{"id":736,"date":"2009-01-07T00:29:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:34:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T07:34:05","slug":"parts-is-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2009\/01\/07\/parts-is-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts Is Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a package in the mail today that really annoyed the piss out of me. It was some parts I bought from a RUB with a new Harley who was obviously \u201ccustomizing\u201d his new garage queen with what I assume was standard H-D over-the-counter bling. He had put up a post on an internet message board listing the parts he was selling:<\/p>\n<p>    * Mirrors (2)<br \/>\n    * Floorboards<br \/>\n    * Brake lever and pad<br \/>\n    * Brake Light<br \/>\n    * License plate bracket<br \/>\n    * Shift linkage<br \/>\n    * Handlebar levers (2)<br \/>\n    * Shift levers and pegs<br \/>\n    * Speakers (2)<br \/>\n    * Air cleaner assembly<br \/>\n    * Rear turn signal lens (2)<\/p>\n<p>An obvious new-bike bling job, yes? Someone with too much time and money on his hands bought a new bike, walked over to the accessory counter and picked out a bunch of crap with skulls or eagles on it, then paid even more to have the Service Department put it all on for him. Then he put all the take-offs up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, I guess. Me personally, I would have installed it all myself, but then I don\u2019t have too much time and money on my hands. But more power to him for being able to do that, and more power to me for being able to get brand new parts on the cheap.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I\u2019ve been looking for a new pair of floorboards for awhile now. The ones I have now are ground down to just about nothing from scraping in the turns, especially the right-hand one. That one has been ground all the way through to the rubber pad your foot sits on (the \u201cinsert,\u201d as we\u2019ll learn in a moment), and my calf rests right against that razor-sharp edge when I put my foot down. Care is in order there. Care, and new floorboards if I can get \u2018em. Which made me notice this clown\u2019s ad.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, I sent him a check for his floorboards and a couple days later a box shows up on my front step. Inside are my like-new take-offs from his Harley. Only\u2026 they\u2019re not floorboards. They\u2019re floorboard inserts \u2014 the rubber inset that you put your foot on. What an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand I blame myself. It was obvious that he was doing the new Harley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridgefieldwash.com\/riverviewmm\/samples\/harley\/hdpath.html\">Chrome Consultant<\/a> dance, so I should have known he meant the inserts rather than the floorboard pans themselves. Riders like this guy don\u2019t replace the pans \u2014 Harley doesn\u2019t make shinier ones for him to buy. On the other hand I blame him, because how fucking hard is it to call a part by its actual name? What he did is like selling shoelaces and calling them shoes. I mean, for fuck&#8217;s sake, he obviously bought floorboard inserts to replace the crap he sent me and it says right there on the box \u201cFloorboard Inserts.\u201d How hard is it to copy that?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why this got under my skin so badly, but it did. I guess I can\u2019t expect him to know the difference \u2014 this is the kind of guy who slaps down a credit card and has the Service Department do everything for him. He\u2019s the epitome of a RUB. But come on dude, get it right!<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to argue with him over who\u2019s going to pay to ship it back, I have to go to the post office to mail it, I\u2019ll have to go to the bank to deposit his check, and on top of all that I still have to find new floorboards, so I\u2019m going to keep cutting the leg of my jeans\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Argh. Stupid, know-nothing, poser RUBs\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a package in the mail today that really annoyed the piss out of me. It was some parts I bought from a RUB with a new Harley who was obviously \u201ccustomizing\u201d his new garage queen with what I assume was standard H-D over-the-counter bling. He had put up a post on an internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}