Head races

One of my all-time unfavourite tasks. But the CB750 now has them.

*Beer*

 

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:43:51 +0100,

Talking of which, do new ones "settle" after the initial tightening,
and need nipping up a bit?

Good plan. If only I had some.

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Salad Dodger wrote

They need checking to make sure they haven't.

Last night I found a bottle of plonk wot Verdi gave me at the BOSM and I
thought "oh yeah I will have half of that later for a nightcap," and I
completely forgot to drink it.

I find that very depressing in some respects. So much so that I have
resolved to not drink the other half today deliberately.

 

Some do IME. Of course, that's often because I didn't put them in
properly in the first place.

I managed to find two little electrical bodges while I was doing the
job. The front brake light switch worked on the principle of "twist the
end of the wire round the spade connector end", and the horn was plumbed
in likewise.

I'm pissd off about the speedo drive - I used an impact driver on the
little crosshead screw that holds the cable into the drive on the wheel,
and it just mullered. I'll have to drill the bloody thing out, I
suppose, because it ain't shifting no matter how much brute force I
throw at it.

I tried heat and set the cable outer alight.

 

I'm pissd off about the speedo drive - I used an impact driver on the

Sounds like a fairly average afternoon in the garage to me . . . . . .

 

Some do IME. Of course, that's often because I didn't put them in
properly in the first place.[/QUOTE]

Well, they were torqued up to spec., but it's hard to see how well
they've seated, without having the steering stem out again.

Luvvly.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..74309../..18302.../..3184./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^' RBR Landmarks: 12 Pts: 220 Miles: 914

 

"I told you so..."

Yay! Sir needs a bigger hammer or an even bigger drill!

Hehe. Even I haven't managed that yet.

 

*Gloom*

I'm worse than Timo.......

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

I'm not too sure about that, given my latest "sensible" purchase. But
that doesn't really belong here given that it's got four wheels.

 

Go on then......

 

Sometimes, yes.

eh? Don't be daft. Just[1] check the bearings for play. No play =
tight enough.

[1] I realise that few sentenances describing Glodwing maintenance
start with "just".

 

Champ fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

"Just" take it to the dealer?

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K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

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Well, as you know I've been looking for a new Schloss - which
incidentally, I think I found - so I figured an estate car would come
in handy to lug all the shite I don't want any longer down to the skip.

Being my usual cheap self I'd get something that was sought after
enough to flog again after a couple of months. Sound thinking, no?

Last night, leisurely browsing ebay I noticed that a Mercedes estate
that I had stuck on my watch list for reasons unknown a couple of days
earlier. It certainly looked a lot better after the first beer and I
had noticed that there was only one bid on it as well. Oh well, thinks
I, I'm going to get outbid on it anyway as I'm so cheap, so why not
stick a bid in?

So I did. To my surprise I didn't get outbid straight away but wtf, the
car must be worth at least 800 and I was bidding a lot less than that.

Of course I've won the auction and I've now got to pick up an old Merc
estate somewhere in the wilds of Dorset. To cap it all it's the
hugely-complicated-cos-it-was-designed-by-engineers 4Matic version as
well. Which makes the thing an instant throwaway if the system plays up
because it's so damn expensive to fix...

So that'll be a proper 'beerloom' then.

 

So you only buy on ebay, not sell?

Whereabouts in Dorset?

You are sweller AICMFF NCAP specials...

 

ITYM "when" it plays up, which I bet it will, because that's why it's
being sold '-))

 

NCAP?

 

I actually *do* sell on ebay as well but some of the stuff here is so
grim (broken monitor, anyone?) that it's only fit for the skip.

I'll try to stay away from the armco then...

 

Ah yes, there's always that.

Unfortunately for him the seller put the words "Nice car to drive.
Everything works" into his ad...

 

We all know it's going to end in tears before bedtime, don't we,
readers?

 

Naturally. I should've bought an Ovlov estate instead but I didn't want
to slowly turn into my stepdad.