My First Bike Fire... I Was Stoopid

[DarkNinja]

Well i was up at my uncle's and was riding round on this little honda 70cc dump thing and it was all going well and good and was hooning roudn the paddocks and falling off and all and then i took my cousins round on front and that was all well and good. but then i came up a hill and it started revving its nuts off so i took my cousin off and looked down and the damn thing was rattling and smoking everywhere and the throttle was off and im thinking fuck what do i do.
so i turn off the fuel tap, first option, all the while trying to unjam this throttle or whatever it was. and then i thought, oh i might just be smart and pull the damn fuel line in half. that will stop any fuel going to the engine. (this is my logic as something sounds like its about to pop underneath me)
I knew as soon as i did this that i had done something dumb.
theres fuel going everywhere and i think, fuck, i better do something or its gonna light up, so i pit my hand back down to put the line back together and as i did it lit up, everyone ran away and i jumped away onto the grass trying to put the fire out on my arm. my uncle came running out with a hose and put it out so its all good but i feel like such a dumbass.
I now know what to do though, put it into its highest gear and stall it. cover the carborreter(SP?) and starve it of oxygen, or hit the kill switch of which there wasnt one.
It was all a good laugh afterwards it was only a fifty dollar bike but just as well it happened then and not in my garage with a 250.
anyone else done somethign as stupid as this before?

[jrandom]

*Any* bike should just stall if you let the clutch out with the front brake on at a standstill or slow roll, in any gear.

Had to do that to a car once, but never a bike.

And yes, I reckon pulling fuel lines apart while it's running *is* pretty silly.

[**R1**]

Yeah i had a old ts125 when i was about 9, that did the samething revd its nuts off so i put it in gear let the clutch out and sent it through the next door fence, Dad was real happy . then when i started it the nxt time it did the same thing so i pulld off the spark plug cap.... ouch man that hurt but to this very day i have never done it again

[White trash]

Old Fizzerman did a good one when we were kids.

Throttle on my A50 got stuck open, like, WIDE open! He goes for the stall in first gear scenario, on gravel. The thing spits sideways from under him onto its right hand side, still revin' its nuts off.

So he grabs the fuel line. Funnily enough, the carb's still full of fuel and the mighty 50 shows no sign of stopping.

Last resort, he yanks the spark plug lead off..........






I woulda' put him out if I hadn't been laughing so fucken hard.

Ha ha ha, sorry bro. Still brings a tear to my eye.

[Warren]

I had that problem once on my old scooter. I turned the key around, and that seemed to solve it.

[White trash]

I had that problem once on my old scooter. I turned the key around, and that seemed to solve it.

Yeah, he woulda done that, except I think I'd stolen that bike and we'd hard wired the ignition.

[Blakamin]

I woulda' put him out if I hadn't been laughing so fucken hard.

Ha ha ha, sorry bro. Still brings a tear to my eye.

brilliant!!!!!

[Bonez]

Yeah, he woulda done that, except I think I'd stolen that bike and we'd hard wired the ignition.

Do you still steal bikes?

[sels1]

Every day is a learning day, DN, but some days you learn more than others!
Good story anyway.
When are you going to do your video thing?

[White trash]

Do you still steal bikes?

Tongue, cheek? Ahh forget it, not funny.

[riffer]

Tongue, cheek? Ahh forget it, not funny.

He's graduated fellas. Now he gets to ride any bike he likes.

Of course, he still rides them like they're stolen...

[DarkNinja]

this was an old honda 70 with a centrifugal clutch and no key or anything. so i was lost for ideas too
i should be doing my movie the sunday week after the manfield day all going to plan (the 23rd)

[onearmedbandit]

Old Fizzerman did a good one when we were kids.

Throttle on my A50 got stuck open, like, WIDE open! He goes for the stall in first gear scenario, on gravel. The thing spits sideways from under him onto its right hand side, still revin' its nuts off.

So he grabs the fuel line. Funnily enough, the carb's still full of fuel and the mighty 50 shows no sign of stopping.

Last resort, he yanks the spark plug lead off..........






I woulda' put him out if I hadn't been laughing so fucken hard.

Ha ha ha, sorry bro. Still brings a tear to my eye.

Its been said before, but I'm saying it again, brilliant!! ROTF

[Motu]

The Runaway - it takes sooooo looooooong to figure it out eh? The motors screaming,it's still in gear,you flick the throttle,pull on the brakes,pull wire - it's so funny...afterwards.I could fill the rest of the page with runaway stories...but I'll let you live in shame.

[avgas]

had that happen too me heaps on the Krappasaki 100 i had. Just used to shoot in the shed, drop the bike, grap a screw driver and pop the plug lead.
sometimes just felt like shooting it though