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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: brent j on February 16, 2014, 10:49:18 pm
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I took my TM125 out on Friday and got the jetting problem sorted. I ran out of gas but figured I'd run it again today to just tidy things up.
Loaded the bike, riding gear and tools. Drove to my local riding area, unloaded, got changed and tried to start it.
Guess what? NO F*CKING FUEL
The ONLY thing I needed to do to the bike was fill the tank! The ONLY thing I forgot to do was fill the tank!
Is this what old age has in store for me?????????????????????
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sounds normal procedure to me ;),hour into the trip,had to go back for me boots ::), :P
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I ran out of gas
Maybe try some PETROL ;D ;)
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the only thing about getn old is looking for my glasses im sure my kids hide them. Pay back for makeing them do dishers
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Wouldn't worry too much Brent cause that sounds about right. ;D
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so it was running lean then !
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Guilty as charged your honour! A couple of years ago I finally finished my Spanish GP winning Jim Pomeroy replica. I was feeling pretty good about life and so I thought time to start this bad boy. Many kicks later and after checking for spark and fuel, yes and yes! I decided it would definitely bump start down the road (steep)outside my place. You guessed it NOTHING! Being stupid and determined I pushed it up and rolled it down a few times untill I slumped exhausted next to the letterbox. My neighbour was watching my exertions with ever increasing amusement and offering advice. To say I was pissed off was an understatement. How could this be after all the careful work I had done? Why was life so unfair etc etc. Then I had a thought! Did I remove the rag from the carby before putting the air cleaner on? No way, a bloke couldnt be that stupid surely? Damn right he could be. Started first kick of course! J PS Plenty more stories like this one available as I am a serial offender!
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and not on your robinson crusoe either I bet.
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Yep been there, done that. CB 500 RR bike , no go, push like buggery up an down street, still no go,owner had tank off etc, gunna check all sorts, I noticed kill switch was in OFF possie, he near hit me for telling him !!
Foss
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Travelled all the way to a Woodstock Park dirt track back in the early 70's (4 hr drive in a V4 Transit), three bikes loaded into the Transit, Esky full of piss...........and discovering upon my arrival that my tools, fuel and riding gear were still sitting in the driveway at home.
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Travelled all the way to a Woodstock Park dirt track back in the early 70's (4 hr drive in a V4 Transit), three bikes loaded into the Transit, Esky full of piss...........and discovering upon my arrival that my tools, fuel and riding gear were still sitting in the driveway at home.
At least you had the Piss !!! ;D
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Nice one brent :o
I leave little written notes (tags on string on my handle bars) , so I don't forget to put oil in and other things ;)
don't worry brent my memory is getting bad , that's why I rely on notes ???
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bagging the guy in front of me in the scrutineering que at winton bitd,"the only reason your sump plugs not lockwired mate,is coz you havn't put the oil back in!!," sez me ,2nd scrutineerer doing me,whispers "psst Mick,your gearbox plugs not lockwired either" :o,fork,& theres no oil in mine either!!, :P
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I've done a couple of no-brainers....mostly, well all a long time ago, in no particular order have arrived at the track with...NO helmet, ONE boot only, EMPTY tank and no fuel drum for a one day cross country ...DOH! and miles from the nearest supplier. The worst one though was a bike i had just had the motoplat replaced ....well seeing as how i was the dope working on it at Husky Imports you'd have thought i would have actually bolted it up BEFORE putting the cover back on and on the ute to the track....left some of the bits on the bench!!! Lucky had two of those F*#*ing Huskies on the back!
the result of above is i am totally ANAL-RETENTIVE about prep now, got to be perfect or its not close enough!
Kt.
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All these stories sound like they are out of Super hunky strait out of motocross action 1979 ;D
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me and a mate got bike and gear together on the saturday for a race on sunday only to be phoned that night with "what happen to you today" it was a saturday race. mate lost 2nd place in club champs but won the Leo Wanker Award that year.
PS matcho mick don`t tell anyone of your stuff up`s at a PCRA meet.
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All these stories sound like they are out of Super hunky strait out of motocross action 1979 ;D
Most of mine WERE that long ago Jas!
K.
