What is the dumbest thing you have done?

**NordieBoy** · 8th June 2009, 17:11

I'll just start it up for a minute to get the oil circulating and then top it off.

Ok. Maybe I should have put the oil cap back on the bike...

**pampa** · 8th June 2009, 17:12

Originally Posted by YellowDog

Looks like enough fuel left to get me past this petrol station and too the next one, which can't be more than 45km away?

W R O N G......................

or, the next one was less than 45km away, mind tho it was closed

(it was 25/12)

**Waihou Thumper** · 8th June 2009, 17:27

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

I'll just start it up for a minute to get the oil circulating and then top it off.

Ok. Maybe I should have put the oil cap back on the bike...

Losing the cap somewhere right? You would have been okay without a cap for the ride till you got home and realised?

OR....

You left it at home and all was well? Did it bubble out of the casing then....after riding it so hard, or just fell out with the amazing angles and jumps....hehe

**CrazyFrog** · 8th June 2009, 18:07

I sprayed degreaser onto a hot engine a couple of years back.... it started to smoke like hell, no worries I thought, that'll help evaporate the oil leak, next thing, it was like, woaaaaahh, farkin flames!! Lucky for me (and the bike) it was in the driveway and the hose was nearby. Damn it, next time I'll read the warning on the aerosol can.......

SHAME, but no damage done.

**JATZ** · 8th June 2009, 18:30

Originally Posted by buggsubique

draining the sump but not the frame tank, so overfilling with oil...

trying to bump start with the kill switch off...

Aaaaah Yup, guilty of both of those

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

I'll just start it up for a minute to get the oil circulating and then top it off.

Ok. Maybe I should have put the oil cap back on the bike...

Guilty again

How about "fcukin bike won't start, I just put a new plug in too" and forgot to put the lead back on.

**k14** · 8th June 2009, 18:37

Originally Posted by bogan

bugger, ive always lived by the rule, if you have to ask whether its enuf, it almost certainly wont be. Havent been standed yet.... well for a fuel problem anyway.

Did that. Ran out 18km north of Kaikoura (where there is that bay on the side of the road where the surfers go). Walked about 3k before someone picked me up. Got petrol in Kaikoura and managed to get a ride back to bike with the same guy! Good bastard.

**NordieBoy** · 8th June 2009, 19:19

Originally Posted by NZKTM

Losing the cap somewhere right? You would have been okay without a cap for the ride till you got home and realised?

OR....

You left it at home and all was well? Did it bubble out of the casing then....after riding it so hard, or just fell out with the amazing angles and jumps....hehe

No. Just started it up on the stand whilst leaning over the hole...
At least the engine warmed the oil while I was pouring it in.
Cold oil in the face would have been terrible...

**babysteps** · 8th June 2009, 20:06

Originally Posted by CrazyFrog

I sprayed degreaser onto a hot engine a couple of years back.... it started to smoke like hell, no worries I thought, that'll help evaporate the oil leak, next thing, it was like, woaaaaahh, farkin flames!! Lucky for me (and the bike) it was in the driveway and the hose was nearby. Damn it, next time I'll read the warning on the aerosol can.......

SHAME, but no damage done.

Thats Gold!!!

**bart** · 8th June 2009, 20:08

Filling up with gas is a bit like taking a piss when on a pub crawl.

TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY

**Woodman** · 8th June 2009, 22:05

Nothing too stupid really save forgetting to put the spacer inbetween the wheel bearings. seem to do that every time.

Once trying to get home on the old IT, I lay it on its side once too often to drain gas into the carb and leaned it out so much it siezed.

Oh putting tyres on backwards is always good to.

**marks** · 8th June 2009, 22:49

stuck in the killer rut on the east end of the Makiro blocking all the other bikes
revving the snot out of the klr and getting nowhere

wave at Balrog behind me and he drops his whale and comes and helps me push while I still rev the snot out of it to try and get some forward motion

exhausted - get to a shallow part of the rut and still no drive

look down and see bright green light on dash

OOPS

**NordieBoy** · 8th June 2009, 22:50

Pulling the front tyre off to spin it around to wear the other side of the knobs and putting it back on the same way...

Touching the leads on a Stebel to a battery to hear what it sounds like...

**Padmei** · 9th June 2009, 07:48

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

Touching the leads on a Stebel to a battery to hear what it sounds like...

ftcr

**Paladin** · 9th June 2009, 08:36

Originally Posted by marks

stuck in the killer rut on the east end of the Makiro blocking all the other bikes
revving the snot out of the klr and getting nowhere

wave at Balrog behind me and he drops his whale and comes and helps me push while I still rev the snot out of it to try and get some forward motion

exhausted - get to a shallow part of the rut and still no drive

look down and see bright green light on dash

OOPS

LOL! I'm forever revvin the snot outta mine in neutral thinkin I'm in first!

And I've had the DR almost 4 months and my stupid little brain STILL looks for 6th gear!

**vifferman** · 9th June 2009, 08:59

Originally Posted by JATZ

How about "fcukin bike won't start, I just put a new plug in too" and forgot to put the lead back on.

How about putting the plugs back in and forgetting to tighten them with the plug spanner? (Although to be fair, I was distracted at the time by two friends turning up just then and saying, "C'mon- let's GO!"

The running out of petrol thing is probably pretty dumb, especially when you've done it before, you're in town, and you've been past no less than four (4!!) petrol stations and each time you've gone, "Nah... there's plenty left; I'll do it later..."

I'm not sure if it's dumber than leaving your wallet at home, and not realising until you've filled with gas. I've done that 3 times in one year...