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    Quote Originally Posted by Satch View Post
    anyone else had dodgy shit like this happen to them?
    No.
    Although I had the footpeg on my very first bike fall off when the bolt holding it on snapped. I can't remember the details now (coz it was , like, thousands of years ago), but it must've happened at rest or barely moving, because all I can recall is that a friend of my father's tapped a new bolt hole and fixed it up.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    When I crashed my NSR into a car, I bent the forks and had to buy new ones, I put vfr forks on it but the nsr callipers didnt line up with the bolt holes on the forks, I had the vfr brakes but the nsr ones were better so I made an alloy brace, 2 bolts holding it to the forks and then the calliper attatched to the brace... Unfortunately when I bolted it all together the calliper was sitting on the disc rubbing, it heated up and siezed at 60 kph... I went over the bars 15 mins into the maiden voyage after having a broken femeur for 3 months...
    I was alright after sliding up the road so made a new brace with the holes 3mm further apart and it was sweet from then on... even got a warrant !
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    Quote Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat View Post
    Oh, tits. This always happens -.-''
    It's OK. If you really did derive the Bathtub Curve from first principles, you'll undoubtedly rediscover integral calculus next week and reformulate string theory over the summer holidays.

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    Pfffftt, that's nothing. Try owning an Italian bike. The other day I arrived at work and my engine was missing. No wonder I was sweating.

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    We had a guy at a trackday at Taupo some years ago who had a front caliper fall off his TDM 850 at the end of the straight - luckily , he was the only guy who had trailered his bike there...big brown trouser moment as he ploughed through the dirt.....
    He had taken the calipers off some months before, but obviously hadnt checked them prior to going on the track.....
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    6 weeks from getting my first bike - the mighty Suzuki B120 with 118CC of pure 2 stroke power - I took the bike into a shop that shall remain nameless since it was a long time ago for getting the rear brakes checked. They were fine, but when I was heading over the harbour bridge that night, the rear axle nut fell off, and the axle half fell out. Fortunately there were no other cars around, as the axle was only in on one side of the swing arm, which made life interesting. After making it over to he side of the road by the Shelly beach road offramp I started walking back up the bridge to look for the nut so I could get home.... A cop came along at speed and pulled in - they thought I might have been a jumper. A wheel nut fitted the axle and I was on my way.
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    The only dodgy experience I've had was buying my bandit, after the test ride I noticed the master link clip was missing!
    I should've checked it before riding it, but at least I saw it before riding back up to auckland (from rotorua).

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS View Post
    Oh, lucky! New bolts (locktight?) and all's well. I suppose the caliper was swinging in the breeze. Imagine if you'd hit the brake with the caliper still 'in place'. *shudders*
    Yeah, new bolts $18 each!!, and def loctite, well they wernt swinging in the breeze they were still on the disks just not attached to anything, as soon as i started to brake and didnt find it there i realised something was up and stopped using them for fear of putting brake fluid everywhere as i had assumed a fault of that nature

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    Quote Originally Posted by cjade1 View Post
    When I crashed my NSR into a car, I bent the forks and had to buy new ones, I put vfr forks on it but the nsr callipers didnt line up with the bolt holes on the forks, I had the vfr brakes but the nsr ones were better so I made an alloy brace, 2 bolts holding it to the forks and then the calliper attatched to the brace... Unfortunately when I bolted it all together the calliper was sitting on the disc rubbing, it heated up and siezed at 60 kph... I went over the bars 15 mins into the maiden voyage after having a broken femeur for 3 months...
    I was alright after sliding up the road so made a new brace with the holes 3mm further apart and it was sweet from then on... even got a warrant !
    Yeah , this one can be bad for those new to the game. I had a simmilar experience with sallo's zxr 250, put new pads in and the pisons were a bit stuck up and with the thick new pads they didnt unload properly.

    basically got hot pretty quick and started to grab, didnt put me over the handlebars but did do little lockups on the gravel outside the warrent place!!

    fixed that one ASAP

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoffm View Post
    6 weeks from getting my first bike - the mighty Suzuki B120 with 118CC of pure 2 stroke power - I took the bike into a shop that shall remain nameless since it was a long time ago for getting the rear brakes checked. They were fine, but when I was heading over the harbour bridge that night, the rear axle nut fell off, and the axle half fell out. Fortunately there were no other cars around, as the axle was only in on one side of the swing arm, which made life interesting. After making it over to he side of the road by the Shelly beach road offramp I started walking back up the bridge to look for the nut so I could get home.... A cop came along at speed and pulled in - they thought I might have been a jumper. A wheel nut fitted the axle and I was on my way.

    Man thats terrible!!! i hope you gave the bike shop a good revv up for that one!

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    TOO fucking much.....beat this.....bought my ducrapi ...not registered, no paper work..long story short....got 'er vinned and legal...one thing is they remove and check brakes, that weekend... off we go over mangere bridge...notice a bit of a front end shake.....first ride and that....look down.....THE LEFT HAND CALIPER BOLTS ARE BACKED OUT 10/12 MM...quick stop at a friends place borrow tools and do a quick once over.....but this from some one complying my vehicle as legal and safe..........ooohhhh scary
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Mc F View Post
    TOO fucking much.....beat this.....bought my ducrapi ...not registered, no paper work..long story short....got 'er vinned and legal...one thing is they remove and check brakes, that weekend... off we go over mangere bridge...notice a bit of a front end shake.....first ride and that....look down.....THE LEFT HAND CALIPER BOLTS ARE BACKED OUT 10/12 MM...quick stop at a friends place borrow tools and do a quick once over.....but this from some one complying my vehicle as legal and safe..........ooohhhh scary


    Yeah tru that, my first real bike i started on back in the day was a ZXR250. didnt know much about them back then but i had it complied with completely warped front disks.

    This was like abs they shook so bad. I dont think they even rode the bike. Amazing what gets missed on a VIN sometimes

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    Seems like Barrys point road erea has a thing about brakes,i had a set of new tires fitted over that way and on top of the harbour bridge oh looky looky the calipers had lost there bolts,now this was back a year or three and it sure was not easy to back track to the tire fitters to chomp on their ears

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    Picked up my VFR750 FL from a service at the dealers in Blenheim, made it just up the road to the first round about, and bike started wallowing all over the place. Stopped safely. NO wheel nuts on it!!!

    Good thing I went that way, because the other direction is about 100m to an open road speed zone.

    The nuts were still sitting on the bike lift in the workshop. They were quite surprised when I told them where they could stick the bill!!

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    OMG thats terrible!! gosh, its stories like this that make me glad i do all my own servicing!

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