bodges of yore

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

That cable tied sprocket bodge thread brought to mind this natter I had with an older guy the other week, up at seaways (in the week there ARE only older guys up there). He was telling me about how, out on a ride over the dales, his AJS's clutch had started to fuck up. He pulled over and found the cork inserts had, well, disappeared.

Being a resourceful chap he mulled over how to limp the bike home - and "sourced" a long twig from a nearby hawthorn bush and broke it up into the correct length pieces, and shoved them into the recesses.

Reckoned he ran it like that for a few days. He had a wistful gleam in his eye as he looked into the middle distance and spoke fondly of the days when it was possible to repair a bike with pieces of shrub scrounged from a nearby hedgerow.
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[steveh]

I lost the bolt out of my torque arm, so i found a fence and used my snips to cut a piece of it off and sort of twisted it into place to stop my brake plate flinging itself around.

you have to bodge if you own british bikes.. its teh law.
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Current : 06 Zx10r, 07 Wr450f SM, 74 850 norton commando, 63 bsa b40, 1962 Triton 650, 67 Triumph Tr6r, 1955 Triton 750, 1978 TY250E.

[beardface]

I am using cable ties to stop my throttle grip spinning on the bar, cable ties rock
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[Vincent]

Still my fave:-

https://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/Drewskovitch/PistonBodge.jpg
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[nowhere.elysium]

A question born of morbid curiosity; how long did that last?
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[mudcow007]

not a bike bodge but...

during my offroading days (i had an sj413)I burst the tank on a rock an lost all fuel.

had to rig this up to get me home

https://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/mudcow007/Image048_zps5032a7b9.jpg

bodge-tastic

[Vincent]

[Eddie Hitler]

There's a small stone in my switch gear to create a better contact for my full light beam switch. .

[Rogerborg]

I bodged up a W shaped piece of aluminium as a brace to hold my pendulous panniers away from the wheels on my 125, with the middle of the W running up and over the wheel.

It actually worked quite well until I went over a speed bump too fast, the wheel hopped up, caught the aluminium, and dragged it round with it until everything locked up solid with a neat U shaped hoop wrapped solidly around the front of the tyre.

Some man points were earned for not only keeping it up but getting the clutch in in time to keep the engine running and nothing wrecked.
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike

[Doovy]

Once held my clutch lever on with cable ties as I lost the bolt for it during a cable lubing.

My Hornet's exhaust didn't have a clamp.. just cable ties tying it to the frame.

One side panel was held on by a cable tie for a bit.

I like cable ties
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Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1

[nowhere.elysium]

Sink strainer exhaust baffle, anyone? Cooker igniter button as motorcycle ignition switch?
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'10 SV650SF, '83 GS650GT (it lives!), Questionable DIY dash project, 3D Printer project, Lasercutter project

[DrSnoosnoo]

My CG has lots of tape and cable ties.

The headlight rattles the bolts loose so they've got some reinforcing duck tape on them to stop them coming out.

The nearside battery cover is pretty much 60% tape. There isn't an offside cover that's AWOL.

The offside rear indicator is bodged on because the mounting place is a rusty piece of metal that is duck taped together in imaginative ways to give it strength with reinforcing cable ties around the indicator to the frame all backed up with a bungee across my seat which hooks each indicator well.
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Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R

[DrDonnyBrago]

I'm a fairly prolific driller of pennies to use as washers.

[Doovy]

[Dibble]

Mate bought a Malagutti 50cc scrambler field bike for his sons, wouldn't run so I said I would have a go.

The whole bike was the most fantastic mix of Fence wire, drywall screws, Duck tape, bit of a plastic milk bottle, coke can shims, bent bicycle spoke and more tape.

The whole bike was a work of art, Bodge engineering (B.eng) at it's best.

It was a shame to reverse years of ride it, crash it, drag it back to the shed, bodge it and get back out there.

[27cows]

Have done loads. Possibly the best was when out on a CD200 and went over a fucking massive bit of broken bottle. Tore a three inch hole in the tyre and a nearly as big one in the tube. Only had a footpump and puncture kit with me in the way of tyre-related stuff.

Found a little shop (I was in a village in the middle of nowhere) that sold wool etc. Bought a pack of their biggest needles and the toughest thread they had. And first sewed the tube back together, before adding four large patches and some vulcanizing solution over the cobble. And managed, with some considerable effort, to do the same with the tyre. Had to carefully work the needle through the rubber millimetre by millimetre. Then added some gaffa tape inside the tyre to shore up the bodge.

Was frankly amazed when I pumped up the tyre and it not only stayed up but took me over 40 miles home. And was still fully inflated the next morning.
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The RXS100: vehicle of choice for Chuck Norris

[mentalboy]

Points closed up on my Z400 whilst on a courier run to London, not a common occurrence so I had no tools to sort it out.
Pushed the bike to the nearest place, which happened to be a Little Chef and decided to have a coffee and wait for the invention of mobile phones! Whilst supping their best coffee it struck me that the tines of the fork on the table would be perfect for undoing the locknut to adjust the points. I don't remember how I removed the inspection cover but there was probably an allen key or two buried at the bottom of my leather's pockets.
With a little readjustment the fork was ideal for the job and, figuring that I'd probably paid for it with the cost of the coffee, , took it with me and stopped every half hour or so to reopen the points - I couldn't tighten the nut enough to stop movement but at least it got me to the drop point and back to Devon
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Make mine a Corona.

[virus]

Molegrip clutch lever became a permanent addition for 3 months one on bike, and also a fantastic security device as I took it everwhere with me when I got off.


Strimmer wire throttle cable was the best though, the slight elasticity of strimmer wire made for an interesting power delivery.
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[smegballs]

[Pete.]

[yen_powell]

I made my mate an emergency number plate on AutoCAD, printed it out, then laminated it a few times when he found the original had gone missing on the way to work.

Tight sod kept it on there for a few months.
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XT1200Z and a DR350 in bits

[WindyMiller]

The joints where my radiator attaches to the frame are buggered, so I (temporarily) fixed it in place using cable ties. They're still holding it nice and firmly after several months, so it can stay that way.
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YBR125 SV650S Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Jonathan A]

A tupperware box served a a battery cover for most of my Chinese bikes life..
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Hyosung GT650R

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

The connection into the back of the tacho has been upgraded from the *standard green Rizla packet to the superior blue.


*Not sure if it was originally factory fitted.
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[gorillaonabik...]

Not my bodge, just a bodged bike I bought.

FZR400 - the exup valve stopped working and on closer investigation appeared to be a bit of coathanger and what seemed to be bits of vase or possibly a few bits of broken plate. Unsure of how it worked in the first place, let alone why it stopped working.
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FZR400 (blown engine), ZXR750 (blown engine), ZX6R (accident), CBR600 which had engine issues after which I learned to change gear..., CBR900, CBR924 (stolen), CB600, CB1300 (everything blew up), BMW K1300GT (written off, hit from rear while stationary), Bandit 1250 for a couple of months, Triumph Sprint ST 1050 (nicked) and somewhere in there, I wrote off a Ducati 748 at Cadwell.