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Felix wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:39 pm I grudge the price of oil and my For Engine only takes 7lt

I paid $71 for 5 gallons of Rotella T4 (in Arizona).. Yesterday I paid $57.88 for 4 (individual) quarts of Mobil MX 4T for the ZRX11 & $28.91 for a 5 qt jug of cheap shop brand oil for the SBH here in Ca

Just after 5am here, roomie just left to drive to her daughters place in Tucson.. I get a call just after she left telling me she "almost hit a guy wearing a dress walking down the middle of the road" about a mile from the house...

Got my mesh jacket out, ready for riding in this heatwave!

AH HA!! Garage is ALL MINE!!! ALL MINE!! until next Sunday. WooT!!

First project: tool tidy up & put away.

Then oil/filter change on the SBH, may even get ambitious & wash it.... or at least hose it off a bit.

Also: Need an oil/filter change on the ZRX11, but also need to investigate a rattle (possibly bolt on the alternator), fit a new starter/alternator chain & a new chain tensioner doodad for that.. which I have sitting in the stash, I bought the chain & doodad in 2005...

Taipan wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:59 pm Got my mesh jacket out, ready for riding in this heatwave!

Glad I'm not over there - it's gonna rain now !!!

Today I was asked if my motorbike had air conditioning.

Yep.

Seriously asked.

gremlin wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:11 pm Today I was asked if my motorbike had air conditioning.

Yep.

Seriously asked.

That’s like when I didn’t think my right arm would be able to control the throttle and told a mate that when I got back here I’d just swap the controls over and make the bike LHD -

She asked in all seriousness “so are the bike controls opposite over there? So LHD is normal??”







Although, I do now know that cycle brakes are opposite here

Noggin wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:02 pm Although, I do now know that cycle brakes are opposite here

Same in the US, grabbed a handful of *rear* brake & about rotated the bike & me around the front axle.

Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

Taipan wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:59 pm Got my mesh jacket out, ready for riding in this heatwave!

It's a good look.

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:33 pm Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

It's just sitting in the corner unused because it ain't that bleednin' 'ot

Any who, today I have mostly been scrambling like a mad bastard, finishing off all the work on my desk and getting ahead of work that's not on my desk yet, all done so I can now turn everything off and drop out of society for a week.

Successfully fixed one of my floor jacks.

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:33 pm Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

Open a window. It's not hot overnight.

We never need or want air-conditioning here

Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:46 pm

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:33 pm Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

Open a window. It's not hot overnight.

We never need or want air-conditioning here

That's because you're 25º all year. It's going to be 35º in London for a couple of days. It's that temperature here now, but it's only for the next three months, then it'll get nice again.

Pirahna wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 6:04 pm

Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:46 pm

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:33 pm Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

Open a window. It's not hot overnight.

We never need or want air-conditioning here

That's because you're 25º all year. It's going to be 35º in London for a couple of days. It's that temperature here now, but it's only for the next three months, then it'll get nice again.

And the houses over there are built for the heat, whereas overhear they're built to retain heat

Pirahna wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 6:04 pm

Yorick wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:46 pm

gremlin wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 3:33 pm Today, I'm gonna give you lot the chance to point, laugh and look smug...

The aircon in my bedroom packed up a few days ago and it's fucking roasting in there.

Over to you.

Open a window. It's not hot overnight.

We never need or want air-conditioning here

That's because you're 25º all year. It's going to be 35º in London for a couple of days. It's that temperature here now, but it's only for the next three months, then it'll get nice again.

Won't be 35 overnight

Cooled down a bit here since yesterday...

Yesterday:

Tried out the new welder, got it (& myself) dialed in within a couple of minutes.