Roadside Bodges....

Hobot suggested this thread.... :wink:

I picked up my first ever Norton January 2011 sight unseen and rode it 700 kms home.....
About 200 kms into the trip it started to misfire.....nekminit....stopped on side of road with no charging system and a flat battery...... fortunately was able to limp 2 kms into Martinborough....a top shelf wine growing area North of Wellington which oddly has the town streets laid out as a Union ( British) flag.
Two Big Jim batteries wired in series bodged and good to go....for another 200 kms...


Last weekend I was out enjoying our 4 day Easter Weekend which for a change was warm and sunny, turning into my mates upwards sloping poorly maintained gravel drive...nekminit the clutch lever pulled right back and the bike staggered around on the gravel.....cable was broken....needless to say my mate was not home. :roll:
I swapped the inner around, cut the outer back and 'bodged' it together at the lever.



used the bolt from the pillion footrest.
Made it home no worries.

nekminit is a word that entered our vocab over the summer.... ( I have teenagers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG78xyC79YU

I like the Norton over the Thruxton as its more 'interactive'

quite brilliant bodging!

question: what did you do to secure the cable to the barrel inside the gearbox, enough room to knot the cable?

1up3down said:

quite brilliant bodging!

question: what did you do to secure the cable to the barrel inside the gearbox, enough room to knot the cable?

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He flipped the cable. The barrel is from the hand lever side. Then he tied the loose end to the lever.

You know what a total bodge is don't you?
I just maybe the youth in Kiwi land. Nek minnit.
Freakin' hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... 7m1842awf8

Guido said:

You know what a total bodge is don't you?
I just maybe the youth in Kiwi land. Nek minnit.
Freakin' hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... 7m1842awf8

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I'm afraid to google Total Bodge on my work PC.....
Cool vid, he takes on all the steepest streets in my home town Auckland.
The last one Liverpool Street used to be two way, when I was an apprentice we had Bedford vans on CNG ( compressed Natural Gas) and they would not get up there in first....and believe me being an apprentice we tried.... :lol:
Must have been filmed on a Sunday....amazing control of that board.

When I said total bodge I meant "complete" as (total) bodge. The word "Total" being used as "complete". A complete bodge.
Now with that said, What does "bodge" mean in your neck of the woods?
I thought it meant Jerry rigged, altered, fabricated from nothing.
I know you just can't toss the word "toss" around without getting some funny looks. :shock:

Bodge is more of an English term, we use ones like lash up, slapped together, makeshift, cobble together is a fav.
My next door neighbour years ago in Sydney was a Pommy builder and he used to have a fictitious firm he claimed he 'worked' for called Bodget and Leggitt....and Grabbitt and Runn, be great names to have on an old van.

Guido said:

When I said total bodge I meant "complete" as (total) bodge. The word "Total" being used as "complete". A complete bodge.
Now with that said, What does "bodge" mean in your neck of the woods?
I
I know you just can't toss the word "toss" around without getting some funny looks. :shock:

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"thought it meant Jerry rigged, altered, fabricated from nothing."

Actually---the correct term here is " jury rigged"--------came from years ago when the justice system here in the USA was kind of on the lax side---juries were selected from a group of people who may have had some prejudice in the outcome of the trial. This predated the present system of "peremptory challenges'.
The term was/is commonly used to describe something that is put together/assembled using questionable non-professional methods and materials.
The military term here would be "field expediency".