View Full Version : have you been a Good Samaritan for a biker
davepreston
21-09-14, 01:10 PM
Have you every done something nice for a biker who's broken down at the side of the road
tell your tale below
shameless nicked from fast bikes
Two I can think of, 1 from me and one from Steve God
me- we where on a org rideout and a aprilla mille was bust at the side of the road, a few of us stopped and I gave him a jump start using my battery which I took out of my bike turned upside down and placed on his , vola one running mille
SG- has lent me a bike for over a month on 2 yes two separate occasions (even with my false org lore of me binning bikes constantly)
SoulKiss
21-09-14, 01:59 PM
On seeing another orger riding without gloves, and finding out he didnt have the cash for some, I gave an old pair.
Dont really want to see what an off does to unprotected hands.
I saw a biker stopped at the side of the road looking down at his bike. I slowed and and gave him a thumbs up to see if he was alright but he was just taking a break. I will always try and help if I can.
Jayneflakes
21-09-14, 02:15 PM
I stop quite often if I see a biker on the side of the road. A while back I saw a guy with a blue and white Gixxer, he was sat on a rock in layby, his lid on the road and his bike parked up. He looked like he was having a heart attack and I felt compelled to stop just to check he was OK. He was fine, but the look on his face when another human being stopped to check he was OK was something else. It was a look of relief mixed with gratitude and the tired wave he gave as I rode off made me think that he had maybe had a rough corner at a velocity he was uncomfortable with!
Recently I saw a guy riding a classic old bike start to wobble and pull over. I stopped to check he was OK and found out that an unmarked Police Car had been tailing him and his mate for a while. His mate was cautioned for speed and poor riding and I slowed down on a road I know very well. Had I not stopped, I could well have been the one getting a telling off for exuberant riding.
Not every stop though is a nice one. A dear friend of mine is a biker and a scooterist, while riding home from work he stopped to help a young lad on one of those of plastic modern scooters because he was sat on the side of the road. The young lad got horribly abusive and was lucky not to get a thick ear from my friend who is one of those bikers who looks like he eats babies for tea! Why was he sat on the side of the road? He had run out of fuel. My mates bike has a can on the side because it is a custom chop bike made to look like a Mad Max survival bike. Had the lad been more decent, he would have been given free of charge, enough fuel to get him home or to a petrol station.
punyXpress
21-09-14, 02:40 PM
Back in the day it was convention that a motorcyclist requiring assistance would tie a handkerchief to his bars to indicate that need.
SoulKiss
21-09-14, 02:52 PM
Oh I also pulled into a petrol station on a rainly day to find a young couple lookig miserably at a curvy.
Turns out he had just bought it and just up the road it had started running badly, so he was dreading that he had bought a lemon.
I got him to give me his toolkit and go into the garage for a can of wd40.
A few minutes later and a dried off front plug later the bike was running as it should.
Told him that they all do that and not to worry, fuelled up and headed for home.
phi-dan
21-09-14, 04:59 PM
I've stopped a few times and lent tools, but the last one was a guy pushing his bike along the dual carriageway. Classic reg/rec lack of electricity situation (could jump start it from the car, but it died once the leads were off) so ended up helping him push 3/4 mile back to his place while the wife drove the car on hazards behind us.
I've found that most are content to sit at the roadside with a fag on waiting for the rescue truck.
I have pushed more bikes than I care to remember out of the Blackwall Tunnel for one reason or another at work.
I did stop at an accident in Scotland last time I was there as a bike had an off on a bend. A Ozzie doc stopped too.
Sir Trev
21-09-14, 06:09 PM
I've stopped to check and offer help a few times. Mostly it's people stopped for a break and they offer thanks and I head off. I've been asked when taking a break too which was nice. The guy I came across locally a few years ago spannering something on his Morini 3 1/2 laughed when I said I had a Japanese bike so needed less spanners but if he was short of anything I could walk back home for it - turns out whatever it was he was tightening came lose all the time so he was prepared but thanked me for the offer of help.
