Stupid Things We've done

[VladTepes]

I dropped mine. A fortnight ago,  and not for the first time.


Surely that counts.

[Hooli]

I dropped mine. A fortnight ago,  and not for the first time.


Surely that counts.

I dropped mine halfway across the road in front a busy bike night at a pub, oddly enough I never went back on the same bike.

[Yoda]

Thread posted by SAGGY0000 deleted due to the use of acceptable swearing

Hi Dave acceptable swearing? I think that triumph is having an effect on you lol

[Hooli]

Refitted the forks in my mum's bike saturday & was about to put the wheel before I noticed I'd put them in the wrong sides.

[Andre]

I am taking precautions against my stupidity. In case of working on the forks, I take out one at a time, put it back in, then do take out the other. Yep, I have learned over the decades to guard against my frailties. Appears to become more of a necessity as I grow older. Taking precautions makes things slower but reduces stress and frustration significantly.

[gsxbarmy]

Thread posted by SAGGY0000 deleted due to the use of acceptable swearing

Hi Dave acceptable swearing? I think that triumph is having an effect on you lol

Thanks Alan  - seems an appropriate post to have made a booboo doh! (Original post modified!!)   

[Hooli]

I am taking precautions against my stupidity. In case of working on the forks, I take out one at a time, put it back in, then do take out the other. Yep, I have learned over the decades to guard against my frailties. Appears to become more of a necessity as I grow older. Taking precautions makes things slower but reduces stress and frustration significantly.

I had the steering bearings out for a clean & regrease too, so had to have both forks out.

I tend to lay everything out like an exploded diagram to help, but my mum decided to clean bits while they were easy to get too - that's my excuse & I'm sticking too it.

[Tony Nitrous]

I rode bikes in the UK as an only means of transport from when I was 16 to when I was 40.  That was 24 years of ice, snow, rain, fog. I used a bike every day. Never owned a car.

I moved to Qld in Australia, beautiful weather 95% of the time, haven't seen a frost in the 13 years I've been here.   When I moved here I bought 2 cars.

Thinking back, I got that a bit wrong....

[KiwiCol]

The decisions we make as we go through our lives make us into who we are today.

This is why you're a great biker Tony!!

[KiwiCol]

Pic says it all, was a while ago though.

[Andre]

I am taking precautions against my stupidity. In case of working on the forks, I take out one at a time, put it back in, then do take out the other. Yep, I have learned over the decades to guard against my frailties. Appears to become more of a necessity as I grow older. Taking precautions makes things slower but reduces stress and frustration significantly.

I had the steering bearings out for a clean & regrease too, so had to have both forks out.

I tend to lay everything out like an exploded diagram to help, but my mum decided to clean bits while they were easy to get too - that's my excuse & I'm sticking too it.

Yep, I do the diagram thing myself. For some weird reason after a while it often looks like it had EXPLODED.

[grog]

many years back, still apprentice. boys all going down the coast early friday. 300k run. i had to work. boss said if i rebuilt nissan campervan motor, they would fit, i leave at lunch time. was a great weekend, i strapped a carton of beer cans on seat, off i go. very quick trip. none left when i got to camp, strap had cut thru, all been lost on trip. mustve been a few cars i passed wondering what was bombing them. work monday morn, all smiles from me me, not from boss. they fitted the motor but no oil pressure. oil pick up still sitting on bench. still remember clearly. cant be perfect all the time. one of my majors that one.

[Basil Brush]

Many years ago - rebuilding a winter hack. Just had the frame stove-enamelled. Rebuilding it outside. Freezing cold. Dad takes sympathy on me. Mums gone out shopping. "Bring it in the kitchen son".

Mum comes home. She hits the roof. Must have been the lump on the dinner table that did it. She calms down letting us get on with rebuild. Finished. All done - could't get it through a 90 degree bend. Had to take whole front end off again...

Happy days. Mum and dad not here now. Still puts a smile on my face tho.

[Basil Brush]

A couple more - not me may I add. But, I was there...

A set of young lads messing about down a dark lane in a valley. One stops and gets 'T' boned by another. We could't get it going. So, we freewheeled him - downhill for a two mile to the nearest street light. Five lads totally dismantling KH100. Until I asked him why did he turn his kill switch off...

Or another on a GSX750 teapot. Gets to a bike meet. Mate dumps front brake. And throws him off. In front of dozens. I said we are not leaving until everyone who saw the incident has gone. Three hours later. Teapot refuses to start. 30 minutes later. Bike in a total state of disassembly. I noticed him pulling his clutch in. I had a Yamaha at the time. What are you doing? The Suzuki needs clutch pulled in to start - was his reply. Hmmm... Looked underneath - two wires hanging down - unconnected...