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me and a mate got bike and gear together on the saturday for a race on sunday only to be phoned that night with "what happen to you today" it was a saturday race. mate lost 2nd place in club champs but won the Leo Wanker Award that year.
PS matcho mick don`t tell anyone of your stuff up`s at a PCRA meet.
yes :-[ Iam :'(
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No socks in my gear bag at The Troy Bayliss Classic in January................finished the day with blisters on my feet......another lesson learnt............ :P :P
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Here's another one. When I was a student paramedic I was assiduously listening to a patients breathing with my stethoscope. Couldn't hear a bloody thing worried I looked across to the patients family and my clinical instructor who were clearly amused by something. What's wrong with them I thought? This is no laughing matter, show a bit of respect I thought.Then the awful truth dawned on me. I DIDNT HAVE THE STETHOSCOPE IN MY EARS! That was 15 years ago do you reckon I ever lived that one down. J
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couple of years ago big comeback ride at denman vinduro after far too many years came into the camp after a couple of very 'hot laps' , meaning outside temperature and body heat not quick at all , trying to wrestle a 76 husky auto around ripped the helmet off seen the creaming soda next to the esky ripped the lid of 3-4 big sculls , to realise 30 wt oil , my date has never been the same since.
lesson dont put oil in cordial bottles especially the same as one in the esky :-[
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Hopefully "faaark my date"is not selectively quoted on here! :) J
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edit has been done , thanks , i better get back to the blue oyster bar its happy hour.
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nice to be able to read posts that make me smile. Keep em coming.
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That's the idea, more than enough acrimony and bullshit on here of late. Lets keep enjoying ourselves! J
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I went to another local riding area a few years back.
I unloaded the bike then found I’d left my helmet at home. I reloaded the bike and drove back home, got my helmet and returned to riding area.
Unloaded the bike again, got my helmet out than found I’d left the rest of my riding gear at home.
Reload the bike, pack the helmet away return home and collect the missing gear.
This time I had everything and even though I only lived 15 minutes from where I was riding all those trips had taken up so much time I only got a 20 minute ride in.
But I did at least have petrol that time…………….
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Mate woke up with a hangover and brushed his teeth with deepheat.
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you know you are working too hard when you leave the office, answering phone calls all the way to the train station, busy working on the 35 minute train trip home, get out and go looking for the car to realise you ahd gone to work so early that day you had to take the car and it was still in the city!!!!!!!! Won the Alzheimers of the year award I did ;D
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A couple of things :-[
My CZ was hard to start and blubbered badly. All the usual checks (including the rag in the inlet trick) to no avail and my race fast approaching. Bit the bullet and pulled the carb to clean it.....ummm, where's the pilot jet? Ooops.
The bloody CZ again. It would fire but not start. Check this, that and everything. I suppose the exhaust bung should have been in the toolbox and not in the chamber if I was planning on riding the bike.......
And yes, I've gargled with Dettol instead of Listerine..........
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This happened on Saturday just gone and I feel like a right knob.
I Checked my bikes (88 RM250) gas before my last race and thought I had put plenty in her,only for it to run dry when poor old William "I am no longer tmbill" Doe was riding it in his last race of the day! Ooops sorry mate :D
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I while back I was spraying the weeds in my yard with roundup, took an hour or so & used the complete 5 odd litres(lotsa weeds : ;)),as I was putting the sprayer away I noticed the full vial of poison sitting on the bench,yeah that's right I forgot to put it in & had just given all those bastard weeds a nice little drink of water ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :)
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You can protest all you like Suzy59 but I reckon it was deliberate.
That's gold.
As for doing dumb things, I've done too many to mention.
I will elaborate on one.
Way back when road bikes had both front & rear number plates I was at my fathers bike shop on school holidays, approx 74 which would make me 14.
Mad keen to help, I was given the task of fitting a front number plate bracket to a brand spanking T250 Suzuki, yep, drilled straight through the front guard and into the tyre.
I'm sure I aint the only one?
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I while back I was spraying the weeds in my yard with roundup, took an hour or so & used the complete 5 odd litres(lotsa weeds : ;)),as I was putting the sprayer away I noticed the full vial of poison sitting on the bench,yeah that's right I forgot to put it in & had just given all those bastard weeds a nice little drink of water ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :)
That's funny ;D
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I landed at Clarkefield last year with everything ,including the kitchen sink .Got the girls up and running and got my gear out and I had picked up the wrong gear bag .A small helmet [pink] and 8 year olds riding gear . Thanks for lending me a lid pete .still had a great weekend . thanks shane .
