TS is giving up bikes!!!

[jrandom]

WTF is all this about anyway? Sounds like a troll to me.

But, really, what *is* it with the melodramatics every time someone considers being bikeless? Who GAF? :spudwhat:

So someone sells their bike, or pushes it off a cliff, or summat. So what? If they find out that they *don't* like living bikeless, they'll just get another one. A big 'meh' to the hand-wringing lot of you.

I reckon Mr Smoker & Co got pissed last night and came up with this idea, and now they're just waiting to see how many big fat ones they can get wriggling on the hook...

[sels1]

This thread however made me giggle, it seems Im not the only person around who has been cranky lately... seems lots of stuff going down with lots of people

:spudwave:

The closer it gets to Xmas Joni, the loopier people get!

[RiderInBlack]

Talking about fishing, Jrandom, how's the Kaiiwi Lakes

[jrandom]

Talking about fishing, Jrandom, how's the Kaiiwi Lakes

I'm sure they're fine, but I ain't there, because I done cancelled due to the weather forecast.

Nothing worse than being stuck in a tent with two toddlers while it hails and gales. Not my idea of fun, that.

So we'll have another crack at it in January.

[RiderInBlack]

I'm sure they're fine, but I ain't there, because I done cancelled due to the weather forecast.

Nothing worse than being stuck in a tent with two toddlers while it hails and gales. Not my idea of fun, that.

So we'll have another crack at it in January.

Sorry just had to throw the line in there

[Two Smoker]

I was seriously fucked off last night, and honestly said "Maybe i should give bikes up......"

This was due to (most likely) writing off a TL1000R. I didnt crash it, and i didnt ride it hard... but i managed to break it bad enough to probably write it off ...

I think i will give up bikes for a few days though.... but i did ride my race bike up the driveway today...

I just couldnt live with myself if i wrote my gixxer off, is what im mainly thinking about...

But meh, ill be back on the bike as soon as i have one to ride....

I just think i need to go for a bit of a blat on the bike too fix this....

But in the end im sure it was karma for that "Bikes changed my life" thread....

[crashe]

Come on TS give us all the real story mate.... :spudbooge

You love riding.... so you have had a few spills....
Maybe you need go to another bike with less power on the roads... but dont give up riding..... Have the speed on the race track.....and on the main roads and the open roads go slower.... :spudbooge

Don't give up......... :spudbooge

[Racey Rider]

...This was due to (most likely) writing off a TL1000R. I didnt crash it, and i didnt ride it hard... but i managed to break it bad enough to probably write it off ....

Well TELL US The full story!!!

[Two Smoker]

Well, SpeedMedic sent me a PM saying i could ride his bike, since i couldnt ride any of mine this weekend. I said yep and went to his house with the attitude "Im not going to ride hard as i cant afford to bin it".....

So Milky took me on the back of his bike to SM's and i picked up the bike... I was being very self controlled and doing 100-110 kmh..... (i know i shocked myself too) Was enjoying the sound of the V-twin with yoshi pipes (mmmmmm yoshi's)...

I went to Hells, to show Loosebruce what a real TL looks like and sounds like... did this and went past Ericsson Stadium, and gave the TL some shit. red lined the first three gears (you have to know what a bike is capable off ) it was nice, but not incredably fast (compared to a blackbird)....

Waited for Milky to catch up and then settled into doing the speedlimit again.... Got onto the South western motorway and stopped at the lights at George Bolt Drive (Milky was infront of me)... Milky took off and i wasnt ready, so i took off, and gave it a good twist in second. past Milky and was getting near redline, when i heard a loud "BANG". I instantly pulled in the clutch (good to see i learnt from the highside on the RGV250) and thought, ah the bike must have popped out of gear, so hook third and let the clutch out.... Nothing happened, no drive at all, thats when i start to think ah shit the chain. I then look in my mirrors to see smoke POURING out of the TLR.... I instantly pulled over and turned off the bike... I hop off and find that the chain is bunched up around the front sprocket area and there is oil pouring out of the bike....

