Utterly p*ssed off

[Moonie]

My bike ran out of petrol yesterday, not through not checking, but through being too skint to fill up and needing to get home. Luckily for me it ran out on the drive as I got back.

So today I fill up from a can and get back out there, only to find there must have been some gunk or something at the bottom of the tank, and the bikes running horrible.

so I get about half a mile outside the village and it grinds to a halt locking both wheels. I take a tumble into the ditch and so does the bike onto the verge, luckily neither really damaged at all other than a sore leg.

What really made me mad though was the f*cking CBR600 rider that rode straight past as I had just picked up the bike. Now this may not seem too bad but round here nearly every biker out there will help another. And not only that, but 2 mins later when I'm pushing the bike back, he does it again.

Honestly, what an utter sh*t stain. Clearly I had taken a fall (completely covered in mud down one side clutching leg) and he just whizzed on past.


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[ms51ves3]

Sorry to hear about that.

Just out of interest, how did you lock both wheels?

[xrgrrl]

Aww, I'm so sorry! *hugs* .. I'd have stopped if I was there xx

If you ever see the guy again, slap him for me hehe!

[Moonie]

engine dropped from 9000 to 0 rpm in half a second in 3rd, didnt get the clutch in time, too busy wondering what was going on.

Hahah xrgrrl I'll do more than slap him lol.
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[Moonie]

Think I will, gotta wait till after dinner and I'll be away.

I've got back on after much much worse, by the time I came off it was almost comical, I sort of slowed right down then toppled over lol.
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[Moonie]

No, don't know how the front locked but it did. Bit worried about it actually now you say it. seriously though I've had the front and back lock up before and it was definitely both.
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[Ariel Badger]

I take it that the bike is 2 stroke?
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[Moonie]

obviously.

Please God don't say rebuild.

It was making this horrible grinding noise at one point
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[Al]

Running out of fuel or a fuel blockage won't cause the rear wheel to lock up and it defiantly won't cause the front to lock up

If you were looking for an excuse for crashing you should have gone with the phantom diesel spill that most other people use
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[TheDonUK]

Agreed, Running out of petrol is something we all do, and it wont lock the rear up, It will just loose power and judder then conk out, and you will have to glide to a halt...

The only time i have had a rear lock up on me in the way you describe was my old GS500, when the engine went BANG, just pulled the clutch in in time to avoid coming off... So i would say its engine related...

[Moonie]

So your saying that, if I'm in 3rd, pootling along about to change.

and the engine dies just like that, in gear and without me pulling the clutch in it will just coat to a halt?

I don't think so, the back wheel did lock.

I'm not afraid to admit my own mistakes, it was still my fault for not pulling in the clutch, I'm just saying what happened

Also, didn't run out, I had just filled it back up again and it was running wierd then cut out.
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[panrider_uk]

Running out of fuel is essentially the same as shutting the throttle off but more so

You would just slow down through lack of power and stall if you don't pull the clutch in.

Sounds like something else contributed.

Mark
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[Pie-Roe]

I've had rear wheel lock when I ran out of petrol, only I had a full tank and it was just shit I'd forced into the fuel lines and carbs by using prime. It wasn't a big lock, but it happened. I beleive I may have been in 4th doing less than 15mph trying to fiddle the tap to 'res' then panicking (as ya do ) It was only momentary though, didn't lock and spit me off.

On a side note, get a litre of redex and chuck that through about 3 tanks worth, really works.

Pyro
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[Moonie]

Oh dear.

Any ideas as to what locked my wheels up then?

hmm, this isnt sounding good.

Would a sort of grinding noise (imagine kinderling in a blender) help?

That only happened just as it was dying.
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[panrider_uk]

Oil starvation?

Mark
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[Pie-Roe]

It's most probably fine, too high a gear for whatever speed you were doing lack of petrol. Have you never done the killswitch backfire tricks? Actually I seem to recall KS only being on bigger bikes so you won't know. Um. the grinding sound is probably just the engine turning over at speed whilst not ignited (I think that makes sense) if you have ever bump started a bike you will know what I mean.

You probably haven't done anything wrong (except ignored the whole filling up thing) and it will be fine. If it fires up and rides fine there isn't a problem.

Pyro
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[numark1]

Might of been a girl riding.

I wouldn't like it if my girlfriend stopped to help someone in that situation especially with the amount of weirdo's about these days.

I would have stopped though.

Unlucky though chief.

[Moonie]

Took it out to the next village just now and it's all hunky dory

And yeah it might have been like Pyro said, I was still in 3rd when i was doing like 2mph.

Now you mention it it did sound like a bump start kind of noise.

Cheers guys
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