Muppet or what!!!
 

Meaning me:lol::lol: Went out today to do a long journey on the S4r as in the week i only do short trips to work and the oil window has gone creamy so cant even chack level:o:o

Ended up not going to far real bad sheets of fog every where then got home in front garden and dropped it, forgot to put down side stand!!! how stoopid luckily near the wall so this saved it from falling to floor only broke the bar end mirror (now 7 yrs bad luck to eeek!) and scuffed the seat cover/cowl thing (anyone know how much they are new?)

so not to much damage and still I couldnt see the oil level to when i got home:lol::lol::lol:

[Edited on 11-12-2005 by Lee1980]

Doh!!!!!!!!

DOH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:sniff:

Mate, happens to us all. I dropped the DD bike in the garage because it just lent that little bit too far when I was trying to get it onto the paddock stand by myself! I didn't notice that the clutch lever had bent like a banana until I rode down for qualifying at Cadwell...!

Lee - bad luck mate:(

Seat cowls for the monsters are about £70 - 80 ish, without the brackets & bolts (so do keep yours!)
I have a new red one fs, if thats any good?

Usually, if you go for a good long ride, the cream/custard/milky stuff will clear from the oil window when the engine gets quite warm.

C

Thanks guys:D

Thanks for reply on ukmoc to ck:D

I really need one with the stripe to unless i can buy that seperate maybe??

I posted in general forum to about oil window seems real thick, the eninge gets up to near 108 in traffic but it still dont clear, i did only 20 today as fog was bad. Guess its how long engine is running for not how hot it gets.

a good 40 miler normally clears it Lee:)

Have posted on the other side, with a few links for you about the oil window on monsters:)

C

Och that isn't so bad...This chap was replacing the bars on his Multistrudle and as he removed the grip from the clutch side..pop!over goes the bike onto his beautiful 749s.......ooooops..sorry Chris!!

nob
but saying hat we've all done it

Cheers guys nice to know im not the first:lol::lol::lol:

well..its only a bike FOR GAWDS SAKE!!!!

(says the dropping queen, who has stopped crying now after the fifth drop!!!):P

lol very true Lisa just at the time you do feel like crying :lol::lol:

Still it does work still just cosmetics:bouncy::bouncy:

Lee,, I did it the other way around, Forgot to put my stand up, 200yards 80mph, written of 916 and a very sore boy...
Cured my problem now ,race bikes dont have side stands.
Glyn

lol Scooter! These new fandangled ducatis have switch that stop u doing what u did, i wish they had one that sense u not put down stand to:o:o:lol::lol:

Got the kick start lever of my Bonneville stuck up the leg of my flared jeans back in the dark ages and arriving at the lights, found I couldn't get my foot down cos of this bloody lever up my trouser leg. By that time had already committed to leaning that way, and just sort of toppled over.

Can I have the veteran Muppet badge? :sing:

You should have seen what Santa did with his sleigh last year!:o

Lee

Picture the scene many years ago....Going to work on my old GS1000 fitted with twin headlamp endurance racing fairing and clip ons. Wind is blowing a gale ..literally . Stop at junction and before I can get me foot down the wind blows me and bike over.

I drag meself from under it and pick it upright while leaning it into the gale....wind drops and the bike now falls the other way with me on top.

Broken fairing...both sides
Dented tank.....both sides
Dented pride....inside

I can laugh about it now...honest

Phil

I came home on a dark wet night, backed my ST onto the sloping pathway next to my barn, got off the bike and started to pull it up onto the centre stand. It usually comes up pretty easily because as I'm pulling the bike up onto it's stand the gravity of the slope helps.

This time, the wet sole of my boot slipped off the centre stand just before it came up over centre. I was only holding the left handlebar and the little grab handle that ST's have to get them on their stand, so the bike got away from me, ran backwards down the slope, down a couple of steps and fell over onto a load of rubble from a wall I'd just demolished.

Yeti, Kirsty and I just wet our pants laughing at that, We can imagine it happening....Class
glyn