The longest push

[Mr. Peanut]

I had a little Suzuki 125, and I was coming home from Corromandel Town, when it decided to have an electrical fit

With a mighty bang it stopped dead on the side of the road.

I pushed it all of two meters, when an Ex towie with a trailer pulled over, chucked it on the back, and took me home.

Gotta love New Zealand.

[Forest]

I ran out of petrol after caning a 250cc bike along the straights just outside of Dargaville.

Which led to 10km of pushing under the hot summer sun.

[Bonez]

i recall pushing my cb900 a few Ks when i ran out of gas ...thank goodness for the BP on the welly mway....

Did a similar thing with Gerty(CB750FC2). Ran out of gas, went to put the fuel tap on reserve and oops it already was. This was about two miles out of Levin. Pushed her about 200m metres to the nearest driveway, walk up the drive and explained my little dilema to the occupent, who kindly gave me his 2 stroke lawnmower mix. Toddled back to Levin to fuel up then off to give said kind chap a little something for his assistance and off home.

[slofox]

I ran out of petrol after caning a 250cc bike along the straights just outside of Dargaville.

Which led to 10km of pushing under the hot summer sun.

Tatarariki or Turiwiri?

[Number One]

I once had to push my ZXR250 UP the Ngauranga gorge. Started at the meatworks turn off and managed to get it to the middle of the Newlands offramp..

Then this beautiful man came in his van and hiffed it in the back and took me home. could've just about shagged him for that

Wasn't a super distance but up hill it was a killer!

[riffer]

Yeah, I've pushed a few.

The RF has been pushed from Haywards Hill intersection to Silverstream Mobil (about 3.5 kms).

The worst has been pushing it from Moonshine Bridge back home to Wallaceville with a flat rear tyre.

Bugger me, they're hard to push with a flat tyre.

[pritch]

I can't remember a particularly long push. I did however at one time own two BSA B50s: an SS and an MX. These were equipped with a wonderful ignition system which gave you a magnificent fat spark at racing speed and an extremely feeble one at minimum revs. I tried the fancy plugs on the SS but nothing worked I just used to bump start the thing everywhere.

Sometimes even then it was a reluctant starter and I had to have multiple run-ups. If I had to work like that now I'd probably have a bloody heart attack.

When I acquired the MX it came with no kick start lever and the comment that it was pointless as it didn't work. Experience had suggested that anyway...

These days I plan on using the Honda Riders Club 24/7 breakdown service if required, but hopefully I'm just wasting my membership money :-)

[slopster]

My car was nearly out of gas and I figured I had just enough to get to the gas station. I drove there at about midnight and ran out of gas just managed too coast in and found that it was closed for the night. The next one was just 1500m away so I put the hazard lights on and pushed it there and filled it up but by this stage the hazard lights had drained the battery and it wouldn't start. I tried push starting it on my own and couldn't get enough speed. I tried jacking up one wheel and starting it like an old aeroplane by spinning the wheel in 3rd but couldn't quite do it fast enough for the engine to take hold. Had to push it back to the first gas station where there was enough of an incline to get it started.

[madbikeboy]

I haven't pushed anything since I starting owning Suzuki's...

[pixc]

..Gerty....

That just reminded me of something. My father called his comby Gerty. Gerty met another comby somewhere...and they wrote letters to each other..from one comby to another.. about there journeys....i shit you not.

[Nagash]

Oh joy. The memories come flooding back.

A couple of months ago infact, I was visiting my ex who lived in in Tauranga, and decided to leave at 1am. Hadn't fueled up since Paeroa on the way down but figured theree'd be a 24 hour somewhere on the way back.

Guess what. There wasn't,

Got to Paeroa on the way back before it died on me, pushed it to Ngatea before I found a 24 hour gas station, that's about.. 20k's?

That was a bad night.

[mctshirt]

I have a mental scar a mile wide from pushing my first bike, a Suzuki TC100 from Days Bay in Eastbourne to Waterloo in Lower Hutt in hot sunshine past everyone enjoying a lovely summers day after it died for no good reason. That was followed by hours of kicking and tinkering in fading light at my grandmothers place where I was staying before it burst into life again. Next day carried on to Paraparaumu and later home to the Wairarapa without a problem. Bastard thing!

The scar is still fresh after 25 years so after that I took great pride in always getting the bike home and was only beaten once when the bolt holding the valve rocker came out inside my Yamaha AG200 at the bottom of a gully - a friendly farmer towed it out with a quad which was an adventure on it's own but it was better than pushing. Flat tyres, worn clutchs, broken cables and levers, stripped sprockets, broken and bent bodywork, no gas (we generally worked in pairs), and loose chains never stopped me riding home, albeit slowly, and repeating another marathon push.

It's amazing what you can fix with a factory tool kit, a bit of wire or a nail, and a hammer.

[Fatt Max]

Only ever had tp push my cv50 about 1K when the back wheel blew out. Puxhed it home, downhill 90% of the way.

It's only a light moped, bugger pushing some of those bigger bikes around, The VL weights in at 140kg excluding pies....

[T.W.R]

Luckily have only had to push a big bike a few kms once and that was a XS750 that decided to spin the crank shells and pinch up on me expensive exercise that cost a replacement motor

Towed a couple of bikes over the years both times using a leather belt tied to the grab rail of my bike & the rider holding on to the free end
one was a Darmah that decided to send it's electrics on vacation, towed that about 10kms to a country garage. Then a few years later towed a MkII Commando from Little River back to ChCh because it's electrics packed a sad too Lucas "Prince of Darkness" got the upper hand both times.
Remember getting a few crazy looks from vehicles as they passed us though trotting along at a good pace with a bike in tow