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Bought some new sprocket nuts for vtr as two went missing (it was only one last time I checked and it hasn't moved since. I'm not impressed, to say the least). Cost me a bloody fiver just for the two. Did the tyre pressures on the hornet (23 F, 32 R... Oops. Gonna be a weekly thing now, as Lloydie said) gave it a wash after a short ride to vent anger at life. most productive day I've had with the bikes gonna start looking at new tyres soon. Dunno why mine are so square

I sat looking at my desktop (picture of my bike) and wished I had been out on it. Damn weather

Your tyres are square because you ride upright - brake and accelerate upright .
Hope you used thread lock on the sprocket nuts

Ckennedy wrote:I sat looking at my desktop (picture of my bike) and wished I had been out on it. Damn weather

That's as sad as it gets, and this is coming from a huuuuge geek

Didn't put them on get Lloyd, didn't have any thread lock or whatever. Gonna get some on Monday as I have a day off due to BT coming round again. Hopefully I'll have Internet soon, only taken them 2 months

Get the blue thread lock when you do .

Will do. Gonna redo the other nuts while I'm at it anyway as well, as they were quite loose after the last ride... All that time ago

Virt wrote:Will do. Gonna redo the other nuts while I'm at it anyway as well, as they were quite loose after the last ride... All that time ago

Virt if you want to fit 15t front 43t rear sprocket in the storm let me know as I have some in my parts bin :-) tho it will render 1st and 2nd gear useless :-) well unless you like looking up

bigspanishmarty wrote:

MacV2 wrote: have you found a way of getting that yellow thingy back to yours?????

Yes...

me and carl want to pop round yours this weekend to take the piss, er hm i meant have a look at your new purchase..... [/quote]

They did indeed pop round today... The first thing Marty did was swoop on me packet of choc chip cookies...

Virt wrote:Didn't put them on get Lloyd, didn't have any thread lock or whatever. Gonna get some on Monday as I have a day off due to BT coming round again. Hopefully I'll have Internet soon, only taken them 2 months

that's quick by BT standards........ I got phone line installed for broadband when I was in Rugby and had nothing but problems. The date for the installation came and went without the engineer turning up and me taking the day off work so I called and after being on hold for over an hour and a half the call went something like -
bt - what number are you calling about
me - *gives number from order form*
bt - one minute we'll just check your line..........there doesn't appear to be any problems, it's ringing
me - I'm sure it is in the bloody exchange, there's no line connected to my house which is why I'm calling, the engineer was supposed to be here yesterday!!!
bt - one minute........he called and no-one was in so they left a card
me - really, I sat in from 7am till 7pm and there's been no-one called and no cards put through the letterbox
bt - well he definitely called at your address
me - so not only did I lose over £100 in wages by having to be here for the supposed visit your also calling me a liar
etc etc etc
took over 4 months from placing order and paying for it before it was installed.............

yesterday i did a little tinkering, fitted a new very small numberplate....
also fitted o/e rear indi's and put standard orange lenses on all 4 of them. i finished cleaning the headers, i just need to polish them, i also fitted my freshly sprayed silver o/e bellypan.
just a few more jobs to do.
today me and carl visited mac on the windy isle of grain, every bloody time i go there its windy, and no i haven't eaten loads of beans....
i had a ride on carls bike on the way back, he said it needed petrol and as theres a petrol station on the way out of grain, it gave me a nice 5 or so minutes on his bike. what he didn't tell me was how badly it needed juice, it conked out on the roundabout before the garage, luckily it restarted only to totally conk out as i pulled it the petrol station
tbh this has happened to me on my bike and in cabs before, a fuel russian roulette so to speak....
i can report back and say, carls bike is handling brilliantly, you've done a fine job dude...
i also have to say that i didn't particully like the feeling of the harris rearsets, probably down to them being set up for carls dainty feet and not my massive hoofs.
you also notice the difference in flywheels, my bike has a lightened flywheel and carls is standard. my bike has alot more shove, really spinning up fast. where as carls is more progressive and smooth, i think mines more addictive but for everyday use, i'd go with the normal flywheel.
and on the way home the heavens opened and we got soaked
that is all.

My current sprocket has like 700 miles though Lloyd. and I'll be using it for commuting so no thanks

Pretty much how we've been having it player. On the 3 or 4 occasions they've came over they identified the problem and said they'll inform HQ... Not one of them has. So we don't progress anywhere and BT don't listen to us as we aren't network engineers or whatever. Absolute b8stard

MacV2 wrote:

bigspanishmarty wrote:

MacV2 wrote: have you found a way of getting that yellow thingy back to yours?????

Yes...

me and carl want to pop round yours this weekend to take the piss, er hm i meant have a look at your new purchase.....

They did indeed pop round today... The first thing Marty did was swoop on me packet of choc chip cookies... [/quote]

i was hungry as always.....
thanks for the cuppas mac, you got a good buy with old yella, it won't be called that for long tho....

bigspanishmarty wrote:
me and carl want to pop round yours this weekend to take the piss, er hm i meant have a look at your new purchase.....

They did indeed pop round today... The first thing Marty did was swoop on me packet of choc chip cookies... [/quote]

i was hungry as always.....
thanks for the cuppas mac, you got a good buy with old yella, it won't be called that for long tho.... [/quote]

No it wont as it's not call old yella any way.. it's Drooper...Yes I have a cunning plan...

MacV2 wrote:

bigspanishmarty wrote:
me and carl want to pop round yours this weekend to take the piss, er hm i meant have a look at your new purchase.....

They did indeed pop round today... The first thing Marty did was swoop on me packet of choc chip cookies...

i was hungry as always.....
thanks for the cuppas mac, you got a good buy with old yella, it won't be called that for long tho.... [/quote]

No it wont as it's not call old yella any way.. it's Drooper...Yes I have a cunning plan...[/quote]

your more like a cunning stunt..........
you won't be able to call it drooper in the future?