Author Topic: sticky situations? (Read 4029 times)

Buffo · « **on:** November 21, 2005, 05:12:32 PM »

My Pull throttle cable broke last night at about 11:00pm...Luckily I was about 100 feet from my resturant and my wife wasw there with the sububan so it was not a big deal. But that got me to wondering...what if it broke out on the road? In some areas it is not a big deal but where I live, I could be 50 miles from the nearest town...

I guess if I had to I could have set my Idle real high with the set screw and cruised home at 30 miles an hour or so...

What is the worst situation you have been in on a motorcycle?

Buffo The Magnificent

Einyodeler · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2005, 05:31:58 PM »

If you have both cables you can hook your push cable up to where the pull cable goes and get yourself home by twisting forward on the throttle grip.

6adan · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2005, 06:11:39 PM »

What is the push cable good for anyway? I can't tell that it relly dose anything. Dannie

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2005, 07:35:38 PM »

I believe it was intended to provide a means of closing the throttle without having to rely entirely on the spring.

Mark M · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:19:43 AM »

I was unloading a pair of bikes from a trailer, trying to do it on my own. I got the first off OK than started on the second. The trailer has a part where the front wheel drops into to help support it. You have to give it a good tug backwards, whilst standing on the trailer, when you take the right side bike off. Well as you have probably guessed by now it all went horribly wrong. The bike toppled over, towards me. As I was standing on the framework I couldn't move my feet much to spread the weight so it came down on top of me. So there I was pinned under the bike with fuel pouring out over my jeans. I was near my open front door so I tried calling to my wife, just inside. Then I tried yelling a bit. It was getting dark quite quickly now and I was wondering if I might be here for the night. When I got to a full blown scream a neighbour appeared and helped me out from under. The bike was unmarked and I just had some minor bruising, but I was soaked in fuel and more than a little red faced. My wifes only comment was to complain about the smell!

oldbiker · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:27:43 AM »

My wife doesn't need an excuse to complain! Still they tell me the first 56 years are the worst. Anything stickier than that?

eldar · « **Reply #6 on:** November 22, 2005, 08:45:53 AM »

Try bombing around a pasture and getting stuck on the side of a hill on a cattle trail that ends with brush all around you! The only way out is to back the bike up, up hill!

You only do that once

dusterdude · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2005, 10:48:27 AM »

Quote from: eldar, Master of the K8 Thunder! on November 22, 2005, 08:45:53 AM

Try bombing around a pasture and getting stuck on the side of a hill on a cattle trail that ends with brush all around you! The only way out is to back the bike up, up hill!

You only do that once

well,what do you expect from a k8 rider.

ElCheapo · « **Reply #8 on:** November 22, 2005, 12:01:26 PM »

Unloading a very heavy stubborn cb750 from a trailer. When I released it it jumped forward onto the toungue. Everyone who could help me was in the house. Normally they can hear me yell and swear but not then. You can imagine how much I liked everyone after after that. I realized that this new business endevour I was in over my head all by myself. I eventually released the bike from its peril but it took everything had to get it done.

Or going out to the property at the last score. Grass over waste high. Loaded the first bike. And then I went to pull out only to pull up on some damn fire pit trapping me for good until I could reach my wife who had to come out and tow me out. Over 2 hours away. For reference never tow any vehicle with your wife if you want your marriage to last.

eldar · « **Reply #9 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:34:47 PM »

ahh this was years before the K8. This would have been around the time where a person wants a K1. Then years later realizes his mistake and gets the K8.

Raul CB750K1 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:45:36 PM »

Quote from: eldar, Master of the K8 Thunder! on November 22, 2005, 02:34:47 PM

ahh this was years before the K8. This would have been around the time where a person wants a K1. Then years later realizes his mistake and gets the K8.

Sour grapes.....

dusterdude · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:55:32 PM »

eldar · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:55:39 PM »

This only applies to duster! See he keeps carrying on about it so I suspect he has K8 envy.

clarkjh · « **Reply #13 on:** November 22, 2005, 02:58:23 PM »

Lets see........

The wife and I deside to go for a cruise. Cross the boarder from NB Canada to the state of Maine. Cut the valve stem of on the back tire. Then push the bike uphill to a gas station about 3 miles away. Have some good luck and our neibor is getting gas. Gives us a lift home, pickup a spare tub, drive back, (lots of explaining at the US customs). Change the tube, start back home at 12:30 AM, stop at Canadian customs, (again lots of explaining). Then stop to ajust the headlight, start off again, leaving kick stand down and start a left hand bend, sparks fly and the backend acts funny. Stop and put stand up, finially get home at 1:30 AM.

This happened 45min one way drive from the house. Not the evening we had planned.
Could have been worse though, it could have been raining.

