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I see it didn't sell tonight... would you mind telling me the distance
between the tyre and the end can please

 

<places bet on 53mm>

 

Hah! You're a wicked man.

 

When I can get into the garage later today, sure.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

Cluttered is it? I've got a shed like that.

 

Champ wrote

It will be several orders of magnitude more cluttered than the most
clutter I could imagine, and I am a dedicated and experienced hoarder.

 

OK, measured it now. From the edge of the tyre: 4.5cm.

 

Thanks very much indeed. Do you reckon it's worth loosening some clamps
under the engin eon the exhaust before trying to persuade it the extra
1.5cm or just try to ease it out?

 

I'd definitely loosen all the clamps - you actually don't really know which
bits are bent and which aren't.

 

I'd loosen them, yes. Get someone to hold the system steady when you
tighten them up.

 

It's not so much cluttered as packed full.

In fact, this looks like time for the 'Garage Contents' thread.

At present it houses the Triumph Sprint ST, the K1100LT, the Ducati
750SS, the 400 Four and the SL125. (My 250 and The Lad's 125 are down
the side of the house. Oh, and the CM200 is out the front.) Getting
vie bikes into the garage is a sort of fourth-dimensional exercise in
topology. In fact, I think I've invented the Moebius Motorcycle.

Then there are, um, four bicycles, a chest freezer, a workbench, Black
& Decker Workmate, racking, and a stack of plastic crates six feet
high. These contain spares, parts, bits and bobs. There are two brand
new tyres and a complete new CD250 exhaust system hanging up on the
walls, along with two paddock stands, assorted bike clothing and two
brand new sets of throwover panniers. (I bought one set on Ebay,
forgot I'd bought it, and bought a second set the other day).

Then we have a step-ladder, power washer, assorted petrol and oil
cans, and the bottom end of a Z650 engine. Oh, and a spare engine for
the SL125 that I bought on Ebay in case the existing lump was fooked,
which it isn't.

Tools? Three large toolboxes, plus one of those metal cabinets with
lots of small drawers, holding every conceivable type of fastener,
electrical connection, split pins, springs, fuses, bulbs, chain and
cable adjusters. Several more tins containing nuts and bolts. Four
large biscuit tins holding brand new parts for the 400 Four. Battery
charger, multimeter, strobe gun, power screwdriver, box with drill and
accessories. A Moto Guzzi points adjusting tool, that's been used for
stirring paint. Vacuum gauges hang on the opposite wall.

The racking is topped by a large double stack of manuals, Haynes and
factory, plus a few Clymer. I never throw away or sell manuals.

There's more stuff under the workbench, but I haven't been able to get
to it for a few weeks, so I'm not entirely sure what.

 

Good idea.

 

Oh, I forgot the Honda 400 Four wheels and the Ducati 750SS rear
wheel.

Why do people keep worn-out tyres? Unless they own a yacht?

(Hastily pushes box of worn out brake shoes "that might come in handy"
out of sight)

 

Champ wrote:
[snip vast list of garage contents]

<fx:folds>

 

Any respectful yacht owner wouldn't be seen dead with old tyres hanging
down the side. That's for tug-boats.

 

Champ says...

I daren't even start, but it is a lot less than it used to be since I
discovered the joys of selling on eBay.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki GSX-R750L trackbike (Shite with added shite bits)
Yamaha SR250 Delusion (It's "Special")
I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.

 

Hands up anyone who has actually put back on a worn set of pads because
they were in better shape than the pads you were using and the shops
were closed.

<raises hand>

 

I don't have a garage ATM, but in my large shed, I have, amongst
assorted rubbish:

Karcher Power Washer, Flymo, full-height fridge, 1/2-height freezer,
spare Rennsport rear for the 'blade, enough wood/metal rails/brackets
to assemble 8 x full height shelving units, a box of spare light
bulbs, unused and unrequired cat-transport-box, 2 x aluminium step-
ladders, read paddock stand, 2 x battery chargers (one car one and an
optimate), Bear's padlock and chain, several other padlocks and chains
and disklocks and similar...

 

I'll have a bash, but it may take some time. In a vaguely circular
fashion, from the far right corner:

Five pushbikes, roof bars to fit BM+W 3 serires compact, roof-mounted
cycle carriers, two old lawnmopwers hanging on the wall,one ride-on
mower + trailer, one boxed set of 4m high floodlights c/w 12v genny
cabling, fuel cans etc., one wheelbarrow, strimmer, electric B&D weed
thingy, two sets of summer wheels for the cars C(must change them back
now), about ten sets of skis;

old 12v battery from lawnmower, battery charger, bench grinder,
several assorted boxes and tins of nails, screws, glues and other
fasteners, camping billycans and assorted junk in an old frame
rucksack, assorted special cycle tools (chainwheel extractors, chain
splitters, C spanners, etc. etc.), plus several small tool/puncture
repair sets;

Metal toolbox, large plastic toolbox, smaller plastic toolbox, even
smaller plastic tool tray, assorted screwdrivers, socket sets,
snanners, pliers, mole grips et al, currently 'in use' and therefore
not in a toolbox, bag of ski servicing tools (much of this sitting on
a board on top of the large barbecue);

two mtb and 1 road bike tyres, one old road bike wheel, with buckeled
rim, various spare bits for pushbikes including assorted chainwheels,
handlebars, brake/gear levers etc., one broken off mirror from gixxer
and one from the Peugeot, also one broken gixxer double-bubble screen
and its tail hump, tank bag with some stuff from last trip in it,
waterproofs, some old frog bike mags (with routes in them), some maps;

100l compressor + painting accessories, rattle gun set in a plastic
carrier, big plastic carrier box with old electric drills and
accessories (saws, sanders etc.) smaller plastic carrier box with new
electro-pneumatic drill/chisel and bits, orbital sander,
angle-grinder, chainsaw, long tree-lopping doodah, electric
hedgetrimmer;

recycling boxes plus a pile of other assorted crap waiting to be
thrown out ( beer bottles waiting to be returned, other bottles
waiting to go to the bottle bank, lots of empty oil and pool chemical
containers) part-full cans of: 2-stroke, chainsaw oil, engine oil,
petrol, (5l of plain, a 5l can of pre-mix, 20l jerry can, plus the
2*5l cans with the floodlights previously mentioned);

hosepipe, pressure washer, garden tools (forks, spades etc,) buckets,
brushes, plastic boxes with various electircal fittings, decorating
implements, mastic guns, plumbing bits and bobs, more old cycle parts,
car electrical testing stuff (strobe, meters, etc.), trolley jack,
footpump, wheel braces, tyre irons;

one car roof box, skis for the use of (when I take it off the Volvo
tonight), two scythes, sledgehammer, pickaxe, hatchet, splitting axe,
tree saw, various other hand saws, some assorted rolls of wire, about
a dozen large containers of assorted paints, wall coverings and other
decorating products.

Right, if anyone's still reading, you'll have long since concluded
that a) I've got far too much stuff that should have been thrwon out
years ago, and b) as I can still move, and get a car in, the garage,
it's far too big, following the popular adage that you accumulate as
much junk as necessary to fill any house (or garage) in which you
live. You're absolutely right on both counts, and volunteers to help
me sort it all out would be very welcome.

--
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
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MV, both Tigers, Fantic, Raptor, Corvette.

Workbench, hydraulic bench, Eazi-lift, paddock stand, numerous
part-worn tyres, compressor, various air, power & hand tools,
windsurfer, three Optimates, bored now.


--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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