I rang SM and told him what happened, then i rang ktulu and asked him to give me a hand.... I, Milky and Ktulu then pushed the bike all the way to the farm (distance of 3-4 km's) and that was not fun with such a heavy bike....

With a quick look, its either cracked the engine block, or the crank seal is stuffed... It has lost all the hydraulic fluid from the clutch, took a nick out of the swing arm, squashed an exhaust conector pipe and ofcourse there is still the stuff i couldnt see...

Have taken it to Motohaus for Kerry to look after...

Feel like absolute shit, even though it wasnt my fault... Really sorry Glen :disapint: .....

If the engine block is crack, that means either a new engine, or a full rebuild to weld it up... In other words written off

[onearmedbandit]

Feel like absolute shit, even though it wasnt my fault...

Not trying to cause shit here, but you made a point about redlining someone elses bike in the first 3 gears, giving it some shit in 2nd. Honest question here, do you think this had something to do with it, or was it totally irelevant to the engine going pop?

Disclaimer: I know bikes are designed to rev out to the redline, what I'm asking is whether doing this caused it to go, or whether it would have happened regardless. All in all, it sounds like you didn't go into the redline so not something stupid you did, but maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back.

[2_SL0]

Fark, thats bad luck, But that doesnt sound like your fault. But still its bummer when your on someone elses bike. But in the imortal of words of someone "Shit happins" Dont sweat it.

[FROSTY:Me]

Fuck mate thats bad luck.
But hey shit happens.
Reading how things happened it coulda just as easily happened to anybody that rode that bike. -Chain broke Nothing you could have done about it.
It won't be written off and to be honest it really sounds pretty messy but not terminal.
I know how ya feel -having bent both wheels on douggies race bike the day before a round of the nationals.
It sounds like an insurance claim to me.

[Two Smoker]

Feel like absolute shit, even though it wasnt my fault...

Not trying to cause shit here, but you made a point about redlining someone elses bike in the first 3 gears, giving it some shit in 2nd. Honest question here, do you think this had something to do with it, or was it totally irelevant to the engine going pop?

Disclaimer: I know bikes are designed to rev out to the redline, what I'm asking is whether doing this caused it to go, or whether it would have happened regardless. All in all, it sounds like you didn't go into the redline so not something stupid you did, but maybe it was the straw that broke the camels back.

Yep fair enough, (but i have seen how SM rides it) i feel that you do need to find out how a bike reacts with full acceleration and redlining it (not hitting the limiter), what if i got into a situation and had to give it full throttle???

By my term "giving it some shit in second" was just meaning that i opened the throttle right open.... If i had ridden it nicely like i had been (keeping it below 4500rpm) im sure the chain would have snapped eventually.. I didnt blow the engine or crack the block from over revving it or riding it hard. it most likely (if it did) cracked the block due to the chain being flung into it...

If i had been on the redline constantly and thrashing it, i wouldnt have been surprised if something happened, but from me just rolling on the throttle i didnt expect it to snap....

I asked Kerry at Motohuas, what could have caused the chain to snap... He said heaps of things could have, such as a stone, a weak link, a worn front sprocket (couldnt see the condition of it). It wasnt like i was doing clutch dumps and wheel stands on it.. I reakon that is the kind of stress a chain would need to snap....

SM knows how i ride (he has seen my on MR's bike i think) but i was honestly being very nice to it....

[Bonez]

If i had been on the redline constantly and thrashing it, i wouldnt have been surprised if something happened, but from me just rolling on the throttle i didnt expect it to snap....

Did you ever consider the big V-twin gives a different power delivery to the drive components than other bikes you are use to riding?

[aff-man]

Not the TL

Looks like it was just one of those things. Hell if you were only opening the throttle full and not dumping the clutch (ha i'd like to see you dump the clutch of that beast and not flip) then obviously something got into the chain cause it should have held up???