it`s probably just me...

[spooky]

I have this personal theory that if something can get ravelled/caught/tangled/knotted it probably will, i have trouble with hosepipes, electric cables in fact almost anything of that nature, todays new one was while i was adjusting the front brake cable on the matchless, i had a bungee holding the brake arm, after i had finished the job i spent an hour looking for the bungee... fair enough it was in the back of the garage and it was dark, but still, I eventually found it wrapped around the front wheel spindle ! i think the garage fairy put it there....

[Smithy]

Don't worry it's not just you. I can never understand how an electrical cable, attached to a drill for example, when wrapped perfectly upon being put away can then appear with a knot in it the next time you use said drill. I also can't figure out how something like a hosepipe simply dropped on the floor can then become so tangled that you consider just throwing the lot away in the nearest bin.

Ohh the mysteries of life.

Ian

[Andy M]

If you fold a cable in half , put the ends together, then coil towards the "U" they will tangle a lot less.

Andy

[Steve Lake]

Andy..... great idea.....   
bit I still think you should get out a bit more :-)

[timbo]

 

[Smithy]

If you fold a cable in half , put the ends together, then coil towards the "U" they will tangle a lot less.

Andy

Andy, if you fold a cable in half it probably tangles a lot less, if I on the other hand fold a cable in half it probably breaks. Some people are just hated by inanimate objects.

It's like the instructions in Haynes manuals, 'now loosen the engine studs' becomes 'struggle, swear, find the blow torch and WD40 and finally cut it off with an angle grinder' when I do it.

I don't mind though, I'm used to it now.

Ian

[iansoady]

Yes, dismantling the plunger suspension on my ES2.



"Withdraw bearer rod upwards". Oh yeah.......

One side came apart without too much gnashing of teeth. The other..... After copious amounts of penetrating oil, heat and hanging around waiting, my only solution was to cut the top shroud so I could drop it down then cut through the bar with an angle grinder, managing to avoid the spring apart from a couple of minor marks. I'd decided the bar was probably the easiest part to sacrifice:



I'd hoped to make a new one myself but my Chinese mini-lathe wasn't quite up to the job. A very nice man called Chris (Divie on the IKBA place) turned up trumps with his very well equipped machine shop:



The photo makes it look too long but in fact a perfect fit, and here it is all together. The back end now moves up and down (slightly).



It's be nice if the photos came out the right way up.......

[Andy M]

Instructions really benefit from pictures. I can understand the ES2, that hand drawn illustration took a lot of effort and printing photo's was cutting edge. These days there is YouTube.

Must have shown you this before?

https://sites.google.com/site/pooratrek/tyre-repair

Inspired by the Chinglish instructions that came with a tracker. I'd gone to pick up said electronic when I got the flat. Having fixed the tyre I was not entirely happy to start on Chinese IT with no pictures.

Andy

[Moto63]

Ooo eerrr, more tea vicar. Yes very comical 👍👍

[CrazyFrog]

Instructions really benefit from pictures. I can understand the ES2, that hand drawn illustration took a lot of effort and printing photo's was cutting edge. These days there is YouTube.

Must have shown you this before?

https://sites.google.com/site/pooratrek/tyre-repair

Inspired by the Chinglish instructions that came with a tracker. I'd gone to pick up said electronic when I got the flat. Having fixed the tyre I was not entirely happy to start on Chinese IT with no pictures.

Andy

Hahahahaha, I hadn't seen it before. Me thinks the translator must have known what he was doing, you couldn't have that many double entendres by accident surely?

[Moto63]

How d'ya know she was called Shirley?? 🤣🤣🤣....ok, ok..I'll get mi coat 😉

[BrendanO]

The whole Pooratrek site is A JOY!!

From the About page:

 Our competitors such as Touratech, Windy Tracks, Metal Fool, Burnt Toast etc. will sell you items for going round the world. We acknowledge the work they do, and produce cheap copies of most of it, but we know our customers can't really be bothered with all that hot weather and fruit in your beer sort of foreign stuff...

I can feel a lost hour approaching!  Thanks

[BrendanO]

Hang about, is Pooratrek one of us? He/she knows about the weather presenters thing!

[Andy M]

Might  be 

Andy

[BrendanO]

Andy, it's a work of genius!

Are you after submissions of further Pooratrek items? My NTV has a particularly nice exhaust heatshield to protect touring oanniers. It used to be an autoclave basket in my wife's lab...