How not to maintain your bike.

[hydrabusa]

How lucky he is up to now...all that pics prooving nothing happened to him so far...prolly he nver saw a chain cut off or fliped off from sprockets on a HWY, or blown front tire doing 100 mi...educate him quick or if he is squid, and if you hate him, let him learn from his own experience...
dayum, its just like a women cagers (not all of them..)  

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[Glyn]

Them tires and sprocket have plenty of life left.

That's what I thought

Heck, are all the teeth still on the sprocket?

Do the tires still hold air?


Then there's life in 'em yet

 

[mymaster]

How lucky he is up to now...all that pics prooving nothing happened to him so far...prolly he nver saw a chain cut off or fliped off from sprockets on a HWY, or blown front tire doing 100 mi...educate him quick or if he is squid, and if you hate him, let him learn from his own experience...
dayum, its just like a women cagers (not all of them..)  

You can lead a horse to water and I've done that. I'd like to take his keys away.

 

[DaCol.]

I love those new SPIKE rear sprockets, if you can't spin it, stab it

 

[E4G67]

I ran across the same kind of thing with a fellow employees bike. I've ridden with the guy a few times. One day we hit about 150 mph+ a couple of times, and I didn't think much about it until the following morning. He rode to my place so we could ride into work together. The temperature had seen about a 25 degree drop overnight so I adjusted my air pressure and suggested we check his also. At first I thought my pressure gauge had gone bad, because when I checked his tires he had 10 lbs in the rear and 14 lbs in the front. I don't know how he could have ridden that bike at any speed, let alone triple digits, with that kind pressure. That's when I started taking a good look at his bike. Tires- mismatched. Front tire was severely cupped, rear tire was paper thin. The chain was so loose that it would strike the swing arm. The rear axle nut was so loose that I could remove it with my bare hand; it was also missing the cotter pin. His front right turn signal wouldn't work because someone botched the wiring job by using a crimp on butt connector instead of soldering the connection.

 

[HRJR]

Scary. Ask him to fix his bike or you will take out a life insurance policy on him.

 

[E4G67]

This same person rode on his worn out tires until the rear tire split in 3 places and the carcass was showing through, along with a belt or 4. I think the only reason that he finally parked the bike was that the tire wouldn't hold air for more than about an hour. I finally convinced him that his bike needed some major TLC and I offered to help him with it. I replaced both of his tires, cleaned out his air box and air filter, cleaned his carbs, fixed his sticking throttle, lubed his choke cable, cleaned and reinstalled his spark plugs (because he didn't buy replacements), and adjusted his chain. I had intended to perform the maintenance on his bike with him present so that he might learn some of the basics, but I found out that he wasn't really interested in learning anything. He conveniently arrived at my place in time to say thanks, jump on his bike, and ride away. He still needs to replace his plugs, battery, chain and sprockets, and brake pads all the way around. For some reason I don't think he'll get it done.

 

[E4G67]

I started to clean the filter, and then I thought I should preserve the evidence so I could shame him into keeping up on his maintenance.

 

[E4G67]

His battery had dirty terminals and is almost completely shot. I'm surprised that it actually cranks the bike up!

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[E4G67]

The old ZX-9 fires up and runs like a whole different animal now that it's had a little routine maintenance. I bet he gained 25 hp just from cleaning the air box. I'm calling him the East Side Strangler now because of the way he was choking the living he11 out of that Kawasaki! That poor bike couldn't breathe before, but it's doing much better now.

 

[E4G67]

Last one. I wish I had taken pictures of the tires. It would have given a lot of people nightmares!

 

[TheAtomicAss]

These guys are lucky they didn't come to me for maintenance.  If they didn't stick around to learn how it's done, I'd just hide the bike in my garage.  Forget about letting 'em have it back.  

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