A sticky situation...

Originally Posted by Berlin

I once used a badger as a replacement chain until I got to the middle of beyond.

hmmm, I like that one. I must remember to carry a badger trap with me.

I rode 100 miles recently with the gear knob broken off - you can ride the sv just by catching the gear lever with the side of your boot - works 75% of the time. No bolted/chemical metal bonded back on...

Rode back from the Lydden Soho track day with one footpeg on the wrong way up. I had my other leg resting on the crash bung coz I couldn't bend it enough to get it on the pegs anyway, so only needed one...

100 miles with an increasingly swelling right leg isn't to be recommended, let me tell you!

The side stand cut out switch on my old PowerValve gave up while out one day, causing the engine to stop, disconnecting it did not work so I pushed a clipper lighter metal cap into the connector to short it out, simple but effective