Your Dumbest Bike Maintenance Moment

[dyzio]

Snapping a blot with a torque wrench

Not on the bike but I had a blinder in the car before Christmas. I was due to go back to my Parents having finished work for Christmas picking up my brother from the train station on the way. Had not driven the car for a couple of weeks as it hadnt been insured and the battery was flat. No worries Ill jump it off my housemates car. Tried for a good 20 mins and it just wasnt having any of it. wierd maybe the leadse are knackered. So we tried to bump start it, nothing at all. My mate had to go so I sat in the house scratching my head until another friend turned up to pick some stuff he had left at mine. We give it another go with his jump leads, still nothing. More head scratching until he says, "is there an imoboliser?" palm -face moment. blip the button try jump starting again and it starts instantly. felt like such a tool. Thanked my mate, he left, I go back in the house and see the stuff that he was meant to pick up!

trying to remove an exhaust bolt from a sv with over 20k on the clock ....

i managed to drop the nut+washer off the back of the exhaust can hanger down into the down-pipes, got it out with magnetic extendo thing tho =]

lubing the chain with engine running and in 1st gear :-0 then i seen on org some months later that someone had had the ends of their fingers off doing the same thing!

might sound mental but i cleaned my rear wheel using this method :P

[yorkie_chris]

I do that all the time, I'd suggest that the actual dumbness is more related to sticking your fingers in the end of a moving chain...

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I do that all the time, I'd suggest that the actual dumbness is more related to sticking your fingers in the end of a moving chain...

lol yea thats about right but i was using a rag at the time too

[Paul the 6th]

pete mason from north yorkshire bike police lost about 3 fingers doing the cleaning moving lubing chain trick

i clean my chain like that some times, with a tooth brush and parrafin also lube it up like that to