The Blue Lovely gets a name change!

[Mom]

You know, I have been to hell and back with that blue bike of mine! No end of work, and no end of support to do that work. She runs like a dream at last! I have her sussed! We are all good to go :yes:

So today, the biggest, new blue lovely debut, most important day for me and that bike of mine to perform and she wont start! NO WAY! Not a chance! But nothing would convince her to fire up! I flooded her :o That cleared, we attempted 3 crash starts, :nono: she is not interested at all! Eventually we flatten her battery. I said a short word over and over and over! Then I had tears! How dare this blue thing do this to me?

This is the only ever in my ownership of this Blue bike that she has NEVER started. Despite all the crap I have had with her, she is a starter! Hence her name really. Not today.

I did the ride today, Maha pillioned me to the start, but, I could not do the whole ride, I had media/speaker/Heart Children people to meet and liase with at the museum. I had to thumb a lift from someone that was prepared to forgo the ride for me. I found the perfect gentle man. :love:

So the ride is over, we are home, it went well. I have emptied a bottle of wine and went downstairs to put it in the recycle bin. I walked up to that blue bike, turned the key and hit the starter. You will never guess what happened! Fired into full glory! No worries at all! Right up there, revs up to what may or may not be red line, no problem.

Forever more, she will now be called the Blue Bitch!

Anyone else got a story like this?

[ital916]

My old rg used to spite me, with its non startingness. I still loved her to bitses.

[NZsarge]

Forever more, she will now be called the Blue Bitch!

Anyone else got a story like this?

Oh man! That sucks Anne, hopefully it's something simple, don't let this put you off Yamaha's .. ok.. :D

[nothingflash]

My bike (after many months of unconditional reliability) decided not to start after I had filled out all the forms etc and was ready to do my restricted practical test. Must have taken 10 minutes I reckon to fire it in to life. It got me so flustered I rode off - AA chap behind me - without my helmet done up...:blink:

[MSTRS]

Get a Suzuki. Or a Kawasaki. Or something...
Bugger, eh? And after all you've done for the old girl. Gratitude? Not likely.
Glad you didn't let it upset your day tho. You done good from what I can see.

[Ms Piggy]

Forever more, she will now be called the Blue Bitch!
I hear your pain luvvy! I used to call my Black Betty a are bitch when she wouldn't perform! Temperamental! A bit like us gals eh! ;)

[Maha]

I know!!!....I was sitting here on the puter and heard the damn thing start up!
I said out loud....''WTF''.....:blink:

That bike could have its own social group....:sweatdrop

[MadDuck]

Get a Suzuki. Or a Kawasaki. Or something...

In the same tone as the fella thats says "get a perm" my outside voice says "get a Harley" :yes: Annie

[Mom]

Oh man! That sucks Anne, hopefully it's something simple, don't let this put you off Yamaha's .. ok.. :D

No, I can not imagine what would put me off my Yay-Maha :D

BB is her name O


In the same tone as the fella thats says "get a perm" my outside voice says "get a Harley" :yes: Annie

Hmmm, thin ice, very thin :yes:

[Highlander]

I walked up to that blue bike, turned the key and hit the starter. You will never guess what happened! Fired into full glory! No worries at all! Right up there, revs up to what may or may not be red line, no problem.


Could see that coming but still laughed out loud when I read it.

It is only because to day was important to you. Otherwise she would have burst into life first poke of the starter.

[yungatart]

Hmm...little blue bitch, I say!
Fancy letting you down today of all days, ungrateful little cow!
Cane her feaking arse!
And then trade her for a sexy red Kwaka...you'll never regret it!:dodge:

[Mully]

You need to threaten it when it wont start - I suggest an angle grinder...

