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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Scout63 on May 11, 2021, 06:27:46 AM
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In the interest of reducing this forum to its lowest version, I’d like to air one of my pet peeves.
I hate when someone restores a motorcycle and resets the odometer to zero. It’s not that I think it’s dishonest, because mileage doesn’t really matter to me as much as condition. It just feels as if it glosses over the life of the bike and it’s owners. Every mile was important to someone.
Don’t even get me started on Armor All on tires.
If I’ve offended anyone, I am truly sorry.
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Well, my T-3 set itself to zero at one point. :grin:
GliderJohn
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Guzzi Hero’s are excepted John.
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This thread will go on for DAYS!
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I hate when someone restores a motorcycle and resets the odometer to zero. It’s not that I think it’s dishonest, because mileage doesn’t really matter to me as much as condition. It just feels as if it glosses over the life of the bike and it’s owners. Every mile was important to someone.
You will get no argument from me, you should br proud of the miles it has done, in fact i think it's illegal to wind the speedo back.
When I replaced the Vaglia on my VII Sport I had Speedhut set the new odometer same as the one that failed.
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Wait , some of you guys have working odometers :shocked:
Dusty
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When I see that on a restored bike I think they are trying to hide something. That's just my viewpoint, restorers can do whatever they want, it's their bike.
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Aren't the bikes normally sporting new gauges ?
Dusty
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Grinds my gears too. Why wouldn't anyone be proud of getting a high mileage bike back to pristine condition? I'd be saying "Whoa, 100K and in THAT condition? Amazing!"
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Pet peeves:
Anytime the seller put the bike has/had "original" miles and the work "like" used in like a sentence like ummm when a seller is ahh like talking about like original miles.
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hell I'll jump in.. no motorcycle has ever looked good with whitewall tires. Not one.
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hell I'll jump in.. no motorcycle has ever looked good with whitewall tires. Not one.
I don't know, Chad- Uncle Eddie's 1916 Indian looks pretty good imho-
(https://i.ibb.co/TqFvz8z/Uncle-Eddie1916-Indian-DSC-1522.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TqFvz8z)
My biggest pet peeve about motorcycles is probably spending more on pets than motorcycles because mileage on the odometer doesn't matter if yours doesn't work or if there's not even a speedo on your bike.
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Mine is well on its way to its 4th self reset.
Bike condition and how it runs is more important IMO, as Dusty mentioned odometers from veglia are less than 100% reliable.
Weve all seen nearly new, low milage bikes you wouldnt touch with your worst enemy's wallet due to owner abuse and yet there would be many very high milage bikes belonging to owners on this forum you couldnt get your wallet open quick enough if they came up for sale.
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Wait , some of you guys have working odometers :shocked:
Dusty
LOL ROTFL!
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I hate it when someone who should know better in State Parlaiment turns around and says...
“Mr Speaker, I thank the honourable member for his question..
As members on this side of the house are aware Mr Speaker, the honourable member has worked tirelessly for his constituents and his efforts cannot be UNDERESTIMATED...! :rolleyes:
Or
I know that it was dark and hard to see the edge of the road...
But the driver is to blame IRREGARDLESS...
Or
The Yanks pronounce a widely used metal as Aluminum...
But spell it as Aluminium.
Or
The young ones use “like” and “I’ve gone” and “like he’s gone”
“I’m like no way and he’s gone waaayyyy, so I’m like noooo..!
And he’s like gone whateverrrrr....
Or
“Today I saw a rock on the road so I decided to countersteer..”
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Or people who say “supposebly.” I want so badly to correct them but don’t.
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Being old and fat .
Other than that , very little upsets me except the word "groovy" , and no one uses it much any more , which means we are back to old and fat :tongue:
Dusty
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I don't know, Chad- Uncle Eddie's 1916 Indian looks pretty good imho-
(https://i.ibb.co/TqFvz8z/Uncle-Eddie1916-Indian-DSC-1522.jpg) (https://ibb.co/TqFvz8z)
My biggest pet peeve about motorcycles is probably spending more on pets than motorcycles because mileage on the odometer doesn't matter if yours doesn't work or if there's not even a speedo on your bike.
white balloon tires are great! whitewalls are terrible!
looks at this abomination!
