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Offline DarkRider

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2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« on: April 07, 2008, 08:08:08 PM »
My roomate has had two close calls with his harley now...the first time the bikes ignition harness shorted out and caught fire as he was riding due to improper routing and the use of too small of wire for that task. Now just this past weekend the bike exploded as him and his dad were test starting the bike after it came back from the shop that did the wiring initially and redid it after the fire...

heres some pics of the carnage...



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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2008, 09:18:34 PM »
Royal bummer!

I'd go down to that shop a wring a few necks

I’m sure they charged him for this mess too.
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2008, 09:33:28 PM »
What was that,  75??.. maybe a 76....drag..
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2008, 10:23:59 PM »
754: Its a 75

Jimmy: this is the second time the bike caught fire..the first time was due to a poor wiring job done by the shop that did my front forks on my VF. My roommate took the bike back to be repaired properly..initially they refused to redo their mess without charging him again...however my roommate went down there and talked to him...lets just say he "convinced" them to fix their mistake..this fire was caused by what appears to be a poor carb rebuild...also done by the same shop....
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so, you say just tie myself on with this... and steer w/ this?   ;D ;D  ok.  where's my goggles?   8)

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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2008, 10:32:58 PM »
Twould be a pity...


if that shop burned...

but Hey, it could be faulty wiring!!  :o



and everyone would think...



that it was wired by them... ;D
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2008, 10:42:10 PM »
LMAO!!! Truth is i gotta get both my Kawasaki and my CB out of that place before they go up in smoke too....forget the idea of him reassembling the engine on the 550...i will be pausing the project for a bit till i put together a work area then im goin elbows deep into reassebling it..myself..
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 04:53:47 AM »
good plan.
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2008, 01:30:55 PM »
omg!!!!!!!!!! it was an ironhead ohhhhh the carnage and misery. :(
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2008, 04:39:10 PM »
It will be repaired..rewired and cleaned up. It shall live again..
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Re: 2008 must be the year of the bike fire....
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2008, 05:49:21 AM »
Sounds like its cursed.  Maybe light it up and sell it to Nicolas Cage.

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