Okay, I'll bite. So your wife is gone 3 miles to get the truck and you are watching all these bikers ride on by without stopping, plus a line of empty trailers.....okay, if I am one of the bikers going by and I stop, then what? Your going to start bitching about no one stopping, then you are going to tell me the story about how your wife's bike broke, then 10 minutes later you will finally get around to telling me that she is on her way back with the truck. So you just wanted everyone going by to stop and hold your hand! Like someone else said "the fix was in". You weren't stranded out on some deserted road in the middle of the night without cell service!


It is not 1970 anymore, everyone has cell phones. If you don't have a cell phone then go to Walmart and spend $25.00 for one.


I help other bikers when I know they need help. If I stopped every time I saw another bike pulled over that is all I would be doing every day.


For example, neighborhood sport bike that likes to run by my house wide open zipped past one afternoon at his usual 60mph. I was in the garage but something didn't sound right after he went past. I looked down the road and he had lost power and was on the side of the road trying to start it back up. From the loss-of-power sound I was guessing he had ran out of gas. I grabbed my full gas can and drove my SUV down to him. He was on the phone to his girlfriend to bring out gas. I had him call her back and we put a couple of gallons in his tank....off he went. He lived about 1 miles away. The only thing I accomplished was getting him on his way 5 minutes quicker and providing free gas!

 

Yea, but it's the thought that counts.

 

in the old days everyone stopped to lend a hand. fixed alot of bikes on the side or the road back then. something as simple as a gas line one time and the guy that stopped had a piece of fuel line with him. in fact that has happened twice over the years. piece of tape or a wire tie may get someone going again.

 

Wow! Sure seems to be a lot of bitter people here. Are we not out riding enough? I did t think it was winter yet.

 

Times are changing, my friend. Old skewl is slowly being replaced. Most are only concerned with those in their group. Rest assured had it been one of us old timers, we'd stopped and the very least waited with you had we not been able to get it running.

 

Some of you guys are seriously not getting the point here!...., yes the wife was on the way back, yes I had a cell phone , yes I have AAA. All of that IS NOT the point!!!!!!!!!!!.The whole point was anybody stopping to check on a possible broke down brother. I would have thanked them and let them go on their way.

Where I did push the bike to, an open barn driveway off the narrow road, the home owners came out and were very nice and actually hooked up his trailer to his truck and got me home. I voluntarily gave him some cash and insisted he take it and thanked him very much.

 

I slow down or stop when ever I can, if I can safely do so. I look at riding as a bit of a brotherhood. Anything is possible, u know lots of us old guys ride..LOL, guy could be in need of medical help, and no cell phone or battery on phone dead.Most times the rider just gives a thombs up and off I go.

 

@ srhen, give em hell. You know to take the comments with a grain of salt. I pay attn to maybe 2% of anything in here last few years. lol

...+1, old skewl is fast becoming an old guy thing

 

[QUOTE=DaddyKnuck;15391426]In 2012 I broke down on the way home from Sturgis. No cell service in the middle of SD on I90. A guy with a bike on a one bike trailer stopped to help. We ended up unloading his bike and loading my bike. I rode his bike while he trailered mine to an exit I could buy a battery at (about 50 miles). Wouldn't accept anything more than a handshake for his troubles.
[IMG]http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk28/oldhogguy/Crossbones%20on%20Trailer_zpsdmwj9bks. Good story, good people.

 

Agreed, I was being "sarcastic".