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Suns out, so now I basically live on a fucking motorbike test track.

All day, every fucking day from now until late September, middle aged pricks will just sit at the traffic lights nearby revving the fuck out of their bikes for no good reason. Starts at 6am (I was literally woken this morning by a bike being pinned on the limiter for about 15 seconds) and goes on til about 10pm. Double glazing etc makes no difference because most people have some horrific sounding sports exhaust on. Harleys are the worst by a long shot.

Can't stand to be at home at all on a weekend, I just stay at work or go and park up in my van a few miles away. Hopefully we'll move soon.

I knew there would be road noise when we moved here, which I can cope with. I *really* wasn't prepared for the cunt noise. 

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Brilliantly sunny day here in the Midlands, got some washing dried and some work done on the garden, then cooked a nice dinner.

Decided to go for a walk for the first time in weeks after dinner as I need to exercise more.  Got to the end of my road and you can guess what fucking happened.

I think I'll just stay in my house gaining weight until my heart packs up, cos I'm clearly not allowed to go outside.

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  On 30/04/2024 at 18:56, cobblers said:

Suns out, so now I basically live on a fucking motorbike test track.

All day, every fucking day from now until late September, middle aged pricks will just sit at the traffic lights nearby revving the fuck out of their bikes for no good reason. Starts at 6am (I was literally woken this morning by a bike being pinned on the limiter for about 15 seconds) and goes on til about 10pm. Double glazing etc makes no difference because most people have some horrific sounding sports exhaust on. Harleys are the worst by a long shot.

Can't stand to be at home at all on a weekend, I just stay at work or go and park up in my van a few miles away. Hopefully we'll move soon.

I knew there would be road noise when we moved here, which I can cope with. I *really* wasn't prepared for the cunt noise. 

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I don't get the repeated revving of bikes.

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  On 30/04/2024 at 20:29, myglaren said:

I don't get the repeated revving of bikes.

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Neither do I - They pull up and just have to sit there revving it periodically. Wouldn't be so bad if they'd just let em idle!

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  On 30/04/2024 at 20:29, myglaren said:

I don't get the repeated revving of bikes.

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Wannabe chainsaw operators?

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Won't tick over cos you're too tight to get the carbs balanced?

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  On 01/05/2024 at 00:00, scaryoldcortina said:

Won't tick over cos you're too tight to get the carbs balanced?

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Give over it’s just typical alpha male behaviour and they want to be noticed, bikes have been fuel injected since 2000 ish.

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  On 01/05/2024 at 06:02, Jazoli said:

Give over it’s just typical alpha male behaviour and they want to be noticed, bikes have been fuel injected since 2000 ish.

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Yes, but where did the habit originate? I haven't ridden bikes in decades but I definitely remember that as soon as you fit "performance" filters and exhaust it wouldn't tick over properly and the two strokes would stop any time they felt like it so you get the habit of blipping to keep it going. Watch the start of any Motocross event, they're not doing that to look cool.

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As bikes tend to be more vulnerable and often invisible to 3 tonne SUVs which share the same space by traffic lights the riders like to leave quickly rather than die.  In order to do this they need to accelerate out of the way asap.  Old 4 strokes with big flywheels so need rotational energy stored in order to shift quickly, two strokes are "tuned" so no power at low revs, they'll get bogged down at low revs so keeping then spinning will keep then in the power band.  Obviously not every rider does this but then you'd not bother to notice the ones who are not blipping throttles as having already convicted  all motorcyclists as cunts.

 

 

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  On 01/05/2024 at 10:25, castros_bro said:

As bikes tend to be more vulnerable and often invisible to 3 tonne SUVs which share the same space by traffic lights the riders like to leave quickly rather than die.  In order to do this they need to accelerate out of the way asap.  Old 4 strokes with big flywheels so need rotational energy stored in order to shift quickly, two strokes are "tuned" so no power at low revs, they'll get bogged down at low revs so keeping then spinning will keep then in the power band.  Obviously not every rider does this but then you'd not bother to notice the ones who are not blipping throttles as having already convicted  all motorcyclists as cunts.

 

 

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A lot of them are, and no bike made in the last 20 years requires blipping at all to make a fast getaway from the lights so your analogy probably applies to a tiny percentage.

I ride bikes and have done for over 40 years, the overwhelming majority of blippers are just attention seeking knobheads, same as boy racers with their pops and bangs.

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I seem to have to blip my carburettor fed Scirocco to keep the engine spinning and ready to go. Perhaps I'm a twat.

