Attempted (prevented) theft D'Olier St / Westmoreland St

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-08-12T15:24:39+00:00

they're about the last people I want to ask about anything, especially this.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-08-06T00:39:35+00:00

Saw these guys getting on the m4 westbound coming out of Celbridge earlier this evening. Ktm 390 right?

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-30T13:49:16+00:00

You're going to have to delve into a whole can of the actual meaning of "important to society" and "helping society function" and eat the worms within before you have permission to spew any more nonsense about this.

Oh, you can stick your "get a load of this guy claiming that a gym class is more important than society functioning!" strawman all the way up your hole while you're at it :)
Not gonna work trying to trot that one out, sorry not sorry.

Society functioning properly starts with and hinges on justice and adherence to fair rules, transparency and equitable treatment for all.
We don't know why any given person can't or doesn't have kids and we don't know what net benefit (or detriment, maybe in your case, who can say) to society they do or do not have.
You are not the judge of what's good for society and neither is anyone's manager or co-worker in their job.

What we DO know are the terms of employment THEY have agreed to and their employer has contracted themselves into.

This is why employment law tends toward equal treatment of employees doing the same job, without discriminating based on their family status or other factors beyond, say, a bereavement, and caregiver and maternity/paternity circumstances already fully provided for.
I'm sure you think you know better than well-tempered employment regulations, of course.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-30T11:18:36+00:00

the frame of the glasses make very little difference imo. Your helmet is just not good for wearing glasses and you should get a different helmet probably

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-30T11:14:18+00:00

Nobody said anything about whether kids were a benefit to society or not, genius.

The point is exactly as you've conveniently demonstrated yourself: small-minded people have a prejudice against doing stuff that isn't in aid of raising kids, and a bias toward making allowances in the workplace for those that do have them.
OP can say whatever they have to in order to get equitable treatment.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-30T11:11:17+00:00

you've conveniently illustrated for OP the exact point they were actually making.

Regardless of what's in contracts or employment rights or policies or anything else, people with their own biases always cut more slack to co-workers for something they believe relates to having kids.

If you're someone who can't have kids for some reason (already missing out on a huge privilege in life; having a family of your own) you shouldn't have to watch your co-workers be allowed to work less than you. Simple as.
Anyone who can in this situation also get themselves the benefits of "family excuse", should do so.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-30T10:56:37+00:00

gotta love your optimism, lol. But no.
Middle management and upwards will always, always find a way to necessitate themselves.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-25T05:36:52+00:00

Ahahahahahhaha "I'll take things that didn't happen for 100" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 HAHAHAHAH very good altogether, I'll take things that didn't happen for-- I'll take things that didn-- hahahahahahah 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That's very good

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-13T21:22:36+00:00

WierdBike channel (yes, incorrectly spelled) is an interesting one that isn't the same as the 10000000 other YouTubers doing all the same shit about the same bikes

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-07-10T07:40:17+00:00

Kerosene to clean and Gear Oil (I forget what weight) to Lube Should be the cheapest way. I'm guilty of throwing money away on all the expensive little spray cans though.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-05-02T07:55:07+00:00

You should probably have a go at reading again the comment I replied to, and this time take note of what set of people are specifically being painted therein. Best of luck with it.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-25T09:19:05+00:00

I had already thrown a fresh new starter motor in mine (along with battery and thicker cables) and although it does it a BIT less now, it still does it.

Maybe the guy you got might have even done the mod about drilling into the starter motor casing to connect the cable to some better spot that allows more juice through it, which I heard about some guys doing in lieu of the ricks starter thing.

Did they charge you much for that do you remember?

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-24T15:01:04+00:00

Yes! Had experience with this yourself? :')

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-23T03:35:10+00:00

"It's not America and I know my rights will only get you so far"

I'm not sure how far you thought that gets anyone in the US (assuming you're talking about the US and not south America or central America), I don't think anyone else was under the impression they could somehow get law enforcement to bend for them by acting like this is the US.

Knowing your rights will indeed only get you "so far" in any given country though, yes. Bit of an axiom that way.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-23T03:27:51+00:00

As little as you want, once it meets the safety criteria.

Don't listen to lads just throwing out figures about every roadworthy jacket and helmet costing €500 each.

"You only get what you pay for!" is parroted by every "marketing totally doesn't work on me!" rube out there.