[Qkkid]

You know, I have been to hell and back with that blue bike of mine! No end of work, and no end of support to do that work. She runs like a dream at last! I have her sussed! We are all good to go :yes:

So today, the biggest, new blue lovely debut, most important day for me and that bike of mine to perform and she wont start! NO WAY! Not a chance! But nothing would convince her to fire up! I flooded her :o That cleared, we attempted 3 crash starts, :nono: she is not interested at all! Eventually we flatten her battery. I said a short word over and over and over! Then I had tears! How dare this blue thing do this to me?

This is the only ever in my ownership of this Blue bike that she has NEVER started. Despite all the crap I have had with her, she is a starter! Hence her name really. Not today.

I did the ride today, Maha pillioned me to the start, but, I could not do the whole ride, I had media/speaker/Heart Children people to meet and liase with at the museum. I had to thumb a lift from someone that was prepared to forgo the ride for me. I found the perfect gentle man. :love:

So the ride is over, we are home, it went well. I have emptied a bottle of wine and went downstairs to put it in the recycle bin. I walked up to that blue bike, turned the key and hit the starter. You will never guess what happened! Fired into full glory! No worries at all! Right up there, revs up to what may or may not be red line, no problem.

Forever more, she will now be called the Blue Bitch!

Anyone else got a story like this?
:gob:The blue bloody bitch sounds mighty fine anne:love:
Go get em girl:blink:

[MadDuck]

I suggest an angle grinder...

Hmmmm....now I have one of those. Happy to lend it to Mom.

[ManDownUnder]

Was this a case of Annie... get your gun...

[PirateJafa]

People don't seem to be reading the bit where you failed the little beauty first.

It's the equivalent of waking your significant other up by headbutting them in the face, and then immediately demanding some sweet lovin'.

It's just not cricket, I'm afraid.

For shame, madam.

[Pussy]

You need a can of this stuff, Mom.... :)


http://www.startyabastard.com/index.php

[shafty]

By your calling your mount a 'Bitch' I assume it's gender is female;

When did you ever know a female to perform on demand, based on a 'poke' of the starter button? :laugh:

[Pixie]

You know, I have been to hell and back with that blue bike of mine!

No,that was just Auckland

[Owl]

Anyone else got a story like this?

Yep!

I had this girlfriend once..........................:msn-wink:

[Pixie]

You know, I have been to hell and back with that blue bike of mine! No end of work, and no end of support to do that work. She runs like a dream at last! I have her sussed! We are all good to go :yes:

So today, the biggest, new blue lovely debut, most important day for me and that bike of mine to perform and she wont start! NO WAY! Not a chance! But nothing would convince her to fire up! I flooded her :o That cleared, we attempted 3 crash starts, :nono: she is not interested at all! Eventually we flatten her battery. I said a short word over and over and over! Then I had tears! How dare this blue thing do this to me?

This is the only ever in my ownership of this Blue bike that she has NEVER started. Despite all the crap I have had with her, she is a starter! Hence her name really. Not today.

I did the ride today, Maha pillioned me to the start, but, I could not do the whole ride, I had media/speaker/Heart Children people to meet and liase with at the museum. I had to thumb a lift from someone that was prepared to forgo the ride for me. I found the perfect gentle man. :love:

So the ride is over, we are home, it went well. I have emptied a bottle of wine and went downstairs to put it in the recycle bin. I walked up to that blue bike, turned the key and hit the starter. You will never guess what happened! Fired into full glory! No worries at all! Right up there, revs up to what may or may not be red line, no problem.

Forever more, she will now be called the Blue Bitch!

Anyone else got a story like this?
The 2nd bike I owned, a TX 650,never gave me any trouble until the day I decided to trade it in.
That was the day I became an Animist.That bike was inhabited by the spirit of a Japanese foundry worker that fell into a crucible of alloy in a Mitsubishi Zero manufacturing plant in WWII.After the war the metal the plane was made from was recycled and ended up in the engine of that bike.

Many inanimate objects have resident spirits and the must be placated by the performance of rituals.
It is not the new oil in an engine that makes it appear to run better,it is the oil change ritual that you have performed that makes the resident spirit more compliant.