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Mate woke up with a hangover and brushed his teeth with deepheat.
Now that would have been funny :D. Seen a fellow at the gp camp ground drink 2 mouthfuls of smelly black bong water thinking it was coke first thing in the morning. He had the hide to complain that everyone should have told him he was about to drink it ;D
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Middle of summer working on the farm in the stinking heat.
Came in for lunch, poured a glass of water from the fridge & sculled it.
Unfortunately mum had put the white vinegar in the fridge by accident.
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A friend was doing the timing at the downhill mountain bikes. Had her dog tied to a tree. Had his tucker on a fold out table and left it for a moment to talk to someone. Weird looking golden coloured pellets. Along came a downhiller who asked me if could have a handful. Help yourself I said and added it was the new Red Bull energy food. I left before he worked out I was having a loan of him. J
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This thread has me laughing , so many thing's that bring a smile to my dile, are the memory's keep them coming fella's :)
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one of my best was deciding to do an oil change on my Monaro in the middle of 2nd year uni final exams (does the term sleep deprivation come to mind?) anyhoo, up on the hoist (we had a servo then ) drain the oil, plug in and drop the hoist at which point I hear the "dinners ready" call.
an hour later im at the train boom gates wondering what the clunking is I can feel in the clutch pedal..... yep.
5 kms and not a drop in it.
was a good motor, still running 2 years later when I flogged it (bit rattly at the top end though ::)
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we use a chemical in our thickners called flocculant - to make the mud settle faster and clear the water. In our lab one night one of the operators went and dropped the slurry samples off - opened up the storage fridge (in the lab remember) couldn't read english and took a big swing of this tacky, slimy gooey flocc - I reckon he farted bubbles for a week.
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I remember leaving an inattentive apprentice to drain fork oil during a service. Left him to it....how much trouble can you get into? Tip #1, remember to check if you are draining air assisted forks. Tip #2, don't sit in line with the drain screw.
It took ages for him to clean himself and the workshop up ;D
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Is anyone else this silly??? Yes. :(
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You can protest all you like Suzy59 but I reckon it was deliberate.
That's gold.
As for doing dumb things, I've done too many to mention.
I will elaborate on one.
Way back when road bikes had both front & rear number plates I was at my fathers bike shop on school holidays, approx 74 which would make me 14.
Mad keen to help, I was given the task of fitting a front number plate bracket to a brand spanking T250 Suzuki, yep, drilled straight through the front guard and into the tyre.
I'm sure I aint the only one?
Did it go down :)
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I Went to Fiji 22 years ago for a mates 21st party .
I had a few beers on the plane ride as you do, I picked up my bag ??? on the turntable at the airport my mate grabbed my bag and chucked it in the boot, he said its bloody heavy I said yep what eva ::)
drank more beer that night , I got up in the morning and couldnt find my bag I asked my mate where it was he said there it is , that's not mine I grabbed someone else"s bag :-[
I had to go back to the airport and full out heaps of paper work to say I hadn't been through the bag
my bag was still there :o
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I've done lots of silly things in my time, I'm not going to tell you about them though.
But I will tell you about what My brother did though, we were at a club day at 3 bridges, time to start the bikes, my brothers bike wouldn't start, the more time he spent trying to get it going the mad'er he got, a few of the club members came over to help, one bloke asked if he had taken the rag out before putting the pipe back on, he snapped back at him saying of cause I did, do you think I'm stupid, with that said they left him to it, just as well, he did leave the rag in the barrel, he looked around to see if anyone saw it & then said to me don't tell anyone ;D
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You can protest all you like Suzy59 but I reckon it was deliberate.
That's gold.
As for doing dumb things, I've done too many to mention.
I will elaborate on one.
Way back when road bikes had both front & rear number plates I was at my fathers bike shop on school holidays, approx 74 which would make me 14.
Mad keen to help, I was given the task of fitting a front number plate bracket to a brand spanking T250 Suzuki, yep, drilled straight through the front guard and into the tyre.
