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Post by stepthrutuner on Mar 15, 2017 19:46:29 GMT -5
Naw, the road was straight, I was just doing it on a whelm. The flip over was early New Years after midnight and I was sober. My neighbor from across the street was my passenger. I had just recovered after hitting a patch of ice and then hit another one. Caught the bottom left side on the drop off to the ditch on the left, launched, one flip through the air and landed on the wheels. I was in a stock 1980 Corolla fastback that night. I was probably going 45 - 50 when we flipped. The road had been ice free before the first patch. The car was totaled. I totaled two 510s and sold the last one I had IIRC.
Yeah, I guess I'm lucky to be alive and I don't mean to brag but two years of daily practice rendered me skilled, intuitive and automatic with the wheel, gearbox and pedals. All those commercial forrest roads are gated off and leased to hunting clubs now for 20+ years.
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Post by joeorange on Mar 15, 2017 19:50:53 GMT -5
Dumbest thing I've done on my scooter was race a cop car at the traffic lights. I beat him to the next set, when he pulled up beside me he was laughing his ass off saying that that was the fynniest thing that had happened to him on all his years on the force. He then pulled me over, and he asked what size it was and I told him a heavily modified 50cc that revs up to 12k. He said okay and asked 8f I could fix his sons scooter, so I gave him my number and he sent me his address when he got off work and I went over and took a look at his sons scooter. Turned out it had a bad cdi, so I rode home, picked up a spare I had and went back, plugged it in and it fired right up. I made $50 that day.
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Post by stepthrutuner on Mar 15, 2017 20:34:54 GMT -5
Drunken driving and at that moment being totally oblivious for all the dangers on the road. Yeah, alcohol, and other intoxicants. Good story, Joe. Some cops are cool... others not so much. Yeah clay and sandy roads with the right moisture content can be very rewarding. You from Georgia?
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Post by larrball on Mar 15, 2017 20:37:11 GMT -5
Had a fuse blowing problem on one of my china scoots and had to fix the problem, with over 20 years in the auto tec trade i replaced the fuse with yep you guessed it tin foil. It fixed the problem all right, after i put the fire out and pulled the positive battery cable off. Had a short at the steering column.
What a fun re-wiring job that was dumb ass. -----> ME
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Post by ThomasTPFL on Mar 15, 2017 20:43:20 GMT -5
Yeah clay and sandy roads with the right moisture content can be very rewarding. You from Georgia? Yup, lived here all my life.
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Post by ThomasTPFL on Mar 15, 2017 20:44:54 GMT -5
Had a fuse blowing problem on one of my china scoots and had to fix the problem, with over 20 years in the auto tec trade i replaced the fuse with yep you guessed it tin foil. It fixed the problem all right, after i put the fire out and pulled the positive battery cable off. Had a short at the steering column. What a fun re-wiring job that was dumb ass. -----> ME Yer supposed to use cigarette pack foil! It's about the equivalent of a 20 amp fuse, lol.
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Post by gsx600racer on Mar 15, 2017 22:53:30 GMT -5
Adding stickers in hopes of making it look faster. j/k
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Post by benji on Mar 16, 2017 0:02:44 GMT -5
Had a fuse blowing problem on one of my china scoots and had to fix the problem, with over 20 years in the auto tec trade i replaced the fuse with yep you guessed it tin foil. It fixed the problem all right, after i put the fire out and pulled the positive battery cable off. Had a short at the steering column. What a fun re-wiring job that was dumb ass. -----> ME Yer supposed to use cigarette pack foil! It's about the equivalent of a 20 amp fuse, lol. Depends on how many times you wrap the blown fuse. 1 layer of foil is 20 amps, 2 layers of foil is 40 amps, etc haha
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Post by larrball on Mar 16, 2017 13:51:17 GMT -5
Had a fuse blowing problem on one of my china scoots and had to fix the problem, with over 20 years in the auto tec trade i replaced the fuse with yep you guessed it tin foil. It fixed the problem all right, after i put the fire out and pulled the positive battery cable off. Had a short at the steering column. What a fun re-wiring job that was dumb ass. -----> ME Yer supposed to use cigarette pack foil! It's about the equivalent of a 20 amp fuse, lol. Well im not a smoker thomas and im not going to let any more of my scooters start smoking My new scooter was well thought out so i think im in the clear for a while.
