Interesting fact - A lamb that's been rejected by it's mother is called a Bummer. I guess that Kweir Stalin was rejected by his mother - hence the Ukrainian Rent boys. He's Definitely a Bummer as well as a Tool and probably a Paedo.
On the bike front, after some delays, Long story but I had a cyst removed from my back two weeks ago and, surprise, surprise, the brown surgeon fucked up stitching me back together and, after ten days waiting for it to heal it burst open immediately on removal of the stitches with zero signs of healing because it looks to me that the camel jockeying twat folded the skin of the wound in and stitched good skin to good skin so it absolutely had zero chance of knitting together and I now have a three quarter inch round hole in my back to the right of my spine that will probably now take a long time to heal.
Anyway I have now dismantled one leg and fitted the new seal and dust seal although I have to admit to being a fuckwit because I fitted the guide bush and seal only to then discover that I'd somehow managed to drop the washer that goes between those two things on the floor so I had to force the seal out again (Hopefully it was undamaged) and then re-fit it. Hopefully the other leg won't put up quite such a fight and I can get the bike back together in the next day or so. Pissing rain here so no worries about her not turning a wheel for the moment.
I've often wondered why they make fork stanchions out of chrome plated steel.
@Don the Don with your expertise on engineering is there a reason why polished stainless steel tubing couldn't be used instead? It seems odd that we still rely on easily damaged chrome plating on such a sensitive part that faces the full brunt of any weather the bike may travel through not to mention flying stones etc. It's not as if the things are cheap. I think replacement stanchions from Triumph are close to four hundred quid each plus VAT and even the aftermarket ones are a couple of hundred a leg.