James

dusterdude · « **Reply #14 on:** November 22, 2005, 03:15:42 PM »

Quote from: eldar, Master of the K8 Thunder! on November 22, 2005, 02:55:39 PM

This only applies to duster! See he keeps carrying on about it so I suspect he has K8 envy.

like ive said before,you`re on to me

ElCheapo · « **Reply #15 on:** November 22, 2005, 05:47:37 PM »

Quote from: clarkjh on November 22, 2005, 02:58:23 PM

Lets see........

The wife and I deside to go for a cruise. Cross the boarder from NB Canada to the state of Maine. Cut the valve stem of on the back tire. Then push the bike uphill to a gas station about 3 miles away. Have some good luck and our neibor is getting gas. Gives us a lift home, pickup a spare tub, drive back, (lots of explaining at the US customs). Change the tube, start back home at 12:30 AM, stop at Canadian customs, (again lots of explaining). Then stop to ajust the headlight, start off again, leaving kick stand down and start a left hand bend, sparks fly and the backend acts funny. Stop and put stand up, finially get home at 1:30 AM.

This happened 45min one way drive from the house. Not the evening we had planned.
Could have been worse though, it could have been raining.

James

God I know this one well. Lucky me that when the old K5 was acting up in the charging system it stopped mis-behaving for our first ride together. While never leaving more than say 20 minutes from home it was a bit spooky. I thought I had teh system all ironed out and after I dropped her off and went for another run I quickly found out that I was wrong. Oh Well

seaweb11 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 22, 2005, 11:13:58 PM »

Broke my throttle cable in the middle of no where on the Coast of OR. Tied a knot in the broken end and jamed it back in the throttle housing. Tight fit, but needle nose plyers are a must in your box of tricks.

Cable now to short to slot into carbs, so I used Duct Tape and taped the cable to the frame to hold er steady. worked for over 100 miles. Finnaly found a zip strap to tie down cable a bit better and got another 150 miles before I found a Honda dealership with the parts I needed.

No worries...ride and smile

Mark M · « **Reply #17 on:** November 23, 2005, 12:59:58 AM »

Many many many years back I went out to the Crooked House (it's a pub thats slowly sinking into an old mine shaft and they have adjusted the tables bar etc so you can keep your pint upright, it's like being in an optical illision and you realy dont want to drink too much in there) anyway as I departed the front sprocket cover on my Z400 decided it only need 1 of it's 4 retaining bolts. I didn't notice this until I tried changing gear and found I couldn't pull the clutch. The cover has the actuator for the clutch push rod so if the covers loose it just pushes itself off instead of pushing the clutch plates appart. Oh well, no big deal on a quiet country road, just suspend my mechanical sympathies and crash the gears. That was fine in the lanes but a bit hairy going through Wolverhampton with my girlfriend on the back. Pulling away from stationary was going to be a problem, but could be done with loads of revs and a good hard stamp. It's the only time I ever managed to wheelie that bike....accross a roundabout! Tina did complain about that a bit but otherwise hadn't noticed there was a problem!

Jim Shea · « **Reply #18 on:** November 23, 2005, 01:31:16 AM »

This might be the stpidest situation? When I was very young my bike was being towed home by another bike, the tow rope caught up in my front wheel and you can guess the rest. Worst thing was that I ruined my favourite pair of trousers!

ElCheapo · « **Reply #19 on:** November 23, 2005, 06:37:03 AM »

Quote from: Jim Shea on November 23, 2005, 01:31:16 AM

This might be the stpidest situation? When I was very young my bike was being towed home by another bike, the tow rope caught up in my front wheel and you can guess the rest. Worst thing was that I ruined my favourite pair of trousers!

Trying not to laugh........damn too bad I did

SteveD CB500F · « **Reply #20 on:** November 23, 2005, 07:37:50 AM »

I've done the throttle cable bit on my old 500. Turned up the idle to 3000 and rode 50 miles home. Luckily it was the middle of the night so driving through the London suburbs was a case of either stalling the bike at the red light and restarting (if anyone was around) or jumping thr lights (if deserted)

clarkjh · « **Reply #21 on:** November 23, 2005, 02:31:19 PM »

Jim

I hope the trousers were ruined by being ripped to shreds

. I hate to ruin a pair the other way.

James

Jim Shea · « **Reply #22 on:** November 24, 2005, 04:46:49 AM »

James,
Yep, tore the knees out of them, the rear end was OK!
Jim.

clarkjh · « **Reply #23 on:** November 24, 2005, 10:22:15 AM »

At least you could still cut them into shorts, the other, thats something altogether different

. Unless, you try some of the rooms off the for here.

James

Buffo · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2005, 05:44:44 PM »

a man in cut off blue jean shorts just is not right...it makes me think of Bo Dangle from Reno 911...a comedy channel show...funny

clarkjh · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2005, 07:59:34 PM »

Got to thinking about the shorts, we use to call em swimmin trunks

James

Jim Shea · « **Reply #26 on:** November 25, 2005, 11:40:13 PM »

They weren't jeans I ruined thye were a pair of pinstripe trousers, that would look even worse as shorts!!

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