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MikeG said:Learned a valuable lesson yesterday, namely ALWAYS make sure your oil cap is secure before riding. Makes an awful mess of the back of your bike
could have been MUCH worse, I remember another post here where someone started their bike with the cap AND the seat off while working on it and the bike attempted to give the owner a hot oil enema :shock:
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bluto said:MikeG said:Learned a valuable lesson yesterday, namely ALWAYS make sure your oil cap is secure before riding. Makes an awful mess of the back of your bike
could have been MUCH worse, I remember another post here where someone started their bike with the cap AND the seat off while working on it and the bike attempted to give the owner a hot oil enema :shock:
Could have been MUCH MUCH worse: Oil the rear tire while under way and down you go.
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Dances with Shrapnel said:bluto said:MikeG said:Learned a valuable lesson yesterday, namely ALWAYS make sure your oil cap is secure before riding. Makes an awful mess of the back of your bike
could have been MUCH worse, I remember another post here where someone started their bike with the cap AND the seat off while working on it and the bike attempted to give the owner a hot oil enema :shock:
Could have been MUCH MUCH worse: Oil the rear tire while under way and down you go.
I dunno.. he may be onto something here.. Maybe training for 15,000 rpm 2nd gear sideways wheelies like Hobot? :mrgreen:
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Yeah, something like entering the fourth level or fourth phase or some crap like that. :lol:
Bottom line is: glad you did not go down.
Bottom line is: glad you did not go down.
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Dances with Shrapnel said:bluto said:MikeG said:Learned a valuable lesson yesterday, namely ALWAYS make sure your oil cap is secure before riding. Makes an awful mess of the back of your bike
could have been MUCH worse, I remember another post here where someone started their bike with the cap AND the seat off while working on it and the bike attempted to give the owner a hot oil enema :shock:
Could have been MUCH MUCH worse: Oil the rear tire while under way and down you go.
Not always, sometimes you get lucky and catch it before you go down.
I had the gearbox drain plug come out and it oiled up the rear tire. Mostly the sidewall but I could tell the rear tire was slipping a little. It was just around town so I wasn't doing much cornering.
Slapped some duct tape (everyone carries a little, right?) over the hole and headed home.
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I lost the quadrant indexer on my triple once, out came the oil just before a curve.
Speed about 45 , rear end just slowly came out and I did a nice speedway
slide up another road that Y'ed off exactly at the right time. Brought it
to a stop, propped the bike, headed back along the oil slick until I found
the plug, the spring and the indexer . Put them back in, walked across
the street to a gas station and bought a quart of oil. Put in the bike
and drove on.
Best part was the deeply impressed pump kid at the station.
When you wish you could live forever.....
Speed about 45 , rear end just slowly came out and I did a nice speedway
slide up another road that Y'ed off exactly at the right time. Brought it
to a stop, propped the bike, headed back along the oil slick until I found
the plug, the spring and the indexer . Put them back in, walked across
the street to a gas station and bought a quart of oil. Put in the bike
and drove on.
Best part was the deeply impressed pump kid at the station.
When you wish you could live forever.....
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Onder said:
Wow, another Upstate New Yorker? Nice to meet you, besides we know how to ride our bikes up here...like a boss.
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Don't ya get tried of pestering hobot damage dodger? Peel gave rear tire an oil bath form lose oil filter once and might of gotten us but i gave a few easy zig zags to warm up just before entering the dangerous stuff I was about to enter but she instead zagged instead of zigged so slowed up to see 100+ yds of oil spill. Ya Can't do but phase one or two on an oiled tire as higher phases take lots of lean traction to work past first before breaking free. Wind gusts, low air and oiled tire all feel about the same -
Got a flat today, thought was just windy day but soon obvious so picked up pace to 80's to fling tire round till seeing a pull off place for some teeth gritting slightly crossed up transition on to rim that made me drift into far lane before control kicked in to ease to a stop. Was a bit less scary than the video mount try out ride to pavement. Street mounts ain't up to THE Gravel so must re-think it.
Got a flat today, thought was just windy day but soon obvious so picked up pace to 80's to fling tire round till seeing a pull off place for some teeth gritting slightly crossed up transition on to rim that made me drift into far lane before control kicked in to ease to a stop. Was a bit less scary than the video mount try out ride to pavement. Street mounts ain't up to THE Gravel so must re-think it.
Just before I left N-V, my wife and I rode the company 650SS from Wolverhampton up to her folks' home in Lancaashire. I hadn't realised that the banjo bolt that holds the oil lines to the crankcase had worked loose until she slipped getting offthe footpeg. Her shoe squelched and left oil stains on the driveway!
I tried to find a Norton dealer to get a replacement gasket, late Saturday afternoon. I ended up getting some gasket paper from a hardware store to make a new gasket. Heading back to Wolverhampton solo, on the Monday, my home-made gasket failed and the engine seized up while I was running at about 85 mph on the M6. I managed to pull the clutch before the back wheel stopped turning. One of the moto-cross team came up in the team van and hauled me and the bike back.
The bike was later shipped tp Plumstead and I think it was rebuilt just before the place closed down.
I tried to find a Norton dealer to get a replacement gasket, late Saturday afternoon. I ended up getting some gasket paper from a hardware store to make a new gasket. Heading back to Wolverhampton solo, on the Monday, my home-made gasket failed and the engine seized up while I was running at about 85 mph on the M6. I managed to pull the clutch before the back wheel stopped turning. One of the moto-cross team came up in the team van and hauled me and the bike back.
The bike was later shipped tp Plumstead and I think it was rebuilt just before the place closed down.
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Had a plastic rocker feed line crack while heading home from work in the 70's. Assessed it and made decision to ride it home. Made it home with plenty of oil to spare and a pant leg and shoe with new color tone and waterproofing. Slathered oil all over - when I was young and foolish.
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More Intresting when the Oil Filler Cap is you know where . :cry:
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