Restoring The Faith...........

[MIKEY B]

Well I finially gave up on taking the chain off the NSR myself and decided to take it to a Bike shop in Dartford on Saturday, who quoted me £20 and for it to be done within the Hour.

I got there about 10.15am and they told me that they had a few big jobs on and it wouldn't get started on until after Lunch. So come back about 4.30pm. Well not wanting to hang around Dartford Town centre I decided to make my way back to Greenhithe and on several attempts to get on buses and being told they dont go the way I was I decided to walk. (Did I mention its about a four mile walk??!)

So off I trotted (I'm in my bike gear and yes I did get blisters) on the long journey home. Anyways on about halfway home a Yellow SV650 drives past and I notice he has the same Yellow and Black Shark helmet as me.
He dissappears and I carry on walking and talking to the Horses in the field I am walking next to.

Next thing I hear a horn and look across to see the SV guy parked up calling me over. So I cross the road and he asks if I am OK and If I have broken down, I tell him I have put my bike in and have been walking for the last hour and a half. He says "Fucking Hell!" and offers me a lift so naturally not wanting another Hour walk accept jump on the back and he drives me home.

What a Guy!!!!

Man I Love being a BIKER!!!!!

Mikey.


ps If your still reading Thank you but shouldnt you be working??

pps. He pulled away so quickly I almost came off the back coz I was holding onto the grab rails
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[Scotty]

lol, thats what we like the hear!!

i always pull over if i can see someone else might need help
i mean, its the right thing to do.
and how it should be.

woohoo to bikes!!
its almost like a religion.
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Regards
Scott

[Ropehead]

Nice to hear

[Ste]

its good when people do that

ive had bikes stop for me, when im just waiting to meet someone.

i also had a guy stop in a car when i was waiting for luke on friday, was a gixxer rider.

ive stopped for people a couple of time, not that there is actually much i could do other than pillion, but they have just been waiting for ppl

[Annabella]

What a nice gentleman


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[Demonic69]

I'm still not convinced
When i ran outta fuel the other day I laid pretending to be dead at the side of the road and no-one came to help. I was there for 1 1/2 hours!
Two ppl stopped to help a woman who was just putting on her make-up and neither came over to me
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[Deano]

Demonic, R U serious , it couldnt of looked that convincing for knowone to check if your alrite and if your bike was on its sidestand peeps would of known you hadnt of crashed?
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[Scotty]

they might of thought you was sleeping and didnt want to disturb you.
lol, or scared of the beached whale just lieing there!!

ahhhhh

/Me Hides mauahahaha
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Regards
Scott

[Demonic69]

I was sat by my bike for a bit, then just laid down. I could've been really hurt and got off the bike then died I was also really bored/cold at this time and it was getting too dark to be running in front of cars again.
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[Major_Grooves]

[Danny]

It's great being a biker eh?

When i fell of my NSR and was picking up the bits Loads of ppl were just slowing down and looking(no bikers drove past). I tried for like 5mins to pick it up, but being the weakling i am i cound't, so i just pretended to pick it up 4 like 10mins Before eventually some1 in a car (who was a biker) helped me.


Well it all ok in the end i suppose ( not the bill for repairs though )

[Scotty]

you couldn't pick the NSR up??

dear lord, hope you never drop any of your other bikes or you will be stuffed...
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Regards
Scott

[Ste]

lol, the nsr isnt heavy

i managed to pick mine up easily, and im not the tallest of people

[Danny]

Well stupid me was trying to pick it up by the middle bit. Well that's my excuse anyway Then they guy who helped me showed me that it's easy to pick it up by the handle bars. They never taught me @ the CBT how to pick up a dropped bike

[Danny]

Well i'm probably shorter than u. But anyway i can now relatively easily pick my my NSR, now that i know to pick it up by the handle bars anyway

[Demonic69]

The Japanese have to pick their bike up as part of their test. And I mean their bike, not a hire one
I'd be fooked!
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Back on a Blade. Just feels so right.

[Ste]

yeah, but they get to put it on a soft mat thing

but what bike did you use for your test?

[zaknafien]

when me and dean were going to BdB a lorry driver pulled over to see if we were ok when we stopped for a stretch, which was nice.
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[Demonic69]

I only used a SR for my test. But like I say, they have to use the bike they're gonna be riding apparently.
Yeah Zak, a couple also stopped when I ran out of fuel on the M1 a while back.
There are some nice cagers out there, they're just a minority
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[Scotty]

and dont alot of japanese have very small engine and small bikes anyway...

therefore not really having a problem picking up their own bike
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Regards
Scott

[Ste]

and thats where you say "im going to be riding an CG for a few months"

and i dont quite see how they can make you pick up a bike which you will be riding if you havnt bought it yet

[WildGoose]

[Phoenix]

everyone protests that you're supposed to picka bike up by placing one hand on the handlbar and another at the rear (subframe or grabrail). Personally that ain't how I do it. I've picked up my TZR and a 97 CBR600 by taking both handlebars. I didn't really think about it tbh and it wasn't particularly difficult.

[Stew]

As most of you have said it is more to do with technique, although brute force does help. I once dropped my VFR while sat on it (I reached for my phone without getting off the bike ) and was able to pick it back upright from between my legs.
When I crashed it I was able to get it upright in a small ditch and from there had to push/drive it out, (that was hard work) and not a single car driver stopped to help me drag it outta the ditch. A tractor driver even went passed me and looked as if to say 'Whats he doing down there?' then carried on driving
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