Feb this year incident). My bike has a cover on it, when I took off the cover I discovered that my LH front indicator is cracked, the speedo glass is smashed and the petrol tank has been badly dented by the LH indicator.

I actually realise (looking back) that the damage caused in Feb this year could have possibly been caused by my bike slipping off the side stand but, since then I've always put it on the middle stand so I know for certain there is no way she could fall over.

I'm sad and upset because I'm a hard working individual. I paid $1000 for my little bike back in 2003 and even though she's old and not so fast I get a lot of pleasure riding her. I haven't been riding a lot this year because my focus has been finishing my studies, I also have been a little broke recently so haven't ridden her at all as she isn't registered. I have nowhere else to park her other than on the footpath outside my flat.

I just feel really sad and dissapointed.

Hey CSL,

That's really shit. I'd be in a rage too if somebody deliberately damaged Natalie, but thinking about it I always park in relatively public places, even late at night in the city. Sorry to hear about this.

So what's broken? Indicator lens, speedo glass, tank is dented? I have one more indicator lens (I think); I do have an entire speedo unit, but the mountings are snapped at the bottom. If it's possible to replace the glass in the speedo on its own, I have some available. Tank should be possible to undent, I did have a tank in reasonable condition (no rust or dents), but it got sold with the rolling chassis so that's no good, and you would've had to repaint it anyway.

How did the tank get dented by the indicator? Did the indicator actually bend off or something? If so I've got a complete indicator unit you can have.

If you confirm that's what you need I'll send those down to you again.

[gixermike]

Sorry to hear about the damage....but are you sure it was vandalised rather than fell over..?

Only reason I ask is that the girlfreinds CBR125 (in the UK) use dto be parked on a hill, and fell over and I was sure someone had done it. But then it did it again a few months on..when we could see it from inside the house, and I was surprised how little wind it took for a small bike with a cover to get blown over...
Turns out someone who lived up the road picked it up after the first fall, but didn't know which house it belonged to..so just put it back the best they could, and we thought someone had done it deliberatly....

I'm probably wrong though....this seems to be that kind of day..

[ambler]

The world is full of assholes eh. A couple of years ago I had to move house because some bastard kept vandalizing my bike outside my house (in Tokyo garages are only for rich people). His modus operandi was to slash the tires and fill all the keyholes with superglue. Each time this required a full lock set replacement, and I needed the bike shop to come with a crane-fitted truck to pick it up since with the steering locked I couldn't push it anywhere if I wanted to. One time I had a disc-lock on which also got superglued and had to be removed with a grinder. My girlfriend's tires got done when she was staying over one time too, I guess the guy didn't have his superglue that night.

Luckily I didn't really like living there for other reasons anyway so this problem just made me move sooner. Otherwise I would have been forced to set up my cunning webcam + remotely triggered mace dispensing gadget idea. Mmmmm... yeah, followed by a not-so-remote steel cap boot dispensing....

The sad end to that bike's story is that with all the glue stains on it, I couldn't even give it away...

[Ms Piggy]

Sorry to hear about the damage....but are you sure it was vandalised rather than fell over..?

Yup I'm sure, it was on the centre stand this time. When it was damaged back in Feb I got really angry and someone (can't recall who) pm'd me suggesting she may have slipped off the side stand...in actual fact she possibly did that time.

But this is the 3rd time she has been deliberately vandalised that I know for certain and the 6th time she has been damaged by someone/something other than myself...so I'm getting a little disillusioned.

1. Had just re-painted the tank and someone stomped on her and jammed the tank onto a concrete pole, causing the top to be stoved in.
2. and 3. Knocked over by being backed into/over while parked on Boulcott St.
4. Headlight smashed out with a tree branch while parked up at old flat.
5. Knocked over/fell over outside current flat.
6. Pushed over outside current flat.

[Ms Piggy]

The sad end to that bike's story is that with all the glue stains on it, I couldn't even give it away...

Your story is awful!! Yikes. To be honest all this is making me think about selling BB and waiting until I move somewhere with a garage then buying a newer bike

[Holy Roller]

You couldn't get the old girl inside or closer to the house, around the back or do you live on those horrible slopes with hundreds of steps to get anywhere. (did a stint as a furniture remover assistant and had a few deliveries to Wellington. Try gfetting a furniture truck up some of those streets without doing damage to someones pride and joy)

[ajturbo]

you can bring it around here and park it in our shed, we have a little corner for BB, she can have her own little dry corner till your ready to ride her again..

[Clivoris]

you can bring it around here and park it in our shed, we have a little corner for BB, she can have her own little dry corner till your ready to ride her again..

Onya AJ