Cat Litter

My M/C didn't put spots of oil on the ground until I decided to but a
chain oiler. The marketing info never said it would do that! So, I
ignored it until I couldn't ignore it any more and I have a saucer-
sized puddle of oil on the concrete, which contaminated my front tyre
when I rolled over it.

So, I'm off to the supermarket to buy some cat litter. I'm going to
start calling my bike 'The Cat'.

The question is: does anyone have experience with cat litter? (I have,
of course, tried searching the forum and apart from cleaning your
jacket and a ho' that's a walking bag of cat litter, it's never been
raised)
You're only after maximum absorptivity, so which works better clay,
recycled paper, or something else?

Ideas anybody? Maybe a cat owner? I need the type/composition
because I may not be able to get a particular brand.

 

They're all much the same at the low end.
Cant you adjust the feed rate of the oil back a bit??
Rheilly P

 

Wouldn't grease or paraffin be better than oil for the chain?

Or a breed of cat - panther, leopard, lynx, tiger, jaguar, manx, etc.

Any old newspaper. Leave it intact and flat under the leak spot. Oil should soak
into the paper. Avoid riding over it though or you'll get the same issue with
your front tyre again. Leaving it intact makes it easy to remove.

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- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.

"Silly old bugger!"
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Manx and Tiger are already bikes and Jaguar would be just weird.
Lynx is gay so that pretty much leaves Leopard (or Lynx if that's the way
your boat tacks).

 

http://tinyurl.com/r2muzd

 

WAAY less gay than "Lynx"!

 

stop oiling the chain...

its working very well for me, quick clean with WD40, rag and make sure
the chain is tensioned after each ride ( but my rides are 1500km+)

Although, a Scott tiller does have its merits keeping the chain always
wet and flinging off the dirt, the greases and wax just attract the
crap and wear the chain IMHO


but if you have too... piece of cardboard with packing tape on the
bottom side, the cardboard will absorb the oil, the tape will stop it
going through, replace cardboard every few weeks

as for kitty litter, the white quartz stuff is bloody fantastic for
cats cos it hides the pee smell and lasts for weeks, for oil...dunno

mh

 

The white crystal stuff is the best, we use it in spill kits.

But sawdust works almost as well and is cheap.


G-S

 

Yup, by an old Leyland bus. Actually, so is leopard.

Theo

 

And a Tiger and a Lynx, all Leyland buses.

Ain't google wonderful? I remember the Leopard, Panther and Panther
Cub. Perth Metro Transport had fleets of them.

Theo

 

Doesn't look at all gay to me... Looks like the sort of machine
MartyH might pine for... and anyway.. I don' t why Knobdribble thinks
'gay' is a bad thing...

I just love the way homophobia and misogyny regularly make their
little subtle cameo appearances in this NG.

Must mean _something_....


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

I think that was complement...

raise it by 20cm and stick some knobbies and skid plate and you might
be talking..

mh

 

And a Tiger and a Lynx, all Leyland buses.

Ain't google wonderful? I remember the Leopard, Panther and Panther
Cub. Perth Metro Transport had fleets of them.

Theo


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Leyland made a good truck and bus fleet
but not so much the cars

I drove some good Leyland Beavers and Hippo's around Melbourne

 

Only when knobless makes a reply
he has a morbid fascination with blokes arses and anything to do with
homosexuality

as you say...........

 

Oops... Sorry, Knobfiddler, I wrongly attributed that one to you, it
was actually "I wanna join an Outlaw gang" Douggie.

And still on the topic of Lynx having "gay" associations, here's a
VERY gay Lynx video clip... almost porographic...

http://au.truveo.com/Top-Ten-Helicopters/id/2305843012243969879


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Onya bike

Gerry

 

The trouble with all this is that its harder to clean up afterwards. You'd need
to keep it in a tray. In which case, the tray itself would be good enough.
Newspaper, carpet, etc. is much easier to deal with afterwards. Note that the
crystals absorb water compounds so they won't work too well with oil.

--

- KRudd at his finest.

"The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!"
- Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity.

"This is the recession we had to have!"
- Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession.

"Silly old bugger!"
- Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke
responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more.

"By 1990, no child will live in poverty"
- Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election.

"A billion trees ..."
- Borke, pissed as a newt again.

"Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor
general!"
- Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his
appointee for Governor General John Kerr.

 

And Beaver and Hippo... great pommie designs that fell short of
expectations in the execution. A familiar story. It took Japanese
genius to add sorely needed improvements to manufacturing techniques
(and things like brakes), and down went British innovation. Sad but
there ya go...

 

Nice bike.... I wonder what might've been the thing that stopped it going
into production.

 

Was the front door really close to the rear on the Beaver?

 

A Suzuki SV650 but 10 pounds heavier and twice the price.

Boxer