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  • FBUser214
    FBUser214
    3 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 07 Dec 2021 12:45 PM

    Just reporting the facts....

    Quoting FBUser214 on 07 Dec 2021 07:52 PM


    YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN PAULY

    Quoting paulybronco on 07 Dec 2021 10:02 PM

     Dont blame me, Harley submitted the data and selected the category each bike should be in.


    YOU WERE WRONG AGAIN  PAULY

  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting FBUser214 on 07 Dec 2021 07:52 PM


    YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN PAULY

    Quoting paulybronco on 07 Dec 2021 10:02 PM

     Dont blame me, Harley submitted the data and selected the category each bike should be in.

    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:21 AMedited: 08 Dec 2021 12:38 AM


    YOU WERE WRONG AGAIN  PAULY

    Just passing on the data....no need to get upset
  • FBUser214
    FBUser214
    3 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 07 Dec 2021 10:02 PM

     Dont blame me, Harley submitted the data and selected the category each bike should be in.

    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:21 AMedited: 08 Dec 2021 12:38 AM


    YOU WERE WRONG AGAIN  PAULY

    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 12:40 AM

    Just passing on the data....no need to get upset


    Good attitude. You might be able to get a job as Trump's campaign manager next time around.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:21 AMedited: 08 Dec 2021 12:38 AM


    YOU WERE WRONG AGAIN  PAULY

    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 12:40 AM

    Just passing on the data....no need to get upset

    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:43 AM


    Good attitude. You might be able to get a job as Trump's campaign manager next time around.

    Do you think i would go alright?
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 12:40 AM

    Just passing on the data....no need to get upset

    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:43 AM


    Good attitude. You might be able to get a job as Trump's campaign manager next time around.

    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 02:53 AM

    Do you think i would go alright?

    I don't think you would go alright Pauly.
    To be frank, I think you would argue too much with Donald and he would lose his patience with you as he always likes to have the final word.
    Don't take it to heart though, I am sure there are better jobs out there waiting for you.
  • GGUser260
    GGUser260
    3 years ago
    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:43 AM


    Good attitude. You might be able to get a job as Trump's campaign manager next time around.

    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 02:53 AM

    Do you think i would go alright?

    Quoting Far Canal on 08 Dec 2021 09:18 AM

    I don't think you would go alright Pauly.
    To be frank, I think you would argue too much with Donald and he would lose his patience with you as he always likes to have the final word.
    Don't take it to heart though, I am sure there are better jobs out there waiting for you.

    7999170-3x2-940x627.jpg
    You're fired
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting FBUser214 on 08 Dec 2021 12:43 AM


    Good attitude. You might be able to get a job as Trump's campaign manager next time around.

    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 02:53 AM

    Do you think i would go alright?

    Quoting Far Canal on 08 Dec 2021 09:18 AM

    I don't think you would go alright Pauly.
    To be frank, I think you would argue too much with Donald and he would lose his patience with you as he always likes to have the final word.
    Don't take it to heart though, I am sure there are better jobs out there waiting for you.

    Thats very kind FC......perhaps i could be a police negotiator...
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 08 Dec 2021 02:53 AM

    Do you think i would go alright?

    Quoting Far Canal on 08 Dec 2021 09:18 AM

    I don't think you would go alright Pauly.
    To be frank, I think you would argue too much with Donald and he would lose his patience with you as he always likes to have the final word.
    Don't take it to heart though, I am sure there are better jobs out there waiting for you.

    Quoting GGUser260 on 08 Dec 2021 09:24 AMedited: 08 Dec 2021 09:24 AM

    7999170-3x2-940x627.jpg
    You're fired
    I have heard that a few times in my life....thinking that "Pack up your shit and don't come back" means the same?
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Nice one Keith, be a good little bike for getting around town.
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Had my 1970 Honda CB750K fun machine out for a ride today on a rare (for recently) nice warm sunny day.
    Did a loop of the Channel highway which runs along the coast of Tassie mainland and Bruny Island.
    It was most enjoyable and not much traffic. I did remember hitting a really big bump in the road at one point. Saw it too late to do anything but get my arse off the seat to avoid an unwanted spinal compression, just held on tight and kept going and wondering if maybe I had dented a wheel rim. The bike seemed to still go the same without a jumping front wheel so thought all was good.
    Got home and drained the oil to do a service first from the engine pan, then the filter, then from the oil tank when I happened to glance at the RH shock absorber and notice it was cracked and rooted. Looked at the LH one and similar story. Never done that before!.
    IMG_1320.JPG
    Honda 750K
    DSCF8620.JPG
    RH shock
    DSCF8626.JPG
    LH shock
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 13 Dec 2021 08:01 AMedited: 13 Dec 2021 09:23 AM

