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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: holeshot buddy on April 16, 2010, 07:43:37 pm
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THERE ARE LOTS
GOT A COUPLE PHONE RINGS WHILE OILING AIR FILTER THATS HAPPENED TO EVERYONE
DROP A NUT AND IT ROLLS UNDER TYRE NEXT TO KNOB SPEND HALF
AN HOUR LOOKING PUT XR250 CYLINDER HEAD ON AND FORGET CHAIN GUIDE DOH
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Spend ten minutes wrestling the piston and rings into the cylinder and then realize you forgot to put the base gasket on ........ ::)
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reattaching muffler with out putting the packing in.....nah just kiddin ;D
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working on a car today and dropped a spanner in between the extractors knew it was there but couldn't find it had to buy another one as nothing else would fit as soon as the extractor dropped there it was no big deal now I have two so many stuff ups if you arent paying attention. :)
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How about arriving at a check point with a flat tyre and there's the tire lever you couldn't find the night before, sticking out of the tyre :-[ :-[
Couldn't happen out on the trail could it.
Cheers
Noel
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Attached both carb and expansion chamber with T/paper still in ports.
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In the late 60's I was at my fathers bike shop in Bankstown when I tried to help out. I attempted to fit a rego plate bracket to a brand new T250 Suzuki's front guard and proceeded to push the drill through the front tyre. " DOH "
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got a chinese quad given to me so bought it home changed oil bought new battery got it running turned it off to do something else,went to fire it back up would turn over but not fire,put new plug in pulled all sorts of stuff apart wound it over till the new battery went flat then hooked up jumper leads to car and kept trying,after about an hour i realised the kill switch was off :D.turned the kill switch on fired up straight away put on ebay and sold for $850 ;D.cheers gary
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Working on my CZ night before raceday, final touches and its all good - hmmm, wouldn't run properly next day (of course ). I'd forgotten to re-fit the pilot jet....
another meeting
Kick, kick, kick....tried to run but kept dying. Pushing, pushing, pushing. Bugger, ran fine yesterday. No go. Plenty of spark, all the usuals good, bike half stripped in the pits and race coming up....oh, left the exhaust bung in. :-[. It ran fine once I reassembled it.
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Does putting the carby slide in backwards count? ::)
The bike started - and went straight to 12,000rpm and 140db's :o :D
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putting one shock on upside down. NOBODY noticed for months.
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Missed practice and nearly wasn't able to race at all as I was so buggered trying to kick and push start the MX250A after putting new reeds in. Same as MX250's post... slide in backwards but not high RPM, just no go. Got it sorted before the first race and was able to do them all. When I told some people what I did, they said I shouldn't tell anybody that I did such a stupid thing!
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Funniest thing I've ever seen happen was a CR125 go up in flames big time after kicking it with the plug out to check spark. Well, it was funny once it was confirmed the rider was ok and the burning bike was extinguished. ;D
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The bolts flying off and hiding is very annoying oldskool killswitch thing happened to me was attempting to start my rd and no go for ages did a continuity check only in the centre is on the off on ac had worn off. ::) Also using a wire wheel on a drill cleaing some little bits up and slipping having it tangle up in my pants. :)
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Soldering my nipples on my cables, waiting for the iron to heat up,so l went inside to make a cuppa, came out to the shed with the cuppa, soldering iron was nice and hot, so with out thinking l picked up the soldering iron like l was picking up a pencil to write and burnt my fingers. That was Dumb and that was the end of working on my bike for the night. >:(
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Early one morning, around 2am, realised that I needed to check the valves before that days Hare and Hound...been away working for a few days and needed to get it done, then went to sleep for a few hours. Lesson #26 - DON'T WORK ON BIKE WHEN TIRED.
Consequently, the RH exhaust valve adjuster nut wasn't "nipped" and found it's way down the timing chain and ended up in the gearbox. When fished out, it had a tooth mark on the thread!!!!!!!
