Thanks for nothing

Just in case he's reading this, I just wanted to say thanks to the little
shite who half-inched four bolts out of my fairing in Gloucester this
morning. I noticed one on the ground when I got back and thought, "Ooh,
wonder if that's one of mine?" When I looked for a hole for it to go in, I
found five.

Incidentally, replacements from the local Suzuki dealer are £2.06 each.
Yamaha ones fit almost as well and are 43p each. Why?

 

You think you have had a hard time. I heard that at end of BMF show in
Peterborough, disk locks were selling for 50p each. Some smuck brought about
100, went to parking area and locked 100 bikes, walking away with the keys.
Took the AA hours to help riders release their bikes.

and, well, that's Suzuki for you, just expensive rust buckets

Rand

 

: Incidentally, replacements from the local Suzuki dealer are ?2.06 each.
: Yamaha ones fit almost as well and are 43p each. Why?

For the same reason that a few months ago someone stole one (just one!) of
the the small reflector-headed screws which hold on my number plate.
Price new at the dealer is US $1.95.

Justin

'07 Suzuki SV650
'02 Honda Shadow VT750DC
'69 Triumph TR25W

 

It has to be said, that's quite funny.

 

I'm glad you said it first, now I won't get flamed for agreeing.

--
Lozzo
Suzuki SV650S K5
Honda CBR600 FW trackbike
Yamaha SR250 Spazz-Trakka
Suzuki GSXR750 L
Suzuki TS50X
Suzuki TS50X

 

Funny how the scrotes always steal the fasteners that you forgot to tighten.

 

On Sat, 24 May 2008 20:25:53 -0600, vulgarandmischevious

Wasn't me.... Although I did pick up a bolt that fell off a Ginetti
(I think) yesterday.

 

You're in Gloucester?

 

No, I was only gone twenty minutes.

Good thinking - perhaps I should have them all anodised pink as an
anti-theft measure?

 

Like the acquaintance of mine who said he had spent 2 hours driving
round looking for a Renault 5.
"What, to buy one?"
'No, the G/F's has got a broken rear light, so I'll find the same model,
then go back and pinch the light one night'

They'd be around £5 at a scrapyard at the time, so WTF he'd even bother
looking for the same model, then going back to pinch the light is beyond
me.

A lady I know works at Asda Customer Service(yeah, OK, an oxymoron).
They have a continual queue of people returning things, including
shoplifters who want a cash refund on the items they have stolen
earlier.
Anyway, she reckons it isnt the monetary value of what they are claiming
for, it is the thought of 'getting one over Asda/the staff' etc. She
reckons some can stand in a queue for 20 minutes+, argue for 20 minutes,
then go away with a 50p refund, which is given to just get them out of
the shop, and they are jubilant at their victory.
Alan.

 

Pink won't stop you forgetting to tighten them up.
Four of your fairing bolts fell out while riding but you didn't notice;
one fell out when you stopped so you saw it on the ground later.
That's what fairing bolts do.
Had it been a thief, the bolt would have been in his pocket.

 

A **** stole the sidelight lens from my car. **** was so stupid he
didn't even clean it up (it had a few distinctive paint spots on it)
after he'd fitted it and then parked his car in the same street outside
his tart's house. I went over and took it back, just hoping the ****
would come out of the door to challenge me for nicking 'his' lens.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Don't tell him, Pike!

 

Don't speak too soon

You'd be f*cking livid if this 'hilarious prankster' did the same to
your bike, after a day trudging around the BMF.

P.

 

Most of the people at the BMF will have been there in search of
bargains so a free disc lock should have been welcomed.

 

On Sun, 25 May 2008 14:55:45 GMT, "platypus"

Even if I was in Gloucester, I'd never admit to it! :~)

 

Coz someone'#s a cheap **** with no cash and a need for four or five bolts.

Something like the **** who broke into my gardeners van on Thursday. Reason?
There was a one pound coin on the dash which obviously needed a new home.
Bollocks to the few hundred quids worth of gardening tools in the back, just
the glint of cash was enough. That's a nice 70 quids worth of window for my
pal to find now.

I wouldn't mind (well I would actually) if the gardener was a well-to-do
bloke, but he's just a bloke doing his best to make a living.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Aye, but only if it's not your bike.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

But....but, everyone in Leftpondia is fabulously wealthy so this doesn't
make sense.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

i felt it, the morning after the leffe though.