Feeling Deflated
 

:cry: was doing some work on the bike today...

rubbed down the lower fairing to get all the sctraches out (after my little Off),
and noticed the chain was a little slack, well VERY slack,
Luckily I bought a new chain and sprocket set on Saturday... ( I knew it need chaining soon.)
So started to change them over,
when I removed the clutch linkage at the gear box, I slackened off the cable..
thats when I Found out what dislocated my thumb in my recent off , the Clutch adjuster at the clutch lever was snapped but the black rubber kept it together..
anyway continuting with stripping.
Slackened off the engine sprocket using a chock of wood ,between the wheel and
swinging arm to lock the sprockets and keep the chain from moving, every thing going fine and dandy..
All stripped down, starts cleaning things up, replace rear sprocket, chain (endless one, so had to remove a link and put a temp split link in... as I was not going to take swinging arm off.
Still every thing going good.
When I was torquing up the Front engine Sprocket, I think to myself, "Just do the oppsite and stick said wood under the swinging arm through the wheel and locking the rear wheel and sprockets..."
every thing going good, got it torqued up and removed the wood chock...


thats when I hear a quite faint noise....

sissssssssssssssssssssssss, What's That I hear.



Sisssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..... No not a snake but... the


Bloody chock of wood had cought on the tyre inflation Shraider vavle and tore into it a little.......

So now have an unrideable bike....



This goes to show that even a mechanic working on his own vehicle mucks up with a big F.

Taking the car tomorrow, as taking the rear wheel off, to get fixed to put back on the bike to take the bike to get the Split link off and the new link Riveted over.


to say Im a little anoyed with myself is an understatment.




:oops:

You're a grand chap, and one of your most endearing features is your honesty.

For that, I for one won't laugh at you.



















:laughat: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :laughat:

Sorry...just couldn't hold it back.

Just got back from a duty....

Got called out at 22:30 to go to Southhampton......yes the one near France to pick up a guy who went AWOL 5 months ago.

Just got back.... knackered, so going to tell them I'm not coming in to work today.



Bloody army, and today i've been in 15 years....


are well only 7 years to go... then civi strasse 4 this call sign.

Oi numbers, the British tax payer pays your wages. A soldier who who can't work because he is tired. What next ?. Get off you fat lazy backside and get some soldiering done.

You are just using your late night bender as an excuse to get the day off to get your bike fixed.

Good use of initiative my friend, deserves an extra stripe :lol:

Bloody hell, glad to see someone else had to do this :roll:

Many a happy trip to collect wayward chaps :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:

<NOTE TO SELF> When chocking rear wheel, make sure the piece of wood goes into a different section of the wheel than the one with the tyre valve in it :oops: :lol: :lol: :lol:

A southerner would never have done that. [-(

Thats becouse a southerner would have took it to a garage who would charge and arm and a leg... :wink:



only joking......

Touché :lol:

Did it myself actually.

Hey Rich, I've got the sprockets & chain to change on this divvy 600 I'm doing up, if you fancy giving me a hand :?: ;)

yeah but I didn't naws it up! Ner ner ner! :wink: :lol:

:roll:

http://www.ethicalwares.com/images/hand.jpg <------10 paces------> http://www.davidshrigley.com/images/...re/handbag.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: :oops:

LMFAO.....


Cheers m8...

yep... no probs.

ps. ref track and other future projects... MAY the 4th be with you...
if you know what i mean... :wink:

Took bike tyre to get the Valve fixed,

and guess wot....

Fitted the tyre to the bike and noticed.....













































They've bloody fitted the tyre backwards.....

DOR wrong way round.

So another trip back tomorrow me thinks.....

:shock: Fookwits :roll: Where'd you go :?:

Just turn the wheel round the other way.....it'll give you six reverse gears I suppose......but then you could just ride it facing the other way? :? :?

Went back to Teasdale motorcycles in Thirsk.

and for the princely sum if £1.25p they rivited my new link in the chain, got a new Clutch adjuster, 20 Suzuki Logo small stickers, turned the tyre round on the bike...



and



a second hand Scanner, photocopyer, Printer, Fax machine all in one...

not to bad a morning me thinks.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

You'd fall in a bucket of 5h1t & come out smelling of roses :roll:

:thumbsup:

Richie are you MP?

No M8 I'm a VM A.

Vehicle Mechanic A-mec, b-mec & c mec & o mec.

So how come you were chasing AWOLs?

'Cos some soft Chick officer didn't want trhe hassel of the paper work to get the RMP's involved from Bulford.

So muggings here had to go.

http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/6...thebest8iu.jpg

That is absolutely bollox IMHO!

To top it all off.....

get ready for this now, 'cos I didn't belive it...

He's not on any ROP's or in any nick yet.







































And the Cheeky F**ker has gone back down to Southampton for the weekend !!! :evil: :evil:

I ain't in the least bit supprised... Its all a bit too 'fluffy' for my liking now really :!:

u got ALL THAT !!..FOR £1.25??

Yes sireee bob.

Yeah, I thought that was a helluva lot of money too - but I thought it was just because I'm a Yorkshireman......

it may have only cost £1.25 cash.

but there are other ways that a handsome young soldier can pay his bills :twisted: :twisted:

I thought you'd never notice.... :grouphug: :makelurve: :lol: :lol: