Thruxton V&H Slip ons - US spec

Hi Midas,

Good luck with the fine tuning and I hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction and you are delighted with your bike.

And I can empathise with your lack of riding.....if it's not the weather snookering my attempts to get out for a spin it's resolving my mothers medical and care issues, fighting 'the system' and all its faceless beauracrats who see her as an inconvenient number on their books...........I'll just jump down from this soap-box now and clear off, sorry about that.

Cheers,

dickydido

 

No need to apologise for venting mate, It's good to get it out of your system....Your only useful to those fu*kers while they are taking money from you, as soon as you need something back they don't want to know...

I read this the other day and it's a bit of an eye opener, maybe everyone should have a read and have a think about it....

"THIS IS SURELY SOMETHING WE ALL NEED TO THINK ABOUT!!!!

THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE PENSION IS THAT THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED OLD AGE PENSION.

WHERE DID ALL THAT MONEY GO?

Remember, not only did you and I contribute to our Pension, our employer did, too. It totalled 15% of your income before taxes.

If you averaged only £15 000 over your working life, that's close to £220,500. Read that again. Did you see anywhere that the Government paid in one single penny?

We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to ensure that you and I would have a
retirement pension from the money we put in, it was not money that the Government had any right to spend elsewhere.

Now they've started to call the money we paid in an
'entitlement' when we reach the age to take it back.

If you calculate the future invested value of £2500 per year
(yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5%
interest (that's less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows from overseas), after 49 years of working you'd have
£892,919.98.

If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive £26,787.60 per
year and it would last better than 30 years (that means until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity with the money and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of £1976.40 per month.

THE CROOKS IN GOVERNMENT HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER ROBBERY THAN THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERS EVER DID.

Entitlement!!??

My foot !! IT'S MY MONEY!! I paid IN cash for my pension.
Just because they borrowed the money to spend on other things, that doesn't make my pension some kind of charity or handout!!

Remember MP's benefits? ---

free healthcare,

outrageous retirement packages,

67 days paid holidays,

three weeks paid holidays,

unlimited paid sick days.

Now that really should be called welfare entitlements, yet they have the nerve to call my O A P retirement payments entitlements?
We're "broke" and the government can't help our own OAPs, our ex-service personnel, our orphans or our homeless

Yet in the past few years we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, Turkey, India, Pakistan, etc., etc., etc. Literally, BILLIONS of Pounds !!!

But they can't help our own citizens!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed old age pension have to beg social services to receive additional aid, while our government and religious organizations pour hundreds of billions of £££ tons of food to foreign countries!

They call the old age pension an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.

Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?
It was supposed to be in a securely locked box, not to be used as part of the Government's general funds.

Sad, isn't it, that some people won't have the guts to forward
this. I'm in the category with guts enough to do it - - - and I just did."

 

Hi Midas,

......now, that is what you call a soap-box!

Thanks for that, a lot of food for thought and reflection on 'the system' that aligns with many of my own thoughts and feelings.

Cheers,

dickydido

 

Blimey! There's more to those V&H slip ons than first meets the eye

 

Thank you for posting the article Midas, I haven't checked the maths but I am sure it will not be far out.
One thing I would like to add is how on earth the government were ever allowed to raise the female pension age from 60 to 66, it was done with the absolute intention of paying out less due to bereavement.
The male pension age went from 65 to 66 which while not as noticeable as the 10% increase for females is still keeping our older people having to work while the younger generations are denied employment.

I am aware this is a Triumph motor cycle forum so I will end now, but again thank you for your input in raising awareness to the fact of how our hard earned government pensions are generated and that charity really should begin at home.

This and related postings should ideally be in the lounge forum.

 

4 monthly payments then