Thought I would post this to give everyone a laugh at my expense.
Set off for a blast to the coast in brill sunshine.
1/2 hour in and I get a huge fugging slide out of nowhere when I wasnt really pasting on at all,so pulled into layby to have a look at the bike and the fugging thing is dripping in oil, I had been working on fitting an r&g tailtidy and changing the graphite seal last night (which has fitted spot on) and I must have altered the scottoiler with a rag when protecting the frame and it was turned right up to max oil,anyhow I turned the oiler right off and got a rag and took as much of the oil off the tyre as poss I, left the bike running all the time while doing this,so gingerly I continue on and 1k down the road from nowhere appears the front loader of a tractor and the rest of the tractor follows and leaves me with an ever diminishing gap, which I get through,just,fook me I thought,sI o I stopped to gather my thoughts in a junction a few hundred meters up the road and stopped the bike.I spent another few minutes cleaning oil off eveything and figured I would carry on,I pushed the starter button and nothing but a lazy whuuurr,battery flat.........It isnt the first time it has done this and if anyone has come across it and cured it please let me know,after a few useless attempts to bump start it so I set off pushing it to the nearest house in the hope he had some leads,when I arrive at the only house in view I can hear someone round the back working,after no luck knocking on the door I went round to side gates,I could hear them but they couldnt hear me obviously, so I open the side gate while shouting hello as you do and a fooking rottwieler and a boxer come round the corner flat fooking out,the rottwieler runs at me in what is a race to the gate it beats me to the gates and jumps up and fooking grabbed my leg as im halfway back through the gate,luckily I have my leathers on and it grabs me in the kneeslider area and doesnt get through,by this time im out and smacking its head on the gate at the same time.
by the time someone comes round the corner Im back on the safe side of the gate and his dog is going beserk on the inside,are you o.k he said,did the dog get you its a bit savage, no I sais ,lol
Anyhow thankfully he had some leads and we jump started off the leads and I went home before anything else happened and I will try again next sunday!!!!!
So I reckon that short of actually coming off thats a pretty shite ride out and in 20 odd years is about the worst yet.
Set off for a blast to the coast in brill sunshine.
1/2 hour in and I get a huge fugging slide out of nowhere when I wasnt really pasting on at all,so pulled into layby to have a look at the bike and the fugging thing is dripping in oil, I had been working on fitting an r&g tailtidy and changing the graphite seal last night (which has fitted spot on) and I must have altered the scottoiler with a rag when protecting the frame and it was turned right up to max oil,anyhow I turned the oiler right off and got a rag and took as much of the oil off the tyre as poss I, left the bike running all the time while doing this,so gingerly I continue on and 1k down the road from nowhere appears the front loader of a tractor and the rest of the tractor follows and leaves me with an ever diminishing gap, which I get through,just,fook me I thought,sI o I stopped to gather my thoughts in a junction a few hundred meters up the road and stopped the bike.I spent another few minutes cleaning oil off eveything and figured I would carry on,I pushed the starter button and nothing but a lazy whuuurr,battery flat.........It isnt the first time it has done this and if anyone has come across it and cured it please let me know,after a few useless attempts to bump start it so I set off pushing it to the nearest house in the hope he had some leads,when I arrive at the only house in view I can hear someone round the back working,after no luck knocking on the door I went round to side gates,I could hear them but they couldnt hear me obviously, so I open the side gate while shouting hello as you do and a fooking rottwieler and a boxer come round the corner flat fooking out,the rottwieler runs at me in what is a race to the gate it beats me to the gates and jumps up and fooking grabbed my leg as im halfway back through the gate,luckily I have my leathers on and it grabs me in the kneeslider area and doesnt get through,by this time im out and smacking its head on the gate at the same time.
by the time someone comes round the corner Im back on the safe side of the gate and his dog is going beserk on the inside,are you o.k he said,did the dog get you its a bit savage, no I sais ,lol
Anyhow thankfully he had some leads and we jump started off the leads and I went home before anything else happened and I will try again next sunday!!!!!
So I reckon that short of actually coming off thats a pretty shite ride out and in 20 odd years is about the worst yet.