Roadside Repairs

one time exhaust threads stripped, got three hose clamps , secured to frame.

one time throttle went to shit , not the cable , the actually throttle that holds the cable, again a hose clamp fix it .

Of course 300 miles later in mid july going through atlanta, georgia at 80 mph the pistons went to shit , with only 100 bucks in my pocket a bus ride back to canada, thanks to a man named Art bone who put me up for a couple of nights, and kept my bike in his shed for a year till I was able to retrieve it.


life is good.

I do not normally carry spare pushrods

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Ludwig,

You have to be the champ.

Dave
69S

Ludwig reminded me of the time I looked down and saw the exhaust clamp coming off my G15 CSR. The nearest spare was in England so I held the pipe up with my boot. As soon as I could stop and get the stand down I started hopping and every time I stepped down in the boot it burnt my foot again. Did you know you can get a motorcycle boot off while hopping on one foot? It was a while before I cooled both foot and pipe and whacked the nut on with a rock and a screwdriver.

And to think that my wife thought I was cool to fix a blown fuse with a foil gum wrapper, When she saw me looking around on the side of the road she asked what are you doing. Well when I found it she said that won't work and laughed, but it did. I now carry an extra proper size one. You guys are great! These stories are fun to read.

ludwig said:

Another one , not a repair , but a demonstration of ( my) stupidity :
I was riding on a local dirt road with my N15 , when I got stuck in on of these gullies made by tractor wheels .
It had been raining and the road was muddy and the gully filled with water .
As I struggled along , the gully became deeper till the water almost reached my footpegs .
Then the inevitable happened : the engine stalled .
Because of the narrow and deep gully , it was impossible to use the kickstarter , but luckily , no more than 50 m ahead , the road leveled out .
So I started pushing , pulling , slipping in the mud ...almost broke my back ..
But after I don't know how long , sweating ,completely covered in mud , I finally succeeded to reach higher ground ...
only to find out that the bike was still in first gear !

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Typical Belgium joke :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

When I find myself doing such things, of which there have been plenty, rather than stupidity I call it brawn. As in all brawn, no brain.

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

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


Rebuilt it like this 8) and still runs fine.

nortonspeed said:

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

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

Rebuilt it like this 8) and still runs fine.

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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 said:

nortonspeed said:

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

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

Rebuilt it like this 8) and still runs fine.

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Yeah, but what did you look like?

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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

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Neat bike
Neat front brake what is it :?:

Jean

ludwig said:

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 !

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

Jean

Jeandr said:

ludwig said:

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 !

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

Jean

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It was metric volts...

Jeandr said:

Neat bike
Neat front brake what is it :?:

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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).

Carry a cell phone with decent battery power at all times.