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Don't know if it's just me but is the Auto Trader website as shit as I think it is?
Set the price and a couple of other filters, enter postcode in the west end of Glasgow, radius 50  miles and it shows maybe 10 results per page, at least two of which are for cars in Wales or Hull and another couple are twice the maximum price I set.

Between that and their premium rate phone numbers they can GTF.

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The Volvos handbrake being simultaneously  unable to hold it on anything other than flat ground and still have the pads dragging on the drum with the handbrake released.  

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The Saab obviously is jealous of the new-to-me 205 and it shat its back box off.

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It was rotten though, but I also need a centre section. Because that’s where it sheared.

Harumph.

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I've come to the realisation that here in the UK, we always seem to have wanky stock when it comes to cars and even car parts.

I first learnt this years ago when I saw the spec of the Mk1 Rover Sterling in the US compared to the UK. The yanks got integrated car phone and ruched leather on the door cards, we got flat fabric, and the car phone was an big expensive extra ffs.

In terms of parts, I'd like to buy some rubber mats for a car, but all I can find are these wanky cheap checker crap mats that absolutely everyone is offering now. The mats come in all different prices but are basically all the bloody same, flat wanky plasticky"rubber" with some cheap fabric edges available in different colours.

Some time last year I bought the Fatha_Sterling some rubber mats for his Mitsubishi ASX from a manufacturer in Europe, they were amazing looking with a very OEM look to them, heavy duty, well made and not too expensive, so much so, old man took them out of the Mistubishi and put them in his Passat! 

They looked like this, big, heavy, purposeful proper moulded rubber mats.

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Yet here in the UK, we get offered this shit thay doesn't even fit right 😡

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I had these in my BMW and they really were wank, flat, barely lasts a year etc...

Why do we put up with this shit?

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Always liked the heavy duty rubber mats you got in the old Volvo 240. Silly money now though.

Volvo mats

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  On 30/04/2024 at 18:56, cobblers said:

Suns out, so now I basically live on a fucking motorbike test track.

All day, every fucking day from now until late September, middle aged pricks will just sit at the traffic lights nearby revving the fuck out of their bikes for no good reason. Starts at 6am (I was literally woken this morning by a bike being pinned on the limiter for about 15 seconds) and goes on til about 10pm. Double glazing etc makes no difference because most people have some horrific sounding sports exhaust on. Harleys are the worst by a long shot.

Can't stand to be at home at all on a weekend, I just stay at work or go and park up in my van a few miles away. Hopefully we'll move soon.

I knew there would be road noise when we moved here, which I can cope with. I *really* wasn't prepared for the cunt noise. 

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I have a similar issue. But it isn't just middle-aged tossers trying to capture a life that never was, but also youngsters in their Fiestas with loud pop-pop exhausts and some tosser trying to kill a 3-series BMW ragging it around everywhere with a massive hole in the exhaust, you can hear the hollow insides of the exhaust trying to get out. This is a fucking market town, the road sways and gets carved up so why the fuck these arses come here is beyond me (properly because they're too scared/tight fisted to go into bigger cities)

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  On 02/05/2024 at 13:12, Spiny Norman said:

Don't know if it's just me but is the Auto Trader website as shit as I think it is?
Set the price and a couple of other filters, enter postcode in the west end of Glasgow, radius 50  miles and it shows maybe 10 results per page, at least two of which are for cars in Wales or Hull and another couple are twice the maximum price I set.

Between that and their premium rate phone numbers they can GTF.

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Yup, i have the exact same, It's been garbage for a long time. There's something very wrong with their distance filters in particular. Works fine for 10 miles for me from Dundee, I'll only see cars in that vicinity, but if i up that to 20 miles, i start getting shown hundreds of cars in Yorkshire and the Midlands, also several miles outside whatever price i set.

But the price thing alone isn't that a new thing, think it's been like that for ages, always assumed they are 'premium' ads and are getting paid a little more from those vendors to be pushed out to more people regardless of search criteria.

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I had the fun of doing the worst job on a gen 2 i10 now, changing the daytime running light lightbulbs.

This involves removing the wheel and loosen the front of the arch liner so sticking your hand into the back of the bumper without seeing much and tearing off large amounts of skin on your hands while fighting a light bulb holder that won't go off or on again. I replaced both bulbs with new ones from Osram which will hopefully last a long time so I won't have to do this again anytime soon. And I got a little angry so I destroyed an arch liner so need to change that also.