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Post by greggkinney on Mar 16, 2017 15:53:04 GMT -5
wasnt a scoot but i had a 84 cr60 when i was a kid and my neighbors great dane hated it. he would chase me or run beside me snapping at me every day. well....one day i figured id slow down pretty good and kick the $h!t out of him. that didnt work too good. i can still remember his face as he grabbed my pants leg and removed me from the bike. bashed my bike, the gravels hurt but mostly my pride was bruised cause the girls of the old hood were all outside to see.
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Post by Lucass2T on Mar 16, 2017 20:25:20 GMT -5
wasnt a scoot but i had a 84 cr60 when i was a kid and my neighbors great dane hated it. he would chase me or run beside me snapping at me every day. well....one day i figured id slow down pretty good and kick the $h!t out of him. that didnt work too good. i can still remember his face as he grabbed my pants leg and removed me from the bike. bashed my bike, the gravels hurt but mostly my pride was bruised cause the girls of the old hood were all outside to see. Crushed ego, yeah thats pretty bad. And a cr60 is pretty BADASS!! Those little cr60's are super rare these days!
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Post by greggkinney on Mar 16, 2017 20:58:10 GMT -5
wasnt a scoot but i had a 84 cr60 when i was a kid and my neighbors great dane hated it. he would chase me or run beside me snapping at me every day. well....one day i figured id slow down pretty good and kick the $h!t out of him. that didnt work too good. i can still remember his face as he grabbed my pants leg and removed me from the bike. bashed my bike, the gravels hurt but mostly my pride was bruised cause the girls of the old hood were all outside to see. Crushed ego, yeah thats pretty bad. And a cr60 is pretty BADASS!! Those little cr60's are super rare these days! yeah ive heard that before about them being rare now. was my 1st bike lol i ended up puting it in the building while i learned on a 85 xr80 1st. cr was pure evil badass
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Post by dan50 on Mar 17, 2017 0:21:03 GMT -5
I was cruising down a dirt road (lots of them in the rural area where I live) at about 20mph, not paying attention to the road surface. A farmer's equipment gouged out a rut in the road, my scooter's wheels got caught in the rut and I went down. Put a couple of scratches on the plastic, but no real damage. I got lucky!
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Post by bluegoatwoods on Mar 17, 2017 7:19:13 GMT -5
I haven't had time to make any big mistakes on a scooter since I'm fairly new at it. But I can remember a couple of dumb things I did on a motorcycle in the neighborhood of thirty years ago.
Commuting to work, coming into the city, I'd always run into traffic backups on the freeway. Usually completely stopped traffic. I'd developed the habit of riding the shoulder to the next exit and then working through the rest of the way on the surface streets. One day I pulled up to the back of the line and saw a police car in traffic just up ahead. I wondered if he'd ticket me for riding the shoulder. Then I said to myself, "Well, there's only one way to find out!" And I went cruising down to the next exit and he followed me and he ticketed me. I remember waiting for the ticket thinking, "Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!" One reason I remember this clearly, also, is that this is the last moving violation I've ever received. Thirty one years and counting. Not bad. I'm kinda proud of that.
A year or so later I made a rotten mistake on the same motorcycle. It was a three cylinder Yamaha (XS850). I'd noticed before, when changing spark plugs, that it was difficult to clean the little bits of road grit out of the area around the spark plug head on the middle cylinder. (Compressed air was the answer, of course. But I didn't have an air compressor and I didn't have the moxie to just buy a cheap one. For that matter, they weren't all that cheap back then anyway.) So I had the brilliant idea to use engine compression to blast that grit out of there. That was kinda dumb since engine compression wouldn't have done the trick anyway.
And it was particularly dumb since I didn't take into account the fact that that cylinder might have been on the downstroke for all I knew. And it was. I carefully pulled the spark plug and reached up and hit the starter relay switch. And I watched that little ring of road grit go, "Thwump" straight into the combustion chamber.
I said to myself, "I have to stop right now and pull this engine apart!" I think I nearly cried. I'd never worked inside an engine before.
But I got the job done. Working on it at night after my hour long bus commute to and from work. Time frame? Maybe a season or so. At least one season, but not a lot more.
And it was good experience at least. Got a lot more miles out of that bike afterwards.
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Post by FrankenMech on Mar 17, 2017 14:09:09 GMT -5
I learned to drive on mixed gravel-sand roads with an occasional stretch of black gumbo or ass-fault...
Black gumbo was a form of clay. If it was dry it was hard as rock. With a little moisture it was slick as snot. With a bit more moisture it was still slippery but so sticky you could not get it off a shovel or off your tires. It was completely impassable when wet.
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