I went down to the creek 2day lookin for partial
nudity relaxation. Without getting in the water, it was too dang hot. Saw a suzuki 600 parked by the shore with a couple helmets on the ground near it, one on its top with a few bud longnecks stickin out the top, the other on its side, both direct contact with the gravel. I guess I'll relax a little too once I put the first scratch on it but come on, toss em down on the ground?
Anyway later on as Im leaving, I see the fella and his 95 pound girlyfriend trying to get this thing push started so I offered help.
Ever offered to help someone out in good nature but from the getgo you can feel the degradation of the situation? Yeah I did too.
I gave it a couple push passes with him with no luck before starting to ask a few troubleshoot questions. He tells me he laid it down earlier and might have a float stuck. Huh. Actually, from the account of the another guy watching all this nearby, the rider stood the bike up and kicked the kickstand up and away, let go of the bars and turned around like he was going to walk away. The bike falls to the left, hitting the rider in the butt and legs and both fell down. The rider grabs the bars in a huff and heaves it back upward but didnt catch it before it took a tumble to the right. Straight up and over and took its rider with it. Sure wish I had happened along just a few earlier to see that, or had a camera with me. I dont usually like seeing troubles like that, but in this case.......
The damage? I couldnt tell. Both front t/signals were dangling, front brake lever was misshapen, rear brake lever was missing the "L" at the end where you would normally apply force, and the body work looked like the misused face of one of Michael Vicks fightin dogs. Big scuffs and gouges were abundant. I had the feeling that this had happened before.
I heard this guys mumble, or slur, something about the battery a few times. He would then reach around kind of between the seam of the seat padding and part of the bodywork and fiddle with the positive battery connection that was dangling out from within. Guess this has been a problem before for him or something. There was a second red wire ran from the same location out in parallel with the positive post wire. Im not sure if it was a jump wire connecting this mess or what but I was beginning to want away from all this rather than offer fixes. But it must have been significant to make it run because he would mess with it everytime right before he turned the key all the way left to right a few times. No, dont know why. O' the key in the ignition, it wasnt. It appeared to be a cut off piece of aluminum tube, like a crossbow bolt, shoved down through the center of where the ignition tumbler
USED to be. Holy christ, I was getting the feeling like I was trying to help this guy steal it instead of start it.
The ending of this boring story is near.
We pushed his scoot bout a block to use the only incline/decline there was for momentum. Took a quick breather, watched this nimrod jiggle this wire and that aluminum rod a few times, and we're off runnin down the slight decline. This was the fastest we were going to get this bike to go where we were at so I gave it all I had this last time. Plus this was going to be my last offering of help. It sputtered a few, and ughed a few more but eventually nothin. I stopped where he stopped to catch my breath and the SOB started laughing. Laughing from frustration? No! He thought it was funny that he didnt have the ignition on right, & HE THINKS HE NEVER TURNED THE FREAKIN GAS ON IN THE 1ST PLACE.
I was thouroughly done with this bullsh!t. I told him I was done and started headin for my car a few yards away when he hollered at me. "Dude you quitin? I have to do this everytime I start it. Lets do it again." I couldnt believe that he just said that, and I cant believe he does that everytime. I just kept on walkin without turning around or saying anything else and split. What a deal that was.
So I found a picture on the net Ive included as to which bike I think it was and I was going to edit it to show red circles around the damaged parts that I noticed, but it would be much more work than worth. Instead, Ill grab the camera & go see if its still there in a minute.
Nite all....
