[Closed] If it sounds to good to be true ............... it usually is !

Tsk Junkyard... 😉

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-a-few-odds-ends-sposts-grips-sclamps-flats-20mm-adapt

I'm sure he'll have a decent explanation. Either that or I smell a lynching 🙂

I say we burn him now and ask questions later.

*reserves a couple of front row seats for mates*

**wonders if has time to nip out for biscuits**

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would be pretty surpised if JY turned out to be norty

wonders if has time to nip out for biscuits

If you do can I have a Custard Cream please?

clubber - you can have one of my chairs f you bring peanuts

it doesnt really matter, it was no use to me anyway. i thought it would promote a bit of debate tho

And ....... "J" has just emailed me. Funny that. seems he is not "Ricky Bobby" on the spanners after all.
no harm done.

Oooh a lunching thread, haven't had one of them for, err minutes. Thought JY was a good 'un, so will see what he has to say.

[i]Oooh a lunching thread[/i]

We're all ladies that lunch on here....

who's got the bickies ?..........

Don't agree with JY on most things but never had him down as a tea leaf.

pinkyponk - Member

And ....... "J" has just emailed me. Funny that. seems he is not "Ricky Bobby" on the spanners after all.
no harm done.

so it wasn't him or what? We need to know the whole story

teej, I assumed that means JY had a go, can't fix & has given up

i reckon he cant fix it but too ashamed to admit it

Are you for real..... it was only a week ago

does it take a week to answer an email ? are you for real ?

Junkyard has emailed me to say he cant fix it. Thats no prob because i couldnt either. he has also apologised for no getting back to me, and offered to return it.
like i said, no harm done.

and just for the record, its been 2 weeks.

so we're not burning anyone...damn it.

I'd made banners and everything.

I wonder why it says 1 week on the history then - guess it could be 1 wk and 6 days.... So he would have got it a day or 2 later after you posted it - so just over a week in his hands....

tbh, having a little dig where the person who can be easily identified and is a "local" and could be embarrassed after such a short period of time when they were trying to do you a favour is bad form.

i sense a troublemaker in this plinkyponk... if thats you're real name?!
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Pinkyponk, I like disappointment - although you could have gone for the

You've let me down.......
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You've let the STW massive down......
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You've let your family, relatives, wife & children down.....
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You've let the whole of the MTB community down.....but.....worst of all...
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You have simply let yourself down 😳

Maybe fixing your shifter for free wasn't on the top of his 'to do' list and was a little busy, fair enough if he was charging but what are gonna sell a knacked x9 shifter for? Nowt

lucien - love it

philconsequence - quality

convert - you have missed the point of the whole thing all together

Err, Junkie's response to your original post was only a week ago. Allowing for you posting the kit to him then we're only talking about a few days. Give the fella a break, he seems a decent chap (politics aside 😉 ).

It could have been a child's face you know

spock - well wide

just checked the origional email - 7th april

eh ?

and even said the return postage would be FOC through his work.

Hang on a minute, isn't he a civil servant?

That's my money he's giving away there, even depriving the little crippled orphans of an ice cream when they go to the seaside for their only day out of the year

EDIT - 😉 [before anyone takes it seriously]

[i]post edited, mod[/i]

If you think you and your noodly little tupance hapenny shifter are SO important that someone with a job, a life and their own fun to be had should jump to your tune and respond tout suite to your email and when he dosn't it's time to have a online strop, I'd imagine making frineds in the real world is not one of your strengths. A couple of months down the line if I hadn't heard anything I'd have sent a "Dude, what's up with the shifter? Any chance of an update?" email - not made an arse of myself on a internet forum.

Are you allowed to call people crippled these days?

Or spastics?

😉

hahaha - i know whos just made an arse of themselves "dude" !

could be worse some real bitchiness on this one

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/kona-explosif-4 ]http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/kona-explosif-4[/url]

Where are my chuffin' Custard Creams?! 😉

on the subject of quality for sale threads........
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-ot-painting-of-ronnie-corbett ]http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-ot-painting-of-ronnie-corbett[/url]

Team Junkyard. FWIW.

Amazing threads!!

Nope - you're just a dick.

If you think you and your noodly little tupance hapenny shifter are SO important that someone with a job, a life and their own fun to be had should jump to your tune and respond tout suite to your email and when he dosn't it's time to have a online strop, I'd imagine making frineds in the real world is not one of your strengths. A couple of months down the line if I hadn't heard anything I'd have sent a "Dude, what's up with the shifter? Any chance of an update?" email - not made an arse of myself on a internet forum.

Whereas you've resorted to getting all het up over this silliness, and made yourself look a bit of an arse on an internet forum.... 😐

Nope, just stuck up for someone genuinely offering to do a total stranger a favour and getting flamed for being being tardy enough to take a whole week over responding when fettling for free. And having the good grace to stay out of the thread.

