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I was on my way back from mansfield yesterday afternoon in the works van on the A614 aproaching bothamsall.
I looked in my mirror to see someone on a ZX6R wanting to come pass so i moved in to let him through.
I heard his bike drop down a couple and saw him shove his thumbs up his nostrils has he got tucked behind the screen to come pass.
I had to smile because has he was coming passed his bike died...I knew the problem
Petrol was the problem(or lack of it).
Anyway i stopped and said its your lucky day fella, having a petrol generator on board.
So i gave him enough to get back to ollerton roundabout for a fill up.
He was greatfull but a little embaresed

Lol and good man for helping

Blinkey, good one for helping, the guy went from cool to fool in seconds
I believe what goes around comes around.
Last summer I was on the side of a dual carrigeway near Bristol after blowing an oil line on my Armstrong, many bikes passed,only one stopped

I'll never be rude about BMW riders again - when I was broken beside the road last Sunday he was the only one that stopped!

Nice one Jay. I stopped to help a bloke coming back from a rally once. Saw him at another one and long story short ended up with a free box of swish bits from a man he knew. There's a moral in there somewhere.

I always stop and assist where I can. Nine times out of ten the rider has a plan in place and gives me their assurance that all is well. A couple of times I've stopped to help a gurlie biker in distress, only to discover that their feller is watering the verge

I wonder whether the apparent reduction in those stopping to help is linked to the hugely increased prevalence of people having breakdown cover and a mobile phone to summon it?
It could be that a lot just assume rescue is at hand ..... coupled with the increased fear of speaking to strangers.

..... though maybe they are just fed-up with having to stop so regularly for a certain black falco from the swamps ....

A lot of the smaller dealers round here have turned to flogging little Chinese scooters and bikes. If you stopped for every one of these that you see being pushed down the pavement you'd never get anywhere.

Actually john i bought a yamaha xc vity scooter which was made in china.
6000 miles in a year to and from work, no issues it was brilliant

Have got a BTM 50cc scooter in the workshop at the minute.. What a pile of shite. 2011, so doesn't need an MOT yet, but if it did need one, there's no way it would pass even the leanest of tests. Shocking.

As Chinese products have flooded our markets for a few years now,then the buyer must be aware that quality control applies to very few factories in China,products made 'under lcense' are a different story
Made in China/ Buyer beware !

Yup, I'd buy something made in China or India if it was overseen by someone else. Straight out of China, no bloody way.

I reckon they'll learn though, and do to the Japs what they did to our bike industry.

randomsquid wrote:Yup, I'd buy something made in China or India if it was overseen by someone else. Straight out of China, no bloody way.

I reckon they'll learn though, and do to the Japs what they did to our bike industry.

Too right - there are many well known manufacturers that produce in these countries and as you say, the home-grown companies will soon get there. It'll be a bit of a mixed bag to begin with though.

Labour rates are rising in those countries so the attractiveness of shifting production is diminishing.
It's also difficult to hang on to good staff. We have a joint-venture software company in China and no sooner do we get people trained up but they leave with their newly acquired skills.

It's not all doom and gloom. We had a chap in at work last week saying how they're taking work out of China and bringing it back to England. Reason being is it's not that much more expensive (pence according to him) and the quality is far superior in England. The wages in China are going up as are shipping costs due to fuel hikes and the like.

Let's hope the tables are turning!

Willopotomas wrote:It's not all doom and gloom. We had a chap in at work last week saying how they're taking work out of China and bringing it back to England. Reason being is it's not that much more expensive (pence according to him) and the quality is far superior in England. The wages in China are going up as are shipping costs due to fuel hikes and the like.

Let's hope the tables are turning!