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I spent all week working on a CR125RZ to get it to Crawford river this weekendfor my First race meeting in 10 years , got it finnished around 4pm this arvo (fri) took it for a spin, gearbox jammed in first gear, pulled it down to find there was a missing spacer on the selector shaft and it had lunched the gearbox, so I dragged out the ME125 Mugen motor, pulled it down to swap the bottom end over, finally finnished it around nine with the last thing to do was attach the clutch cable, then found out the clutch actuator lever was missing, so I had to pull the motor back out again to fit it, and then pull the clutch down to release the rod to allow the arm to go in, then put it al back together , now im sitting here at midnight thinking I just couldn't be F*cked going.... :-\
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Not really working on it but Trying to get my suzuki 90 honcho out of a tight little shed (i was 11-12yrs years old- 1970-71) reversing it out when somehow my bigtoe( barefoot) got up on the chain/ sprocket and the whole lot come forward pinning a sprocket tooth straight thru the toenail (worn sprocket)pinned to the bike(on one leg) the whole lot crashed on top of me jamming me againt the wall under the bike, no one around ,still rate that as my worst stack :o
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Pre delivered a brand new vf1000 that was sold. Took it round the front and gave it some stick. Rear wheel spun up due to preservative on tyre and you guessed it,down on its side. New muffler, clutch cover and what ever else I did. Who was a popular apprentice then?!
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Helped work on one (5 years old ,helped change a spark plug or similar was C50 stepthru), got lessons in how to ride........... got addicted................... Very silly hey ;)
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Maroubra: Circa 1970. I'd just picked up the new second hand Yamaha RT1MX I'd purchased from a then famous race car driver and not wanting my anti motorcycle policeman father to know I'd bought another bike, took it to my mate Bernie's backyard so we could have have a good squiz at it. Boys being boys, we naturally couldn't wait to start the bike so after 15 minutes of kicking with no result we decided to squirt some Aerostart through the decompressor. Next kick, the bike started on full throttle, revving to about a squillion on the revometer. It was at this inopportune moment that I discovered that a kill switch doesn't have Buckleys chance of stopping an engine working at those revs, so with no other choice available I clicked her into first gear, grabbed a handfull of front brake on and dropped the clutch, hoping to stall the big Yammy. Instead, the back wheel spun like buggery burying the wheel to the sprocket while spraying a huge roost of eastern suburbs terra firma over the fresh laundry on the clothesline. Suddenly the wheel grabbed traction and launched the bike, with a dumfounded me attached, straight across the backyard and directly into the two day old zincalume garden shed that was thankfully empty except for my mates TS90 Honcho. The RT1 and I went straight through one wall, creamed the Honcho enroute and eventually stalled while trying to exit through the opposite tin wall. The resulting carnage tally was a demolished garden shed, bent forks on the Yamaha, trashed tank and gauges on the Honcho, cuts, scratches and a badly dented ego on yours truly and a whole line full of clothing needing to go through the wash cycle again. It wasn't one of my better motorcycle experiences.
When we eventually pulled down the carby to see what was wrong, we found a 6mm allen bolt jammed under the slide...we never did find where it came from.
(We spent the next day dismantling the garden shed and straightening it the best we could before putting it all back together under the stern and watchful eye of my mates dad. To this day ou can still clearly see the dents in both wall and I swear there's still a little indentation in the lawn where the back wheel had dug its trench.)
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assembled my new husky 125 engine put it in frame
took to meeting selected gears then jammed
found out you have to set gearbox up in third when assembly not neutral doh
have to pull out engine and completely strip to fix :'(
pushing a bike with plug out to clear fuel exploded with flames
went out quick its alright was a customers bike ;D
now when i do it i dont have plug in and i hold kill switch
decided to turn rear tyre around got interupted put it back on same way ::)
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My tale is similiar to Firkos. I had a Honcho and my dad decided to buy an 360 RT2 (19 " front wheel ) the idea being we could go riding together and "bond". We brought it home from Clipstone Yamaha and I immediately assumed all maintenance duties on the big Yam and to this effect decided to take the tank off to put contact on the sides to avoid scratches. This task completed I was manouvering the bike through the side gate into the back yard when much to my horror the throttle decides to stick. We accelerated wildly across the back yard,narrowly missing mum putting the washing out I parted company (did I mention we were monoing by this time!) no helmet of course split my head open and the bike cannoned into the fence destroying the rear mudguard, tailight etc. You can imagine the old man's response. 35 years later I still wake up in the middle of the night sweating thinking about it. Cheers Jerry
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Maroubra: Circa 1970. I'd just picked up the new second hand Yamaha RT1MX I'd purchased from a then famous race car driver and not wanting my anti motorcycle policeman father to know I'd bought another bike, took it to my mate Bernie's backyard so we could have have a good squiz at it. Boys being boys, we naturally couldn't wait to start the bike so after 15 minutes of kicking with no result we decided to squirt some Aerostart through the decompressor. Next kick, the bike started on full throttle, revving to about a squillion on the revometer. It was at this inopportune moment that I discovered that a kill switch doesn't have Buckleys chance of stopping an engine working at those revs, so with no other choice available I clicked her into first gear, grabbed a handfull of front brake on and dropped the clutch, hoping to stall the big Yammy. Instead, the back wheel spun like buggery burying the wheel to the sprocket while spraying a huge roost of eastern suburbs terra firma over the fresh laundry on the clothesline. Suddenly the wheel grabbed traction and launched the bike, with a dumfounded me attached, straight across the backyard and directly into the two day old zincalume garden shed that was thankfully empty except for my mates TS90 Honcho. The RT1 and I went straight through one wall, creamed the Honcho enroute and eventually stalled while trying to exit through the opposite tin wall. The resulting carnage tally was a demolished garden shed, bent forks on the Yamaha, trashed tank and gauges on the Honcho, cuts, scratches and a badly dented ego on yours truly and a whole line full of clothing needing to go through the wash cycle again. It wasn't one of my better motorcycle experiences.
