let's play a game............

[sadlonelygit]

the item pictured below has a specific job to do on my bike. it's not plugged into anything, doesn't pass through anything.
what does it do?

[simonm]

It holds a pin/piece of wire.


Probably so you can clean crud out of holes, valves or something ?


As an aside it's a probe from a multimeter 

[sadlonelygit]

Probably so you can clean crud out of holes, valves or something ?

i have an airline for things like that.....tick tock

[simonm]

Probably so you can clean crud out of holes, valves or something ?

i have an airline for things like that.....tick tock

Not when you're at a meet or out and about 


Check you have a spark ?


Does it live on your bike or in the workshop ?
How often do you use it ?
Is the wire/pin in the croc clips important to it's role ?

[Looney tune]

Its the live connection to your pet mouses vibrator, she lives under your seat and saves you money on alarms working as your guard mouse. Being housed on the bike she has gotten so accustomed to vibrations you had to invent something to keep her happy when the bike is parked up.
Close, no, awe well 

[dazza]

Would it be your emergency alarm bypassing wire in case it goes kaput ?

[ChristoT]

Dental floss? 

[Raymy]

Clearly its there to affix the skybelt to the crumplejack.

Ask me another

[sadlonelygit]

Probably so you can clean crud out of holes, valves or something ?

i have an airline for things like that.....tick tock

Not when you're at a meet or out and about 


Check you have a spark ? Nope


Does it live on your bike or in the workshop ? Workshop
How often do you use it ? Twice now
Is the wire/pin in the croc clips important to it's role ? oh yes

[Doddsie]

Your reset buttons knackered and you use it to set your clock??

[Rebuilt]

Some sort of battery live test wireing ?

 

[simonm]

Is the pin magnetised?

If you don't use it to pass electric through and it's length isn't important (it can't be as the pin could wiggle or anything) then you have to dangle it somewhere inaccessible, so the pin would be magnetized to pick stuff up ?

[Oldgit]

clears your Scotoiler nozzle.

[sadlonelygit]

Have none of you ever had to pair a new datatool keyfob?

[simonm]

Have none of you ever had to pair a new datatool keyfob?

Nope, one bike has no alarm the other has a spyball.

[clayt74]

Have none of you ever had to pair a new datatool keyfob?

Nope..... so is the red test lead just to prevent you losing the pin? Seems a bit of over kill I use an old bakkie tin for my small n invaluable bits 

[Exupnut]

Is it a japseye nipple connector?

[ChristoT]

A doodah to reset a key fob whilst connected to the alarm itself to pair it?

[simonm]

Have none of you ever had to pair a new datatool keyfob?

Nope..... so is the red test lead just to prevent you losing the pin? Seems a bit of over kill I use an old bakkie tin for my small n invaluable bits 

I'd just sellotape the pin to a piece of the plastic underneath the seat.

[Skippernick]

Is it a japseye nipple connector?

 

[Raymy]

I know one thing for sure



It ain't a ban dan bladder stiddle

[simonm]

I know one thing for sure

It ain't a ban dan bladder stiddle

Is that even English? :-P

Mebbe it's Scottish ?  Can't be Welsh.

[Raymy]

http://fazerowners.yuku.com/topic/20822/Devolution-Of-A-Streetfinder-The-Ulysses-Story

Sorry thats a shameless plug when it actually came from....


" Let's invent the wheel

Those of you who are long enough in the tooth to remember E.L.Whisty in his first incarnation (the latest version has more lines on the face and a different voice), may possibly remember his story of the caveman who invented the Ban-dan-bladder-stiddle. The pay-off was that his mate, Og, invented the same thing last week, but called it the wheel."

Taken from; http://www.iroquois.free-online.co.uk/sf27.htm

Which is from the old Peter Cook and Dudley Moore radio shows. A bit obscure and hard to find online. I've yet to find the recording online but a mate has the tape.

Its very funny the way they do it.