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  1. 28th July 2007, 08:13 PM #1
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    Things we do to save money

    Well I did the call around to get tyres for my motorbike and kept getting this extra $100 to fit them to my bike if I didnt take the wheels off my self. So me being a tight arsed ***** though well bugger you lot I will fit them myself and pay $12 for tyre levers. Sounds like a thoughtful and logical plan doesnt it. Well **** me the only way I got the bastards on was out of pure frustration leading to super human strength to lever these *****s into place. After the first 1/2 hour of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole the family went into hiding for fear of copping a tyre iron to the head after it bounced off the fence. Well after a final expressed scream of anger I built up enough of the good stuff to get that last bit of bead over the rim and have now decided to spend the rest of the night trying to forget the pain and suffering through numerous glasses of Jack Daniels and the solemn knowledge that next time I will pay the extra $100 dollars and let some other bastard cop this pain

    Unfortunatley I have only got the front on an want to go riding tomorrow, being Sunday I will have to fit the rear myself in the morning
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  2. 28th July 2007, 08:35 PM #2
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    Do you want to know that the front one's the easy one?
    If you don't, tell me and I won't tell you
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  3. 28th July 2007, 08:35 PM #3
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    There is nothing wrong with doing things on the jew, hell I am tighter then a duck backend when it comes to mechanics, I hate them all, to my own defence I had ten years on the tools so I dont mind getting dirty, that money saved on labour could be better spent on other things like buying more restoration part, beer, paint, beer, wheel bearings, grease and more beer, I just redid all my brakes including master and clutch hydraulics and spent all up 60 bux this covered me for various cylinder cups and boots, a new clutch master and fluid, why replace cylinders that just need a hone and 4 bux worth of rubber ware and some elbow grease, I appreciate we aint all mech minded though I cant see how one can own a series and not be capable of fixing it, they is pretty basic except for the yucky wiring in the 2 and 2a, the wiring in my 3 needed a right royal blessing but its all good now, as things flake out I replace the system with my own wiring and it stays good, so being a tight **** has its merits, should be more of it and less of this 50 bux an hour labour bull shizer, all in all i enjoy working on my 3 problem is getting enuff time and now its raining again its harder still coz I am outside, oh well
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  4. 28th July 2007, 08:37 PM #4
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    I should also say I know very not much about bike tyres so make of that what u will, just in case u thought what the hell is he on about
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldzook View Post
    Do you want to know that the front one's the easy one?
    If you don't, tell me and I won't tell you
    My mum told me if I didnt have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all
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    Quote Originally Posted by landyfromanuthaland View Post
    I should also say I know very not much about bike tyres so make of that what u will, just in case u thought what the hell is he on about

    Dont worry, I enjoy doing work myself, but when items are designed not to fit its worthwhile paying some other bugger to do it
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    If somone says to me its $50 and will be done in an hour, and i know that it will take me 4hours, then i say do it, i'll go to work for 4 hours and earn $220 and i come out in front. Sometimes its just easier for me personally to do it that way.
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    LOL
    Ok have you done them before?
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    No, but I have changed plenty of push bike tyres
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  10. 28th July 2007, 09:36 PM #10
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    Ah I see your point, but my point is I am a pensioner with a stuffed heart and crushed lungs, so I have become rather adapt at doing things onthe cheap with the very limited funds I have available, people are constantly amazed how I do it but you adapt to your own circumstances and make do and you become a very good scrounger, when I start workin on my little series 1 will have to spin up a few miracles somehow we will get there,
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