Author Topic: Typical innit?  (Read 2106 times)

pete roper

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Typical innit?
« on: April 08, 2019, 12:58:06 AM »
So I've just sold all of my old pre 2000 dross and today I begin stripping the gearbox out of my Hydro Cali. It's having a chair put on it so I thought I'd do the gearbox and shout it a new clutch before the hack was attached because if I didn't it would invariably need one immediately!

While pulling it apart I find some goon has busted off the clutch cable spigot off the gearbox case and replaced it with some sort of horrid, Heath Robinson, home made bracket. Grrrr!

I had half a dozen gearbox cases is my old munt pile. Never mind. The hideous bracket seems to work OK. It just offends my sense of mechanical purity! :boozing:

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2019, 01:57:05 AM »
There's a lesson here. Never sell your "junk" or "worn parts"
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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2019, 02:02:10 AM »
I turned mine into $7,000. It's all good. I can get in my shed again!

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2019, 02:06:11 AM »
I see your point!  :thumb:

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2019, 02:16:49 AM »
My grandfather was a real hoarder of tools and all manner of old machinery bits and pieces. He always said " It'll come in handy one day, even if I never use it. "
I hang onto useless bits too. By the time I need something I've either forgotten Ive got one somewhere or I know I've got it but no idea where I put it so I go and buy new stuff anyway.  Oh well

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2019, 06:29:20 AM »
Two years ago I received a specific cable pinch bolt, smaller than a penny, for my Moto Demm...

Yesterday, I found it...bizarrely I had cleared a 4" square amongst a huge pile of munt....(I like munt, I start to sweep it into decorative piles)....it was still there. It just took two years to get a round Toit instead of the square Toit............. :popcorn:

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2019, 06:40:40 AM »
The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2019, 08:08:43 AM »
I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it.  Now not so much,  I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips.  Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.
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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2019, 11:38:45 AM »
I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it.  Now not so much,  I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips.  Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.

Yeah, long trips are where you "bind" with a bike.
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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2019, 12:16:29 PM »
I would have used the word bond.

Not sure how one binds with a bike...

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2019, 01:54:00 PM »
I would have used the word bond.

Not sure how one binds with a bike...

Maybe Chuck has some German roots? :-)
"binden" = to tie or bond.
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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2019, 03:08:26 PM »
The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.

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Re: Typical innit?
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2019, 03:21:29 PM »
Yes, German roots.. but.. bind is the correct term, because when you try to sell it, you quickly find your are tied to it.  :evil:  :grin:
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