MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Hmmm at those prices I suspect your decal man is working 'on the fly' @DD67 Not uncommon really. When I used to work as a designer in a printers shop the guy that ran the presses (a Heroin Addict no less) who had a key to the premises used to take 'homers' whenever someone came in looking for a job to be done and the boss wasn't about and he would go into the shop at night and use the shop stock and run off the job overnight while getting high on 'H'. The boss trusted him (he was a fool) and left him to order stock etc. so had no clue he was being robbed until a short while after I joined the company and set him straight. Even then the boss still kept giving him 'one more chance' until one day the guy stole Christmas presents the boss's wife had forgotten to take home and he finally sacked him. Even then the scumbag swiped a bunch of company cheques and cashed 'his wages' for several weeks through a cheque cashing shop in the town. A real peach of an employee!
@chas I think the four bikes are going to be my stable from now on - Two Bonnie's, Daytona and Sprint RS. The plan is that I will learn everything about them and keep them running as long as I keep running. The beauty of the Sprint and Daytona is that they are almost exactly the same except for the bodywork, Single Sided Swingarm on the Daytona and dual sided on the Sprint and the fact that the crank, pistons, barrels and head on the daytona are different. Basically I have a spare clutch, starter motor, sprag clutch, gearbox, ECU, Exhausts, Throttle Bodies, Injectors and all the assorted sensors that will do either of them and, in extremis I can also temporarily cannibalise one to keep the other going and I have a full tank and bodywork spare for the Sprint. On the Bonnie Front I have two spare tanks, two front mudguards and a rear guard and, of course, should one die or go beyond repair it will serve to keep the other going. The highest miler is the Sprint at 25k with the Daytona at 16,500, one Bonnie on 16k and the other on 6 I figure that I should be able to get a minimum of around a quarter of a million miles use between them all and, at current rates that will be more miles than I will ever need.
@Don the Don I must admit that I am in awe of how calm and collected @Sarky B’stard is about the Sturgeon problem. Personally I would get immense satisfaction out of giving the disgusting, ugly, repulsive little troll a really, really hard kick in the cnut. One that will leave her girlfriend with nothing to eat.
@chas I think the four bikes are going to be my stable from now on - Two Bonnie's, Daytona and Sprint RS. The plan is that I will learn everything about them and keep them running as long as I keep running. The beauty of the Sprint and Daytona is that they are almost exactly the same except for the bodywork, Single Sided Swingarm on the Daytona and dual sided on the Sprint and the fact that the crank, pistons, barrels and head on the daytona are different. Basically I have a spare clutch, starter motor, sprag clutch, gearbox, ECU, Exhausts, Throttle Bodies, Injectors and all the assorted sensors that will do either of them and, in extremis I can also temporarily cannibalise one to keep the other going and I have a full tank and bodywork spare for the Sprint. On the Bonnie Front I have two spare tanks, two front mudguards and a rear guard and, of course, should one die or go beyond repair it will serve to keep the other going. The highest miler is the Sprint at 25k with the Daytona at 16,500, one Bonnie on 16k and the other on 6 I figure that I should be able to get a minimum of around a quarter of a million miles use between them all and, at current rates that will be more miles than I will ever need.
@Don the Don I must admit that I am in awe of how calm and collected @Sarky B’stard is about the Sturgeon problem. Personally I would get immense satisfaction out of giving the disgusting, ugly, repulsive little troll a really, really hard kick in the cnut. One that will leave her girlfriend with nothing to eat.