I'm sure I aint the only one?
So, I'm not the only one to have done that Steve. I had a special piece of timber to put between the guard and the tyre after that.
I worked at Kevin Cass Yamaha as a young lad after school and had a kid come in one afternoon who bought a new thottle cable for his CT3 Yamaha. He came into the workshop and asked the price to install it. I think it was about $10 to do the job but he thought that was too expensive and decided to do it himself in the carpark. After a bit of time had gone by he finished the job and tried to start the bike. We could hear kick, kick, kick from in the workshop, with that distinctive full throttle sound. The mechanic and I walked out to the carpark just in time to see him pushing it down the back lane and bump starting it. You've probably guessed by now that the slide was in back to front, so as soon as it fired it took off down the lane with him flapping behind and promtly ran into the back brick wall of an adjacent motel. Nothing hurt but his pride however his front wheel was tucked up underneath the frame due to a severley bent set of forks. About $100 later he was on his way....
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me and a mate got bike and gear together on the saturday for a race on sunday only to be phoned that night with "what happen to you today" it was a saturday race. mate lost 2nd place in club champs but won the Leo Wanker Award that year.
PS matcho mick don`t tell anyone of your stuff up`s at a PCRA meet.
i know i'm probably going to regret this,which one are you referring to Micks, :P
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You guys are starting to make me feel normal.
Traveled 2 hours to an event to discover I had failed to refit the kick start lever.
Riding in a dirt track event and my race was coming up, I quickly put my helmet on but couldn’t find my gloves, I ran out of time to keep looking so I did my race without them.
When I finished I took my helmet off to discover the gloves were still stashed inside the helmet.
I had to concede that if I couldn’t notice they were there that it was time to buy a new helmet.
While camping I tried to brush my teeth in poor light.
Used a tube of shaving cream instead of toothpaste, was still trying to spit the taste out several beers later.
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The old carby slide trick???, Would have won" Best side Saddle Wheelie by a 15 year old on a TS185 " in shorts and thongs of course... only did that once!!!! Had to nock a bloke back at scrutineering once, Cr480 with no foot pegs??
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customer turned up with bike in the back of his ute,wouldn't go, even tried clutching it down his drive way!, said no luck,went out to help off the ute,theres no drive chain onit :o,
guy brings a barrell in ,been rebored ,new piston fitted,(at another shop),they had bored a chrome bore os :o
guy brings a YZ 2fiddy in,won't rev,bit flat (same shop rebuilt the motor),hmmm down on comp,pops head off,fugg,oops shorter rod kit fitted :o
:P
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Fresh out of my apprenticeship, l was servicing a Cressida (early 80's) on a 4 post hoist. It was normal in the day when lowering a hydraulic hoist to have something to hold the spring loaded lever so the hoist would go down without having to hold that pesky lever down.
So while the hoist is lowering, I've walked around the front of the car and while the hoist comes down the bonnet goes up saving time......
The front cross bar of the hoist came down on my left foot and caught me by my toes. This was some what painful and unfortunately l was alone in a small workshop, trapped by my foot and unable to even get my foot out of my boot let alone get to the lever to raise the hoist.
Yelling for all l was worth, maybe 5 minutes but it felt much longer a customer wandered in, the poor bloke had no idea l was stuck and yelling at him, trying to explain how to raise the hoist!
My big toe must have been a 5mm thin after l got my foot free and convinced me it might not be a good idea to bypass safety equipment. l was very lucky it only got my toes and not further up the foot.
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the old forgotten rag trick eh?
Id spent quite a while in snatched bits of time rebuilding a b50 motor with all the fruit - 3 speed, splined clutch, degreed in the cam, new guides ,valves , piston , big end-the lot.
So finally the time came to fire her up..
A few kicks late at night nothing, the next morning a pop or two, but no life, so how about a push?, yes it goes! for about 5 secs.
Then try kicking again - no compression.. I start sweating bullets, thinking Ive messed up the cam timing - dreading what ill find when taking the head off..
Yes... a (singed) piece of paper towel pushed in the inlet port on the bench had not come out once the motor was bolted back in the frame and jammed the inlet port open. Huge sigh of relief- lots of "dickhead" muttering ...don't push anything right in there! ever!! it took all night for fuel vapour to soak through the towel so that's how I got the pop after several hours.