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/20/22/d72022889b380ef5ec5934528f737142.jpg)
I will say there is one guzzi that looks good in whitewalls... 1400 Eldorado!
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^ Is that like groovy eh ? Peter
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Being old and fat .
Other than that , very little upsets me except the word "groovy" , and no one uses it much any more , which means we are back to old and fat :tongue:
Dusty
I resemble that remark!
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What hacks me off is little short kids (shorter than the plexiglass) at the salad bar. They have height limitations on carnival rides, why not salad bars? :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Half the time, they mix the garbanzo beans with the frozen peas and RUIN my salad bar experience! :food:
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John
and then the little buggers run in your yard...
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Frosts my ARSE!!! :grin: :grin:
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Somebody needs sensitivity training!
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What hacks me off is little short kids (shorter than the plexiglass) at the salad bar. They have height limitations on carnival rides, why not salad bars? :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Half the time, they mix the garbanzo beans with the frozen peas and RUIN my salad bar experience! :food:
Salad bars and food buffets are all skeezy no matter if there's a little kid snot mixed in or not.
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Original miles, freeway miles, highway miles and : ran when parked , all have the same smell to me. Only lightly rolled with a salvage title can up those when in an advert or claim
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From the Mayor:
hell I'll jump in.. no motorcycle has ever looked good with whitewall tires. Not one.
A few do.
(https://i.ibb.co/vB3hzmv/DSC06138.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vB3hzmv)
GliderJohn
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Salad bars and food buffets are all skeezy no matter if there's a little kid snot mixed in or not.
just being a grouchy old geezer, trying to fit in! :grin:
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I think, I guess, that it depends on the vehicle. I recently picked up an old Vespa sans engine. The speedo was intact but super-scratched up and faded. It was nice Veglia speedo. I was going to put a brand new engine in, and replace pretty much everything else on the frame. I sent the speedo to a Veglia restorer in Cali, and he asked whether I wanted it rolled back. I said sure, logic being -- the engine is going to be brand new, all the way down to the cases, everything else is new, except the frame and some affiliated bits--why keep an arbitrary # from the PO on what is, essentially, a brand new bike? Even more arbitrary because speedo cables break all the time, POs don't change them out, and so who knows accurately how many miles were actually on the bike? And it will at least be easier for *me* to keep track of how many miles I put on this frame/engine combo. And for me, that's what matters.
Just an alternative point of view. YMMV, as folks say.
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Guzzi Hero’s are excepted John.
Accepted or excepted? :blank:
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Being old and fat .
Other than that , very little upsets me except the word "groovy" , and no one uses it much any more , which means we are back to old and fat :tongue:
Dusty
Working odometers are groovy!
So is having a bathtub full of gasoline!
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:laugh:
Just don't smoke in the bathroom Ed .
Dusty
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A lot of vintage ‘restored’ motorcycles featured in magazines where the owner says the bike has been completely restored and in the next paragraph claims he inspected the engine, determined it to be sound and didn’t open up the cases and inspect the internals. There was a V7 Sport featured in a popular American vintage motorcycle magazine where this exact description was noted, original chrome bores left alone, bearings not inspected, crank not measured. Restored means returned to original specified tolerances and that requires inspection and measurements with a micrometer.
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A lot of vintage ‘restored’ motorcycles featured in magazines where the owner says the bike has been completely restored and in the next paragraph claims he inspected the engine, determined it to be sound and didn’t open up the cases and inspect the internals. There was a V7 Sport featured in a popular American vintage motorcycle magazine where this exact description was noted, original chrome bores left alone, bearings not inspected, crank not measured. Restored means returned to original specified tolerances and that requires inspection and measurements with a micrometer.
I don’t mind someone not getting into the cases to get a rider running. I worry when I see sandblasted or vapor blasted engines that weren’t disassembled. I get the willys just thinking about it.
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Mine is a certain internet "designer" who poorly photoshops guzzi's and other bikes, and the suckers who post his doodles thinking they are looking at prototype sketches.
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:laugh:
Just don't smoke in the bathroom Ed .
Dusty
I would never do anything that dumb. But the fumes are getting annoying. I'm gonna have to light a scented candle soon......
