The Shutdown

listermint wrote: »

No not interogation, he asked a question was given advice.

He doesnt know that most middle of the road toolsets have imperial tools in them.

He does, because he has a full metric and imperial workshop in his garage.

Theres a dublin HD in dublin but im assuming there is history there? they could fix it.

Bunch of c*nts that dont have the parts in stock. I wouldn't let them service a toaster.

There various independent shops in dublin that can replace an O Ring.

And most if not all will run crying when they see whats involved in replacing just an o-ring


That "just an o-ring" could set a bike on fire if it went when out on a spin. I've been servicing and customizing my own bikes be they Jap, US or Euro for the past 20 years. I know how this o-ring is replaced, what needs to be done but if I make a mistake I can't get this 15 cent part separately (not sold) and I have to buy new fuel lines from HD. Also try getting anything from them at the moment.

Again, doing all this under warranty is only going to happen in a dealership.

Del2005 wrote: »

Can you borrow a bike off someone, assuming you have riding other bikes on your insurance, instead of making a courier drive half the country. Be way cheaper than paying for the courier and repair for a cheap part.

Insurance is shipping it down. It'll be gone for 2 days. I can ride my wife's little sportster but I need the big luggage boxes on the tourer for work.

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Tbh, no matter how small a job is if you let some non certified (in this case HD, in my case KTM) mechanic on it your warranty can be void.

I have had this with getting a set of spot lights fitted.....major pain in the hoop with a new bike under warranty.

Spotlights are fair obvious though.... Theyre stuck on the sides.

batman_oh wrote: »

I fit the full Akra system on my new 1290 Superduke, removed the SAS system and the EVAP systems (and fit the Ohlins shock and other bits) and I'm still covered under warranty. I just let McCallens know what I was doing and they did the mapping at the first service.
Depends on how much of a tool the dealer is a lot of the time

What's the legal position, or, more realistically, the enforcement position? People in the UK and US are fairly militant on one's right to do one's own servicing, but I wonder if there's been any experience of that here.

Interesting note on fowlers. At the moment they are dumping shyte tonnes of old stock on certain models via ebay at huge money.
Being an oem parts nerd for my bikes I knew it was jive as they listed stuff which simply has not been available for over a decade.
Further checks showed what they have done is just taken the entirety of the model fische and barfed it up on ebay knowing folks are going to be wasting their times buying a lot of discontinued or exhausted stock and will need refunding. Beats doing actual stock inventory and sales tho!

H_Lime wrote: »

You are correct but it's a slippy road ohio. The cackling bastards knitting beside the guillotine will always want more heads irregardless.
You could kiss goodbye to contact sports no heine and rugger to watch (barbaric sport head n spinal injuries oh dear can't have that) , no GAA (as above) , horseracing (the poor horses! and the little fellas who fall off them), motor racing (crashes!), parachute jumping (the gound!!?), oh and svu's (****ty illl handling aspirational vehicles in a country like Ireland with high cog's on what are essentially car chassis, get rid of them too they'll roll!)
Nanny state baby, talk to Joe!

Ban SUVs? I'm all for getting rid of the monstrosities. Let's do it!

Max Headroom wrote: »

SUV's are mostly for men that work in offices and wifey wont let them get back on a bike........:P

Ironically, they have their origins in redneck culture and favourable US tax rates for pickup manufacturers. Overall, for car makers, they represent more money for not much more product.

So those office slicks are actually hillbillies.

D3V!L wrote: »

Anyone come across severe hostility when stopped at a checkpoint ?
Myself and my wife took my Harley tourer to do the shopping but we were stopped about 200 meters from our house at a checkpoint. The Garda said we looked like we were just dressed up for a spin.

Quite the opposite. Met a sergeant in Roscommon on a quiet road and we had an engaging chat about the DCT on my bike.

mjsc1970 wrote: »

So bar using the bike as a means of getting to work, or going to the shops or pharmacy or an essential journey, was there anything from recent announcement when we'd be grand to go for a spin, without any finger wagging ?

Here's the first mention of any relaxation re travel... but still having to avoid 'unnecessary journeys' (from thejournal.ie)

Phase three – 29 June

With regard to community health measures, the document advises that during phase three people should maintain restriction to within 20km of their home and to continue to avoid unnecessary journeys.

This seems to take the shackles off. No mention of necessity of journey.

Phase four – 20 July

With regard to community health measures, the document advises that during phase four travel can be extended to outside a person’s region.