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He rang me up and said that it bump started going down the hill so he managed to get it back home! Ordered new battery for it now!

No.....of course it's not the budget parts bin special! That POS will probably outlast every other bike on this forum.......because Stroms are like turds that you can't flush! The breakdown is one of those fashionable high price Euro bikes (KTM 690) owned by a Dutch mate of mine! It failed the ITV (MOT) at the testing station just down the road.....then it wouldn't start. So he pushed it here hoping I had jump leads! Which I didn't! He's now off to push it down the hill to a car garage that he uses and see if they can do something. I'd just phone the Recovery Service included in my insurance and get it dropped off at Juan Cortes bike shop! But what do I know? It's true what they say......buy Jap or get fucked up the ass!

Kawasaki ownership does that to you Tym!

Yeh.......and they weren't needed! It was just a frayed wire.

Seen this @Sir Fallsalot......this guy got done up like a kipper!

I managed to have no spillage disasters today Fred! Very unusual! The worst to do are the XT600's with the oil in the frame. Virtually impossible to do those without some sort of spillage. Well I've never managed it!

That's a Kawasaki all right......looks like they used the leftover paint, and probably a few parts, and built the KLV1000.

You're going to buy another Kawasaki?

I jammed the oil filter socket on the old filter.......so she had to advise how to get it off!

We're also looking for the DA facepalm smilie Dave!

Word!

I'm sure they design stuff like this so people have to take bikes into the dealers. So it generates a continual revenue stream for their sales outlets and ensures they stay in business.

It's not progress is it Clive?

This one was done at 36,600 kms.......next one 39k kms. So that'll be 2400 kms / 1500 miles.......probably around December I'd say! At 40k kms I'll be taking it into Juan Cortes for new plugs (it's got 4) and new air filter! That was an easy job in the old days.......now it's remove tank, and all plastics! FFS!

And I managed to get Motul this time! What a difference......engine purrs and tickover has dropped! Now I know you can always feel a difference when you change the oil.......as it's old v new. But the Repsol had only been in there for 5 months, and had done only 1800kms/1100 miles. Surprisingly, all went well.....no disasters! Except for managing to burn my finger on the downpipe!

I was young and reckless back then Tym! I cringe thinking back to some of the shit I got up too!

I was a Salesman in Currys 72-73 and now and again I'd have to go out in the van.....either Transit or Escort. So the local girls' school was on the itinerary. One time I picked up two birds in the Escort.....they got in the back and I wheelspun away from the school. They flew backwards and went flying out the back door onto the road. I left them there and carried on as if nothing had happened. Cos that's the way I rolled back then! Thinking about it.......nothing much has changed since! Except if I hung around girls' school at my age I'd get put on the Sex Offenders Register! ? While I was doing ungentlemanly shit in Swansea back then I've no doubt that @Renegade was doing the same thing in Cardiff! The teeth days were good times Phil!

You were wheel spinning the van outside girls' schools then Clive?

Closing this now as the Poll has finished! But on the last week of the month @Pedro will start the July BOTM.

So retirement's going well then Clive?

You've had that some years Yen!

On the money Mess!