Stopped to help a biker today...
#11
05-09-2008, 06:28 PM
RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
ORIGINAL: rickoshay45
How many of us in our "formative" years did this? It's real cool to make fun of a neewbie forgeting that we once were one. After 40 years I try to educate not put down anyone. If you don't want my advise fine, if ya want to listen that's cool. Is it the best advise, no, there is always someone who knows more. In any endevour it is a responsibily of the more experienced to help the less experienced.
How many of us in our "formative" years did this? It's real cool to make fun of a neewbie forgeting that we once were one. After 40 years I try to educate not put down anyone. If you don't want my advise fine, if ya want to listen that's cool. Is it the best advise, no, there is always someone who knows more. In any endevour it is a responsibily of the more experienced to help the less experienced.
No where in this thread did I put him down or make fun of him. I felt for him. I too have done exactly the same thing, how do you think I knew to check the petcock?
#12
05-09-2008, 06:30 PM
RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
That happened to me during the MSF course test!!! bike died just as I finished the figure 8 in the box..... nope didn't turn the petcock on....I felt like an idiot...didn't get any points deducted as I completed the turn before it died.... glad I bought a bike with EFI!!!
#13
05-09-2008, 06:51 PM
RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
ORIGINAL: edeluxe07
That happened to me during the MSF course test!!! bike died just as I finished the figure 8 in the box..... nope didn't turn the petcock on....I felt like an idiot...didn't get any points deducted as I completed the turn before it died.... glad I bought a bike with EFI!!!
That happened to me during the MSF course test!!! bike died just as I finished the figure 8 in the box..... nope didn't turn the petcock on....I felt like an idiot...didn't get any points deducted as I completed the turn before it died.... glad I bought a bike with EFI!!!
Halfway thru his first figure eight, the bike died...too funny!
#14
05-09-2008, 07:09 PM
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RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
I started on carbed bikes with petcocks. My first was a 67 Honda.Although I have driven off with it closed, I always snapped to it and I opened it. I can't say I ever stood on the side of the road and bitched. Of course, if the saleman had done a proper delivery, that would have been checked and pointed out.
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05-09-2008, 07:18 PM
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RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
I usually get about 700 ft before I have to coast to the side and turn my fuel on. Yep done that more than once. Pretty sure it'll happen again.
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05-09-2008, 07:25 PM
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RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
I've done it, but luckily, the bike died while it was warming up in my driveway. But yeah, easy mistake to make! That poor guy will hear about that from his SO for a long, long time.
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05-09-2008, 08:31 PM
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I bet they showed him and told him, but somethings are better experienced, glad you were able to help.
#20
05-09-2008, 08:44 PM
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RE: Stopped to help a biker today...
That's cool you could help him out, there were probally 10 people that drove by him saying look at that dumb *** on the Harley.