Made a slight error.

[Eddie Hitler]

Have never done anything so stupid.

Changed the oil in the VTR yesterday morning. It was still golden, but had been sat for almost 2 years. Anyway. All went well. No hidden terrors.

Warmed up, jumped on for work. Stopped around 2 miles up the road to double check the level, needed a little top up so poured in another 200ml or so from my backpack. Sorted. 20 minutes of riding later, I stopped at a traffic light. Smelt oil. Guess what.

I left the oil filler cap off. .

Oil all over the side of my bike, my boots, and yeh. The rear tyre. It was COVERED. Panicked, pushed it to the side of the road and checked the oil. Most of it was still in there. Wiped down the tyre and the bike, looked in my bag and there was my filler cap. .

Stupid, stupid, stupid. And fucking lucky not to have crashed. Most importantly, no damage to the bike. Got away with that!

edit; It wasn't a fatal error, so title changed. .

[Raffles]

It wasn't actually fatal, was it?
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[Eddie Hitler]

[Benjums]

won't be doing that again will ya. Glad it didn't end badly for you though.

[Fisty]

It's because you didn't buy a TLR.
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[Commuter_Tim]

Wow, I don't know about slight, seems pretty fatal to me?
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[Raffles]

Eddie, you shouldn't start a thread and then afterwards alter the thread title
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[Rogerborg]

[Pete.]

Not as bad as what my brother did. he put the sump plug in finger-tight to stop it dripping and forgot to tighten it afterwards. Plug came out going down the A2, dumped all the oil on the tyre and he came off the bike.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[swampy]

[Raffles]

[andym]

[Eddie Hitler]

[Eddie Hitler]

[covent.gardens]

I've done wheel nuts up finger tight then drove off (no damage, but dodgy - felt the wheel shift when taking a bend).
Put new oil in the top of a car engine and it's gone straight on to the drive (no sump plug).

I suspect my worst mistakes are yet to come

[Eddie Hitler]

Sup commuter_tim?

[CaNsA]

[Commuter_Tim]

[Rogerborg]

[monkeybiker]

Well at least your weren't wearing stupid dog ears at the time or you may have looked a bit daft.

[andyscooter]

stupidist thing i did was take my filler cap off with the engine running
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[Eddie Hitler]

[pepperami]

Filler cap off : done that!
Filled engine with sump plug not put back in : done that!
Finger tight wheel nuts and drove off : done that!


We`ve all been there
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[andys675]

never mind, it'll all go tits up anyway when the camchain tensioner collapses, it wrecked mine
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