End of season BOTAFOT / XFOT

Subject to a test ride tomorrow, it appears to be sorted.

*Many* thanks to Loz for sorting me out with a replacement expansion
tank.

Need to give it a bit of a run tomorrow to make sure it's all working
ok, if so, I shall attend.

 

MattG says...

How many people do you know who have a perfect ZX-9R expansion tank just
waiting there for a time like this?

Forget speedyspic.co.uk , I'm going to register obscureshiteparts-r-
us.co.uk

 

None. I phoned enough loads of cunts in an attempt to find one. Then
mention in passing to you that I'm trying to find one and you've got
one in the garage.

Fuckinstar.com

 

MattG says...

There all sitting at R+G with holes in them now.

twatwithobscureshite.com

 

Lozzo says...

Oh ffs!. "They're", you thick spiccy twat.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, MattG

Right.

It's you, this is *bound* to be amusing.

How did you break the old one?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Overexpansion, obviously.

 

*splutter*

Just what do you mean by that?

Well, you see, there was a miscalculation, a moment of dizzyness, a
moment of fuckwittedness, and a moment of impact. Roughly in that order.

I[1] resulted in a broken fairing, radiator, and expansion tank.

[1] I was intending to put "It resulted..." and mistyped, but I think
this is more accurate.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, MattG

Oh. Sounds fairly prosaic by your high standards.

Any entertaining injuries result, at all? Sepsis? Gangrene?

Fire?

Explosion?

You see, you've set a standard, and your Adoring Public expect bigger
and better.

That the trouble with APs, we're fickle bastards.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

2 weeks

I think you may be thinking of someone else. Or at least one of my
other crashes.

 

Ah, I see what you mean. I[1] was a very minor incident. Low speed, too.

Well, there was this green fluid all over the road.

Yes please

Go on then.

Right, I've only just fixed the 9R so I'm not going to crash that
*just* for your amusement, yet. I may crash unintentionally, but I
can't guarantee it[2], but there are two other bikes in the garage...

You are at that. But I love you anyway.

[1] See, I did it again. Looks about right though
[2] Well, I can. But I can't give a time frame.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, MattG

Boo! Hiss!

That's the spirit!

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Can't help reading "AP" as "Aged Parent".

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

Projection, pure and simple.

<thinks>

AP50. That has a nice ring. A-ding. A-ding-a-ding-a-ding.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "Oh Bollocks" said Pooh, having forgotten his lines.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

You're wasted on the likes of us, mate.

 

It has to happen you know

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Dan L amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Look, it's been a <thinks of a non rant thing to say> little trying at
work recently. I was, and am, shattered. TF I don't have to go in today
or Sunday is all I have to say on it and I wasn't in the mood for
pleasantries

I thought I had your number and I did try calling but I got some voice
recorded robot tart telling me you were unavailable and she'd (cleverly)
send a text message to you with my number on it so you'd know I rang.

I don't think I've got your email address either so if you can bung an
email my way I'll furnish you with the required numerical digits.

 

Heh, emailed, and I think I just found your mobile number in the depths of
my address book.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Obviously Paul is just that little bit more intelligent ;-)

 

Heh. I've organised a jousting on shite old bikes tournament before -
part of an 'It's a medieval knockout thing' for a mate's wedding - top
fun.

Matt has 14 years of crashing to be taken into consideration. Done
with enthusiasm and flair. And he wonders why I worry <sigh>