{"id":104,"date":"2007-08-04T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2007-08-04T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T09:54:55","slug":"grrr-bloody-grrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/grrr-bloody-grrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Grrr bloody grrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now the thing is this week I&#8217;ve been tucked away in Cashmore towers because the lady of the house has required a nurse &#8211; and as you know I&#8217;m quite good at doing that kind of thing &#8211; in any case I took the opportunity to carry out a few repairs to the CBF &#8211; oil change, brake pads &#8211; that kind of thing. All was progressing well until I did this&#8230; to the left hand brake calliper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/1005459883\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1292\/1005459883_424739e58d.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"broken brake 001\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, fortunately I was at home this week so I thought, no great issue I can afford the time to order a second hand part off ebay &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;rd=1&amp;item=150140731565&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&amp;ih=005\">see the auction here <\/a>&#8211; and wait for it to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already frustrated because I can&#8217;t get out of the house (not to mention breaking a \u00a3100 part off my bike), but to make matters worse there&#8217;s a postal strike and it doesn&#8217;t arrive until today &#8211; 7 days after I ordered it &#8211; nothing to do with the breakers sending it &#8211; just the bloody post!<\/p>\n<p>But guess what &#8211; here&#8217;s what they sent me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/1005290267\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1406\/1005290267_b957d8bc22.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"calliper 004\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you see the difference here? I bloody can, and it means I&#8217;m going to have to drive into work all next week in the bloody car because the bloody breakers sent the wrong bloody part.<\/p>\n<p>Now where&#8217;s my book &#8211; ahh there it is &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Anniversary\/dp\/0099322617\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/026-8359105-4559609?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1186221223&amp;sr=8-1\">Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the thing is this week I&#8217;ve been tucked away in Cashmore towers because the lady of the house has required a nurse &#8211; and as you know I&#8217;m quite good at doing that kind of thing &#8211; in any case I took the opportunity to carry out a few repairs to the CBF &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/grrr-bloody-grrr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grrr bloody grrr&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-mechanics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}