The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

Xantia speakers are notoriously weak, having flimsy paper cones, it doesn't matter how quietly you play stuff. Take the opportunity to fit something more robust.

You wanna see the ones in Rover 800s (possibly other Rovers too) paper cone (admittedly strong) is held onto the speaker surround with thin sponge which of course goes brittle over time and all you end up with is farty crappy sounds. I changed the speakers in one my Mk1s some years ago and it sounded thousands of times better. Can't remember which car or where those speakers went. I'm pretty sure (hope) I took 'em out.

 

Vauxhalls seem to have the best factory set-up in-car sounds in my opinion.

[Cavcraft]

So, if I go to work on a bike with BFO tyres, down the lanes not long after hedge cutting and it's 6.00am and it's dark, and nothing happens, how come I can ride in the broad daylight on a bike with thin tyres only on main roads and get a f*ck*ng puncture?

Helpfully* this occurred after I knackered my only spare tube because it had one of those spazzy extra long valves that always bends when you put a pump on them.

[Richard]

Because Continental?

[Cavcraft]

That's the rub: they're Gaitorskins with the puncture resistant lining

[Richard]

I find Continental tyres extremely prone to punctures, especially the ones that claim to be puncture resistant.

 

More than half the rides I've started on Continentals have ended with a forlorn walk home.

[cort16]

This isn't good hopefully they'll track them down. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often when you think about it as you're arranging to meet someone you don't know carrying a lot of cash.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-32232936

[vulgalour]

Had a look at that speaker that appeared to be broken.  Took it out, put it back in, all is good and now the distortion is gone.  As a result, I now have a jingling noise as if a Lindt bunny is trapped in the dashboard.  That doesn't even seem normal for Citroen.

[xtriple]

Fucking dog!

[vulgalour]

No, he's sat on the floor next to me so I know he's not stuck in the dashboard jingling.  Not sure he'd fit anyway.

[fordperv]

I took my freshly refurbished wheels to the wheel shop to have some new tyres put on, the gaffa told the lad be careful these have been refurbished, what does he go and do he drops the inflator on the face of the first wheel he did giving an inch chip to the face, i wasn't too pleased, the gaffa knows my painter who did them and told me to take the wheel back and get the painter to ring him with how much and he will pay for the wheel to be done again, I'm still grumpy about it though

[oldcars]

I took my freshly refurbished wheels to the wheel shop to have some new tyres put on, the gaffa told the lad be careful these have been refurbished, what does he go and do he drops the inflator on the face of the first wheel he did giving an inch chip to the face, i wasn't too pleased, the gaffa knows my painter who did them and told me to take the wheel back and get the painter to ring him with how much and he will pay for the wheel to be done again, I'm still grumpy about it though

bad news. I got new tyres a few years back and the tyre shop almost frizby'd one of my wheel trims, scratched all the face of it i was raging.

[Skizzer]

This isn't good hopefully they'll track them down. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often when you think about it as you're arranging to meet someone you don't know carrying a lot of cash.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-32232936

 

Very not good.  The number of times I've taken a fat(-ish) wodge of cash, met someone at a station, got in their car... and it's not like Gumtree runs background checks.  

[dave21478]

This isn't good hopefully they'll track them down. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often when you think about it as you're arranging to meet someone you don't know carrying a lot of cash.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-32232936

 

Fucking trash.

The sooner we get some Judge Dredd style justice with on-the-spot executions, the better.

[Bren]

Why do people sell used camshafts?

 

Another rover V 8 item on eBay - "should be ok with a new set of followers "

 

It wont, because the lobes already have wear and will damage the tappet faces.

 

A ratners necklace will last longer.

[MrDuke]

That's the rub: they're Gaitorskins with the puncture resistant lining

 

IME tyres and tubes that are marketed as puncture-proof seem, if anything, more prone to flats. It may be because in making them more resistant to sharp damage, they're more vulnerable to pinch/snakebite punctures. Or vice versa.

[RayMK]

IME tyres and tubes that are marketed as puncture-proof seem, if anything, more prone to flats. It may be because in making them more resistant to sharp damage, they're more vulnerable to pinch/snakebite punctures. Or vice versa.

My son regularly commutes 18 miles each way by pushbike. He is quite hefty (16stone), so tyres have a hard time avoiding pinch type flats on his road bike and sharp punctures on his hybrid and mountain bikes.  He recommends Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres for the hybrid (never had a puncture in thousands of miles)(but not available for road/racer sizes), tubeless Schwalbe tyres for the mountain bike (no punctures since fitted recently and hundreds of miles), and for his road bike he uses Tannus puncture proof tyres for most commutes (almost indestructable because they are not pneumatic but plastic foam filled).  The downside with Tannus tyres is that they are difficult to fit and take slightly more effort to ride on because of the way the hard inner filling responds to deformation.  He uses Gaterskins for longer rides on the road bike (50-100 miles).  Just to add a bit of grumpiness to this post, I'm sick of tripping over bikes and cycle clothing all round the house - and the lights!!!  £80!!!  What's wrong with a Miller dynamo FFS?

