Yeah thanks

[Jackrat]

Was broke on the side of the road not long ago,standing beside my bike thinking,bugger!!!
Watched about a dozen different bikes go past,most sport bikes,most pretending to be looking the other way.
Eventualy a dude on a BMW stops an lends a hand,even follows me to the turn off just to be sure.
To the two guys on the old Triumphs,ok I know you couldn,t take the risk of stoping then not being able to get going again,to the guy on the Harley,I know you probably don,t know anything any way so what could you do huh?,To the guys on the sports bikes,Ok I know you probably pay somebody to adjust your chain an tyre pressure,so what could you do?huh.To the guy on the BMW thanks mate I didn,t get your name,but at lest there is still a few of us left,you know the type,Don,t mind stopping to help a fellow biker.To all the others, yeah thanks for nothing.

[wari]

Jackrat , you'll be happy to know that I stopped to help out a Triuumph Bonnie rider the other day ... only he didn't want any ... and i ride a semi - psuuedo almost , but not quite , buut old sportsbike ... well bike with fairings , well some fairings anyway , not all of them coz thats another story. where was I again??? ...

I need another lie down.

[Motu]

Oh,I wondered who that was - I was in the car...i was playing a new CD and didn't want to stop until the track playing finished.Anyway,I didn't have a jersey and I might have caught a cold getting out to help - sorry mate....but the thought was there eh.

[Jackrat]

Ok now don,t think I,m taking a shot at sports bike riders,thats just how it was,I,m just trying to work out what happened to bikers trying to help one another.I hear the storys but as yet I have never ridden past another bike and Iv,e never been told to F
off because of what I ride,must be something going on I don,t know about huh?

[What?]

Originally posted by wari
Jackrat , you'll be happy to know that I stopped to help out a Triuumph Bonnie rider the other day ... only he didn't want any ...

Sounds familiar. I had the same back in about '85. Dude on a Triumph in the middle of nowhere didn't want assistance from a Jap bike rider. Really funny - he wore a t-shirt proclaiming "British is best, fuck the rest". Dork.

[scumdog]

I've had variety of experiences when my old iron Sporty "failed to proceed"
First time when I burnt out an exhaust valve about 280km from home (I knew the engine was tired but didn't know it was THAT tired), was with a mixed bag of rider who gave me a lift and dod a round trip of 600km to get a trailer and get my bike home, top marks to these guys,
Second time I broke a chain in Queenstown, on my knees at the side of the road with the chain beside me and trying to take of my chain guard being kept cool by the wind created as dozens of bikes whizzed past me on the way to the rally, eventually helped by a guy with a restored Pusch? motorbike on a trailer who drove me everywhere looking for a chain and then the next day dropped my bike off, 100's of ks out of his way.
Third time my scoot spat out a timing plug on SH1 while en route to another rally, bike after bike shot past without stopping and I ended up carving a plug out of a piece of willow. (it worked, McGyver lives!)
I'll stop for any biker stuck at the side of the road.

[Jackrat]

Failed to proceed,,,Yeah thats what happened.

[750Y]

sorry dude, i was one of those guys on the sportsbike but to my credit i did try to spit on You as I wizzed passed your old banger but my visor was still down, doh!.

[merv]

So what went wrong with the old Yam? Was it something you could fix on the side of the road with a bit of help? If its any consolation I always have a tow rope in the bag on the back of my bike - carried one for years, especially dirt riding - comes in handy to get pulled out of bog holes.

Like when this happens - looked like a nice grassy patch.

[merv]

.... and it saves everyone getting up to their arses in mud to pull the bike out. So if I'd seen you down here I might hav ebeen able to tow you with the VFR.

[Jackrat]

Hey merv,nice to know you would,a helped mate,but I gott,a admit it wasn,t really my own bike(XS,s don,t brake down mate)
It was infact a new GSXR I was test riding.Never again aye!!!
Cha bro,ugly AND unreliable,got it all huh!!

[Big Dog]

Originally posted by scumdog
Third time my scoot spat out a timing plug on SH1 while en route to another rally, bike after bike shot past without stopping and I ended up carving a plug out of a piece of willow. (it worked, McGyver lives!)

Once I broke a chain in oakura at 4am. I replaced the snapped joiner link with a peice of good old No 8 stolen from a bit of surplus on a nearby fence! Held together quite well for the forty k trip home.

I always stop for other bikers, always!