Feel like a fool...

[BigBoss]

Well yesterday I did the most idiotic thing I could possible do. Let me tell you how my day went.


Ok I start my bike up... sounds like the battery is dying (slow starter) so bike wont start, I give it 10 more minutes and try again still... no luck.
So I have a look through the manual, it says nothing about this problem so im sitting there confused, so I phone my dad.

I phoned him and told him the situation and made him hear the problem, he told me the battery sounds lifeless so jump start it.
"Ok" I said, ask my sisters boyfriend to use his car to jump start my bike. Took the seat off and jumped started it but it would only run on choke.

Phoned up my dad again (about the 7th time now) and asked him if he can come up and have a look, so hes on his way up im sitting next to the bike for 30 minutes waiting for him to show.

He pulls up has a little look jumps starts it again steps back for a second and turns the fuel to reserve, bang the bike is running fine.
He then looked at me and said "Lewis you made me drive up here just to switch the fuel to reserve?"

At this point I felt so stupid I could of slapped myself, since yesterday I had the piss taken out of me because of one simple mistake!


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[Suzuki]

Yeah - we've all done that at least once mate!


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[mchaggis]

Everyone's done it at least once. Just not everybody has called their dad out to fix it.

You certainly won't forget the reserve again.

Now to forget the killswitch. Who hasn't done that?
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[danclarkie]

haha similar story but in reverse, my dad was fixing my bike (well diagnosing the problem). He is 41 full car licence full bike licence and a sergent in derbyshire constabulary. im at my girlfriends just watching TV and he calls me to come home as my bike wont start, not even trying to start. he says hes recharged the battery all wired properly kill switch not on fuses ok but it wont even begin to start and i need to come home, so home i go driving all the way. finally get home go into the garage see the bike there on the stand with my bemused dad next to it, turn the key in the ignition and the neutral light doesnt come on.

"Dad..................................It's in gear"
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[Yeti]

I would say the majority of people have forgotten the kill swith or not switched it onto reserve and it has baffled them for a few minutes at least!
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[LustyLew]

*raises hand to killswitch*

It's all part of the learning curve. Check the obvious before calling the RAC.
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[Gazdaman]

I try not to use the kill switch for that very reason.

I also put my bike onto reserve for the very first time today.

My favourite one was, on the MZ you can't hold the clutch in to kick start, because pulling the clutch in disengages the kick start (not quite sure why). But that baffled me for quite a while.

And another one, I recently broke the clutch switch on the MZ, and changed the clutch, whilst playing with the new clutch I stalled at a set of lights. Had to find neutral before I could restart, because I'd taken the clutch switch off. *Gaz rolls eyes*.

Gaz

[biker-bev]

My Motorhispania has not got any fancy fuel taps or kill switch o if mine ont start then i am in big trouble!
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[stinkwheel]

Although what makes you feel like a real idiot is when you forget to change the fuel tap back onto main when you fill up again. You hear the bike spluttering, reach down to switch onto reserve and find the tap is already there...
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[X11]

If you want to feel like a complete twit, try doing a u-turn on an 1100cc beast about 10 minutes after getting new tyres fitted. Needless to say I ended up kissing tarmac and the bike now has a badly scored belly ban and a big chip out the tank. It could've been worse though, the crash bung, took most of the impact.

[Suzuki]

My gixxer doesn't have a reserve tap. Just a stupid flashy light on the dash.

I have to use my odometer to guage how much fuel I have left.
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[Bendy]

[Aikman666]

No kill switch on my bike, only one section in the tank. If my bike doesnt start i start worrying.
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[c058y]

Where I used to work this guy thought it would be funny to go to the motorcycle parking bay and turn all the kill switches on!
Not only did I fiddle with my bike for a good 10 minutes to find the problem, loads of the other bikers did to.

Obvioulsy we weren't too impressed by this, so we managed to get hold of bike keys and move his bike round the other side of the carpark!

[djrichieb]

my runner doesnt have any think like that (not even a kick start, on a scooter!!). being a 4T im told it doesnt need a kick start?

but i see a lot of bikes with out kick starts, why?

[NS125RK]

I had to push my bike home 3 times due to running out of petrol. It used to be so annoying as I could still see and hear petrol in the tanks. Then one day I noticed it said reserve on the fuel tap. Sometimes you don't realise how heavy the bike is until you have to push it 3 miles home, worst thing is that its near enough uphill all the way.

[BigBoss]