TOG down. Bollocks.

Andy Wegg scribbled on the back of a napkin:

That counts as serious in my book...

 

Er, well, this isn't so much cracked as fragmented. I just kicked the
bits into the gutter, and like I said, more bits fell off as I made my
way home. So it's not really repairable.

And this is the best bit. Why was it running onto reserve? Er, because
it wasn't. I cleaned the plugs at the weekend, and when I put the fuel
tank back, I turned the fuel tap back "on", forgetting the bloody thing
has a vacuum tap.

"On" is normally with the fuel tap pointing forwards-backwards. I
absent-mindedly set it to pointing up-down, which is |"on" on all other
fuel tap-equipped bikes I own. But on the Trophy, this is, in fact, the
"Prime" position. I noticed this as I parked at work, and re-set the
fuel tap to the correct position.

Only I'd pinched the poxy vacuum hose when re-fitting the tank, and what
I thought was the thing running onto reserve was actually it running out
of fuel altogether. I tend to run the thing on "Prime" when it goes onto
reserve, because, er, just because.

As I made my way home I looked at the fuel gauge and then the trip meter
and thought: "It shouldn't be on reserve yet, surely?"

I've just had another look under the tank. Yep, kinked vacuum hose.

If I'd made sure the fucking hose was properly routed, I wouldn't have
run out of fuel and woudn't have had just one hand on the bars and
wouldn't have lobbed it. SHIT!

 

How many bodies has he got???

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

Looking on the bright side, you *are* KoTL for OMF#s...

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 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

 

If nothing else this at least proves you are human and can make mistakes
when spannering.

 

shit happens , and whilst they are taking the piss out of you they are
leaving me alone

 

Should have left the plugs alone. Cause and effect.

 

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:38:18 +0000,

<snip description of Crash>

Arse, comiseration.

For me, it's only 20 years to go until the full quarter century
without accident, so guess I'll still need to wait a bit to match that
record.

Johannes Gerber

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

Oh dear, how embarrassing for you.


BWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Not too bad then.

 

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

<jaw hits chest>

What did they do? Gold plate the fucking thing?

Christ, I must be *really* out of touch with dealer servicing costs.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 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

 

Have you been copying from Snowy?

 

When my Trophy foundered, it had been booked in for a service later on that
week, and I was also about to order a new set of tyres. If I'd had the
accident a week later, I'd have been six or seven hundred quid poorer.

 

Except for not snipping, you clueless ****.

 

It took you long enough to work that out .

 

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:38:18 +0000,

Think positive - it wasn't the Ducati.

 

Well quite.
Daft old bugger, glad you're okay.


--
Dan L (Oldbloke)

My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
Space in shed where NSR125 used to be
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow), OMF#11

 

My local dealer employed a bloke for a whole day to cut through the
swinging arm pivot (seized, obviously) on some bike or other. There was
about a micron of clearance and he had to use a one-handed hacksaw that
gave him about two inches of filing movement.[1] It took most of a day,
at £whatever an hour.

Boracic, man, boracic. Rhyming slang. Boracic lint = skint.

A good dealer will make a bike feel like that. It's almost worth the
financial hit. Almost.

[1] I had to do this on Jamie's DT50MX. Even on a pissy little bike like
that, it took an hour.

 

*Exactly* what I said to The Doctor. She replied: "I'm surprised you
don't fall off more often, actually."

 

"Crash a Triumph and save!"

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Such confidence in your abilities..