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Oh bugger... again.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 2:01 pm
by Exile
I'd just had a new back tyre fitted to Thumper. The workshop did a great job but they put greasy finger marks all over Thumper so I decided he needed a polish up and got to it on the lawn in glorious sunshine. Job done, I took him off the centre stand and promptly dropped the bike due to a simple loss of balance. Lesson learned, never get him off the stand unless you are astride the bike.
Here's the resulting injury.. It snapped like the proverbial carrot. Scratch one brake lever.
New one has been ordered...
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:07 pm
by Bertie the Bullet
Bummer, never good when something like this happens, hope that's the only damage.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:21 pm
by 1950s Bulleteer
It's a bummer when that happens, and expensive too. After the first couple of times I always kept the bracket done up just tight enough to keep the lever in the right place, but loose enough to twist round the handlebar if knocked. The MOT guys always seem to take exception to this and make me tighten them up, but of course they know I will simply correct it after leaving LOL.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:41 pm
by apparently lucky eddie
...just had a pair of new tyres - K82's - fitted on Lucy the Tiger 90. Sooo nice to be rid of the awful Contimentals!
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:00 pm
by Exile
No Earl, there was no beer involved.. just my own stupidity. £35 odd to get it replaced but hey ho.. one lives and learns.
Chalk one up to experience.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:23 pm
by Scalyback
Poor Thumper.
He didn't 'handle' that to well then?
I will be away in Somerset for a few days, so may be out of touch (internetly, not the usual brain dead).
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 10:01 pm
by Exile
Somerset! My home county. God's garden...
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 12:00 pm
by MickB
Hi Exile, definitely a bugger. I've nearly lost mine a couple of times getting it off the centre stand. Being a bit of a short-arse with short-arse legs I find it really hard to get the bike on and off the centre stand while sitting astride it. Is there a knack to it?
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 1:06 pm
by Exile
MickB.. I've no problems rocking him off the centre stand while I'm sitting on the saddle but there is no way I can put him on the centre stand without dismounting first. I'm a six-footer with a 30" inside leg....
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 3:31 pm
by Mark M
Exile, silly boy! What about this, from the Accessory Catalogue, "Lifting Handle part no. 521107" could save a red face! REgards, Mark