Not much happening in the pub

Not much is happening in the pub these days, when Jerry started this Access Pub I thought it would be a big draw card, but it seems to only draw a small crowd, beer drinking and small talk, solving all the world problems, have a bitch about anything or having a laught at ourselfs, maybe everone is just to serous in whats happening around them these days, maybe its me not taking life serously enough, I take life as it comes day by day, not one for planning things, a mate asked me what I was doing next week and I told him ask me next week, yesturday I was cleaning out my lundary to repair the gas hot water system and today I am going to jack hammer the old concrete floor (70 years old) and I didn't see that coming at all and by the weekend laying a new floor by hand, at lease the beer fridge is full.

Ashley

I'm 73 and haven't got money to scratch myself with these days. I certainly cannot afford grog. We have a family thing going on which necessitates taking two babies over 200Km at the end of each fortnight to see their mum, and that along with solicitors' fees is running me short. The still haven't tried out the Seeley 850 with the 6 speed box, mainly because of the circuit, license and insurance fees. It won't always be like this, however at present it is a pain. - The joy of getting old ?

Afther taking a redundancy from my GOVT. job of 31 years (worked for TAFE QLD as a general hand) my position wasn't classed as a public servent (non public servent on my pay roll) and being born before 1960 I was able to get my SUPA at 55, so now I am living on a fornightly pesion of amount of my choose, I live a simple life and own everything, first year from my redundancy I lived off my redundancy pay out before taking the pension, I still have half of my redundancy money stashed away for bad times (didn't go crazy spending my redunancy money like most of my fellow work mates), I live on a budget from each fortnight, put away enough money each fortnight to cover all house hold bills except for food and of course beer, so after nearly 2 years semi retired I am loving life to the fullest, take each day as it comes and take the bikes out anytime I wish, I also have a few bike mates that are doing the same thing.
A simple life, no stress at all, no worries, as long as we have good food on the table, beer in the shed fridge, motorcycles to play with, life couldn't be better for me, now just got to get the kids to move out from home and on their own ways and life could get even better for mum and myself.

Ashley

Why not every one tell the funniest true story involving himself and a motorcycle? Ashman, you go first.

Slick

texasSlick said:

Why not every one tell the funniest true story involving himself and a motorcycle? Ashman, you go first.

Slick

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We might have to start a new topic on that one Slick and I am willing to start it off, after 40 years of riding dirt and road bikes I have been involved as well as seen some funny things on motorcycles, give me a while to go throught the old memiory bank to remember the funniest one, so many to remember and not so many brain cells left.

Ashley

Funny in retrospect, but scary at the time. I was riding the 650SS home from work the first day I got it back from the testing at Plumstead. Their test single carb set-up had been switched back to the regular twin carbs. I was threading my way through the evening rush hour in Wolverhampton, doing it UK style (overtaking when there was room for a bike rather than riding like I was in a car). I accelerated past a couple of cars then pulled in behind a double-decker bus. It was the older type with an open platform at the back, on the sidewalk side, for passenger access.

When I rolled back the throttle, the carbs jammed wide open. Fortunately the bike hd magneto ignition with a kill button. I hit the "kill" and braked as hard as I could, just getting down to the speed of the bus at about 2 feet away, then pulling over to the curb and stopping. I freed up the carb slides and rode home more gently. The next day, I found that whoever at Plumstead had put the carbs back on had got the slides in the wrong carbs. Since they were hand-lapped to fit when made and were specific to the body, the tighter one had jammed at wide open.

I don't think the passengers, waiting on the back platorm to get off at the next stop, realised how close they'd come to having a Norton board their bus!

Didn't happen to me but in our younger days we use to ride our dirt bikes out Samford way there was a hill climb that we all called Honda hill it was a very steep hill climb and wide with a few diffrent ways you could try to get up it but at one side there was a power pole my mate had a Suzzy ag bike that had high and low gear change he was climbing the hill when all of a sudden the throttle stuck on full and took off he was near the pole then all of a sudden the bike hit the pole it started to climb the pole while my mate was still on it, it climbed the pole a few feet then dropped back to the ground then climb the pole again, it did this about 6 times in quick session we were all down the bottom of the hill pissing our selfs was so funny till he fell off and snuffed the motor, this wasn't the best part when he picked the bike up he went to clutch start it when all of a sudden when it fired up it fired up backwoods and the bike ran in reverse back up the hill with my mate still on it, it didn't get far before it wiped my mate out and he rolled down the steep slope, it was so funny he was black and blue between his legs where the fuel tank cap got him in his never never bits, it was a very slow ride home for him that afternoon.

Ashley

Hi Ashley, Alan here from over in Samford. Could you phone me 32891699. regards

This thread ought to be re-named, as the original title won't generate as much interest...

I'll think of one of my better stories later-

Do people still visit pubs to have discussions, these days ? I was in a pub a few years ago and a guy started talking football at me. I told him I did not know anything about it, and he said ' so you are not a sporting person, what do you do ?' I said 'I road race motorcycles' - he mumbled something and walked away.