Then when compressing the inlet valve to remove the offending item, PING PING,( the sound of the collets and springs hitting the far wall of the shed..) but that's another SILLY story!
thank god I only work on my own bikes!!
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I work for a Hire place at the moment and one of our 250cfm compressors lost oil pressure.
Meck pulled the sump off and there was a rag wrapped around the oil pickup.
We are all wondering how that got there as that comp has been running for 10 years with no problems.
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Old mate Greg dinking his mate Mark on his SL70 with no rear guard. You guessed it, Mark slides back onto rotating knobby with resultant carnage to his rear end! J
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Around at friend Glenn's place when we first got our cars. Glenn changing oil and manages to dump the lot on dad Cliffs new concrete driveway. Cliff so angry and flustered he says to Glenn " you must have pulled yourself twice" instead of " you would have to have two dicks to be that stupid". Still makes us all laugh nearly forty years later. J
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What is it with rags and inlets? I did a full top end rebuild on a NX650 Honda, new cam, new followers, new cam bearings, piston, rings, carby rebuild etc. Everything was checked and checked again. Sweet, all good to go. The bike had no kick starter so had to rely on the battery. First press of the start button it fired into life for about 5 seconds. Hmm, WTF? Kept on pressing the magic button until the battery was drained. Battery out and put on charge. Seat off, tank and front fairing off so I could check valve clearances again. All good there. Checked for kinked fuel/vacuum hoses. Nope. Maybe a new spark plug will help. Bike back together and battery charged. Hit the start button and got a few seconds of life before it died again. Another flat battery and a beer....HAD to have a beer as at this point I was lost and hot under the collar. Pulled the seat, fairing and tank off again to check the carby. Bugger of a job to get out on the NX but I bit the bullet. About an hour later I'm pulling the carb out and what did I see? yep a bloody rag on the Airfilter side! I could of just removed the airfilter and found the culprit....back together goes the bike, battery in and what do you know, first press of the magic button and there was life. A quick ride and then time for the beer fridge...
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minor versions of the Darwin awards eh - what a laugh this thread is
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The old carby slide trick???, Would have won" Best side Saddle Wheelie by a 15 year old on a TS185 " in shorts and thongs of course... only did that once!!!! Had to nock a bloke back at scrutineering once, Cr480 with no foot pegs??
yep been there ??? on my brand new YZ80B kick kick kick hmm I know Ill push start it down the drive way :o next thing it was a side saddle mono across the road (lucky no cars or pedestians at the time) straight into the neighbour across the roads roller door :-[ the only thing that stopped me going all the way threw was his immaculate Holden HR Premier
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what about fuel taps left in overnite at race meetings :o
east creek,WA TD3 ,stick it on the rollers mate,oops,sprayed 25' radius of toee mix all over everything,last seen with bike vertical on back wheel,fuel still running out the pipes,
philip island classic
RS125,stick it on the rollers mate!,just keep your thumb on the killswitch,10,000 rpms later,all good, mate takes thumb off prematurely,kaboom,fffff ffuggging fffire everywhere,i'm looking at my flaming hand (approx 12" of fire),thinking wow,can't feel any heat yet ,everyones freaking,nah.cool as shoves it inside my jacket,pfft shes out
yeah i did the rag down the inlet,had to wheel the bike backwards pulling the rag back out,swear it went twice round the crank,(piston port DTMX rr) :o
:P
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in the early 80's,old mate Dave buys his first car a beautiful one owner HT Premier 186 auto,its his pride and joy. a few weeks later when
quizzed about the huge amount of oil under his car where he parked it out side his parents place,Dave lifts the bonnet(oil everywhere) and while explaining his car is using oil,takes the cap off the tappet cover and points out that it isnt full again. those old cork gaskets never had
a chance. g.
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In the early 80’s I had an original forward control Land Rover. The tray was about 1.2-1.3 M off the ground so getting bikes on meant a couple of strong guys or ride it up a ramp. I had a Honda TL250 at the time so used to ride it up a plank and just ride/jump it off the back to get it back off. This used to impress my mates no end as none of them new anything about trials.
