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[Earache]

It's a fuckin' heat wave here today with heat warnings out =high of 66F / 18C.....

[Pedro]

Turns out my bike's gearbox is coming apart, at least to replace bearings. It's me fucked as I really would rather not ride anything else than my bike.

Really disappointed with this. On the other hand, once it's back together it might be something to never touch again.

Now to figure out what to do.

[boboneleg]

 

[Buckster]

8 hours ago, boboneleg said:

 

Gay.

[boboneleg]

1 hour ago, Buckster said:

Gay

[busabeast]

On 29/08/2024 at 12:08, Six30 said:

Let’s start a poll … what bike should Pedro borrow , I think he is a Honda man deep down and his mate has one he is not using and there is nothing wrong with the bmw clutch …

 

im right ant i 

i think he should get a yamaha fs1e

[Six30]

8 hours ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

did you run in the shop and get ice cream ?

[Buckster]

2 hours ago, Six30 said:

did you run in the shop and get ice cream ?

They look like they have eaten a hell of a lot of ice cream.

[Six30]

46 minutes ago, Buckster said:

They look like they have eaten a hell of a lot of ice cream.

you would

[Buckster]

45 minutes ago, Six30 said:

you would

You can’t see their faces, they probably have moustache’s, in which case, you would.

[Six30]

7 minutes ago, Buckster said:

You can’t see their faces, they probably have moustache’s, in which case, you would.

[Pedro]

So, I have gotten a rental GS to take to Italy next week. I will be leaving a few days later and making more of a dash to Milan. Probably now not doing any of the mountain passes I wanted to do on the way there since I am not too keen on putting a rental bike offroad, doing that not on my own bike doesn’t have the same appeal.

Am very miffed with it, and am considering buying a second bike in the coming months or year. Would have gotten one now in a hurry, but there’s no way I would have the paperwork done in time for the trip.

[Pedro]

Plus, since the gearbox is coming out, the bearings will be replaced and things will be inspected for wear and changed accordingly, and the timing chains will also be inspected and if over half of slack tolerance they’ll be changed too.

Bike should be good for a while after all that, at 122.000 now.

[Buckster]

35 minutes ago, Pedro said:

So, I have gotten a rental GS to take to Italy next week. I will be leaving a few days later and making more of a dash to Milan. Probably now not doing any of the mountain passes I wanted to do on the way there since I am not too keen on putting a rental bike offroad, doing that not on my own bike doesn’t have the same appeal.

Am very miffed with it, and am considering buying a second bike in the coming months or year. Would have gotten one now in a hurry, but there’s no way I would have the paperwork done in time for the trip.

What paperwork do you need?

[Pedro]

10 minutes ago, Buckster said:

What paperwork do you need?

I need the title in my name, when you buy a vehicle here you change owner and it takes a week or two before the new title arrives. During that time you have a temporary document, but that is only valid inside Portugal.

I could go with someone else’s bike as long as I had the title in my hands, but when you buy it the previous owner wants the registration changed immediately, obviously.

[Buckster]

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I need the title in my name, when you buy a vehicle here you change owner and it takes a week or two before the new title arrives. During that time you have a temporary document, but that is only valid inside Portugal.

I'm surprised you still need that within the EU.

[Pedro]

Just now, Buckster said:

I'm surprised you still need that within the EU.

You always need a vehicle’s current registration. While that is being changed the previous document isn’t valid.

[Buckster]

Just now, Pedro said:

You always need a vehicle’s current registration. While that is being changed the previous document isn’t valid.

I just assumed your EU overlords would have it all available electronically.

[Pedro]

15 minutes ago, Buckster said:

I just assumed your EU overlords would have it all available electronically.

[Buckster]

35 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Just saying, I don't need to carry mine if I go to England, Wales or Northern Ireland, there would be no point if you go to Wales because they can't read there anyway

[Pedro]

1 hour ago, Buckster said:

Just saying, I don't need to carry mine if I go to England, Wales or Northern Ireland, there would be no point if you go to Wales because they can't read there anyway

That’s very nice.

[Saul]

3 hours ago, Pedro said:

am considering buying a second bike in the coming months or year. Would have gotten one now in a hurry, but there’s no way I would have the paperwork done in time for the trip.

There's the answer 

[Six30]

4 hours ago, Pedro said:

I need the title in my name, when you buy a vehicle here you change owner and it takes a week or two before the new title arrives. During that time you have a temporary document, but that is only valid inside Portugal.

I could go with someone else’s bike as long as I had the title in my hands, but when you buy it the previous owner wants the registration changed immediately, obviously.

where does the temporary paperwork appear from ?

[YamaHead]

Heat blast is back this weekend....90+F for the next few days. The Misses & I are leaving by lunchtime on Monday for Jubilee lake....just as those temps start to back down.

Managed to get a kwik ride in this morning, before it got stoopid Hot again...

 

[busabeast]

so today i changed the plugs on the busa which actually turned out to be very easy, shops were trying to tell me that it was a 2-2 half hour job but did myself in less than half that and now its running sweet as a nut.

win win id say