Tell us a story!

Tell us about your bike leaving you stranded. I will start with mine. Today while sitting at a stop light that turned green the bike stuttered and stalled in the middle of the busiest intersection in town. Did get it started after hitting the horn button by mistake. Did get the bike to the side of the road into a driveway but died again. Greeted with puddle of gas under the bike. After sitting for a bit trying to think of what to do next try to start it again it did start but had to hold the throttle wide open for a bit and cleared it self out. Headed straight home to clean the carbs. This is the first my bike let me down in all the years and miles I owned her. I was a bit disheartened. Anyone with other adventures of their bike letting then down?

 

Not really, unless you count the time when i was riding my bike through a deserted Scottish glen, when my throttle cable snapped.
This was in the days before mobile phones, and it was a lovely summers evening and i was just about to start walking to the nearest house i could find, when a gorgeous, blonde haired, big breasted woman stopped in her car.
Come back to mine she said and i'll get you some help. A few spliffs and a few drams later....
well you can guess the rest.

 

my seca bought brand new in 1981 left me stranded at a store in s.e portland some 15 years later when some low life stole it !! Other wise she never left me stranded

 

Sounds more like a wet dream than a real story, lol!

 

lmao @ quebecois59

 

does running out of gas count?

 

That's you leaving yourself stranded. :roll:

 

Are you, by any chance, a pool maintenance professional?

 

After all these years you had one glitch probably caused by years and years of minute dirt buildup and are disheartened? Wow, really? I'd be pleased with a record like that! :lol:

 

was out of town and bike wouldn't go into gear with out dying. looked through the wiring. someone ripped out the side stand switch and just tied them together to get the no fault signal. taped it up till i got home to do some repairs

 

I was never stranded but disheartened for sure!

Imagine zipping along at 100Kph and boom, nothing, bike totally dies! started with a backfire a few minutes later... This happened in traffic a few times, till I realized my TCI needed TLC. A dozen beers to a co-worker who solders for a living and no stalls since...

I'd be a lot more disheartened if I was the guy I saw pushing his relatively new cruiser home a couple of days ago... Happens to the best of us!

Mars

PS: I saw Lostboy's 550 at Port Dover one year, nice bike!

 

Thanks mwhite74 I will be at PD13 again.

 

Bloke you are right. Lots of fine rust looked like red paint pigment. I found that one one of the valve seats had a small bur on the inside catching the neddle.

 

Yuk, hate that stuff. Iron oxide seems to have a way of finding it's way through some fuel filters (mesh/honeycomb) too. I favour the car style paper element ones for best filtration now, hard to find them small enough to not look iffy though.

 

a long time ago (before cell phones) i stopped to help a harley guy who threw a master link and was just getting ready to start walking. lucky for him, at the time i was using a #50 master link for a key chain. after i explained that it matters which way the clip went on, he was happy as a dog rolling in s__t

 

Its always nice to hear from you mr polock . I still crack up when i look at that photo you posted on my forum of all the fence post's !!

 

Seconded.... I do want to know all about the fence posts now though Elk :?

 

My 81 let me down [or at least I thought it did]25 or so years ago I was riding home from Qld to Sydney about a 1000k at my last fuel stop I had left my gloves on my gearsack on the back of the bike while filling up and for some godforsaken reason I hadn't put them back on by the time I noticed I figured what the hell I'll just keep going,so of course it started to rain not showers full on tropical downpours can't see 50 ft in front of you type rain hands are numb,dog is shivering on my lap and bike starts to miss!in the literal middle of nowhere so roll in to the next fuel stop running on 2 cylinders and I'm 600k from home.Stop have a smoke and feed the dog and myself,fill the bike and pray,push the button not rmm rmm more chug chug cough and die.
Okay checked out what I could[didn't know much]wait and watch the dog bludge food off the tourists as they got back into their warm dry bus.
Had spoken to a few of the truckies and had teed up a ride home and arranged to leave my bike at the service station attendants place until I could pick it up.
Rang a mate to tell him to let work know I would be a day late [ah Payphones remember those] and he tells me "dont worry about I'll come pick you up with the trailer" me "mate it's 600k ''cool I'm due a sickie"
Anyway he comes to pick me up,I wait patiently at the pub till closing time [I'm good like that]and go to sleep until he gets there.
Get home,drag the bike off the trailer [it fell over about 3k from home and I couldn't give a rats by then]Mate says so fire it up..........
instant brmm .........
Wet coils will stop the bike until they dry out...apparently.
And good mates are very forgiving...... eventually.

 

I asked if any one was able to see my post's As in forum posts and he replied with yes i see your post's Atattched was a photo of a row of fence post's !! It was priceless

 

Brilliant :lol: 8)

This is why I've become addicted to this forum so badly, such great people on here (ummm, and the bikes are good too haha)

 

An improperly attached in-tank filter/reserve-run selector left me w/out gas heading up to MI one time. Same trip I blew the main fuse and it took me a good while to figure that out (actually a 12 year old was the first one to ask the questions with three adult men also standing around the bike and guessing). This was before I really got into the wrenching side and was just figuring out how interesting two wheels are.
First run on the XJ900RK out of shop left my front brakes seized up, but that was my fault as well.
I tried running a heating vest off of my XS850 and it drew too much power and drained the battery, but that was my fault as well.
Well, as usual, looks like I've only let myself down...

 

I had a gas line disconnect and bike died. I was in a city area a few miles from my Dad's. Gave him a call and asked him to bring me some gas. In the meantime a LEO showed wondering why the hell a motorcycle was "riding on the sidewalk". Gotta love comcerned citizens.