I went to unload the TL one cold Wellington night, turned the bike around, started it and rode down the tray. I blipped the throttle as the front wheel reached the end and was rewarded with a “PAHHHH” sound as the cold motor stalled and the front wheel dived for the bitumen below.
How I didn’t go over the bars I don’t know. The bike stayed upright and the back wheel dropped neatly behind. I quietly pushed it onto dad’s shed.
I had on a Tee shirt and shorts, runners and NO helmet
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ahh sure you cant is all a figment of our imagination :o
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we shouldn't let the truth get in way of a good story!
but I think most off of us as kids have a jammed slide, bike screaming, pull off the plug cap and get a good buzz story there somewhere..
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yes you can been there done that yamaha xs650 dirt tracker with 33mm mikuni lh/rh and i still get payed out on it to this day. same bike would fire up both coils at the same time couldn`t work out why. wired up kill button to the coils so when one coil sparked it would spark the other coil. mate found the problem i thanked him then tells me he has done the same thing.
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I had a chain come off on my XT500 and break the left hand engine case.
I got a new case and rebuilt the motor, when I started it, it had a knock.
I could feel a knock through the crank so figured it was main bearings
I pulled the motor out replaced the mains, re-fit run and the knock is still there!
Ok it’s the big end
I pulled the motor out replaced the rod, bearing and pin, re-fit run and the knock is still there!
Pulled it put again! Stripped it and checked the endfloat on the crank and replaced the clutch shaft bearing
Re-fit and hang on, the bike won’t move.
I pulled the motor out and found I had put a selector fork in BESIDE the groove on the gear which jammed it in two gears at once
Re-fit, run and the knock is still there!
By this time two of us were getting the motor out and on the bench in 12 minutes. I was removing the entire clutch to cut down on the weight. Each of us did the same job each time.
This time I started very slowly, I removed the motor complete and put it on the bench.
Removed the plug and turned it over, it had a knock.
Removed the tappet cover and cam, it had a knock
Removed the head, it had a knock
Removed the cylinder and piston, it had a knock
Removed the side cover and clutch, it had NO knock!
When I checked the primary drive gears I found a mark on the clutch drive gear.
Every time the motor turned about 2.5 turns it went clunk!
I was a bit peeved but happy at the same time.
Re-fit, run and no knock!
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Had a bloke working for me who owned a ZJ 6cyl Fairlane that his wife drove. It used to use a bit of water in summer, she visits her dad one day and he told her to check the water before driving back home.
So before the drive back, lifts the bonnet, looks in, removes cap, and water is gone, gets out the hose and fills Ol Hentry up. Job done, then dad comes round the corner,-------- She had removed the oil filler cap and filled the engine with water.
NRMA to the rescue.
Another mate of ours back in the day had a flat back tyre on his OSSA, bought a new tube,removed tyre and fitted tube,refitted tyre. Got out the tyre pump, too bad he had refitted the old tube, PRICELESS.
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ol mate had a 186 on the floor of the shed (he leased 1/2 from a used car dealer) and a punter arrives and wants to buy it. "can I hear it run?" he says "sure" ol mate says and gets a tin of peterhol and a battery. pours some juice down the throat of the carb and arcs the starter and she fires right up. the oil pressure switch had a gauge fitting and a 2mm jet of oil at 50 PSI hits his chin and he reels back pulling the carb on full bore and igniting the tin of petrol which he put near the exhaust manifold. with oil spraying from the roof, an unmuffled 186 at full tit and a jam tin on fire, a bystanders goes to grab the tin of fuel and accidently kicks it across the workshop leaving a wall of fire......
I laughed for hours..not even groucho could beat this team of clowns. took hours for the roof to stop dripping oil....
the guy that owned the shop stood there for 15 minutes with his jaw hanging open...he couldn't believe what he had just seen
Gold....with OH&S these days, moments like this are almost endangered
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Your story wins by far at this point John. J
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many years ago I was driving on the development road between Mt Molloy to Cooktown in FNQ, and came across a broken down car, a ford laser with about 8 people in it ,which had overheated and they had NFI what to do. It was near a creek so I said you need water to cool it down, none left, so off they go to get water, and I was doing something and when I came back to look all the water theyd got was being poured on the motor...took a while to get the message across about putting it in the radiator....I was a bit gobsmacked at that and not long after I decided a graceful exit was called for...
