Postal strike? What postal strike??

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:26 am

I ordered new bearings & seals for the forthcoming radius arm job (deep joy

) yesterday at 1630hrs from good ol' Golf Sierra Foxtrot - then mentally sat back for a week or so to plan the actual job.

The bloody things only went and arrived half an hour ago .................. !!!

Do GSF actually sleep? In fact do they have reflection in mirrors as well??

I guess that's the weekend pretty much rogered then .............

regards
Impressed of Sheepsville

Post by **Tim Leech** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:28 am

I order mine from the Brummingham branch over the phone and have had them within 2 hours the same day and always found them very helpful!

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:18 pm

Its only the royal mail thats on strike, gsf courier their own stuff i think?

Post by **docchevron** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:03 am

I'm beginning to wonder if all of the royal mail even are on strike, since i've had little to no actual useful post for about 3 weeks, and yet junk mail still pours through the letter box everyday come hell or high wind..

Now, if someone could invent a spam filter for the letter box, they'd be cajillionaires!

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:21 am

"spam filter for the letter box"

There used to be one but he got sacked for binning the flyers!

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:04 pm

BX Bandit wrote:.............. he got sacked for binning the flyers!

You could easily be talking about our glorious Prime Minister and his weird little Hitler-moustached defence elf there!

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:49 pm

Hey Linegeist old boy. What's going on with that signature then? Some reference to The Fatherland?

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:20 pm

Ja sicher! Ich war in Iserlohn geboren (aber ich habe nicht Deutsch gesprochen seit fast 20 Jahren).

It's a signature I use in the various English forums I infest - I find it makes a good icebreaker.

I see you live in the old DDR ........... a fascinating place. My other hobby is restoring motorcycles from the old Zschopau works.

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:49 pm

Ach ja? I live in the former W.Germany, so my location is not strictly vaild but a lot of its former residents fled down here thinking it was some sort of Shangri La once the wall fell and sometimes it feels like the former East.
Was your father in the military then? Good German you have too. I had no idea what was made in Zschopau but Google provided the answer : MZ.

jonathan_dyane · Post by **jonathan_dyane** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:57 pm

Linegeist wrote: My other hobby is restoring motorcycles from the old Zschopau works.

Oh, what have you got? I have an ETZ250, an ETZ125 and the father has a TS 150...

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:46 pm

jonathan_dyane wrote:
Linegeist wrote: My other hobby is restoring motorcycles from the old Zschopau works.
Oh, what have you got? I have an ETZ250, an ETZ125 and the father has a TS 150...

It's a MuZ Skorpion - a 660cc 4-stroke single - and it sounds just like a Manx Norton on the overrun!

toddao wrote: Was your father in the military then?

Erm ...... yes - but not your lot.

He was in the Kriegsmarine - A KorvettenLeutnant IIRC.

He never could quite come to terms with losing 2 world wars and a world cup to you lot. He went pretty nuts when I joined the British Army.

Post by **mat_fenwick** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:34 pm

Oooh, I have a soft spot for MZs too - it's strange that I have progressed from oddball East German bikes to oddball French cars...
I learnt to ride on an ETZ125 (XR?) and it amazed me how some aspects seem to be really well engineered, and other parts of it seemed to be made from cheese.

Mike E (uk) · Post by **Mike E (uk)** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:57 pm

"it amazed me how some aspects seem to be really well engineered, and other parts of it seemed to be made from cheese."

More than a passing similarity to an oddball French car then.

Mike

Linegeist · Post by **Linegeist** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:45 am

For what it's worth, the Skorpion 660's are the same. However, a lot of parts are made by Yamaha, the frame's a British Seymour-Powell design and the brakes and front suspension are Italian. Sadly, the electrics are by some mad b*****d who had psychopathic tendencies where electrons were concerned.

Skorpion owners like me spend their time replacing the atrocious quality East German materials (nothing wrong with the engineering - it's the cheesium and alumaturdium that goes futz - that and the horrible meccano grade grade wiring.) But when they go properly, it's all worth it because, like BX's, they go like greased weasels and sound/look like an orgasm on wheels.

This one's due a respray in black over the winter ... if I can get the workshop heating system to work this year ...........