My nearest dispensing chemist, which is in the same building as my local GP’s surgery, requires 2 weeks from the date of issue to fill a prescription. Absolutely ridiculous. Andy
I finalised packing my panniers and sorting out my riding gear for going to Gewrmany at the end of the week. Or at least I thought I had.................looking at the weather forecast for over there I've decided on different riding gear and boots
Could well be, I've not had time to look into it. It's a 996 bp with a mono seat. So if that broken bit is for the bp seat then that would make sense
Looking at it properly now. It wasnt bolted on to the light, only at the bit where it ripped off. So for some reason it was never installed properly. Ah well seems an easy fix at least
Yesterday afternoon I took 6 worn tyres that had been sitting in my garage, after early replacement, to a tyre recycling place I've found 12 miles away but near where my 996 riding best mate lives, so good excuse for a cuppa and chat. The local dump has ceased to accept tyres so I now have to pay to get rid of them. The fee, 50p per tyre. Thought that was very reasonable, was expecting worse. The tyres had been hanging around due to this change in dump policy and also in the hope that I would refit and eek the last 1000 miles out of the best ones maybe... Collected my recently acquired, from this forum, Abba Skylift from said mate and brought it home. Now in garage where the old tyres were previously. I have new 'hoops' arriving this afternoon which will go onto the bike and start a new 'old tyre pile' over again... having said that I've been riding less over the last year (must try harder) and they probably have a decent 2,000 usable miles remaining on the current pair. This might be the ones that do find their way back onto the bike, famous last words. The Skylift will be useful for that job, its first 'outing' was a few weeks ago when changing my starter motor. I leave for a trip to Ireland in a couple of weeks hence my desire to leave on fresh tyres. The current ones might make it but I always prefer fresh tyres prior to trips. I've, some years ago, found out the hard way that's the best approach.
When you let the tyres run down to the last few miles, they seen to be susceptible to punctures. Ask me how i know.......
Wow, that's a bargain. Like you our household recycling centers will not take tyres, and I've struggled to find anyone around here that will. Nearly all tyre fitting places said no as they have to account for where each individual waste tyre comes from, and if they start taking tyres which are not being replaced with new by them they'd need a different license. I eventually found one who would do it, but it was £10 per tyre with a proper invoice for recycling detailing the tyre with my name, address, manufacturer and size. It's no wonder so many get fly-tipped. I can't advocate it, although have done it once, but you can of course make a bike tyre quite compact if you wanted to dispose of it in normal household waste that goes for energy recovery. A stanley type knife around the sidewall will remove the beads far easier than you'd expect. A hacksaw across the tread face turns it into something that can be rolled up into quite a small ball held tight with a couple of wraps of parcel tape which the removed beads can be stuffed into the middle of.
So.. who ever installed this didn't put the plates in the right configuration at all. This is how its meant to be, at least it fits into the 4 fixings this way and locks into the seat lock. Before it broke, it just wobled as it was only fixed into 2 of the 4 fixings. Now to repair the damage
The Obergruppenfuhrer of our local recycling Nazis has clearly ordered reprisals against the local populace as they’ve started refusing to empty wheelie bins which contain items that should go into one of the other 5, count em, five(!) bins. Who the fuck has the time to descend to that level of granular detail or the space in their kitchen to accommodate 5 separate lots of rubbish? When I was a child nobody warned me there would be this amount of bin related admin to deal with when I grew up, just so some jumped up local government factotum with a combover and halitosis can claim to be saving the planet. Well, they can get fucked. I now simply ensure that the top layer of each bin is compliant but it’s anyone’s guess what lies beneath.
