Topic: On a positive note..

[Jim Shea]

The other day I was out on the bike, I pulled over to wait for a friend that i was meeting. Whilst waiting I took the side cover off, as I was having a problem with the indicator flasher unit.
So, whilst waiting, I had three bikers ask if I was OK and needed any help, then a guy in a 4X4 stopped and asked if I was OK. It is encouraging that there are still people out there willing to check if someone is OK.
I wonder if I had been on a modern bike would the response would have been the same?
Anyone else had good experiences?

[Bob Wessner]

Anyone else had good experiences?

I've had similar experiences, to the extent that now if I stop along the road to just look around or take a break, I try to get well off the road, hate to have them, nice as they are, keep stopping. Had three vehicles in a row stop or slow down one morning out along a two lane rural road.

[Gordon]

I'd probably stop, too, if I saw some old guy wandering around the side of the highway!

[Bob Wessner]

I'd probably stop, too, if I saw some old guy wandering around the side of the highway!

Actually, the thought crossed my mind. They took one look at the bike and one look at me and figured, for sure, one of us had to have broken down. 

[Jim Shea]

Oooh, Gordon, you #$%*... 

[Gordon]

Oooh, Gordon, you #$%*... 

Ha-Ha!!  Allright, off to work now.

[Jim Shea]

Ha ha.. off to put my feet up, have a nice cup of tea and watch telly. Maybe even go for a ride as it is a nice day today??
God, my life is overflowing with excitement!

[6pkrunner]

Reminds me of a Mad magazine I read in 1967 or so.
"You break down on the highway and the only ones to stop to investigate are a group of Hell's Angels."

[Jim Shea]

The Hells Angels only check you out if you are wearing nice bumless leather chaps..

[Japbikemike]

I broke down last summer in the median strip of the Interstate Highway at 5pm.  Bumper to bumper traffic, 2 stops, a newer big BMW tourer and a Harley.  4 harleys passed without even looking---R.U.B.'s.
Electrical failure (fuse block melt down), I told the BMW guy that I'm considering a newer bike ('78 cb750f presently)  he advised "Keep it and fix it".  I don't know who that helmeted man was, but I took his advice.

Perhaps I should take him to that cowboy movie.

[csendker]

I sputtered and died on a late night trial run shortly after getting the bike.  The battery was dead enough to not turn over and I think my kick-start is messed up.  I was contemplating the looooonnnnnngggg push home in the middle of the night when a pickup stopped and gave me a jump (he had the cables).  I guess there's still some humanity left out there...

[Sam Green Racing]

Hey Jimbo COP a load of this one,....I had just come off nights 6am, called at shop to get milk, came out, flat tyre, #$%*.
The shop keeper let me leave the bike in his yard, and off home to bed I went.
I got up mid day and armed with my RAC recovery phone number made my way to the local phone box.
I called the RAC who said they would be about 40mins and was told to stay by the phone box.
I was stood on this corner, helmet in hand, when two bike cops ride past, they turned round, came back and asked if I was OK.
I thanked them, said yes and off they rode.
I was thinking, if the cops had been in a car would they have done the same when a cop in a car pulled up and asked me the same.
It was a day I couldn't win.

Sam.