ooh, only 5 more blog hits and I’ll break my record. I think people like reading about me in pain. Ying + Yang

Earl Grey Tea + biccies

thorlz – does that include near misses? I just dodged some kettle splashback while making a brew. Luckily, no biccies were harmed either.

that is proper genius right there

yeh, but what tyres?

bigblackshed 😆

what he said ^^

I had a C’Dale crack around the weld on the shock mount once. Took forever to find. Had it re-welded by a specialist ally welder and bingo, no more noise.

might be worth a peruse here as well Brinny Downhill – wonder where the bikes came from???[/url]

oh for the love of….

eyes peeled in Stockport although I’m also peeled for that Clockwork Orange as well.

I’m thinking ramps, I’m thinking AirJames, I’m thinking don’t tell mother beforehand.

Make it happen.

I’ve removed a few on mine and other peoples. I prefer to drill them out using ever increasing bits. once they start to give they fall out quite quickly. Don’t rush it.

peeled in Stockport

you’re like, the best dad ever!!!

thanks for the smiles

that’s carp!

*hails taxi*

That I already knew but the best made plans of mice and men often get arsed up by the missus.

+1

AAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS stated before, SURELY it’s common courtesy to mention before anything is undertaken that should something, no matter how big or small, need sorting then there’s no way Jose that you can do it, especially when you knew we needed it back sharpish and doubly especially when you you knew that one blerk was going to be off.

Fore warned is etc etc

A simple “oh by the way before we MOT & service your car (like you requested when you booked) we can’t actually carry out any repairs today because….” would have been nice/lovely/courteous/obvious/helpful/all listed. Nothing was even hinted at until after the MOT.

UPDATE: the car is good to go again!!

Thank you to Springbok Autos of under the viaduct Stockport for bailing us out of the pooh, and NO THANKS to Churchgate Autos for letting us know too late that you couldn’t fix it in time.

Total Damage:
Churchgate MOT £50 robbing bazturds

Springbok Autos x2 Conti tyres*, x2 front discs’n’pads, lots of new bulbs, headlight realign, EGR clean plus drive up to Churhgate for reMOT. £470 inc.vat

*annoyingly the Vectra use XL tyres and the wife uses bricks on the pedals so I don’t dare buy budgets on the front.

that is good!

do they have an SK postcode???

If old garage had mentioned that they couldn’t fix anything before they’d started the MOT I wouldn’t have had a problem. One of their blerks was on his holls and they knew this when I booked it weeks ago. A heads-up about any delays should have been given.

Sharkbait – they could charge a partial retest fee but they’ve realized that this is the second time they’ve let me down.

I thought I’d found “a good one”, but this is the second time they’ve let me down. Once the dust has settled there will be much naming and shaming.

Not anymore. New garage is fixing it and then taking it back to old garage to be re-MOT’d so we don’t get charged for 2 MOT’s. New garage is nice like that.

tell him your preggers!

he’ll shut the fudge up then

love is blind…..just ask the missus

If he really wants shot of it, why reduce the pinkbike price to £350 and not £210 like gumtree?

am I right to be a bit suspicious?

can’t see it on ebay, or am I being fick?

how is the gumtree ad a scam? they have the same contact details.

yours sincerely

Mr. Naive Thicko

Never good to hear news like that. A moments silence will be observed on the highest peak of my next jaunt into tut hills.

I’m pretty sure I’ve been mtbing for waaaaay more than 25 years.

THAT’S WHY

Mr Whoppit: ironically, small people are the reason I only have one.

sponging little feckers

PLEASE DON’T HATE ME

I only have one mountain bike…..

….and it’s secondhand

😥

Last October

Vasectomy. Been there. http://dawonderful.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/7-billion-and-not-counting.html?m=1

I’m trying to find a silver lining here and the only ones I’ve got are that the crew wouldn’t have suffered and that it wasn’t in a built up area.

I hope lessons are learned.

Locust Fudge – Royal Flush

everything else is forgettable

I can wholeheartedly NOT recommend Stockport. I quite like Grizzly Disley.

All together now!!