When we eventually pulled down the carby to see what was wrong, we found a 6mm allen bolt jammed under the slide...we never did find where it came from.
(We spent the next day dismantling the garden shed and straightening it the best we could before putting it all back together under the stern and watchful eye of my mates dad. To this day ou can still clearly see the dents in both wall and I swear there's still a little indentation in the lawn where the back wheel had dug its trench.)
(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/clap.gif) (http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/perfect10.gif) (http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/clap.gif)
(http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/winnergold1.gif)A real Edgar Penzig or Lester Morris yarn ;D
(The famous race driver remains nameless to protect the guilty :-X!)
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Those vf1000's are buggers brad my dad had one for a long time I nearly got killed by it was only a little guy about 5 and it was parked next to the shed being a bike nut I was on it looking at stuff and managed to tip it off the race stand and on top of me for some reason there was an old matteress lying there must have been throwing it out and I was pinned under the bike on the mattress on this wooden garden edging my mum was pregnant with my little sister and couldn't lift it off me my grandpa had to come and lift it off me I was under it for a while lucky the matteress was there or it would have got it me that is only one stupid thing I did though. ;)
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Tried for a good hour to fit an 18" tyre onto my 2000 KX (19" rim)...... ??? ???
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Methinks you can't have been trying hard enough 414. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ;D
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A real Edgar Penzig or Lester Morris yarn
(The famous race driver remains nameless to protect the guilty !)
Thanks for the 10/10 Graeme but I have to bring you to task for comparing me with that stupid old redneck, Edgar.F.Penzig.
Lester Morris....cool, but old Edgars politics and mine operated in different stratospheres and still do today. ;D
The 'nameless' race driver was Ian Geohegan. He'd imported the RT1MX from the USA in parts in the boot of his famous Mustang racer.
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Thanks for the 10/10 Graeme but I have to bring you to task for comparing me with that stupid old redneck, Edgar.F.Penzig.
I thought that might get a rise out of you (http://i323.photobucket.com/albums/nn458/mx250syd/icons/smiley79.gif) - but ya gotta admit he told a good yarn :D - always passionate :P.
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where to start
arrived at meeting last yr machine examiner grabbed the throttle and cable broke, only spare cable i didn't have.
put fuel and vacuum lines on the carbie of a go-kart wrong way, 15 minutes of pushing then a mate turned them around, started first push
Bought a spare parts book for the KTM and promptly lost it. Still can't find it
Left the fuel at home, left the oil at home, pity I didn't leave the wife at home!!
bought the wrong parts of ebay: ie piston and barrel
The usual losing nuts and bolts on the floor and can't find them. Burnt the hand on the exhaust, taken hunks out the fingers and thumbs with slipping screwdrivers
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I was trying to trim some decals and could only find a hooked stanley knife blade minus the handle, found a pair of pliers to hold the blade and thought to myself as i was pulling towards myself what would happen if i slip? you work the rest out!!!!!!! 4 hrs in casulty.
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Picking up exhaust without gloves straight after welding it.
Average 10 times a year
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I bet there are a few renditions of this stuff up.
Fairburn Park Dirt Track, circa 1980, I had an A5 KX250, grabbed a fuel container that I thought was mine while rushing to re-fuel with 2 races close together, put straight fuel in it.
Great start and flew for 2 laps until whack.
Chrome bore on those if I remember rightly.