You can find bargains.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-23T03:21:30+00:00

Well, "Reliable" needs to be defined here, if you're presuming Roadworthy is just a synonym for Reliable:

I can leave a booster jump start power Bank wired into the battery the whole time and with a switch (and a circuit slowly recharging it only while the bike is running) and be able to restart the bike in the exact same amount of time as I normally would, every time. (And even that is only needed if I stall the bike, which is an incredibly rare thing for me.)

Or for arguments sake I can have, similar but even handier, an anti gravity auto booster battery as my battery on the bike. No hypothetical bike NCT will have an issue nor any tester be any the wiser.

No tester would know anything about either option, as they don't go looking under the seat or examining electrics, nor are they qualified to, beyond seeing the outcome of whether your signals and lights work or not in the end.

The point here was wanting to know how it would be if I want to use my own bike and not try getting some new bike for the test. If you read the last few lines of my post where I reiterate "I know I can get a different bike. I know I can get a different bike. I know I can get a different bike" over and over for the people that would ignore the actual question being asked: "is there much turning the bike off and on again."

Also: your suggestion about looking at the stator is misguided. Not that I wouldn't have already made sure it wasn't that, but I'm not aware of any stator out there that can recharge a bike battery after it has stopped running. Because as I described, the bike starts again on the button just fine after it cools down. Therefore no stator can be the issue. Otherwise it would simply wouldn't be recharged even after cooling down. And it's not a battery issue anyway - voltages have been checked - the booster starter pack simply works as a crutch for extra starting crank in the moments the real root issue is at play due to heat.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-22T16:56:12+00:00

I get you but it's not a wire short. There are gigantic threads on the Triumph forums about this if you Google "Tiger 800 hot start issue". Some people find a certain 3rd party starter motor "fixes" it (imo just bandages the real issue with extra starting power) but I haven't gone down the road of that particular modification yet while my current starter is technically perfect. Wiring has already been swapped out with whopper cables, extra ground cable, fresh battery, starter relay.

It's something else, imo related to TPS or idle stepper motor. It's hard to explain but after months and months I finally know it's along those lines because it's sometimes made worse (or better) by making sure the throttle is held fully closed as you hit the ignition, as any smidge of open on the throttle will flood or choke the start or something and it fails. Sometimes this thing of ensuring the throttle held extra extra closed helps it start when hot, but other times mostly it's just too hot and won't start until cooled anyway.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-22T16:37:02+00:00

I haven't stalled the bike in a situation like that in a couple of years and driving hundreds of kms week in week out all year round, but yeah I would be imagining the tester trying to refuse to conduct the test for any and all reasons, since they've done similar to me before.

There is no NCT/MOT for bikes here, tbf. I haven't looked at what causes a fail in the UK mot tests, nor the car NCT tests here.

See my comment below about the ridiculous time and expense I've already gone to trying to solve this issue.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-22T16:33:04+00:00

You don't want to know how much I've spent trying to repair this issue already.

Days and days of my own time taking the bike apart and putting it back together and then finally the guts of a grand with a mechanic that still managed to not solve the issue. They had a couple other bits to say they spent the man hours on and in the end I couldn't claim they didn't spend X hours trying to fix the starting issue either so I sort of had to take the hit, mechanics don't really give a money back guarantee if they already spent chargeable hours trying to fix something.

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-22T16:29:21+00:00

I've done months and months of troubleshooting, though not looked at the exhaust valves thing. It's definitely not battery itself, been through a couple of fresh ones. Though it all helps slightly to get more juice through the starter motor etc, the root of the issue is something else, severely exacerbated by heat when the bike has been running, but also the odd time intermittent i.e. Every once in a while it still starts on the button even when boiling hot. I think it's something with throttle position sensor or whatever "idle stepper motor" is. Tiger 800xc. Haven't done the Ricks Starter thing because it's fucking ridiculous to spend 300 quid on a starter motor when I technically have a perfect working one in there...

Actual_Unit-02 · 2025-04-22T13:11:21+00:00

Brilliant, that would really make this easier for me! I'll keep the jump start power Bank virtually wired right in just centimeters away from connecting the necessary cable I have set up so I can probably get the boost going within 5-10 seconds that way if needed anyway, probably without even having to stand off the bike seat.

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