I was in a Rome a few years ago sitting outside a bar opposite the Vittriona. It has a large roundabout around the monument so we were people/traffic watching. Scooters are more prevalent and used as cars so we saw a few with shopping bags in the “footwell”, some with kids on the back or standing behind the bars etc but I almost choked when a big scooter (600 cc) came by with a female pilot, fella on the back, dog in the footwell - the lady had a baby strapped to her, breastfeeding as she rode around Rome!
I stood up in shock and the waiter cane to see what was up - I told him and his response, hey this is a Rome...

I'll go:
I've only been riding since 2015....got the bug at about the standard time (the day I turned 50 found myself in a Triumph Dealership asking how to get a license and falling for the retro Bonnevilles).
On my 2nd riding season, returning from first big 5 day trip, some 10 hrs East of home, my riding buddy & I spotted a cop car on far side of the highway, with the cop knelt down in front of front bumper. Thought to myself, that's a strange position to be in for catching speeders with a radar gun....checked my speed...right on the 100 KPH limit. My buddy passes him first with me no more that 1.5 sec behind....when I see something fly up across the road in front of me....followed by what seemed to be something slithering along the roadway just as I run over it. Another second or two transpired before I clue in I had just run over a spike strip!!! In stunned shock, I kinda freeze up, waiting for the expected death wobble or such to happen....but the cycling gods took pity on my newbie self and the bike just gently slowed up and I coasted to a stop at side of road uneventfully. As I step off bike, I see both tires fully flat....here's what I found in the tread:



Two hollow-fangs per tire. When asked why he pulled a strip in front of me, he says he'd thought he'd missed me and was trying to get an armed robbery suspect car coming the other way (I do now recall a car coming past the cop about when I did...it had veered a bit over the centerline into my lane). They arranged a flat bed truck to recover the bike and eventually we found a motobike shop open on this Monday (rare here) that also had right sized rubber and could do the work. Didn't get underway again until well past 7 pm....and didn't want to do a long ride into the night so did a lay over after 1 hour along the road.

Took 'em some 5 months before I received a reimbursement cheque for two new tires/tubes and overnight stay.

alans said:

Hi Ashley, Alan here from over in Samford. Could you phone me 32891699. regards

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Alan just sent you a PM

When I was 15 and brought my first dirt bike when I was at work my older brother use to hot wire it and take it out so one day I put a padlock around the rear chain so it hang on the chain losely, I got home from work that afternoon and my brother started to get up me, he had gravel rash all over his legs and told me why I put a padlock around the rear chain, what had happened was when he hotwired my bike he put in in gear and took off like a crazy person before the lock locked up the back wheel and spat him off, I pissed my self when he told me, moral of the story, don't steal my bike or suffer big time.
He spent most of his life doing crime but he always got caught as soon as the police got his discripition they knew who he was and he couldn't work it out, maybe being 6'9" tall and bright red hair and skinny as a rake gave him away, there is always a black sheep in the family and hes still band from my place as he only brings trouble where ever he goes.

Ashley

I pull apart the rear brakes on a ’78 Bonny and notice that the oversized rear tire the previous owner installed has been rubbing on the master cylinder, the rubbing caused heat which resulted in expansion, which caused the brakes to lock up all the more! I overhauled the master cylinder, reassembled everything, and checked to see that the alignment kept the tire clear of the M/C. Okey-dokey. I then proceeded to pull the bike out of the shop onto the gravel driveway, and fired it up. Two kicks and we’re in business! It was idling a bit high, so I cut off the choke, pulled in the clutch, dropped it into first gear and WHOA! I had forgotten about the sticky clutch! The bike took off on high idle and headed straight for a large orange tree (the kind with VERY large thorns on the trunks and branches) in the back yard; I managed to miss the tree, then it was a choice between hitting my wyfe’s parked car, or dropping the bike. I’m not THAT stupid. So off I go down the driveway, holding in the clutch, but it hasn't freed off yet. Here comes the end of the driveway, and I know I'm going too fast to make the turn; I just start to THINK about the brakes and next thing you know I'm on the ground. FINALLY I find the kill button (too late). Result – both left turn signals broken, busted (Lucas) headlight, torn left footpeg & grip. Dang, I hate when that happens.

Well it is Monday ..... sorry to hear it didn’t go well .... no injury to yourself is a plus !

Craig said:

Well it is Monday ..... sorry to hear it didn’t go well .... no injury to yourself is a plus !

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Too bad it was back in the days before cell phone video cameras; I'd LOVE to see that one on video...

The good old days when no one was around to see it or if they were we all get a good laugh but those days are gone and someone always has the Mobil out (cell phone to others) and everyone gets to see it, they are even making shows on TV for everyones mishaps, its all good fun till someone get hurt as my old man use to say.
The other day I pushed my Norton out of the shed and for some reason it slipped into gear I went to kick it and bang that hurt no one around but my two dogs had a weird look on their faces, I think they were laughing at me.

Ashley

Not much happening here in Arizona today as it is raining. So I brought up one of my favorite MC commercials of all time and thought that I'd share the link to it. Enjoy.

eskasteve said:

Not much happening here in Arizona today as it is raining. So I brought up one of my favorite MC commercials of all time and thought that I'd share the link to it. Enjoy.

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I have seen this one before , but still feel emotion when looking at it.