Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[admin]

Originally Posted by Kenzie

Stupid BMW driver, took the bike out today to take advantage of the nice weather and I come up behind this guy. He is slowing picking up speed and ends up doing 40mph in a 30 leaving me behind. We hit national speed limit and he then does 40 in a 60. Nice long straight bit of road and he then brakes for no reason. I wait for the cars going the other way to clear and left him behind.

Very common style of driving around here. 40 everywhere.

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[Bri w]

The wife's alarm clock going off at silly o'clock. She forgot to change it from yesterday. Maybe I should just say, "the wife."

[Geodude]

Haha Bri that'll be that special time zone 'Barboclock'

[Sir Trev]

Stupid, drunk, selfish a-holes who were still letting fireworks off at 01:30 this morning. Fairly sure I added a rant about exactly the same thing last year but it annoys the hell out of me. If people cannot be trusted to be considerate then fireworks should not be sold to the general public.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by admin

Very common style of driving around here. 40 everywhere.

They even have their own name 'the forty milers'... My wife retired before I did and both of us were used to the rush hour traffic of people going to and from work, where despite the extra traffic drivers 'made progress' - I used to say to my wife, must be nice to drive in the daytime when traffic is lighter, she laughed and said 'just you wait' - well she was right - driving in the daytime is utterly spoiled and fouled up by 'the forty milers' - who seem totally oblivious to their surroundings and the half a mile+ of traffic jam behind them.. and even worse, when you overtake some of them they speed up while you are alongside them, and once you pass slow down again...

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Stupid, drunk, selfish a-holes who were still letting fireworks off at 01:30 this morning. Fairly sure I added a rant about exactly the same thing last year but it annoys the hell out of me. If people cannot be trusted to be considerate then fireworks should not be sold to the general public.

Spoke to my Asian mate about fireworks, and festival of light, diwali or whatever they call it, and I asked him why the fireworks go off after 11pm, he said 'simple mate, that is when the men of the family get back from the pub, women are not allowed to mess with fireworks'.... just another one of the many rights their women don't have it seems...

[Chris_SVS]

Prepping big Tracer for a big day out around Donegal, have a sticky chain link and a second link that has chewed the seal.

And for some reason (I was out recently) my back tyre had lost 35psi but no obvious foreign sharp things in tyre..

[Adam Ef]

Originally Posted by Chris_SVS

And for some reason (I was out recently) my back tyre had lost 35psi but no obvious foreign sharp things in tyre..

I found out the valve on my rear wheel on the VFR is dodgy. It's fine if it's not moved at all but when I cleaned it I must have pushed the valve about scrubbing the wheel and let out about 20psi. Worried me as I'd done a puncture repair on it a couple of weeks before that I thought had failed, but it was ok. I need to swap out the valve some time. Have you checked the core is in tight too?

[Bibio]

the bluray harry potter collection... its a joke, dvd quality and sound. thought they would have remastered.

[Chris_SVS]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

I found out the valve on my rear wheel on the VFR is dodgy. It's fine if it's not moved at all but when I cleaned it I must have pushed the valve about scrubbing the wheel and let out about 20psi. Worried me as I'd done a puncture repair on it a couple of weeks before that I thought had failed, but it was ok. I need to swap out the valve some time. Have you checked the core is in tight too?

Have't but I will, thanks