What's annoyed you today??
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:33 pm
Now this thread might kick off, or it might disapear into a galaxy far far away like a lot of threads but I thought I would give it a go and see if it will go as long as the "what have you done to your bike today" thread.
This is meant as more of a ranting thread for things that have really bugged you during the day whether it be something small or something big. Lest face it, us British like to have a rant. So feel free to post about what has really got up your back and let it out and you never know, you might even feel better afterwards
Maybe I should have called this a "relief thread"
Anyway what got me thinking about a thread like this was seeing a mate of mine yesterday and going out for a nice blast which was around 100miles. He came for me to tighten his chain, something I had told him that needed doing about 3-4weeks ago as it was getting close the the limit. He turns up, has it been changed, has it buggery! I could not adjust it enough to get the slack out of it, the chain was not sitting on the rear sprocket properly as the teeth on the sprocket and chain had so much wear in it. I dread to think what the front sprocket was like And not only that he had just done 600miles with his missus on the back to Cornwall and back I also had to grease it as it had started to go red from the heat with no grease on it. Then as I was putting my sockets away I caught a glimse of the back tyre (conti road attacks) which were not that old, squared off. Like the tyre was a cliff. I had a press on the tyre and blimey did it feel soft. So I got my pump out and check it. The tyre was hot as he had ridden to mine, with his missus on the back, about 15miles and there was an unbelieveable 18psi in the tyre How the hell this hadn't come off I do not now. So I checked the front, this was a little better at 22 psi.
How could you ride a bike in this condition??????????
The he told me that when they were on holiday last week he, for some reason, decided to take the bike up a gravel hill and then back down again dropping the bike on it's right side and landing on his leg. I had to laugh and say he deserved it after seeing the condition of the bike, lucky not many scrapes.
What cheeses me off the most about all this is that a year a go that was my bike It was spotless, well looked after, all safe a legal and now look at the state of it. Chain hanging off, tyres nearly shreaded due to no air, scrapes from taking it off roading. I had a go at him for it and what did I get. A laugh and "it'll be alright" Told him in front of his missus that there both lucky to be alive and the cops didn't pull him over for a routen check, they would have had a field day with him. He is one of these imautre idiots that think there indistructable and doesn't care about anything. It's all just a joke. I am only a 2years older but you wouldn't guess it on attitude. You would think I was 50 odd
That bike was my first big bike and so will always have a special place in my heart. I did love that SV650 and now its gone to the dogs. This is what it used to look like..... RIP......... I say RIP because I dare say it will not be long till it is. It's nearly there now
This is meant as more of a ranting thread for things that have really bugged you during the day whether it be something small or something big. Lest face it, us British like to have a rant. So feel free to post about what has really got up your back and let it out and you never know, you might even feel better afterwards
Maybe I should have called this a "relief thread"
Anyway what got me thinking about a thread like this was seeing a mate of mine yesterday and going out for a nice blast which was around 100miles. He came for me to tighten his chain, something I had told him that needed doing about 3-4weeks ago as it was getting close the the limit. He turns up, has it been changed, has it buggery! I could not adjust it enough to get the slack out of it, the chain was not sitting on the rear sprocket properly as the teeth on the sprocket and chain had so much wear in it. I dread to think what the front sprocket was like
And not only that he had just done 600miles with his missus on the back to Cornwall and back I also had to grease it as it had started to go red from the heat with no grease on it. Then as I was putting my sockets away I caught a glimse of the back tyre (conti road attacks) which were not that old, squared off. Like the tyre was a cliff. I had a press on the tyre and blimey did it feel soft. So I got my pump out and check it. The tyre was hot as he had ridden to mine, with his missus on the back, about 15miles and there was an unbelieveable 18psi in the tyre How the hell this hadn't come off I do not now. So I checked the front, this was a little better at 22 psi.How could you ride a bike in this condition??????????
The he told me that when they were on holiday last week he, for some reason, decided to take the bike up a gravel hill and then back down again dropping the bike on it's right side and landing on his leg. I had to laugh and say he deserved it after seeing the condition of the bike, lucky not many scrapes.
What cheeses me off the most about all this is that a year a go that was my bike
It was spotless, well looked after, all safe a legal and now look at the state of it. Chain hanging off, tyres nearly shreaded due to no air, scrapes from taking it off roading. I had a go at him for it and what did I get. A laugh and "it'll be alright" Told him in front of his missus that there both lucky to be alive and the cops didn't pull him over for a routen check, they would have had a field day with him. He is one of these imautre idiots that think there indistructable and doesn't care about anything. It's all just a joke. I am only a 2years older but you wouldn't guess it on attitude. You would think I was 50 odd That bike was my first big bike and so will always have a special place in my heart. I did love that SV650 and now its gone to the dogs. This is what it used to look like..... RIP......... I say RIP because I dare say it will not be long till it is. It's nearly there now
Wonder why my boss "filters" my calls... 