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Whalan: circa 1973.
Not having a 250 class bike at the time and not being overawed by Maico 250s I'd picked up a nice 250 CZ for a good price from a bloke in our club who was going into gaol. In a rush to get it ready for an upcoming Amaroo MX I spent the usual Saturday doing what we all do to pre race prep our bike. After oiling, adjusting, fuelling and polishing the CZ I decided to start he up to make sure everything was working okey dokey. Being young and bulletproof I didn't think I'd need to go inside and put a pair of boots on to kick her over. The thongs would do, it was only a pissy 250 afterall and I had gone through the RT1 Yamaha kickstart initiation. If I could kick one of those bastards over, I could kick anything.
I was correct in the estimation of my ability with a kicker. The CZ fired right up with only a slight jarring sensation through my thong clad left foot. I clicked her into first and took off down the street with no obvious problems. On the return journey I noticed that I'd left a trail of fluid up the road so, wondering what it was, looked down to see if I'd left a fuel line off or an oil plug had come out. That's when I saw the blood gushing out of the gaping hole in the instep of my left foot with blood pumping out like a garden hose. It seems I'd caught my foot on the serrated footpeg during the kick start arc but for some reason hadn't felt any pain. That is until I saw the 3"x2" flap of instep flesh flopping in the wind and the gush of blood that by now had covered the engine, back wheel and my left leg. I rode into my driveway just as my mums friend Betty arrived and as soon as she saw the bloodworks she promptly fainted right there in front of me on the driveway. I stalled the bike, jumped off and lay on the lawn trying to figure what to do. All of the noise, blood and what looked like a dead Betty on the driveway drew the attention of my neighbour who, upon seeing the blood assumed I'd run Betty over so he started to work on her. The drama all seemed to take minutes but I suppose in real time from kicking the bike right through to hitting the lawn probably only took 30 seconds but during that time I must have lost a couple of pints of blood. My neighbour ran into my house and got my mum to call 000 and within 2 minutes an Ambo was there to rush me to Blacktown hospital where they sewed over 20 internal and external stitches into the instep of my left foot. I was in hospital for three or four days and you can imagine the flack I got from doctors for not only riding a motorcycle but daring to do it in thongs! To this day the scar is still quite noticable and I've never had full feeling in that part of my foot since.
I've never tried starting a bike in thongs again either.
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I didn't want to read that Mark ican still feel my toes curling up just thinking about it!
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You've opened up a whole new subject there Firko. Stupid things we've all done in Thongs.
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stupid things in thongs,also in whalan riding my pushbike with no brakes and decided to use my foot on the front tyre to slow me down my front tyre grabbed my thong and spat it out the front then the tyre grabbed my foot and jammed two toes between the forks so i went to go over the handlebars but because the bike was attached to my foot it came with me :D and ended in a big heap skidding to a stop on my back in the middle of the road ;D
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I don't know if this qualifies but....I thought it would be a good idea to have a seat belt in my billy cart. The moment the left front wheel dropped off the footpath and dug into the grass naturestrip (at a decent clip mind you) and the whole thing barrell rolled with me trapped in it I decided that perhaps I might remove the belt....very soon.
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Walking through the Caravan park in Gerringong, in thongs, spotted a milk carton sitting on the ground so I ran up and kicked it like a goal kick, only to find out that someone had cut the base out of it & placed it over a wooden peg in the ground.
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Ouch!!!! :D :D :D ;D
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Thanks Firko,think i,ll put the boots on next time i crank up the ktm360!
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Firko - yours beats mine hands down but similarly - my CR250 (73) arrived from the East the day I was flying back to work. Thought best give it a quick check to let the guy I bought it from know everything was OK. this was a seriously worked CR - reed valve, ported, windowed piston blah blah blah. I thought (not having been on a bike for 20 odd years) - how hard can it be to kick over a 30 year old 250 2 stroke. Anyway - result was I couldn't walk for 3 days where it coughed and spat back and hit me in the back of the calf leaving me black for a week. Always grabed a boot since then ;D
Rossco
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Yeah there are bikes you can't start in work boots let alone thongs my 400 has peeled skin right off my shin when it has kicked back done it probably three times becuase I didnt get the bike boots on took a few times for me to learn. ::)
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Cleaned air filter on Dr500 at 2009 nationals ,forgot to tighten seat bolts, which resulted in seat coming off while air bourne over Drunks hill.Needless to say it was an interesting landing!!
