Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 326718 times)

kwackboy · « **Reply #3760 on:** March 07, 2024, 17:51:46 »

Some of this years questions were about side cars and custom builds.

Think I've been a tester for around 16 years now, I don't think I've ever tested either..

Brockett · « **Reply #3761 on:** March 07, 2024, 17:58:06 »

No .... I did the on-line test. Just for see what they were asking.

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #3762 on:** March 07, 2024, 21:42:23 »

Keep quiet Brockett - you might end up in Rwanda

Brockett · « **Reply #3763 on:** March 08, 2024, 09:00:13 »

Brockett · « **Reply #3764 on:** March 17, 2024, 10:05:05 »

We've had that much rain lately that I think it'll be two weeks without rain before the water company call it a drought instead of the usual ten days.

2112 · « **Reply #3765 on:** March 18, 2024, 08:02:38 »

The dreaded Council tax bill has arrived - £3,510 !!! Less for more from the Council monopoly, if only other walks of life could get away with that business model...

TLPower · « **Reply #3766 on:** March 18, 2024, 08:12:41 »

Ditto, but road fund for the bike is now £111.00

2112 · « **Reply #3767 on:** March 18, 2024, 09:11:28 »

I know, it's crazy for bikes. We have 2 x EVs which are £0 per annum tax and the bike is £111, madness...

Rixington43 · « **Reply #3768 on:** March 18, 2024, 09:29:07 »

Pre or post 2017 EVs?
The bike may be back to a bargain next April depending on the above

Upt North · « **Reply #3769 on:** March 18, 2024, 09:29:25 »

There's only two certainties in life.
Death and taxes. Unfortunately the only way to pay less tax is to die earlier, but yes they tax that too.

2112 · « **Reply #3770 on:** March 18, 2024, 09:40:38 »

Quote from: Rixington43 on March 18, 2024, 09:29:07

Pre or post 2017 EVs?

They both go more than 60 miles so post 2017... I'm led to believe it will be £180 per annum, which is fair enough to be honest. We've had 6 and 5 years respectively tax free, so can't complain really. I did see (I think on Sky news ?) that all tax categories would be going up in 2025. Of course, a lot will depend on which muppets get elected in...

The Doctor 46 · « **Reply #3771 on:** March 18, 2024, 13:51:51 »

I drive a 1.5liter car and pay no road tax. I don't quite understand why not but I'm very happy to renew my road tax every year for free instead of the £250 ish it cost for my last car. As for going electric, NEVER! Somethings I won't change, I was forced away from 2 stroke but I'm not going to give up the liquid fuelled engine. I don't think that in the long run, the electric way is as good as some people think.

kwackboy · « **Reply #3772 on:** March 18, 2024, 19:42:56 »

Quote from: 2112 on March 18, 2024, 08:02:38

The dreaded Council tax bill has arrived - £3,510 !!!

Geez ... you live in a big house ..?

StromGeeza · « **Reply #3773 on:** March 18, 2024, 21:11:36 »

Quote from: kwackboy on March 18, 2024, 19:42:56

Geez ... you live in a big house ..?

Ours is only just less than that... But its good to know the rich folks in their £10 million manor homes have to pay another few hundred each year on top of what we lesser mortals are stumping up.

2112 · « **Reply #3774 on:** March 19, 2024, 17:25:30 »

Big house ? It's only got a downstairs for heavens sake...

Brockett · « **Reply #3775 on:** March 19, 2024, 20:34:35 »

12 years ago today on the 19th March 2012, riding my brand new that morning GSR750, I was knocked off it. The bike landed in the opposite side hedge and I landed in hospital.
Two weeks later I asked the surgeon who operated on my hand
"when do you think I'll be able to ride again"?
"Ride again"? ..... "why would you want to ride again"?
"It's what I do"
And it still is and I still love it.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #3776 on:** March 19, 2024, 20:50:48 »

Non-riders will never understand. After a fairly unpleasant crash (caused entirely by Mrs. Sonia Hartley ) in 1985, family and friends were asking if I was going to "pack in" riding and stick to a car. I asked them if they'd had a car accident would they pack in with cars and buy a tank.

NeilM · « **Reply #3777 on:** March 20, 2024, 07:08:38 »

At the start of the summer of 1976, my mate Birdy was riding way too fast down Nailsea High Street with me on the back when a car pulled out.

I spent the entire summer in hospital with my left leg in traction and after 8 hours of surgery I left the BRI on crutches with my left leg plastered from toe to mid thigh.

My my insisted that I sell my first 'BIG' bike an ex Police Triumph T100P, which went to my mate Colin.

Once I could walk and drive again I bought, under duress, a Ford Cortina Mk2. A month later it was sold and the money spent on a 1968 Triumph Bonneville.

2112 · « **Reply #3778 on:** March 22, 2024, 09:05:42 »

I Had a nasty accident at work about 15 years ago (a fight with an 11kV circuit breaker, it went to the judges and a points descision, but I lost..). While recovering, the subject of motorbikes came up and how dangerous they were (according to my family). I mentioned that no one has said to stop working ? Peoples perception of danger is based on their own insecurities and fears a lot of the time. Working in a live Primary Substation there are loads of things to kill you, never mind how you got there.

Pannier Down · « **Reply #3779 on:** March 22, 2024, 22:47:02 »

Diagnosed with cancer at 36, the NHS did a good job of fixing me up but during my treatment, the wife told the consultant that I still ride my motorbike. She wasn't pleased and noted that if I threw myself at the scenery, a poor outcome would impact her survival rates. I told her that riding the bike made me feel alive, which seemed important at that moment. 53 now and still in remission and still get the same feeling every time I twist the throttle.