[MrDuke]

Out of interest, what stops the Tannus tyres rolling off when cornering hard? Or do they need special rims?

[Cavcraft]

I've had puncture proof tubes in my last mountain bike, one worked very well, the other didn't! I like the grip the Conti's give me hence fitting them, the standard ones were those Vittoria things, the sort of cycling equivalent of Stomhils.

[beko1987]

Me and swmbo went to asda with both cars just now as we both needed fuel. Coming back someone overtook me very stupidly then nearly rear ended Amy when he tried to do her.

 

I'll keep it simple and say I very nearly rammed the cunt there and then but then I saw his towbar and I'm gonna have a fag now and calm down...

[richardmorris]

I've got Swalbe marathon plus with slime filled inner tubes on my hybrid. About 2,000 miles since fitting 6months ago and no punctures so far.

 

It also helps to keep tyres inflated to top pressures. Helps them skip over sharp objects rather than grind into them.

[RayMK]

Out of interest, what stops the Tannus tyres rolling off when cornering hard? Or do they need special rims?

They are retained on the rim by a combination of elastic tension and plastic location pegs which snap into the bead retainer on the wheel. It takes brute force or special tools to put them on.  The recommended removal  method is to cut them off.

[jakebullet]

Went to the cinema tonight. One showing only of blade runner : the final cut. As I wasn't 15 in 1982 I couldn't pass the chance of seeing it up, but boy does it reinforce what a total spacktard I am. I don't handle a packed cinema remotely well, and the bastards have made it allocated seating so you can't escape.

 

Also coming back on a totally empty motorway and there's some twat sat in the middle lane doing 40. Thought about it for a smidge and undertook him.

[cms206]

Had to drop a bus off on the other side of town this morning to get one of the doors rebuilt. Gaffer is driving until 1pm, decided to publicly transport myself back, a journey of 50 minutes into town then 25 minutes out of town to the depot.. helpfully the big bus company doesn't run to the same town our depot is in so either way I need to change in town. Gets on the bus.

 

"Hello, how much is a day ticket?"

"6 pounds and some change, exact fare only, no change given."

 

I have a £20 note and a fiver in smash.

 

"How much is a single into town?"

 

[wuvvum]

Why the fuck are bloody Tesco and Sainsburys lorries still grinding along at 40mph on single carriageways?  Got stuck behind yet another one this morning (third time this week) - overtaking a line of 6 cars and an artic on a busy A-road on a Chinese 125 is not a lot of fun - although more fun than the alternative of being whinged at for getting to work late.

[cros]

Met a mate for a chat at a local pub last night. Loud moronic rock music was streamed through crappy disco speakers from someone's mobile, interrupted with squeaks and clicks each time the cretin took a call. A 9 year old kid shovelled at huge plate of chips and swigged a PINT of orange fizz as she stared at a cartoon bellowing out of her tablet, her lardy mother stuffing down a burger and constantly poking at her phone. Idiocracy, The Great British Pub experience.

[andy18s]

Why the fuck are bloody Tesco and Sainsburys lorries still grinding along at 40mph on single carriageways? Got stuck behind yet another one this morning (third time this week) - overtaking a line of 6 cars and an artic on a busy A-road on a Chinese 125 is not a lot of fun - although more fun than the alternative of being whinged at for getting to work late.

Around here its Muller and Wiseman dairy wagons who trundle around at 40,usually less though as most of the drivers are agency and have been Told to keep the fuel consumption down

Never mind that No one can get past these feckers on the bendy roads around here.

It's good to be using the bike more as I'm able to "make progress" whilst the sheep are happy to plod along

[cms206]

Had to drop a bus off on the other side of town this morning to get one of the doors rebuilt. Gaffer is driving until 1pm, decided to publicly transport myself back, a journey of 50 minutes into town then 25 minutes out of town to the depot.. helpfully the big bus company doesn't run to the same town our depot is in so either way I need to change in town. Gets on the bus.

 

"Hello, how much is a day ticket?"

"6 pounds and some change, exact fare only, no change given."

 

I have a £20 note and a fiver in smash.

 

"How much is a single into town?"

 

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Bus number 2... City Centre to Barrhead... £4.35 single, £3.80 day ticket. Thankfully change is given on this service.

 

I thought driving buses was bollocks but jesus christ this is fucking grim.

[EssDeeWon]

^^ Local buses down here are also very expensive, its actually cheaper to drive my V6 into town and pay for parking than it is to get a bus.

 

People in this country will NEVER drop their cars for public transport, most expensive in Europe apparently! That goes for trains and buses.

[HH-R]

"No change given" is a scam and should be illegal, at the end of the day the cash machine doesn't dispense 5 and 10ps. Obviously if the driver or vending machine has no change then they can't do it but there are parking meters and the like that you have just seen people put change in to.

[fairkens]

Exactly especially if you and the missus want to go into town it's a no brainer.

 

To get from my house to the train station on the bus is £2.40 plus a walk to the bus stop, a cab is only abt £4 from outside the house.