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Was riding at Wells Rd one time when I got a rear puncture.
Struggled fitting a new tube as incompetent Enduro riders do.
It was a hot day so went off to the canteen to get a drink while leaving the finished wheel next to the bike,.
When I got back the wheel was fitted in the bike and my mates had gone out onto the track again.
Impressed with what good mates I had that would eagerly lend a hand I put my gear back on and hit the track too.
Only got a lap and half in when things got all weird and I went over the bars.
Once I picked myself up I looked the bike over to discover the axle nut missing, the axle half out and the rear wheel all skew wiff.
My good mates then scoffed at me for not tightening the axle properly.
But it was you guys that put the wheel in I whined.
Yeah, we helped you by putting the wheel in but we only did the axle nut up finger tight, it was your job to finish it.
Nice of them to tell me this now.
Moral of the story…
# Never let mates help
# Never trust mates
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Similar to Dave King's, I was undoing a rear sprocket and remember thinking what would happen if the spanner slipped................. :-\
Lots of meat left on the sprocket teeth, lots of blood on the shed floor and lots of hopping around the shed sucking on said knuckles............ ::)
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must admit not my story but made me laugh at the time. When I was a kid I used to buy MXA regular as clockwork. Favourite bit was Jodi Weisels column - him and his pit tootsie stories. Any way one column he says last race of the day and he fouls the plug on his 125. Must fix that when I get home. Now Jodi was one of those guys who left everything until the last minute. Poop, bugger, bum he says gotta do that plug. However bike hasn't even been cleaned. Thats OK just pull the plug out, change it over and job's done. However he knocks the bike and drops a dollop of mud straight into the cylinder. Much procrastination later he sees the piston is not quite top dead centre with the mud sitting just on top. If I kick the bike over gently the piston will come up, bit of grease on the end of this valve tool and then I can get it out. Guess what - kicks the bike over and the piston promptly goes down. AAAHHHHHHH! Ok now head has to come off, then long story short barrell soon follows until finally he drops the mud into the bottom end. Fill motor with fuel/degreaser or whatever, dump it all out on the floor - all happening afternoon/evening before the Sunday race and flush the offending dirt out. OK managed that successfully, barrell, piston, rings, head all back on - add gearbox oil, put plug in. Go to bed absolutely knackered - just what you want before race day. Lines up for practice - after all the dramas had put the old plug back in - still fouled!!!
Of course as is Jodi's style a lot more eloquently explained than myself - hence remembering it nearly 30 years on :P
Rossco
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Recently a friend decided to make his own twin leading shoe front brake for a Maico. He did such a superb job that when he went to test ride no shoes and only a costume on tar , he grabbed a handful on the front, locked up the front wheel and basically lost most of his tan to road rash. He even looked sore . Poor Buggar - his nickname the ''Dumpster"'
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Poor Buggar - his nickname the ''Dumpster"'
That's just cruel - but I like it ;D.
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Not me but a customer's brother (lets call him Mohammed)! I took a deposit of a new 916 Ducati (18 month wait for those buggers). Rode it to the RTA to get it registered, both mechanics went for a quick spit (we had to it was the 1st 916 in Sydney). Mohammed's brother doesn't know it's arrived so Mohammed comes to pick it up to surprise him for his birthday. I explain all the cautions to Mohammed about new tyres etc and he says yeah yeah I've done this before. He rides off and round the 1st corner no worries. "Lucky brother", we say as we walk back into the shop. 10 minutes later Mohammed limps back into the shop, helmet in hand crying saying his brother is going to kill him because he thought he'd "give it a bit" when all of a sudden the rear tyre slid out and now the 916 is jammed under a new looking BMW around the corner at Alto BMW...ouch
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A clubmate had a leaking alloy tank on his roadracer. Needless to say, before welding the repair he washed the tank out with water to prevent any explosion. With the job complete, he let it cool down, and then put some petrol in, only to discover it still had a small leak. Cursing, he turned the tank upside down and went for the welding torch again.... ::)
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Heres my confession..
Late one night two days out from the first MR VMX race in Dannevirke last year, trimming down the left hand side cover of my RM to fit around the twin air single sided airbox..anyway decided to cut it in towards myself..... stanley knife slipped and voila! a fairly sizeable gash in my left index finger,off to A&E where they did their business.
I still did the race but finger got infected due to the mud bath, so I needed a course of antibiotics to fix it up and a bit of scaping!.She is all healed now apart from the heinous scar.