    Had my 1970 Honda CB750K fun machine out for a ride today on a rare (for recently) nice warm sunny day.
    Did a loop of the Channel highway which runs along the coast of Tassie mainland and Bruny Island.
    It was most enjoyable and not much traffic. I did remember hitting a really big bump in the road at one point. Saw it too late to do anything but get my arse off the seat to avoid an unwanted spinal compression, just held on tight and kept going and wondering if maybe I had dented a wheel rim. The bike seemed to still go the same without a jumping front wheel so thought all was good.
    Got home and drained the oil to do a service first from the engine pan, then the filter, then from the oil tank when I happened to glance at the RH shock absorber and notice it was cracked and rooted. Looked at the LH one and similar story. Never done that before!.

    IMG_1320.JPG
    Honda 750K
    DSCF8620.JPG
    RH shock
    DSCF8626.JPG
    LH shock
    Oh dear FC thats not good.....lovely old girl.
  • FBUser214
    FBUser214
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 13 Dec 2021 08:01 AMedited: 13 Dec 2021 09:23 AM

    Had my 1970 Honda CB750K fun machine out for a ride today on a rare (for recently) nice warm sunny day.
    Did a loop of the Channel highway which runs along the coast of Tassie mainland and Bruny Island.
    It was most enjoyable and not much traffic. I did remember hitting a really big bump in the road at one point. Saw it too late to do anything but get my arse off the seat to avoid an unwanted spinal compression, just held on tight and kept going and wondering if maybe I had dented a wheel rim. The bike seemed to still go the same without a jumping front wheel so thought all was good.
    Got home and drained the oil to do a service first from the engine pan, then the filter, then from the oil tank when I happened to glance at the RH shock absorber and notice it was cracked and rooted. Looked at the LH one and similar story. Never done that before!.

    IMG_1320.JPG
    Honda 750K
    DSCF8620.JPG
    RH shock
    DSCF8626.JPG
    LH shock

    You put on a bit of weight over winter ?
  • Baloffski
    Baloffski
    3 years ago
    FC, ya know fb214 may have a point there. Won't beat around the bush here mate, but your shockers look rooted. 
    That is one bloody nice example of the Honda 750 Four. More than likely would have ridden on road you clunked on, if was there 20 years ago. Is a good idea to take the trials stance when approaching a possible launching bump, good reflexes, well done.
    I took a friend on the back of my Road Glide a couple of years ago for a blast around the Golden Triangle  (No,not that Triangle, the one in Victoria) for a few hours. He was an ok passenger as a non-riding, portly chap who hung on pretty well to excess speed on some shite roads. Anyway crapping on, after I dropped him off at his motel I was riding home and the rear felt like something was wrong, so removed panniers showing that one of my rear fornale shocks had sheared away just above the lower eyelete.They were aligned ok, but are aluminium lightweights that can be pumped to a zillion psi, with the the weak point being the construction material.
    I had the screw eyeletes remachined in steel, problem solved, and told my fat doctor friend he broke my shockers and is not going on my bike until he losses weight. Lucky he still doesnt charge me to see him.
    I've have to replace them with something more substantial than the aluminium magnum fornales, the're not for a heavy weight touring motorcycle.
    I'm not saying your saying your stressing the shocks like my situation, but the iconic Honda would be coming up to 50 years old, and the standard rear shock absorbers were never known for their fantastic rebound qualities, from memory we used to replace them with about the only available upgrade around in those days, Koni. 
    I've had 6 of those lovely 750 stable riding platforms, they were a delight to ride, cheap, reliable, and tough as old nails and would handle to a point.If running low on funds could always pick one up for a few hundred bucks, the last one I bought for $150 , had honed and 810 kit put in, new plugs, was reliable as.
    Riding a lot of twins before riding the Honda fours the first thing I said when I started one in the early 70's was 'this is like an electric motorcyle'! 
    On reflection how prolific a statment to the direction motorcycles are heading.
    Can you still get koni, or you keen to keep stock as, she still looks pristine? 

