... The bad...
Apr. 26th, 2005 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenGot the BMW sidecar outfit back on Friday, after 14 months in for repairs. I've had to buy a whole replacement bike to get a gearbox for mine, and the time has not been kind to it - the chair's windscreen has now totally collapsed and it's looking even more tired and shabby than ever. It was great to be able to go to a new, more distant supermarket and try some new stuff without having to worry about how to get it home, though.
So on Sunday, I decided to take a somewhat reluctant![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
technofairy down to the pub in Croydon. It's silly that normally the poor girl has to drive me around, when I don't drink and she does - but can't. This way is much fairer.
Snag is, it was running really roughly on the way there and on the way back it died altogether. I managed to get it started again, half way back from Croydon, but it died again on the edge of Mitcham - handily close to my local bike shop, so I just coasted up onto their forecourt - and we had to walk back. Nearly a year and a quarter and a £450 bill and it's still not working.
The chap that did the work is going to come and have a look at it later this week - he thinks a replacement petrol tank and new fuel lines will sort it. Also, tomorrow I should get my H100 back, fixed and MOTed after the entertainment of the chain coming off, snapping and locking the back wheel last week - on my way to Croydon once again, as it happened.
And it looks like the aforementioned local dealers have managed to locate another engine for the ZZR. Why do these things always all come along at once? The bank account isn't going to stand this... A couple of them are going to have to go...
So on Sunday, I decided to take a somewhat reluctant
technofairy down to the pub in Croydon. It's silly that normally the poor girl has to drive me around, when I don't drink and she does - but can't. This way is much fairer.Snag is, it was running really roughly on the way there and on the way back it died altogether. I managed to get it started again, half way back from Croydon, but it died again on the edge of Mitcham - handily close to my local bike shop, so I just coasted up onto their forecourt - and we had to walk back. Nearly a year and a quarter and a £450 bill and it's still not working.
The chap that did the work is going to come and have a look at it later this week - he thinks a replacement petrol tank and new fuel lines will sort it. Also, tomorrow I should get my H100 back, fixed and MOTed after the entertainment of the chain coming off, snapping and locking the back wheel last week - on my way to Croydon once again, as it happened.
And it looks like the aforementioned local dealers have managed to locate another engine for the ZZR. Why do these things always all come along at once? The bank account isn't going to stand this... A couple of them are going to have to go...