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When I had the local servo-repair shop jolly Indian person came in so i referred him to my apprentice (son) who came over to me and said what the F*** is the feller talking about!' so I decided to see him ' how can I help you" I said he replied 'the SELF won't work'
my memory system clicked back to my childhood days of reading anything about cars that I could get hold of then I said 'just park it over there and switch it off and see to it shortly' 'ok'
He went down to the takeway for curry or such and my son says 'what the F***? ' I said the starter won't work' he says????
Look in the owners hand book it will have 'Turn on the ignition and operate the SELF starter.
cheers pancho
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Like all the rest of us I've got plenty of examples of my own stupidity to share!
cheers
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Late 70s had a PE175 with a bodgy carb needle, one morning engine full of fuel, removed spark plug from head, put plug back into ciol lead, push bike to expell fuel from engine, spark plug grounded, lights up fuel, bike on fire WTF, run into laundry and grab everyone elses wet washing, put fire out, mmm not too much damage ;D, throw sooty wet clothes onto footpath and start bike, go for ride.
Come home a happy lad only to be confronted by shitty flatmates with no clean clothes to go to pub (fri night, all 18) in, get crap beaten out of me and bastards steal my last $50 to go to vinnies to get new clobber.
So remember dont put plug back into cap ;)
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A mate was doing his time at a servo in Lewisham opposite the Girls high school, but that's another story, a bloke comes in and in broken English said "I need a turn a slowly".
He was after a radiator cap.Check yours out tomorrow.
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Driven for 40+ minutes, turned around went back home and this time hooked the bike trailer with bikes and sidecar on to the car.......... ::).
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Driven for 40+ minutes, turned around went back home and this time hooked the bike trailer with bikes and sidecar on to the car.......... ::).
That's gotta be at the top of the list,
( Gee the car's running well today) ;D
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Travelled to the south island for a couple of south island trials champs rounds & left my helmet sitting on the front door step in the north island ::)
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A mate of mine who is probably the tightest man I know bought a new ride on mower from some mob in Sydney because it was cheaper than the local dealers.
Rather than going down and picking it up or having it freighted to Newcastle he arranged for it to be delivered in the back of a new ute on the top deck of his mates car carrier. He and his wife met the truck at the truck stop at Hexham and his mate didn't want to waist time unloading the bottom deck of the truck so he could lower the top deck and get the mower out, so they had arranged for Laurie to bring down his long ladder which they put up over the cab and the bottom end in his ute, Then they were going to slide this heavy ride on mower down the ladder.
(I think you all know what happened next) the mower had just cleared the cab when off the side of the ladder it went and landed on the concrete upside down. It ended up costing him $300 more than the local buy, after he paid for the repairs and his wife still reconds its the funniest thing she had ever seen.
I wish I had been there, see being miserable specially with yourself only causes pain.
Zane
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travelling with greg and greg in 1980,in thailand at phuket-kata beach,bungalow under the coconut trees 75 cents a night (15 baht),
rental bikes $4 a day, greg and greg on kawa KE100's, mine is a XL125 honda, somewhere on a dirt road in the jungle the XL splutters and dies, faaarrrk its on fire. note: gravel and sand will not put out a petrol fire,neither will slapping it with a t-shirt. stand back, it
might explode,take pictures. later -give rental guy the news,he laughs and seems cool about it. later that night-old thai dude and
thai cop ask me to come to police station and pay $1000 for bike. their english is terrible,my thai -none. an hour of negotiation later,
I am $300 poorer and they seem happy.
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
Guy over at Cafe Husky DOESN'T KNOW SHIT:
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Anything is possible given enough force...
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Anything is possible given enough force...
What do you mean given enough force - it doesn't take any force at all ::)
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Boss at hire place said I could borrow a wackerpacker if I fixed it.
Took it home and started it in the back of my ute [ wooden floor ] to see what was wrong.
Ha , throttle was jammed on flat out , started easy tho.
Wack , wackawack wack wack.
You can't reach the kill switch on one of those at full throttle.
Mate bought a old steel wheel tractor and borrowed a truck with a wooden floor.