Am I also right in thinking if you place your lid by your back wheel it's generally a sign of assistance needed?
Am I also right in thinking if you place your lid by your back wheel it's generally a sign of assistance needed?
I don't know the signs. I tend to look out for either the bike stuck in lane 3 or the bike sitting on the rider instead of the other way round!!
dirtydog
21-09-14, 06:27 PM
Have stopped and helped or offered help a few times and have had help offered on many occasions as well
Have given a lift to and from the petrol station, have gone and got a can of petrol, even brought a bloke a coffee while he waited for recovery
I've stopped to help people in cars as well, doesn't happen very often though. The last time I changed a wheel for an old couple
maviczap
21-09-14, 07:03 PM
I followed an old boy home on his Matchless, as his rear wheel bearings had gone, his rear wheel was wobbling about like no bodies business!
Once when I was waiting for the RAC to come and collect me & my bike, an old boy gave me a cup of tea.
Pays to be nice I think
So many to mention as I'm shy.
but the other way around was. coming back from The Last Hardy Bikers in Feb 2010 I had to stop in Richmond, my hands were frozen, I was frozen and didn't want to go another foot forward on my bike in fear of death.
I pulled over, in a foot a snow to find an old guy brushing the snow off his car. I noticed he had a tattoo of the Gurkha rifles on his wrist. we got talking as I was still serving in HM Forces, he gave me soup and coffee and a place to warm up.
I've never more than been welcome in a strangers home as at that day.
BanannaMan
22-09-14, 03:18 AM
Many times but unfortunately I tend to see more crashes than mechanical problems.
:(
timwilky
22-09-14, 11:32 AM
Walking Jasper (Jack Russell) one day, I notice a biker at the side of the road. As I pass I ask him if he is having a problem. Yes, his chain has come off.
As I look, he takes off his helmet. Bloody hell the fighting dwarf, I last saw him being dragged out of a Blackpool kebab shop by the cops on my mates stag do 20 odd years ago.
What has actually happened is the chain has come off the sprockets, it is that loose. I pull it back on, but he has no tools. I tell him to come up to my house/garage 100 yard away. There I am able show him how to re tension the back wheel whilst we catch up on what has happened to mutual friends over the past 20 years.
Turns out he works in the local Dulux paint centre and I can now get discount. but by the time I go in, he has left and the manager wont give me any discount. no wonder it went under.
i always have and always will help a biker in need.
Luckypants
22-09-14, 01:40 PM
Re-attached various bits to other folks bikes on various ride-outs. Given several stuck randoms rides to petrol stations for fuel. Helped to pull a Bandit out of a boggy field after the rider's enthusiasm out weighed his skill. If I see a biker at the side of the road, I'll try to help out.
Taken **** out of numpty who thought his Duke ran on diesel...:jocolor:
Towed a LC home to chelmo from saf end.
I don't think you can do that now adays
SvNewbie
22-09-14, 01:57 PM
I've got no confidence when it comes to mechanicals. I have a reasonable understanding of the theory of how it all works, but taking spanners to them isn't something I'm particularly comfortable with.
That said, when I pass another bike on the side of the road I always try to get an indication they are ok. Check they don't have anything obviously wrong, like a flat tyre since I always have my puncture repair kit under the seat.
atassiedevil
22-09-14, 02:07 PM
I always keep a small socket set, roll of spanners, and plug kit on the bike, as well as a small roll of duct tape, GT85/WD40, and a spare pair of gloves etc.
They usually get used by someone else at the side of the road, or on a rideout....Good to have though.
If i see someone by the side of the road, i'll always stop and help. Rude not to, might be me one day!
punyXpress
22-09-14, 03:11 PM
Towed a LC home to chelmo from saf end.
I don't think you can do that now adays
Snap!
Towed a bloke on his AJS 10 miles back home New Years Day this year.
So you can do it.
Snap!
Towed a bloke on his AJS 10 miles back home New Years Day this year.
So you can do it.
