DUMB THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU ARE WORKING ON BIKE

[holeshot buddy]

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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[All Things 414]

Spend ten minutes wrestling the piston and rings into the cylinder and then realize you forgot to put the base gasket on ........

[VMX247]

reattaching muffler with out putting the packing in.....nah just kiddin 

[frostype400]

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.

[NSR]

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

[oldfart]

Attached both carb and expansion chamber with T/paper still in ports.
 

[Curly3]

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 "

[oldskool]

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 .turned the kill switch on fired up straight away put on ebay and sold for $850 .cheers gary

[Canam370]

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.

[mx250]

Does putting the carby slide in backwards count?

The bike started - and went straight to 12,000rpm and 140db's

[lukeb1961]

putting one shock on upside down. NOBODY noticed for months.

[Motoman]

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!

[NR555]

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.   

[frostype400]

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.

[albrid-3]

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.