nortonspeed wrote:Yet another demonstration of stupidity (but not quite roadside repairable):

In 1988 a car crossed the road just in front of me

Rebuilt it like this and still runs fine.

Yeah, but what did you look like?

This is more about fate than repair. In particular, other peoples fate that you get dragged into somehow. I was in Terrace, BC. My rear tire was going bald so I went in to a dealership and found that they didn't have an 18" rear to fit my bike. They did have an 18" front somebody ordered but had left town on a ride that I could have. They could mount it. The shop was in the basement with this long ramp. I didn't have a centerstand at the time. I couldn't ride my bike down it due to insurance issues. The shop guy took it down, hit what he thought was the rear brake, locked up the rear wheel, centerpunched a Goldwing (left side), and knocked it over. Good thing, that insurance. The guy with the tire went to Hyder/Stewart for a bike rally. I decided to go. Lottsa fun but no rooms. On the way back I saw a weird set of skidmarks on the road with a wadded up bike on the side. Some guy from Terrace had a blowout on this front tire, it had cord showing. Finally, I'm riding along and my ammeter goes pegged left. Pull over and it turns out that the guy who balanced my tire put the weights on the side of my Akront mudcatchers and one of them flew of and hit my rectifier, wedged between the fins and shorted it out. I don't believe in fate, but I did hole up in a hotel for a few days waiting for the this shitstorm front to blow over. What I learned is never let anybody touch your bike that you woudln't trust to do heart surgery on you, and visa versa.

swooshdave wrote:

nortonspeed wrote:Yet another demonstration of stupidity (but not quite roadside repairable):

In 1988 a car crossed the road just in front of me

Rebuilt it like this and still runs fine.

Yeah, but what did you look like?

Actually Swooshdave not too bad, I flew over the car and landed on my back finding out nothing was damaged. Sometimes you need a little luck

nortonspeed wrote:

Neat bike
Neat front brake what is it

Jean

ludwig wrote:That plug wire story reminds me of another ' road repair ' :
One day , riding along the highway , I suddenly lost one cylinder .
I looked down and noticed that the LH plug lead had come loose .
I thought I could put it back on while still rolling .
20000 volts quickly made clear that this was not one of my better ideas !

Surely you exagerate, couldn't be more than 15,000 volts

Jean

Jeandr wrote:

ludwig wrote:That plug wire story reminds me of another ' road repair ' :
One day , riding along the highway , I suddenly lost one cylinder .
I looked down and noticed that the LH plug lead had come loose .
I thought I could put it back on while still rolling .
20000 volts quickly made clear that this was not one of my better ideas !

Surely you exagerate, couldn't be more than 15,000 volts

Jean

It was metric volts...

Jeandr wrote:Neat bike
Neat front brake what is it

Hi Jean,
The front brake is a Fontana 4LS made by Daniel Fontana in the late sixties for the works 500 racers (also used on the works Trident racers).

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