Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:30:39 +0800
- Message No. 5584
From: Matthias Becker
Subject: Re: WG:Possibly dumb question
Hi Florian,
Holy cow, you are definitely in love with the TUeV !
Did you by any chance had any kind of problems, funny conversations or
slight discrepancies with them?
Trust me you would like them a bit more if you could (maybe you can)
imagine the FUBAR-Equipment (F***** Up Beyond All Recognition) on some
Asian roads here.
But I couldn't agree more when someone states that most of the TUev-guys
are going by the book only and there is a lack of common sense, which
should be applied in any case.
TUeV-guys are liable for what they do, and may even get sacked in case
of a failure, which can be a bit uneasy when wife and kids at home are
in demand for warm meals. As an engineer myself I can judge that
liability, as a bachelor I can only guess.
Just imagine the TUeV-guy likes @s and closes his eyes, when you show up
with some knobbies on, telling him that you wouldn't be stupid enough to
go 180km/h. Next thing to happen is that you do just 120km/h on the
Highway in the rain and some idiot pulls out on you (quote:"I'm sorry
Officer, but I really didn't see a motorbike, it just must have appeared
out of the blue {yes Florian, you had two headlights fully flashed!})
and you are transformed into gore by the polish truck without brakes
following you downhill, doing a relaxed 110km/h, overtaking a German
truck (restricted to 82,5km/h).
The Police sees a motorbike (too fast, what else!), your knobbies
(illegal, aren't they!), info brakes that you just passed TUeV, the
TUeV-guy is held liable by the insurance Lawyer who enjoys to earn some
easy stripes with this case. Guess who has a problem with that
Hot-Meals-Issue?
But there is always a way. The TUeV in Braunschweig for example, was
once famous with the Harley crowd for being tolerant about loud pipes,
as long as you played by their rules. Here lies the solution: their
rules. TUeVers are humans only, they just want to be taken for real,
taken serious and they want to be involved - that's all, some TLC does
the trick in most of the cases.
Just look around a bit at the local TUeV or DEKRA staff parking lots and
find a bike( somehow actual model BMW's don't really count here), talk
to that riding buddy and explain the problem you face to him, in 9 out
of 10 times you'll talk to a nice guy, willing to be of help as long as
you don't ask for too much.
Well, as you know already ,most of the guys are tight asses (x'cuse my
French),but you only need to find one nice one that's enough.
Oops, that became a long e-mail, hope you still enjoyed reading it(maybe
I should become a priest)
Stay Upright
Matthias >Matthew< Becker
@#458
P.S.: BTW, what means "ROFLMAO"
Florian Moesch wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
> >What is the TUeV?
> >
> >Sounds like "Secret police" to me.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> ROFLMAO !!!!
>
> Indeed, you´re quite right. TUeV is sort of that crap. They are the folk
> s,
> which stamp your plates after "checking" your bike. As long this is "reg
> ular"
> (in their opinion), you don´t have probs. But beware, if those folks are
>
> suspicious and think (!) that your exhaust is to noisy, you are riding w
> ith
> "wrong" tires or hell knows whatever, your f****. IMHO, must of those gu
> ys are
> - incompetent,
> - lazy
> - corrupt
> - selfsufficient
> - arbitrary.
>
> You see, just like secret police...
> Rgds
>
> Flo
>
> ATIC #027,
> RD07b, 35mM
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