Bugger..That Aint Coming Off

So the MOT for the SV1000 is due at the end of May 19. So as part of my objective to get back on my SV and start riding a lot more, i decided to change the oil because i felt like i needed to get hands on with the bike again.

I'm at my parents house, where the SV currently lives and get straight to sorting the oil change out. The evening started off well, the folks were in good spirits, the weather was drizzly but warm which brought the waft of an original Belstaff Trialmaster hanging in the garage to the front of the senses, bloody hell wax cotton is a smell you don't forget but its a smell that gives me (and probably others) a great sense of nostalgia. That jacket was the first motorcycle jacket I had when I was sixteen. It was my dads, so i inherited it when i got my first set of wheels but thinking back to that time, what a sight i was on a Yamaha AeroX with a Trailmaster, very baggy jeans and Wrangler boots, the word badass doesn't spring to mind but the words "you can smell him before you see him" do. Once I'd had a enough of the Belstaff it went into my parents garage loft where it grew mold for many years but then got brought out to see if it could be brought back to life as a day to day coat, which is why its hanging in the garage or maybe to kill off insects and deter local wildlife, I'm unsure. I wonder if David Beckham or Ewan Mcgregor's £550* Belstaffs have starting growing mold?

Anyway, oil change. After warming the engine up and getting excited about 10W40 flowing, the sump plug came off ok, oil filler cap came off ok but the oil filter "f*** no, that aint coming off!" were the words both me and my old man described on several occasions for the issue we were having. It just wouldn't come off! This filter might have been on for six years because none of us can remember ever changing it but you would still think it would come off easily but we tried and tried, to the point of hammering a screwdriver through and trying to wind the filter off that way but still no luck, this thing would not budge.

The aftermath

We have a suspicion that whoever put the filter on (yes, it could be us) didn't lube the bottom of the filter, then decided to swing on the damn thing (not like us tbh) to tighten it. So we admitted defeat and managed to organise the local bike garage we use to come and pick it up, with the MOT due they might as well have a go at getting that bloody filter off and do the MOT whilst there, it also saves me from standing round at the bike garage at the weekend waiting for the MOT to be done with all the other folks who are there for MOTs, plus the weather doesn't look good but that's the UK for you!   

Can't to see what the damage to my pocket will be.

Safe riding and cake eating. Hope your oil change goes ahead better than mine!

*my dad paid nowhere near that for his plus the factory shop was only a couple of miles down the road.