ExOwner said I'll drive it on for you.
He was drunk and fell asleep when he got it on.
Tore up a heap of floorboards before they got it stopped.
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Anything is possible given enough force...
What do you mean given enough force - it doesn't take any force at all ::)
yep went in real easy on my YZ80B too ;)
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
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He's right, it won't fit in all the way down, hence the problem.
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ol mate had a 186 on the floor of the shed (he leased 1/2 from a used car dealer) and a punter arrives and wants to buy it. "can I hear it run?" he says "sure" ol mate says and gets a tin of peterhol and a battery. pours some juice down the throat of the carb and arcs the starter and she fires right up. the oil pressure switch had a gauge fitting and a 2mm jet of oil at 50 PSI hits his chin and he reels back pulling the carb on full bore and igniting the tin of petrol which he put near the exhaust manifold. with oil spraying from the roof, an unmuffled 186 at full tit and a jam tin on fire, a bystanders goes to grab the tin of fuel and accidently kicks it across the workshop leaving a wall of fire......
I laughed for hours..not even groucho could beat this team of clowns. took hours for the roof to stop dripping oil....
the guy that owned the shop stood there for 15 minutes with his jaw hanging open...he couldn't believe what he had just seen
Gold....with OH&S these days, moments like this are almost endangered
;D ;D ;D ;D :o did he sell the motor ;) ;D ;D ;D
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sorry gmc they will, i have done it. if you have a pair with lh / rh idle screws you can
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
He's right, it won't fit in all the way down, hence the problem.
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Dead right Geoff, if it went in all the way down it would just blubber away super rich with very little danger to the unsuspecting push starter and we wouldn't be writing about it ;D
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Guy over on Cafe Husky swore black and blue that it was NOT possible to fit the slide in a Mikuni backwards.
Yeah, if you try and fit it backwards you can't see what you are doing!
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Speaking of getting a buzz......
I was a kid riding my 1980 CR80 in a paddock next to where I lived at the time as I waited for the school bus to come with my then girlfriend on it. I used to beat the bus home on my pushie.....So there I was doing wheelies and little jumps off a mound of earth keeping an aye out for when the bus came in sight. Bus in sight, time for a big wheelie for the girlfriend to tell her mates about....2nd gear, 3rd gear, 4th gear, 5th gear.....and over we go. Jumped up and the bike was stuck on full throttle revving to the moon. Pressed the kill button, no workies....shit, pulled the spark plug cap and proceeded to straighten my curly hair while doing the fastest jump on the spot excercise ever seen. I think I looked a lot like Yahoo Serious for a day or 2.....oh, and the girlfriend kept on walking with her friends....
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Speaking of getting a buzz......
I was a kid riding my 1980 CR80 in a paddock next to where I lived at the time as I waited for the school bus to come with my then girlfriend on it. I used to beat the bus home on my pushie.....So there I was doing wheelies and little jumps off a mound of earth keeping an aye out for when the bus came in sight. Bus in sight, time for a big wheelie for the girlfriend to tell her mates about....2nd gear, 3rd gear, 4th gear, 5th gear.....and over we go. Jumped up and the bike was stuck on full throttle revving to the moon. Pressed the kill button, no workies....shit, pulled the spark plug cap and proceeded to straighten my curly hair while doing the fastest jump on the spot excercise ever seen. I think I looked a lot like Yahoo Serious for a day or 2.....oh, and the girlfriend kept on walking with her friends....
:o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) 8)
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My argument was that you can fit the slide into a mikuni backwards.
I never said that it would fit properly !
The fact is that it acts like the throttle is on flat out as yamaico looks to have discovered .
If you buy a new mikuni and don't notice that it is the opposite hand , then you fit the old slide which is still on the cable up under the tank [ watercooled husky] you can have problems.
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I hear you loud and clear!! ;D :D
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oops,doing postmorteum today/nite on my cbSL350,(carked it over lukey island classic),bit's of piston in r/h carby,hmmm whats that thurther up in the filter, rolled up cable tie,hmmm check the l/h one,shit, :o apparently when the nice people at unifilter supply "skins",they pop a cable tie in there for retainment purposes,dumb arse customer didn't spot them did i, ::), :P