  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 13 Dec 2021 08:01 AMedited: 13 Dec 2021 09:23 AM

    Had my 1970 Honda CB750K fun machine out for a ride today on a rare (for recently) nice warm sunny day.
    Did a loop of the Channel highway which runs along the coast of Tassie mainland and Bruny Island.
    It was most enjoyable and not much traffic. I did remember hitting a really big bump in the road at one point. Saw it too late to do anything but get my arse off the seat to avoid an unwanted spinal compression, just held on tight and kept going and wondering if maybe I had dented a wheel rim. The bike seemed to still go the same without a jumping front wheel so thought all was good.
    Got home and drained the oil to do a service first from the engine pan, then the filter, then from the oil tank when I happened to glance at the RH shock absorber and notice it was cracked and rooted. Looked at the LH one and similar story. Never done that before!.

    IMG_1320.JPG
    Honda 750K
    DSCF8620.JPG
    RH shock
    DSCF8626.JPG
    LH shock
    Quoting FBUser214 on 13 Dec 2021 11:56 AM


    You put on a bit of weight over winter ?

    No weight gain over winter, lol. Just a nasty bump in the road (well more live a divot), the road works people had painted crosses in the bottom of it but you couldn't see them until it was too late to do anything.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 13 Dec 2021 08:01 AMedited: 13 Dec 2021 09:23 AM

    Had my 1970 Honda CB750K fun machine out for a ride today on a rare (for recently) nice warm sunny day.
    Did a loop of the Channel highway which runs along the coast of Tassie mainland and Bruny Island.
    It was most enjoyable and not much traffic. I did remember hitting a really big bump in the road at one point. Saw it too late to do anything but get my arse off the seat to avoid an unwanted spinal compression, just held on tight and kept going and wondering if maybe I had dented a wheel rim. The bike seemed to still go the same without a jumping front wheel so thought all was good.
    Got home and drained the oil to do a service first from the engine pan, then the filter, then from the oil tank when I happened to glance at the RH shock absorber and notice it was cracked and rooted. Looked at the LH one and similar story. Never done that before!.

    IMG_1320.JPG
    Honda 750K
    DSCF8620.JPG
    RH shock
    DSCF8626.JPG
    LH shock
    Quoting FBUser214 on 13 Dec 2021 11:56 AM


    You put on a bit of weight over winter ?

    Quoting Far Canal on 13 Dec 2021 08:46 PM

    No weight gain over winter, lol. Just a nasty bump in the road (well more live a divot), the road works people had painted crosses in the bottom of it but you couldn't see them until it was too late to do anything.

    Sure the cross was not to signify the death of your shocks....
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Ballofski, "I'm not saying your saying your stressing the shocks like my situation, but the iconic Honda would be coming up to 50 years old, and the standard rear shock absorbers were never known for their fantastic rebound qualities, from memory we used to replace them with about the only available upgrade around in those days, Koni.
    Can you still get koni, or you keen to keep stock as, she still looks pristine? "

    Yes you can still get Koni but they are now made in Australia and called IKon. I actually ordered a set today and they are pretty pricey for what they are at $792 a pair delivered. That is considerably more than I just paid for a pair of Progressive rear shocks for my HD.
    There is also a specialist Honda Four shop in Victoria who as luck would have it had a couple of sets of the pre-load adjusting rings that I broke so ordered a set and will try to put the original shocks back together in case I want to sell it as an original K0 some day.

    Pauly, "Sure the cross was not to signify the death of your shocks...."
    I have seen similar crosses on things here and I reckon they mean something like, "Here is a dangerous problem that MUST be fixed sometime in the next decade or when the council has suitably qualified people on the payroll to address it".
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 14 Dec 2021 07:51 AM

    Ballofski, "I'm not saying your saying your stressing the shocks like my situation, but the iconic Honda would be coming up to 50 years old, and the standard rear shock absorbers were never known for their fantastic rebound qualities, from memory we used to replace them with about the only available upgrade around in those days, Koni.
    Can you still get koni, or you keen to keep stock as, she still looks pristine? "

    Yes you can still get Koni but they are now made in Australia and called IKon. I actually ordered a set today and they are pretty pricey for what they are at $792 a pair delivered. That is considerably more than I just paid for a pair of Progressive rear shocks for my HD.
    There is also a specialist Honda Four shop in Victoria who as luck would have it had a couple of sets of the pre-load adjusting rings that I broke so ordered a set and will try to put the original shocks back together in case I want to sell it as an original K0 some day.

