So, here I am working on my bikes last weekend, shed door open enjoying a day on the tools. I live in a very quiet street with bugger all traffic. Anyway, I hear some dinky 2 stroke shitbox coming down the road, so look up and see this guy of Middle Eastern appearance in designer sunglasses, pants, shoes etc, gelled up hair etc.....laying flat over the seat and tank legs sticking out the back like superman rding past. WTF I think to myself. Down the street he goes and back up the street he comes.
Next thing he is stopping out front after noticing I was working on a bike. Goes a little like this. Says to me, Bro ( bad fucking start) you building a chopper? I says no. He says "whats that"....its a Shovelhead says me. A what? I dont bother explaining. Bro (again) somethings wrong with my bike, its making funny noises ( fuckwit meter has already reached " intolerable" ). Ok, I say,fuckit, let me have a look. Within 2 seconds I notice the chain is so tight it cannot deflect at all, totally locked solid. I point this out.....yeah, it was slipping he says and thats what those screws at the back are for. I say nooooooooo they are to adjust the chain to its correct tension and not to compensate for a fucked countershaft sprocket. Again "whats that" . I dumb it down and explain its the little one of those, pointing to the rear sprocket. Where is it he asks and then again " Are you sure" he says....my fuckwit meter reaching "homicidal". Yes I assure him and give him the run down on where it is, what it does and what needs to be done next.
Heaven forbid something mechanical actually requires maintenance FFS.......growing up, everyone I knew fucked with bikes,cars, engines etc. Now it seems all some of these kids do is primp their bloody selves in the mirror. At least I eventually got a laugh out of it!
theres a lot of people on bikes nowadays that are not "bike people". i get plenty in my shop that have no idea at all about bikes.most are purely cheap modes of transport . i have seen sprockets with no teeth left on em,chains so stiff you can hold em straight out, bikes 30to 40thousand kays overdue for a service. had a guy in here on a softtail last week"my engines making a rattling noise" checked the oil and added 2.3 litres of engine oil. nuff said.
Hound Dog make sure you keep that shed locked,stickey beak cunt might be back.
Hound Dog, your obviously still running on the anologue fuckwit meter. You need to go the digital meter my friend. Shoots a laser beam out and shrinks there balls to the size of there brain.