Those who work as mechanics who have to do this daily have my greatest respect.

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  On 01/05/2024 at 20:06, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's probably the knackered pierburg carb.

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I had a Mk2 Scirocco Scala with a knackered pierburg carb, when I came to a stop I had to dump the clutch and hold the throttle to avoid stalling it out. Winter was coming and I didn't need another project, so I sold it for £250 with £125 of tax left in the window to a lad who would definitely fix it, who scrapped it a few weeks later.

I'm definitely a twat.

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  On 02/05/2024 at 22:53, Lord Sterling said:

I've come to the realisation that here in the UK, we always seem to have wanky stock when it comes to cars and even car parts.

I first learnt this years ago when I saw the spec of the Mk1 Rover Sterling in the US compared to the UK. The yanks got integrated car phone and ruched leather on the door cards, we got flat fabric, and the car phone was an big expensive extra ffs.

In terms of parts, I'd like to buy some rubber mats for a car, but all I can find are these wanky cheap checker crap mats that absolutely everyone is offering now. The mats come in all different prices but are basically all the bloody same, flat wanky plasticky"rubber" with some cheap fabric edges available in different colours.

Some time last year I bought the Fatha_Sterling some rubber mats for his Mitsubishi ASX from a manufacturer in Europe, they were amazing looking with a very OEM look to them, heavy duty, well made and not too expensive, so much so, old man took them out of the Mistubishi and put them in his Passat! 

They looked like this, big, heavy, purposeful proper moulded rubber mats.

moulded-rubber-car-mats_31061f5b-0d39-49bd-8a92-f175e3d0ab63_1200x1200.jpg.8e98417645ab82704d2e3967fbc01973.jpg

Yet here in the UK, we get offered this shit thay doesn't even fit right 😡

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I had these in my BMW and they really were wank, flat, barely lasts a year etc...

Why do we put up with this shit?

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You aren’t looking very hard ;)

I buy all my mats from Calibre Autoparts Direct on eBay and they are exactly as you describe., around 40 quid a set.

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  On 03/05/2024 at 12:42, Jazoli said:

You aren’t looking very hard ;)

I buy all my mats from Calibre Autoparts Direct on eBay and they are exactly as you describe., around 40 quid a set.

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Tried them, no mats for the car I need it for.

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At the local health centre the other day for a doctors appointment. In the seating area next to the one I was in was a family, mother son and grandmother. The latter was wearing a mask. That is not the grump. Grandma took out a paper handy and blew her nose whilst wearing the mask. I am just glad I was not near enough to see the results afterwards.  Still make me shiver at the thought of her actions. Yuk!

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I shouldn't laugh at that... but I will!

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  On 03/05/2024 at 16:52, Remspoor said:

At the local health centre the other day for a doctors appointment. In the seating area next to the one I was in was a family, mother son and grandmother. The latter was wearing a mask. That is not the grump. Grandma took out a paper handy and blew her nose whilst wearing the mask. I am just glad I was not near enough to see the results afterwards.  Still make me shiver at the thought of her actions. Yuk!

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Snot...funny :)

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  On 03/05/2024 at 18:23, Matty said:
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Would they tell gypos to do that I doubt it or some toff to shift their Bentley, it's about time all this anti motorist stuff was knocked on the head.

Criminals are treated better & have more rights god knows what councils would do without the money screwed out of us year on year by government.

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  On 03/05/2024 at 14:05, Lord Sterling said:

Tried them, no mats for the car I need it for.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266487142428

I got a set of these years ago in Aldi for £25 and they've been in every car I've owned since. Proper heavy, supple rubber, no 98% plastic rubbish. They are heavy and easy to cut to shape with a pair of stout scissors. Yes they are £40 a set, but they will literally last a decade+

They can be jetwashed, hoovered, and are heavy enough that they self-flatten into the footwell of any car, and being either very high rubber content, or pure rubber they don't slip or slide about in the footwell.

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Next door have bought a 15-plate Citroen Cactus.  Good for them. 

Noticed a trail of oil down the road a few days ago.

Turns out that their old 11-plate Juke had a leaky oil filter, ran out of oil and the engine catastrophically failed a couple of miles up the road.  Neighbour said that as far as they knew, the oil filter hadn't been changed recently.  Which means that it probably hasn't been serviced, the seal has failed and it's blown up as a result.  Irritates me that a car has been cubed just because of a 50p seal failing.

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