nomination for 'Dozy Twat Of The Year 2010' award

[mongman]

i had a little opps. riding my bike to work it suddenly cut out near wolston. no starter, no main beam lights, just side lights and tail lights. bugger, thinks i, the alternator's gone again. so i push the 200kg bike a mile and a half to wolston, got a lift of a nice passer by to cov then walked from the bp station on the a45 to the kennelworth crossroads before my boss picked me up. got to work and hour and a half late. picked the bike up a week later as a mate kindly offered to come over in his van. then spent a couple of weeks looking at it before spending ages today checking the electrics trying to work out why the starter doesn't work when i thumb the switch (those who know bikes can see where this is going). digged into every component with a voltmeter, checked the alternator that was still working and eventually looked for the switch that inhibits the starter if the clutch is in. only then did i think about the kill switch. flicked it back to 'on' and lo and behold the bike fired up. just test rode it with no probs but some squeal from the alternator belt. only one word springs to mind: bugger!
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previous: '02 honda nsr, '89 kawasaki zxr 750 h1
current: '09 zzr 1400

[Rob W]

You picked the right user name.


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'90 TS50 > '04 Senda 125 > '91 ZXR400 > '90 CB-1 > '04 GSX-R1000 > '96 Bandit 600 > '89 ZXR750 H1 > '96 GSX-R750 SRAD > '98 RR-W Fireblade > '98 T595 Daytona > '03 Hornet 900 > '04 Fireblade > '16 GSX-S1000F (x2) > '23 XSR900

[waffles]

Doh!

I didnt let my bike warm up properly the other day, I pulled the choke in and it cut out while I was heading downhill towards some traffic lights. I pulled the choke out, hit the start, more choke, hit start and I could hear someone beeping at me. The bike started to I looked round ready to give whichever bastard it was a piece of my mind.... And realised that when I pulled the choke I covered the horn on my own bike up and honked at myself. I felt like a right wally.

Does that make you feel any better?
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[mongman]

waffles me old china, that's not only put a smile on my face i'll be chuckling all night. like it.
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previous: '02 honda nsr, '89 kawasaki zxr 750 h1
current: '09 zzr 1400

[Redoko]

And now you've gone and told a national forum.
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"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
Sudika Sportsman SK50QT > Gilera DNA50 > Honda CBR125 RW7 > Kawasaki Zephyr750 > Suzuki GSXR600 > Honda Hornet CB600F '51

[BanditJeff]

Most of us have knocked the cut out switch by mistake. Once, years ago, i even called recovery out when i'd done it.
You really feel like an utter twat when the breakdown guy spots it instantly.

[keyser soze]

the good thing is next time you'll know where and what to look for first

[neil.]

I forgot to turn my fuel tap on during my test! Cue a loss of power a few yards up the road and me fumbling around the tank whilst negotiating a junction with the examiner right behind me. Passed the test with 2 minors (which were not related to that).
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CBT February 2008 | A2 June 2008 | Yamaha YBR125 (written off) | Honda CBF125 (current)

[rac3r]

Quality

On my training I pressed the horn instead of the indicator and my instructor and the other learner turned round to see what it was, I was so embarrassed I turned around as well pretending it was someone else behind me
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Bikes : 2006 CBR125R - 2004 Monster 620ie - 2004 ZX-6R B1H - 2005 Monster S2R 800 - 2011 Street Triple - 2009 Streetfighter 1098 - 2014 ZX-6R 636

[neil.]

[waffles]

[Jayy]

I've done the same thing at a set of lights after filtering my way up to the front and I must of caught the switch as the lights changed, que all the cars beeping at me whilst I sat there trying to start it.

I pushed it to the side of the road and was checking it over for about 15 minutes, had the tank off checking the spark plug. I was going to ring my breakdown but I though, I'm only 2 miles from my house, I could get there by pushing it quicker. I pushed the fucker 2 miles home and had my mate come out to look at it the next day and he looked at it and just pressed the kill switch and started it first time.

Happens to the best of us

[Ghost]

Have to say I've never understood this, as soon as I push the starter button and nothing happens I just automatically check the kill switch straight after.

Maybe I'll be the next to do it, who knows

[mongman]

there's a big club ghost. pride and fall you know
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previous: '02 honda nsr, '89 kawasaki zxr 750 h1
current: '09 zzr 1400

[Serendipity]

I occasionally fold my mirrors in to get through an especially tight squeeze while filtering. On one such occasion I reached the front of the queue just as the lights went green leading onto an empty bit of dual carriageway. As I sped away I straightened the left mirror, clutched for a gear change then reached across with my left hand to unfold the right mirror....

…eek! Complete loss of power!

Coasted to a stop thinking I’d seized the engine (The fact that it obviously hadn’t seized as the engine had continued to turn over did NOT occur to me at the time). Luckily I realised I’d just flicked the kill switch after a few minutes of pondering my next move.
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2007 CBF1000 & 2016 CBF1000F - Commuter heaven | 1994 CBR600FR - Awaiting defibrillation

[teabag]

I did the same with my NS afer filling up with petrol. Tried kicking it over, bump starting down the hill from the petrol station. Gave up and pushed the damn thing home only to notice as I was putting it in the garage that the kill switch was pressed.

Thing is, though, why do bikes have kill switches (other than for tunnel backfires, of course)?
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NS125R = 2 years > GSX600F = 7 years > XR125L = 3.5 years > SV650S........and a Citroen Synergie HDI for the kids.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Reading about fuel taps got me thinking, anyone actually turn theirs off. Not when riding but in general?

I don't, can't see the reason unless i'm removing the tank.

Pat
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[chris-red]

I did manage to chuck the S4 up the road about 2 minutes 30 into my first ride of the season because forgot to scrub the tyres in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BtBowGyGQg
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Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

[rac3r]

[chris-red]

[rac3r]

[Curtmeister]

[Rob W]

[Ditto]