    Pauly, "Sure the cross was not to signify the death of your shocks...."
    I have seen similar crosses on things here and I reckon they mean something like, "Here is a dangerous problem that MUST be fixed sometime in the next decade or when the council has suitably qualified people on the payroll to address it".

    Some councils in QLD have been successfully sued for damages to rims etc for pothole damages
  • Far Canal
    Far Canal
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 14 Dec 2021 07:51 AM

    Ballofski, "I'm not saying your saying your stressing the shocks like my situation, but the iconic Honda would be coming up to 50 years old, and the standard rear shock absorbers were never known for their fantastic rebound qualities, from memory we used to replace them with about the only available upgrade around in those days, Koni.
    Can you still get koni, or you keen to keep stock as, she still looks pristine? "

    Yes you can still get Koni but they are now made in Australia and called IKon. I actually ordered a set today and they are pretty pricey for what they are at $792 a pair delivered. That is considerably more than I just paid for a pair of Progressive rear shocks for my HD.
    There is also a specialist Honda Four shop in Victoria who as luck would have it had a couple of sets of the pre-load adjusting rings that I broke so ordered a set and will try to put the original shocks back together in case I want to sell it as an original K0 some day.

    Pauly, "Sure the cross was not to signify the death of your shocks...."
    I have seen similar crosses on things here and I reckon they mean something like, "Here is a dangerous problem that MUST be fixed sometime in the next decade or when the council has suitably qualified people on the payroll to address it".

    Quoting paulybronco on 14 Dec 2021 09:25 AM

    Some councils in QLD have been successfully sued for damages to rims etc for pothole damages

    Maybe so Pauly but I am not a litigious sort of cunt.
    There is a big dangerous tree on the road to my place that had a big bit of it fall on the road many years ago and then some one from the council put a big red cross on the tree shortly afterwards because the rest of the tree looks like a widow, widower, orphan maker. Of course the red cross meant, "get rid of this dangerous fucker asap".
    Tree is still there.
    The cross has disappeared, faded away.
    Not bagging out councils, really just comes down to user beware.
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    3 years ago
    Quoting Far Canal on 14 Dec 2021 07:51 AM

    Ballofski, "I'm not saying your saying your stressing the shocks like my situation, but the iconic Honda would be coming up to 50 years old, and the standard rear shock absorbers were never known for their fantastic rebound qualities, from memory we used to replace them with about the only available upgrade around in those days, Koni.
    Can you still get koni, or you keen to keep stock as, she still looks pristine? "

    Yes you can still get Koni but they are now made in Australia and called IKon. I actually ordered a set today and they are pretty pricey for what they are at $792 a pair delivered. That is considerably more than I just paid for a pair of Progressive rear shocks for my HD.
    There is also a specialist Honda Four shop in Victoria who as luck would have it had a couple of sets of the pre-load adjusting rings that I broke so ordered a set and will try to put the original shocks back together in case I want to sell it as an original K0 some day.

    Pauly, "Sure the cross was not to signify the death of your shocks...."
    I have seen similar crosses on things here and I reckon they mean something like, "Here is a dangerous problem that MUST be fixed sometime in the next decade or when the council has suitably qualified people on the payroll to address it".

    Quoting paulybronco on 14 Dec 2021 09:25 AM

    Some councils in QLD have been successfully sued for damages to rims etc for pothole damages

    Quoting Far Canal on 14 Dec 2021 09:37 AM

    Maybe so Pauly but I am not a litigious sort of cunt.
    There is a big dangerous tree on the road to my place that had a big bit of it fall on the road many years ago and then some one from the council put a big red cross on the tree shortly afterwards because the rest of the tree looks like a widow, widower, orphan maker. Of course the red cross meant, "get rid of this dangerous fucker asap".
    Tree is still there.
    The cross has disappeared, faded away.
    Not bagging out councils, really just comes down to user beware.

    Absolutely our generation has always been the same.....if its your fault well its your fault! The current generation are the blame generation.
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