DAMHIKIJKOK

[guest27]

GCs posting on the Goose thread and looking at the problems besetting an XS11 - 4 thumpers in the one frame - got me to thinking.

Pulling away with a disk lock on is commonplace - but DAMHIKIJKOK

Attaching bungies to the rear spokes as a temporary measure whilst you pack a bike and forgetting can be embarrasing too - DAMHIKIJKOK

Dropping a small socket into the engine bay of a car and concluding that it has fallen into the wing or somewhere 'inert' and then watching the alternator disintegrate...  DAMHIKIJKOK

Trying to get the knee down to impress a lass and then fighting the bike along the road due to 16psi in rear tyre...  DAMHIKIJKOK

So what are your DAMHIKIJKOK?

R

[guest7]

Building a new sidecar outfit for an Austrian rally. Setting off up the M4 for the trip to Dover. Get petrol at Reading (Sainsbury's at Junction 12, very cheap) and conclude that you can do the rest of the trip without stopping. However, on the M25 the traffic is slow and you're busting for a pee. Decide to flag your riding buddy in to the services.

As you ride into the parking bay the sidecar wheel does a jig and a dance. Upon examination you see that when you assembled the chair the week before you had only finger-tightened the wheel nuts and they now have less than three turns each left on the stud.

It's an icy feeling when you realise that if you hadn't pulled in for that pee, you would have been having a very nasty time of it later on.

DAMHIKIJKOK
GC

[robG]

Pull up at traffic lights , kickstart slips up inside of flares . Can't put foot down , collapse in heap on floor , alongside open top sports car driven by attractive young girly thing .

Rob .

[Steffan]

kickstart spring goes ping on enfield gearbox. Dismantle carefully replace part put it all back together and not only is the bloody thing in gear when it was in neutral when you started but the kicker is still not working viz you have to start all over...

Steffan

[Richard]

Riding off having completely forgotten to take the steering lock off.

Richard

[guest27]

Pull up at traffic lights , kickstart slips up inside of flares . Can't put foot down , collapse in heap on floor , alongside open top sports car driven by attractive young girly thing .

Rob .

I thought it was a junction in Tavistock and a GS750.....

R

[Richard 003]

Removing top from Monobloc carb and watching spring bounce off other half's spectacles 

Regards
Richard

[guest27]

Taking the mixture screw out of a carb and watching the spring, washer and seal disappear into the grass...

The scene - a well known but now closed British bike shop in Plymouth.

Oik walks in and asks, "Do you have any piston circlips?"

Monty' "What for?"

Oik' "To stop the gudgeon pin coming out"

Monty, I know that you pratt, but what bike!?"

Oik goes pink to much mirth and amusement  from fellow customers and staff.

R

[guest7]

The scene - a well known but now closed British bike shop in Plymouth.

That would be Terry Hobbs I'd guess
GC

[guest27]

Nope

It was Fu*kin' Terry Fu**in' Bl**dy Hobbs!!!

Remember reading an interview with him in one of the CLassic rags, not one swear word - must have been made up or heavily censored!

R

[guest7]

LOL, I spoke to him once on the phone and yes, his language was a bit fruity. I only had to ask him one question, but his reply took over half an hour. Bless him.

Incidentally, what is a 'Global Moderator'? And how come MY name doesn't appear in a funny colour in the users online section? Grumble, grizzle, grumble. I bet you've even got a Thumper Club Website pen and mousemat and everything 

GC

[Andy M]

I left the disc lock on and made a three foot long rubber streak as I set off on the stag do weekend. Getting up to the Hull ferry the front brake was a bit spongy but hey ho. Backing into a parking space at the hotel in Amsterdam I hit the kerb due to the calliper falling off 

Still, it was my stag do so the bike didn't move for two days, we "aquired" a length of fence wire courtesy of a Dutch railways building site and did the 120 miles home sans front stopper. Good news was, having got back on the drive I did a quick brake test, left another thousand miles of rubber on the tarmac and the "repair" help. Only cost me £30 for a new bracket too 

Andy

[guest27]

And it turns out the aformentioned "Monty" has a website - and a bike shop.

Monty's Bike Shop

[Steve H]

Incidentally, what is a 'Global Moderator'? And how come MY name doesn't appear in a funny colour in the users online section?

A "Global Moderator" moderates globally ;-)
The forum only display the first group you are a member of and your first group is "Chairman", which has moderator permissions.
No idea on the red bit.

[robG]

MisspentYouth ?