Weirdest thing today...

[motorbyclist]

Riding home today I thought I could hear what sounded like a slight misfire, but without any discernable loss of power and the old classic car infront I just put it down to noise from the car....

1km later, the motor cut out. As things slowed down I tried to roll start again but no firing. Put on indicator, but no lights. Must be a fuse? Stop in a gravel bay, go to pull the key out and problem found

they key had switched to the off position.

turned it on and bike goes.

WTF.

[PirateJafa]

Your bike is trying to tell you something mate.

[Murray]

Its John Keys fault - Ask Skyrider

[Blackshear]

Riding home today I thought I could hear what sounded like a slight misfire, but without any discernable loss of power and the old classic car infront I just put it down to noise from the car....

1km later, the motor cut out. As things slowed down I tried to roll start again but no firing. Put on indicator, but no lights. Must be a fuse? Stop in a gravel bay, go to pull the key out and problem found

they key had switched to the off position.

turned it on and bike goes.

WTF.

I had that with my petrol... Erm. Knob?
Pushed poor sickly Bobbie 500m to the nearest petrol station, fi-
Damnit, there's still 2-3L of petrol. What's going on?
Check the battreh, fuel lines and the key...
Some funny bugger moved my petrol knob to 'off'.
Who the hell even uses that anyway?

How does the key switch back to off?
Takes a decent amount of skill to get mine back to off.

[vifferman]

Riding home today I thought I could hear what sounded like a slight misfire, but without any discernable loss of power and the old classic car infront I just put it down to noise from the car....

1km later, the motor cut out. As things slowed down I tried to roll start again but no firing. Put on indicator, but no lights.

I've had the EXACT same thing happen!
Twice!
That's two (2) times!!
On two different bikes!




Both times, the R/R was fookt, and when the battery finally ran out of ergs, the engine died.

How does the key switch back to off?.

It's possible it was switched so that although everything was 'On', the key wasn't turned quite enough for the tumblers in the barrel to click completely into place, then the vibration jiggled it back into the 'Off' position.

[Headbanger]

Your bikes haunted.

One that ruined my day was the keys falling out while I was riding......

[sunhuntin]

Your bikes haunted.

One that ruined my day was the keys falling out while I was riding......

heh, my first bike used to do that. a few times, before it was mine, dad had to go back for the key. i solved that by putting a thin chain around the indicator and basically tying the key to the bike. strangely, it never jumped out once when i was riding it, even when it got hit by a car. the chain did some odd looks at WOF time though.

[Solly]

Yep, haunted, matey

[motorbyclist]

well haunted would explain the headlight switch that only dies at night during a fast corner - melting and turning my headlights off

and that pesky 15A fuse that keeps melting....

might just be too much RAW POWER for the wiring to handle - so much that even the key can't stand to stay in the live ignition

[mynameis]

Haunted mate is the previous owner gone?

0o0o0o0o0oh.....

[dipshit]

I used to have a car that would turn itself on and start itself up.

Really freaked out my brother when i lent it to him once. (forgot to mention it to him) One night he heard it start up and he thought someone was stealing it, but when he looked out the window he could see no one was in it as it drove straight towards him and smacked into the side of the house.

He thought he was having a bad trip or something...

[Howsie]

I used to have a car that would turn itself on and start itself up.

Really freaked out my brother when i lent it to him once. (forgot to mention it to him) One night he heard it start up and he thought someone was stealing it, but when he looked out the window he could see no one was in it as it drove straight towards him and smacked into the side of the house.

He thought he was having a bad trip or something...

The previous owner must have had a vendetta against pedestrians so the car now does too. Would have had to chock it to stop it turning mad and running those pesky kids over at 11:37pm.

Did you ever find out how it could start by itself?

[tigertim20]

haha, Ive done a similar thing, but I had bumped the kill switch, not ALL the way to off, just sort of halfway between the two (if you get what I mean!) obviously JUST enough to cut the engine, took me a couple minutes to figure that one out!

[Danae]

Too much V4 POWAR

[Headbanger]

Me old mate bought a cheap quad, the previous owner had ridden into his shed and impaled himself on his tractor forks, he bled to death sitting on the bike.

That bike then spent the next few years crashing at the most bizarre times, usually ending in injury to the rider and those around him. It broke down in stupid ways way out in the back blocks, or ran out of gas even though it should have had plenty.

Cursed?

nah, Me old mate was a craptastic rider, When he done any maintence he made it worse, and he always figured he had planty of gas no matter how far we had to go.....

AAlways worth a laugh, You could garentee if you talked him into anything he would muff it and have a spectaculer crash, Watching him attack hills was always entertaining.