Featured Screw In Rear Tyre

Result

 

Oooft! Was it a gold plated tyre or what? How do they even justify that?

 

I'm sure most of us have found this sort of thing happens a lot. I NEVER buy tyres from a main dealer for this exact reason, be it for the bike or one of my cars as they are always ridiculously expensive. If I can go to an independent place I will - they depend on reputation to keep going and word of mouth goes a long way. Dealers have shiny showrooms and sharks, I mean salesmen, to pay for so will almost always be more expensive but care a lot less.

 

At that price it should come with a few bottles of specially aged Single Malt!

I used to carry mushroom plugs and tyre weld, plus some canisters of compressed gas... Only ever used one once, to get me home from Wales, that was a big screw too, right in the centre. It worked well enough, but my mechanic at the time took a hissifit and told me to fit a new tyre, which I did. Young and had money in them days...

Do they still do 'get you home' kits like that? I think the make was "riva" or "riga" ?

 

Answering my own question.... It was rema... https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Rema-Tip-T...W_k4aNoBG8Htzz7r3VhYWN3Vhs9AETMMaAn7FEALw_wcB

 

What is the term for what we call "hood scoops" ? Bonnet scoops sounds a bit odd ... ...J.D.

 

Maybe it does. I was looking for it. I misplaced one. I think I left one of them in the trunk of my wife's Volvo. All in fun guys. Us americans have a boatload of odd expressions. Language is just like that. ...J.D.

 

There's a trunk in the back of ours.

A wooden one, with tools in it.... In the boot.

 

At the risk of (and intent of) steering the thread hopelessly off course... I submit this. ...J.D.

 

I've had the phrase 'tootle him melodiously' in my head for years. Now I know where it came from!

 

OMG! This is priceless---and filled with so many useful phrases. Two of my favorites upon the first (but certainly not last) reading of this document are "festive dog" and "do not explode the exhaust box at him." Oh my.

 

Very likely. I know I recycled it from somewhere, but I don't remember the source. Some of these things are just too good not to save, so I have a special file for them. ...J.D.

 

And Gears go in a gearbox ! Not a Transmission ..! Transmission is "the movement of power or artifact " from one place to another ! The gearbox transmits power from engine to tyres to produce relocation of passengers and vehicles

 

Using gears which are housed in a box

 

The better way to describe is;
American spelling = WRONG
English spelling = CORRECT!

That's why it's called speaking English, not American!

 

There’s a few wrong there Ron.
Practice is spelt the same here, we use CV (never heard any Englishman use resume) and we have colleges as well as Universities, though I think you mean that you call universities colleges.