Supprised they haven't past an EU directive Banning it :cool:
punyXpress
22-09-14, 08:25 PM
Directives don't reach as far north as here.
So there, EU:smt065
Back in the day it was convention that a motorcyclist requiring assistance would tie a handkerchief to his bars to indicate that need.
is that a bit like the handkerchief code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code :rolleyes:
Jayneflakes
23-09-14, 02:52 AM
is that a bit like the handkerchief code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code :rolleyes:
Well, you learn something new everyday and I can honestly say that I did not expect to learn that on here! I must tell the wife... :smt016
BanannaMan
23-09-14, 04:03 AM
Hmmm...never heard that about hankerchiefs.
Never look at those quite the same again.
Although there is a black street gang here called 'the bloods' that wear red ones to identify members.
I wonder if they have a problem being misidentified as gays? LOL
Hmmm...never heard that about hankerchiefs.
Never look at those quite the same again.
Although there is a black street gang here called 'the bloods' that wear red ones to identify members.
I wonder if they have a problem being misidentified as gays? LOL
http://user.xmission.com/~trevin/hanky.html
Might be time to move to a different neighborhood ;)
Littlepeahead
23-09-14, 06:40 AM
I've given first aid to a biker in Manchester who had been taken out at a crossroads after a car jumped a red light. The bike shop on the corner took his bike away and said they would store it safely for him as chances were if left on the side of the road it wouldn't be there by morning.
I've also waited with an SV rider knocked off in central London until the ambulance arrived. He wasn't badly hurt, and I took photos for his insurance claim. I was on my way to a black tie awards nearby so we must have looked a right pair, him in scuffed up textiles and me all dolled up in a slinky evening gown and high heels.
Hysteria_UK
23-09-14, 08:47 AM
Where were you all last night when I lost for the first time playing fuel light Russian roulette? lol
punyXpress
23-09-14, 10:45 AM
is that a bit like the handkerchief code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code :rolleyes:
That be the one, Lance.
Gotta get it when where & how you can at my age!
Not for a biker but by a biker !
Following a car with boat on a trailer last month, noticed it was weaving a bit so dropped back until safe to pass. I then saw one of the tyres was almost flat. Passed the guy and then thought - His tyre's gonna blow and end up hitting someone or something.
Pullled over at the side of the road in the next village and waved him down. He pulled over and looked as scared as hell - thought I was a copper going to do him !!! LoL :smt118
Got him top follow me 2 miles down the road to my house, pump out, tyre pressure corrected and on his way. He was a lucky man cos the tyre was hot and doubt he would have made it the 50 miles to the launch. What a nice warm fealing it gave me.
Red Herring
24-09-14, 07:29 AM
I was pretty much the last one to leave a circuit after a track day only to find a rather dejected looking chap sat by the gate next to a completely trashed R6. Turns out he was a squaddie who had come down for the day, fallen off, and didn't have any means of recovering himself. We chucked one of our bikes off the trailer, loaded his up and made the 100 mile odd detour to drop him and his bike back at his barracks. He was a bit upset about his bike, but far more concerned that he had hurt his wrist and if anybody found out about it he might not be allowed to fly off to some warzone with his unit the following week! Just hope he came out of it all OK.
My dad and i keep our ramp in the van all the time. We rescued 2 bikes this summer that were stranded in the middle of a local bypass and took them home.
Confession time.
Comming home from the vets at 5 am. There was a chap in the hedge with a scooter.
He was with two cars and looked ok.
Asked if they needed a phone call or a hand.
They said they had rung.
So left them to it.
Yep made me feel bad.
Red Herring
24-09-14, 12:13 PM
My dad and i keep our ramp in the van all the time. We rescued 2 bikes this summer that were stranded in the middle of a local bypass and took them home.
Now I'm being generous here and hoping the owners were with these bikes and when you said "home" you meant their address not yours....;)
Now I'm being generous here and hoping the owners were with these bikes and when you said "home" you meant their address not yours....;)
Nic Nic lol
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