Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Bike27]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

This is the idle banter section after all. I think most of us have lives beyond motorcycling.ItÂ’s what makes this forum such an endlessly interesting and varied place to come to.

Now for something that IS about Motorcycling, but DEFINITELY isn't a gripe of the day

Originally Posted by admin

Not always a great idea to speed up as I found to my cost back in the 70's. I was riding back from Southend on a dual carriageway at a legal speed over taking slower traffic when I noticed a Ford granada up my chuff, so sped up. He did the same. So I thought, this is a boy racer in his 3litre granny, let's see if he can keep up with my GT750? He couldn't and then........the blue lights came on. Another 3 points...

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Had a similar experience, also years ago, main differences being I suspect I was going faster, yet - incredibly - I got away with a mild telling off !!!

(Didn't mention earlier 'cos my posts were probably already long enough)

November '99 and out on my new to me '92 CBR900RR on the A38 DC . Anyone who has ridden an original Blade will know that at an indicated 85 ISH in top gear it's on the edge of where all the real power is, so showing a little (relative) restraint I was at 85, before slowing alot for the big r/b outside Derby. Was probably at no more than about 45 round the r/b as it was a cold dark November evening (ambient temperature probably somewhere around 4 degrees C) and I was still getting used to the bike. Away from the r/b, back in the direction of Birmingham, the road widens out to at least 3 lanes, so with nothing on the road in front of me I took it up towards the redline in 3rd (which on any Blade is comfortably into licence losing territory). Dropping back down to 80ish, I then noticed some bluey tinted headlights on my tail.

Blue tinted headlights? Got to be some boy racer thinks I. Was back up to about 95 and still gaining a little speed when the OTHER blue lights came on.

Thought, this was it, got away with speeding for 13 years, time to take your ban like a man.......What actually happened was this Senator driving copper was also a bike cop who congratulated me on the condition of my bike and the standard of my riding gear, warned me of the danger of ice (possibly caused by faulty car cooling systems) and then proceeded to explain he had clocked me at an average 92.7 (I think it was), explaining that if I'd been over 100 he would have been doing me !!!!!

The key point being I WAS doing well over 100 right in front of him, but hugely fortunately for me, his timed average included my careful negotiation of the roundabout. Only kept the Blade 6 months, I actually preferred it in the wet, just found it fairly impossible to ride sensibly otherwise.

DISCLAIMER - all speeds mentioned above are of course in km/h

[Bike27]

Ha! Can now balance that out with my non motorcycling gripe of the day.

It seems that pretty much every time I go to use my HP office Jet wireless printer these days, I have to uninstall and reinstall the software before it will actually print anything

Like today:

Try to print

Get message 'your HP office Jet requires intervention'

So, cancel print, open HP Print and Scan Doctor

Select printer

Print and Scan Doctor declares everything fine and asks would you like to run a test print?

Try test print

Doesn't print

'the doctor' then asks would you like to try an "internal print "

Internal print, works ok.

So, then tells me I have to uninstall and reinstall the software, just like I'm pretty damn sure I did last week.......

This requires a reboot, windows then decides it wants to install some updates.........

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by redtrummy

That was just the two front wiper blades - the excess for the screen was £115.
I did have a look at their windscreen repair cost for a chip £185!
I guess the cost is higher than going into a garage and getting a chip repair at a centre but £185!

All those charges are too high. If a chip can be repaired it is a lot less than the cost of windscreen replacement.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

This is the idle banter section after all. I think most of us have lives beyond motorcycling. It’s what makes this forum such an endlessly interesting and varied place to come to.

Unfortunately anything I post on here 'tongue in cheek' or slightly sarcastic doesn't always come across on here. Know what I mean !

[Grant66]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Unfortunately anything I post on here 'tongue in cheek' or slightly sarcastic doesn't always come across on here. Know what I mean !

You could add the Reddit style /s at the end. Agree tone is never easy to convey in text.

Although some people won't know what /s means and it won't make any difference.



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[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Bri w

Not sure its a gripe of the day or a gripe of the year. 10 days ago number 2 daughter got a blinding headache, and within 5 mins was totally blind. Thankfully her vision is slowly returning. She can now sort of focus out to 3 feet She's had a number of MRI's and an optomap scan, all of which are clear.

The doctors, having hit a brick wall, are now suggesting they refer her to another hospital, even though they have the specialties where they are. And even though they are eye specialists, "it could be MS." And, "You should get a referral letter within 2 weeks." I wonder when the appointment will be after that? 4 weeks + waiting for the appointment. ITS NOT AN INGROWING TOE NAIL!!!

Hope it turns out ok for your daughter.

[Sir Trev]

Good luck to your daughter Bri!! Scary thing to happen out of the blue.

As to the cost of windscreens - try looking up the price of a private replacement heated front screen for a Ford. I was quoted well over £400 a few years ago when I got fed up waiting for the useless a-wipes that are Autoglass. How much?!?! Autorubbish eventually replaced it on insurance a full MONTH after I first called the claim line. The most utterly incompetent customer "service" I have ever come across.

[Dave20046]

Bri , all the best

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Good luck to your daughter Bri!! Scary thing to happen out of the blue.

As to the cost of windscreens - try looking up the price of a private replacement heated front screen for a Ford. I was quoted well over £400 a few years ago when I got fed up waiting for the useless a-wipes that are Autoglass. How much?!?! Autorubbish eventually replaced it on insurance a full MONTH after I first called the claim line. The most utterly incompetent customer "service" I have ever come across.

That rings a bell. We had a Transit once that ate windscreens, they were expensive heated ones too.

[garynortheast]

FFS. Woke at 3am. Now sat downstairs wide awake and fretting.

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by garynortheast

FFS. Woke at 3am. Now sat downstairs wide awake and fretting.

as another worrier, I feel your pain. No matter how many times people tell you "don't worry", you can't help it - it's not a switch that can be flicked off. The "what ifs" always loom large - my ex wife had the wonderful ability not to worry and when pressed would say: "it might not happen", whereas I would be stuck on the "what if this happens".

I found that, with me, it was always because of things that were beyond my control. Knowing that fact never helped of course so I'd make contingency plans for when things went wrong and then plans for when those things went wrong too. Frequently, the constant construction of alternate plans would distract me from my original worries.

I truly hope things settle down in a positive way for you.