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Small, oddly placed, turn signals on some modern cars. Doesn't the DOT mandate size and placement any more?
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My pet peeve is seeing Steve McQueen's signature gracing every 4th or 5th bike Triumph builds.
How do you get a celebrity endorsement from someone 40 years after they died?
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Small, oddly placed, turn signals on some modern cars. Doesn't the DOT mandate size and placement any more?
Yeah, turn signals placed right next to full time headlights. Geez.
kk
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Yeah, turn signals placed right next to full time headlights. Geez.
kk
I saw a small "crossover" yesterday that had the rear signals in the bumper! WTF? No additional signal higher placed either.
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I hate tail tidys. Especially the ones where the license plate is smashed up in the wheel well. They almost always look trashy and don't function very well.
That said, I hate the Yamaha turn signals that they've used since 1995.
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Small, oddly placed, turn signals on some modern cars. Doesn't the DOT mandate size and placement any more?
After watching American Hotrod/car modifying/chopper building shows over the last 15 years I didn't think there was ANY DOT mandated laws over there.
Serious question, how the hell do they get these type of vehicles registered or keep them registered?
Ciao
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FED. DOT. has regulations on height, color and distance apart for manufacturers. Interpretations by the states can change state to state for older cars, rebuilds & home builds.
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My pet peeve is being educated by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
For example, dude in his early 20s asks me how far I can "ride a wheelie."
"You ride a motorcycle. You can pop a wheelie or pull a wheelie but you don't ride a wheelie."
Even worse "Can you do an endo?"
"Man, I hope not! An endo is short for end over end - cartwheeling a motorcycle. I've done it on a dirt bike but hope to never do it on a street bike."
No, Dude - an endo is when you do a wheelie on the front wheel!
"That's a stoppie - an endo is a crash."
Dude, you need to keep up with the latest lingo.
"One of us does."
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:laugh:
Just don't smoke in the bathroom Ed .
Dusty
Wait a minute--lighting a match and immediately putting it out is a time tested way of covering up the stink.
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I REALLY hate when someone finds out I ride motorcycles and then tells me about someone who was injured or killed on one. Not really a pet peeve - annoying on a much more basic level.
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My pet peeve is the notion that "its their bike, they can do what they like with it". I understand that it's anyone's choice to modify the way they choose as long as they accept that once they have finished with it someone else has to deal with the way it has been modified. In the end we are only the guardian of the bikes we own, and we have a responsibility to leave them in a condition that we would like to find them for ourselves. We've all found desirable rare bikes that have been treated badly over the years and it just breaks your heart (and your wallet) :grin:
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I REALLY hate when someone finds out I ride motorcycles and then tells me about someone who was injured or killed on one. Not really a pet peeve - annoying on a much more basic level.
This right here!!! I cannot keep track of how many serious car/pickup accidents I see vs bike accidents! When people start going on about how “dangerous” bikes are I just look at them and say “thank goodness people never die in car accidents”.
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Drivers who drive slowly in the left lanes. “Slower traffic KEEP RIGHT”!!! Either let ‘er eat or move over!!! And no, 5 mph over the speed limit is not reason to be in the hammer lane!
And another thing. Drivers failing to dim their lights! Makes me want forcibly put their light out. Inconsiderate jerks!
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Bloody cell phone that keeps trying to make me set a password or using fingerprint ID
I don't want a password on my cell phone, now leave me alone!
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I'm a firm believer that if someone gets caught texting behind the wheel it would be fitting to have a public stoning like in the Monty Python movie life of Brian. Revenue from selling rocks should be donated to bikers too old to throw a leg over any more. :thumb:
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$250 fine out here for use of an handheld electronic device while driving.
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^ Like that's a deterrent :rolleyes: . Peter
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What would you suggest? :tongue:
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What would you suggest? :tongue:
Lose your license for a year, that might be deterrent.
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$500.00 and the officer destroys the phone on sight :grin:
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$500.00 and the officer destroys the phone on sight :grin:
That would get very expensive for the cops around here .
Dusty
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"MG" for Moto Guzzi. Is it really that hard to type "Guzzi"? MG to me is a British car - Morris Garages. :angry: