The Old Days

[r1ch4rd]

I thought when I bought my high tech Galaxy that we had arrived with 21st century built in reliability and looked forward to much pleasure and trouble free driving. But it seems I have been caught in a time warp (forward to the past) and that my Galaxy has taken the place of my good old BSA motorbike, you know the sort of thing oil leak, wiring fault, heater smoke, fuses,wheel bearing, aux water pump and red hot alternator connection and all this in 9 months.

Is this just bad luck or should I buy a garage?

If I carry on like this I will be a fully fledged mechanic!!

PS and broke!!

:D

[El Dingo]

I had a BSA too (a B25). Terrible electrics, dropped barrel liner, dropped valve guides, regular big end failure, gearbox selector spring failure, continuous oil leaks (which lubricated the footrest tapers, so the footrests rotated!), terrible brakes (single leading shoe drum). On the plus side, great noise from the single cylinder, great handling (I could easily trounce Suzuki GT's and Honda CB's around the twisty bits, only having trouble with Yamaha RD's).

 

Our Galaxy's been fine so far - apart from the auxilliary water pump... :D

[delboyt]

rich

 

you got a shed already

why get a garage aswell lol

 

i know the feeling with the gals

[Jeff115]

Sorry for your troubles, R1ch - maybe you've reached the end of the tunnel?

 

On the plus side, great noise from the single cylinder, great handling (I could easily trounce Suzuki GT's and Honda CB's around the twisty bits, only having trouble with Yamaha RD's).

Hi El D,

I was that RD - had a 350 LC, old type with only one paower band, typically kicing in aroud 5/6k revs - animal bike.

 

Remember popping a wheelie two up on it while dicing with another bike - would have been impressive if intended :blink:

 

Them be the days,

Jeff.

[Guest MATT jr]

Them be the days

back then, did you get locked up for protecting your home from thief's? fined for throwing a crisp out the window, fined for farting and wherever you went, were you always being watched by electronic eyes?

 

if not, i would like to visit such a place...

 

MJR

[r1ch4rd]

Jeff just to add insult to injury the good old cam belt is due for renewal, I feel another painfull bill coming on. :blink:

Anyway bikes, humour me for just for a bit longer:

My old BSA which as one of you said broke cranks all the time so I bought a spare crank so I could swap it out while the other was fixed.

I progressed to japanese bikes the most exillerating and risky bike I bought and one of you mentioned was an RD400 (race tuned). The engine was rough around town the power band and fuel consumption was frightening, pulling wheelies and spinning the rear wheel in the wet and could be likend to being suddenly flung up the road by an unseen huge hand. :huh: You've seen bikers with their nose on the handlebars, well I had to, to keep the front wheel in contact with the road. Anyway shortly after that I got married and her indoors thought I should sell it as she didn't want to be a widow.

From then on bikes were history and finally after various Fords and children and Vauxhalls I got the good old bad old Galaxy I love her despite her faults but she has such expensive tastes at the moment. :(

[Jeff115]

Them be the days

back then, did you get locked up for protecting your home from thief's? fined for throwing a crisp out the window, fined for farting and wherever you went, were you always being watched by electronic eyes?

 

if not, i would like to visit such a place...

 

MJR

Hi Matt,

em, no, no, definitely not for farting :o and no such thing as CCTV though in some cases the big brother method is warranted nowadays.

 

risky bike I bought and one of you mentioned was an RD400 (race tuned). The engine was rough around town the power band and fuel consumption was frightening, pulling wheelies and spinning the rear wheel in the wet and could be likend to being suddenly flung up the road by an unseen huge hand.

R1ch, yes, the old RD400 predecessor to the RD350LC, which I had the pleasure of :o and which in turn was followed by the 350 Power Valve (2 power bands AFAIC) then there was a 500 Power Valve, I think - serious and raw bikes ;)

 

Hmm I think that my Toner leather jacket is still in the loft...

Later,

Jeff.

:o

Oh nuts, I must have been a lot skinnier then :lol:

[El Dingo]

The nutty one was the YR5. That was before reed valves... :blink:

[r1ch4rd]

Matt you mentioned big brother, I know what you mean, cameras round my works and site, card ID to get in and out, log on for network, PC remote audited & monitored for useage.

Freedom? It's an illusion.

Criminals don't even have to break in to your house to rob you either.

There's the battle with Phishers, spoofers, hackers, trojans (some hidden on dodgy web pages as a link/button to catch the unwary), viruses & Microsoft security flaws.

Every other day I get an email asking me to check and re-enter my details by logging onto ebay or other bank etc on what seems to be the real site.

I have got ino the habbit of testing these aparent log in pages by putting a user name like "youmustbe" and a password of "joking" to test the login and irritate the Phishers.

What a world we live in.

 

:D

[Guest mattkaye]

R1ch

 

You are very polite with the phishers!!

 

I normally use Fu**You and Wan**rs as my user name and password :D

[Ronnie W.]

Big brother huh

At our work they have just installed a clock in machine you put your hand in and it reads your hand map and you punch in your clock munber

[s2will]

Copy of a post from today from the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health

 

http://www.iosh.co.uk/index.cfm?go=discuss...ad=19808&page=1

 

 

"

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

 

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops, or wooden Scholls, or black plimsoles and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

 

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

 

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

 

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

 

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

 

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

 

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded..

 

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

 

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

 

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

 

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no law-suits.

 

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

 

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

 

We walked to friends' homes.

 

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

 

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

 

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood (ahhhh the memory!)

 

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

 

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

 

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

 

We have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

 

For those of you who aren't old enough thought you might like to read about us. "

 

them were the days.............

I never did get those brakes working on the bogey....and I never had spokey dokeys, just bits of plastic or card attached to my forks with a clothes pin to turn it from a grifter into a harley.

[AndeeeH]

 

"

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

 

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops, or wooden Scholls, or black plimsoles and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

 

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

 

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

 

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

 

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

 

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

 

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded..

 

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

 

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

 

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

 

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no law-suits.

 

We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

 

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

 

We walked to friends' homes.

 

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

 

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

 

We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood (ahhhh the memory!)

 

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.

 

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

 

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

 

We have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.

 

For those of you who aren't old enough thought you might like to read about us. "

 

them were the days.............

I never did get those brakes working on the bogey....and I never had spokey dokeys, just bits of plastic or card attached to my forks with a clothes pin to turn it from a grifter into a harley.

With a tear slowly rolling down my cheek I'll second that!! ;) Andy.

[katman]

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We used to push droplets of Mercury around on the benches of the science lab

 

We also used to throw pieces of concrete faced asbestos sheeting onto bonfires because it made a fantastic noise when it exploded.

 

We used to put potatoes in the embers of the same bonfires to cook them.

 

I'm surprised I'm still here !!!!!

 

Worst that happened to me was that I broke my left arm twice falling off my bike. If that happened today I would be able to contact one of those nice people who advertise on TV because of the bloody great pothole that sent me and my bike in different directions. I missed Blue Peter because of that ;)

[mumof4]

I remember making my own kite out of a plastic bag,2 twigs and string! :D

 

 

I remember always getting into fights with boys over my name and protecting my little brother :D

 

 

I remember climbing trees to the highest branch,then dangling upside down and flipping off the branch to land on my feet!!!! ;)

[mumof4]

(and i was never allowed to watch telly and i used to roam everywhere!!)

 

 

If i ever catch my kids doing the things i did......it dont bare thinking about in todays day and age!! ;)

[gregers]

wot u were called mum of 4 way back then aswell? ;) :D :D

[mumof4]

Oh the taunts i got at school over my name!!!!didn't help that there was a lad called Robin at the school either!!!!! :D

 

Anyway....im only 32..(i think, lose track after a while..i was convinced i was only 30!!) ;)

 

 

 

Marian.

[Bigjeeze]

So when were you Made, Marian? 1973!!!! ;) :D

[mumof4]

OOOOHHHH....my but you are witty!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

 

 

 

C'mere and say that!!!!!!! ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.s...Least i was only BORN in 1973!!and not at school or working!! :D :D

[Bigjeeze]

Ooooh you know how to hurt an old man don't you? :D

 

I was just going to college in 1973 having just left school. Maybe I knew your Mum? ;) :D

[mumof4]

doubt it..she was 23 and wed!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

Besides....shed know better!! :P

[El Dingo]

Ooooh you know how to hurt an old man don't you? :P

 

I was just going to college in 1973 having just left school. Maybe I knew your Mum? :lol: :lol:

Oh good, you're older than me! I went to college in 1976. :lol: