Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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One of the great joysof riding a motorbike, as you tour down a-roads and across country, is stopping at truck stops for a greasy bacon bap and a few cups of rancid coffee. You can sit and watch people admiring your bike and contemplate the route ahead.
One of the horrors of this is finding yourself on a packed road going through endless village after village with so much coffee in your bladder that your back teeth are floating.
Little known fact that 30 miles an hour on a Yamaha Thundercat sets up a resonant vibration with the 2 pints of piss floating not six inches above the engine.
Oh my god – I have never needed to piss so bad in my life. The pain of it. The potential embarrassment. Oh crap, oh crap, oh cr….. wait…. A car park with facilities up ahead! Joy. Drop a gear, howl past stationary queue of traffic, stoppie outside little toilet block and charge in.
Yank jacket open, gloves into sink, grab zip puller on cheap waterproof over-trousers bought off flea-bay for an incredible price. Zip puller snaps off in hand. Can’t undo zip without it. Pain growing to incredible proportions.
Fucksocks.
Must…..not…..piss…..self.
They still talk about the cursing, shouting helmet-wearing dervish that was seen crashing into sinks and hand dryers with both hands clamped to the front of its trousers in the toilets of a small village in Bedfordshire.
E-bay for motorcycle gear? Just don’t. Ever.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 11:04, 4 replies)
Hein Gericke......Are also good at carefully fashioning dodgy zips on the fronts of trousers...
Worst thing in the world being on a bike and needing a slash, just thank god it was a relatively smooth inline four, I would hate to have the same experience on my VFR800!
T
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 12:08, closed)
Clickety......for being evil incarnate in selling piss-soaked stuff on Ebay. Sterling Job.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 12:47, closed)
misanthropeI think they were bought on ebay before the event, not sold there afterwards.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 21:12, closed)
GPZ500S.Trip down to parents for Christmas, a straight stretch down the M1...in the bloody freezing cold. Stopped after 60 miles to get a cup of tea to warm myself up.
Stopped after another 60 miles to deposit the tea back at another service station further along.
Adult nappies perhaps?
(, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 16:02, closed)
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