Clean, clean, drop, splat, bugger, clean, clean...

[krebsy]

Totally stupid moment happened on Saturday as I got the ZZR out of the garage onto the hard standing in the garden to give it a good old clean and polish.

Wetted it down, went over it with a sponge, scrubbed the filthy parts with a brush, squirted gunk remover all over it, gave it a rub down with a good coating of autoglym shampoo and went to rinse her down.

Hmm. The hose is slightly too short to reach the bike properly. Had a "good" (i.e. stupid) idea. I chucked some boards down on the garden and went to put the bike on them to rinse it down. 97bhp + Bt020 tyres plus muddy slight incline into garden do not mix.. . The Divvy would ride up the slope with no problems, the ZZR? Cue tonnes of tail sliding and a big old spray of mud up the rear of the bike with the sportier tires and the extra BHP...

Now the rear's all covered in mud you'd think Id've stopped there...

Not done yet...

Still trying to get the bike into position I get her over the boards then go to put the stand down. The front wheel is too low so I get off and try the centre stand instead. Straight through the board, straight into the ground and straight over onto it's side in the luckilly soft grass.

Bugger.

Cue me struggling to pick the bike up and calling for help to our 18 year old lodger.

"The bike's on it's side" (and leaking fuel from the full tank) "can you give me a hand?"

"Oh, why'd it do that then?"

*Help me please someone...* "Because it fancied a nap? What do you think? It fell over and the ground is too soft for me to pick it up myself...."

With both of us we right the bike, move it back round to the hard standing again and I use a combination of long distance hose work and a damp sponge to get the fresh dirt off the previously cleaned bike. A quick polish, WD40-ing and chain lubing and she's right as rain.

Award myself 20-million stupidity points and open the beer.. Anyone else got a stupidity tale to tell?

K.
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[Duckyboos]

Heh! Yeah, similar... gave Betsy a hosing down a few weeks ago, and decided the gear lever needed drying off whilst she was running. I think she's forgiven me now tho, and no serious damage.

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[the grim reaper]

Parked my old Blade outside my house, half on the drive and half off cos the car was on the drive. Looked back and though, 'That looks really unstable', went back to move it, caught the still down sidestand on the edge of the paving slabs and dropped the bloody bike. I guess it was unstable after all

Cheers

Grim
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[Whosthedaddy]

Your story reminded me of this

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[Timmeh]

I'll admit to pushing my CBR off its centre-stand 15 minutes after getting it into the garden. Trying to get a tough fairing screw off, applied too much pressure and the thing wobbles over.

No new (already a few scrapes here and there) damage, although my neighbour's kids did point and laugh at me. A lot.


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[phil2alp]

A mate of mine ( no it really wasn't me) was fitting a digital gear display on his Honda SP1. He had the rear wheel up on a paddock stand with the engine running in the garage facing the back wall of the garage.

To calibrate the gear display with the actual running speed of the wheels he had to have the the bike in gear and rear wheel under power in each gear up to full revs. You just know what's coming next.

Decided it wasn't a good idea to do this on his own. He asked his Dad to hold the bike to keep it steady. Not a good idea when his Dad slipped on the garage floor and pushed/pulled the bike of the paddock stand under power. Que rear wheel hitting the floor, plenty of smoking tyre, bike catapulting forward with my mate on it, bike in the gararge wall and two red faces. Quite a bit of shouting and swearing as well.

Fortunately it happened while he was calibrating first gear at pretty low revs so not much damage to the bike. My mate was OK but a bit pissed off when his Dad decided to tell us about it.

[Mark312]

Half dropped my bike when I was trying to manouevre it into it's resting place. I have to push it round a wall corner, on the path next to garden, which was very wet and soft. Just went that bit too far, front wheel slid off the edge of the path and ended up on the grass, I lost balance and the bike fell away from me.

I say half dropped, because two wheelie bins stopped it from falling onto the corner of the wall behind it, and the wall actually ended about an inch from the tank.
How lucky is that!
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[krebsy]

Reminds me of a mate who got his 600cc Suziki sports bike back from the garage after major rebuild work following a woman cutting across him and taking him out.

Opened the garage, rode in. Got off. dropped bike and pinned himself between the bike and the garage wall..

K.
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[killa]

Calling my dad up in the pissing rain about half an hour from the house, he was working.
My TS50 wouldn’t start after I had been in the post office.

He came out, reluctantly, to pick me up, he was already annoyed at how much went wrong with this bike.
*cue me looking sheepish, kicking stones on the floor*
We got the bike into the van after a struggle, the van is far too small for a whole bike, so we had to tie the door down.

Got a lift home, silence in the van to get home.
We then set about getting tools out etc, to eliminate problems, my dad loves to show his knowledge, even though its not always 100% true and accurate.

After awhile of mild swearing, kicking, huffing and puffing.
My dad goes to get the plug spanner………as he is routing around for it, I stand there looking at the bike, wishing it to work.
I spot the cut off switch….in one swift movement flicked the thing over.
I then proceeded to say that cleaning up the plug might help as the bike has been in rain and such, saying that he is probably right and it should work.

Plug out, clean it, plug in, one kick, starts first time.

Thanks Dad

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[SoulRider]

My first bike a brand new RS125, got it deliverd november 2005 and it had no tax. my garage is behind my house so jumped on it for 20 secs to take it round to the garage. it then took me 20 mins to get it started as the kill switch was flicked on.

Get round to the garage and my garage is near the end where theres a slope up to the garages. stop on slope, kick side stand out and lean over and over and oh shit bike on its side my leg underneath. Was to much of a slope to park it on.

Was really embarresed, one of the screws poped through the fairing but hardly noticable, thank god.
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