I didn't go to work today, I put my bike in for a service.

I'd mentioned I was doing this to my mate, in case I could get a lift home.

I rode around to the bike place, and dropped off my bike, about 9am.

My mate works night shift fairly often, so I didn't want to wake him, so I just sent an sms to say I'd dropped my bike off, in case he'd come to give me a lift home.

I started walking home, didn't hear anything from him, got all the way home.

I sat around for a while at home, just filling in time.

I wandered back to the bike place about 1pm, it takes me close to an hour to walk around there. It pissed down with rain on the way back, and I got piss wet through.

They'd put the new tyres on, I knew the back tyre I had was bald, but I didn't realise how bad it was until I saw it off the bike, it was totally stuffed.

They hadn't dyno tuned it, or mucked around with the jets or needles or anything, because the intake manifold seals were stuffed. They'd told me that last time I got it serviced, around 45000km, but I couldn't remember what it was I needed.

They'd put the K&N filter in too.

I paid for the service, and paid to back order the seals I needed, because the Yamaha dealer only had one of them.

I rode it home carefully, because the new tyres are all waxy, and they'd also adjusted the front brake cable (it had been really loose, and I could put the brake lever right in to the bar, now it would have locked up). The clutch cable had been adjusted too, I meant to mention that the clutch had been slipping, they'd noticed that.

Luckily the road was really busy on the way home, a traffic jam, so I pretty much walked the bike home, I had my foot down on the road more than on the foot peg.