It wasn't that big a deal to start with though, was it? Even the Op sed he weren't all that bothered really, just curious as to what people on here felt.

I'm finding it quite amusing. Even more so cos of your input. 🙂

I live to serve! 🙂

You gotta say though, a "I'm not bothered but I'm going to post this anyway" semi-rant is a bit sad, no?

is this about anything ?

not much what he says is accurate without checking dates etc if i am guilty of anything it is being kinder than I am proficient at either fixing shifters or responding to e-mails.
he has a point I was not quick I shall sit on the naughty step and take a stern talking to if the hive mins wants it or stay awake all night looking for burning crosses and pitchforks ..the bombers are ready and my bladder if full.
I was not staying out I had just not seen it till elfin kindly linked it up as shifter thief on another thread.

"well wide"

How so?

Not sure which bits not accurate junkyard ? I was and still am very greatfull for your offer of fixing the shifter. It was a kind gesture and would have saved me a good few quid. The point was that i just wanted to know either way after a week of you having it, so i could source another one if it couldnt be fixed. As i couldnt use the bike without it. Its communication im talking about, not proficiency. My post had the desired effect though, as it promted an honest reply and very kind offer of an old shifter.
A Reply was all i was after.
It seems odd to have a pop at me on here, when in your email you were very apologetic with offers of replacement parts etc. All of which is not necessary as you owe me nothing.
Like i said, all i wanted was a reply.

No one on here is ranting, not me and not junkyard. (maybe potty mouth convert is )

easy there, pinky:

simonfbarnes - Member
is this about anything ?

Junkyard - Member
not much, what he says is accurate...

I was going to make a bacon sandwich until this started up again.

Now my wife is making a bacon sandwich for me whilst I eagerly await the next chapter in this fascinating thread.

pinky

I would have thought - given the way this thread has gone - that it would be best left and not resurrected the next day for fear of getting a bit OTT [as if it wasn't already]

Nobody gone ripped off, no one got hurt, the thread should have died last night

I did not have a pop at you I agreed with you and I have no issue [ ignoring the last post where i assume you have just misread what I said]with what you have said
I had not read the thread when I replied or I may have been more shitty 😉

I am off course happy to have a long sarcastic/bitter exchange for the sake of the STW massif on what may otherwise be a slow bank holiday for Bullheart

Brown sauce for me Mrs Bullheart!

I'll have mine with a smidge of mustard please. Oh, and a fried egg. Thanks

So it was only a week of waiting for a reply? Hardly Mint Sauce key ring territory. 🙄

This Junkyard sounds like a jolly decent chap fixing someone's shifter for them instead of just telling them to either learn to do it themselves or take it to a LBS.

There's no pleasing some. 😉

I am off course happy to have a long sarcastic/bitter exchange for the sake of the STW massif on what may otherwise be a slow bank holiday for Bullheart

Hahahahahahaha! Like a fool you think it'll be a long slow bank holiday for me do you? Well I'll have you know that I'm painting the spare room! See? So you're wrong, so very wrong...!!!

Oh. Shit. 😐

slightly OT, or maybe back On Topic....
aren't sram shifters really hard to fix?! I had a go once. My experiences:
1) there are so many variations in internals, even a couple of models that look similar from the outside vary from one year to the next. X4/5/7/and old X9 for example.
2) there are precious few walkthrough guides on the interweb for this.
3) you need three hands to put them back together at the end.
4) it always turns out to be that little piece of cast alloy right in the bowels which is unrepairable and unreplaceable unless you have some nice fine metalworking toolage.

I discovered the above failing to fix my own shifter without an internet thread about me. Thank goodness.

back on topic: I know someone that likes maple syrup with their bacon.
That is just plain [i]wrong. [/i]

Mustard is also well wide of the mark CFH. Where's my cuppa?

It was smashing...

Bloody spaniel stole some of my bacon out of my sandwich though. Little sod.

Mine was a bit underdone. I prefer it a bit crispy*. Thanks anyway.

*if you could make a note for next time. Ta.

Junkyard, are you any good with fish tank air pumps?

I can get it in the post tonight, no rush.
Ms Spanner is currently stood by the fish tank with a straw, incase Mick, Joe, Paul, Topper and The Captain get a bit breathless.
As long as she doesn't get her suck and blow confused again, we should manage 'till you can fix it. 🙂

what kind of pump is it ?
If it is an internal filter one that has the centrafugal pump has it got clogged?
Ocassionally this can also break loose from the motor and can just be glued [ better doing this with an external air only pump as I suspect the glue will be toxic to auatic life
Better to change some water as well to be sure ...you will see the fish become a little lifeless and lethargic when the oxygen level gets low
HTH
😳 you were being sarccy werent you 😆
Damn you STW 😉