Your Dumbest Bike Maintenance Moment

[yorkie_chris]

Ahhhh #3 was likely adding a bit of "fork oil" and on thinking "hmmmm that seemed to pour a bit easily" realise it was actually premium unleaded and castrol TTS.

Wasting PREMIUM unleaded pouring it into forks... FFS...

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Prepared to remove the front sprocket nut from Dizzyblondes yellow SV, all the previous ones been seized on to death. Using skilful bribery procured a Brother to stand on the back brake, bit of wood through the swingarm. 3 foot breaker bar and massive impact socket, JUMP on the breaker bar... Which swings with no resistance as the nut is barely more than finger tight... land on the floor in a heap and spill your brew!

edited

I shall never ever forget that, made me laugh after you'd spent nearly a week removing the exhaust studs.

Exhibit A....the said sprocket nut, top right corner.



....spot whats wrong with this picture

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by tactcom7

Not really maintenance related but it really annoyed me at the time.
Had my curvy stripped down ready to sell. Engine was out and ready to be sold. Decided i'd best drain the thing first. So looking around the garage I spy a red plastic bucket 'looks sturdy enough' I think to myself. So I pop it on top and after a bit of a wobble and a mini collapse the bucket holds and I remove the oil and coolant plugs. Job jobbed.
So half an hour later my mate pops by to see what i'm doing.
'that bucket looks like it's going to collapse Si!'
'Ha you fool it's been like that for 30 minutes it's as steady as a...'
almighty crash followed by about 6 litres of oil and coolant tidal wave flowing over my mates garage and a cracked water pump cover just for good measure.
Gutted.

Thats a bit like the Carnivore YPVS350LC restoration. Original tank, very old, very rare. I says
'oooo that looks like a rather big bit of rust love...'
'yes dear, don't feckin touch it, I need to treat it'

Two days later his mate Bishop says
' ooooo that looks like a rather big bit of rust mate'

'yeah Kev, don't feckin touch.....'

Too late, one big fat Bishops finger through the tank

Rather a long and stressful time trying to find a YPVS tank

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Ahhhh #3 was likely adding a bit of "fork oil" and on thinking "hmmmm that seemed to pour a bit easily" realise it was actually premium unleaded and castrol TTS.

Wasting PREMIUM unleaded pouring it into forks... FFS...

There we go

Didn't know whether laugh or cry when I realised you weren't smelling the fork oil for some ghey engineering flourish pretending you could smell the viscosity or something...but in fact got a whiff of petrol.

I bet you've still got both the identical bottles next to each other!

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

I bet you've still got both the identical bottles next to each other.

Yah but I turned them round so I can see the side of the Pro-RSF bottle that has PETROL written on it in fat f***-off marker pen...

sticking one of those small (ish) bottles of redx in my moped, after putting it in i read the back.... it says should do 5 60l tanks, then thinking to my self hmm its only done one 8L tank

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

sticking one of those small (ish) bottles of redx in my moped, after putting it in i read the back.... it says should do 5 60l tanks, then thinking to my self hmm its only done one 8L tank

Go bang?

[Bibio]

17 years old with a KH100 built from a basket case (brothers hand me down). beautiful summers day in Leith Links at the B&B i was staying in i decided to try and fix the dodgy timing.

engine casing off fly wheel out points and condenser out new points and condenser in gap set fly wheel back in and off we go. decided to take it down the end of the road and back, gets to about 300 yards away from front of B&B where everyone is gathered having a muck around when Lance decided to look down and see if the points are arcing out.

has a look a bit to long and when i looked up there was a Mini parked right in my way i tried to swerve but failed, crashed into Mini and went flying landing on my head in the middle of the road.

bloke on another bike stopped traffic and came to see if i was alright took one look at me lying there pishing myself laughing and picked me up shook his head walked back to his bike and off he went. meanwhile everyone gathered were on the floor rolling about in laughter and asked if i would do it again. my then girlfriends brother was not to amused as it was his Mini i crashed into and dented his new rear bumper.

i never did get that timing fixed and have only recently found out that my brother in his wisdom shaved the induction disc which resulted in the bike having the symptoms of a limiter.

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Go bang?

no just surged like mad and cut out every 5 seconds !

drained the fuel out when i got home (2 miles)

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

sticking one of those small (ish) bottles of redx in my moped, after putting it in i read the back.... it says should do 5 60l tanks, then thinking to my self hmm its only done one 8L tank

Plonker!
Don't worry you're not the only one I've seen another chav kid do this, but he seized his within minutes