The Rant Thread

[Cameron]

First topic message reminder :

Anything pissed you off today? Something you need to say?

You now have a place to have a little rant.

[Chook]

I had a long and drawn out day today.

I left Port Lincoln about 4:50 this morning so I could do my gym session in Whyalla to break the trip home up a bit.

About 6:50, 40km south of Whyalla I dipped my lights for a oncoming car and slowed to about 90, just as the car went past Skippy's little brother appears from behind the car, didn't see it until it's hid lit up in my RH headlight, I was driving a Toyota Prado with a Roo Bar, just felt a light tap and a thud. After about 200m I wondered if I should stop and check, parked up, walked around the front of the car with my torch, no apparent damage at all, then I smelt coolant.
The Prado has a ARB Roo Bar that angle up a fair bit on the edges, filling the gap underneath is a shitty, thin piece of tin bolted to the bar, little skip had gone under the bar, bent the tin, torn it away from 3 of 5 bolts and the tin had gone straight through the bottom tank of the radiator, within about a minute of stopping there was no coolant left.

By the time I contacted my boss, found out the (bullshit) government procedure for accident damage, contacted a tow truck, it was after 9:00 am by the time I was dropped off at a crash shop in Whyalla. We are a self insured government department, department policy says no hire cars, colleagues from Pt Augusta were all on days off.

The Roo was only little, I'm sure if I had no Roo Bar there would have been damage but I'd probably still have been able to drive, if the Roo was a bigger one I don't think it would have gone under the front and I would have still been able to drive.
When my boss arrived he was as stunned as I was the one thing we put on the cars to protect us from Roos was most likely the thing that caused me to be stranded

My boss finally got away about 10:00, picked me up at just after 2:00 and with the dozens of Grey Nomads wandering down they highway at 80 kmh, we finally made it to the office by 7:00, unpacked the car and got home about 8:00, nice to be home, would have been nicer to be home 6 hours ago though.

[paul]

Sounds like ARB need to be informed & make some modifications .

[Chook]

I'm pretty sure our fleet people will be doing that paul, we've got dozens (if not a few hundred) vehicles fitted with the same bar

This bent panel is the only visible damage to the car, where it bent up it cracked the radiator (not a lot of clearance to start with)



Stranded over 400km from home because of a flimsy piece of tin  

[paul]

I suppose it was lucky you weren't on the bike , it sounds like a  pretty  unavoidable accident .

[madmax]

Sounds like ARB need to be informed & make some modifications .

My experience with ARB, they couldn't care less. Their customer service is atrocious

[madmax]

I'm pretty sure our fleet people will be doing that paul, we've got dozens (if not a few hundred) vehicles fitted with the same bar

This bent panel is the only visible damage to the car, where it bent up it cracked the radiator (not a lot of clearance to start with)



Stranded over 400km from home because of a flimsy piece of tin  

Wait until you see how those shitty metal plates are held in place.
The captive nuts are held into a hole in the plate with weak clips. Two of mine have failed and are no longer in place. One day I pull them out and weld the nuts in place.
No point getting ARB to sort it out.

[Chook]

Wait until you see how those shitty metal plates are held in place.
The captive nuts are held into a hole in the plate with weak clips. Two of mine have failed and are no longer in place. One day I pull them out and weld the nuts in place.

While you're at it, find someone who will bend you up some replacement plates in at least 3 or 4mm steel

[Bill & Ted]

I have a rant, over the last 5 years of friends and family buying used motorcycles, all with great service history why is it that every time that I go over the bike in question the service history seems to be severely lacking even though these bikes have been serviced and stamped by reputable shops.
Nearly all of them have had old and sludgy brake fluid, my 2012 bandit that I just bought continues the trend, brake fluid was crap and the clutch fluid looked original (black and sludge in the reservoir).
I thought a service included checking all the fluids not just changing oil and filter which seems to be the case now.
As an aside the SV650 I bought, the PO paid nearly $800 for valve adjustment with shims, yet when I checked they had never been done and were out of spec, this is why I tell everybody learn to do as much as you can yourself.
I photo document everything that i do to my bikes so that if I ever sell them the buyer has proof that the work is done unlike the stealerships.
Rant over.

[Ewok1958]

The problem is that the servicing schedule for the Bandit is itself half-arsed. It does not include the items you mentioned nor any change of the fuel filter. Once when I was looking at buying a ZX-12 I downloaded the servicing schedule. It was very comprehensive and included everything that isn't in the Bandit schedule. So a dealer can stamp the book recording that a service was done, but many items won't ever be looked at - that includes re-greasing axles, swingarm bearing and headstem bearing, checking throttle linkage slack, etc, plus the things you mentioned. It kind of suggests that the Bandit servicing schedule was put together at 4.30pm on the the Friday before a long weekend. 

[Bill & Ted]

This has been an issue for other manufacturers that I have gone over as well, Yamaha in particular.
When I'm holding a receipt in my hand for a service and tuneup for the bike in question and all they have done is change the oil and filter, I call that slack and unprofessional.
Just sad state of affairs.

[truck]

Small rant about wasting my time watching the sports news and hearing a story up about another tantrum this spoilt tennis brat has thrown.
It's getting so common that it's not a news story anymore.
A news story would be he played a whole 3 sets and DIDN'T throw a tantrum.

[truck]

For some reason or other, m work computer wll not find or display NSW/Suzuki bandits australia when I search. It used to, but has stopped about a week ago. everything else still works. I now have to wait till I am at home on my personal computer to come here.

[paul]

For some reason or other, m work computer wll not find or display NSW/Suzuki bandits australia when I search. It used to, but has stopped about a week ago. everything else still works. I now have to wait till I am at home on my personal computer to come here.

Maybe your work blocked it .

[rodent4]

I can't ride my dirtbike in the wilderness alone, but 10's of 1000's of arseclowns can flock to Bunnings and other large chains to buy shit they don't need 

[Chook]

I can't ride my dirtbike in the wilderness alone, but 10's of 1000's of arseclowns can flock to Bunnings and other large chains to buy shit they don't need 

Ah, Victoria, the state of no fun


If you lived in the state to the West of you, you'd be out riding in the mud and having a ball!

[rodent4]

I can't ride my dirtbike in the wilderness alone, but 10's of 1000's of arseclowns can flock to Bunnings and other large chains to buy shit they don't need 

Ah, Victoria, the state of no fun


If you lived in the state to the West of you, you'd be out riding in the mud and having a ball!

[GSX1100G]

Today at 10:24 am

by paul

@truck wrote:

For some reason or other, m work computer wll not find or display NSW/Suzuki bandits australia when I search. It used to, but has stopped about a week ago. everything else still works. I now have to wait till I am at home on my personal computer to come here.

Maybe your work blocked it .
May need to type in manually in search box. Ex-work occasionally stopped frequent use links .

[truck]

Today at 10:24 am

by paul

@truck wrote:

For some reason or other, m work computer wll not find or display NSW/Suzuki bandits australia when I search. It used to, but has stopped about a week ago. everything else still works. I now have to wait till I am at home on my personal computer to come here.

Maybe your work blocked it .
May need to type in manually in search box. Ex-work occasionally stopped frequent use links .

Yeah it was a weird one. I've tried manually typing it in NSWbandits, Suzuki Bandits Australia, Bandit forum plus a thousand other combinations. Even scrolled for 3-4 pages when the search was complete but no success. Normally, with my work security, I get a message saying the site has been blocked but I didn't get a message.

[truck]

Works with chrome but not with google.

[truck]

Just noticed it's been over a year since I posted a rant - so-oo -

I would quit tomorrrow if I could afford to. 

I love my job and the people (most of the time) but the sense of entitlement, the constant complaining, the not my fault excuses, the accusations, the telling me about a person committing a unsafe act but not saying anything cause "not my job, thats your job" line, the basic breaches of Company policy, the long lunches, the number of times I've observed people scrolling on phones when they should be working, the "last place I worked was safer than here" or "this is the unsafest place I have ever worked" comments (apparently, me offering to help them carry their tools to the car or advising them to go back to their last place of work is not on) and let me say, it's a very safe place to work - lots of frustration at the minute.

Always end on a high note, my superannuation is bettter than I expected it to be.

Truck

[GSX1100G]

I so get that.
Sounds like my old place- through a team reshuffle, I had a person that previous supervisor, for years complained about weekly re safety breaches. I refused to let him be anywhere other than the depot after he had a near death episode and had another major breach of ohs 2 days later. My next level of bosses agreed at first, then upper levels then realised that because everyone below was aware and that this had been going on for 10 years without action, we should tread carefully in case of being sued for loss of income.
2 & 1/2 years later, he was given voluntarily redundancy-($160k). He was 72 back then and couldn't be terminated based on age.
I'll stop here before I get really fired up.

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