It finally happened! Towed home

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Well, I haven't been on the bike for about a month as it has been too hot outside. I am all geeked up and excited about riding and I change the oil the day before. Fresh full synthetic. I get up at 5:30am and get ready to ride. I leave at 6:00 before the sun is up. It is dark and cool. Awesome weather. I get on I-75 heading north and run about 80mph the whole way. The wind was buffeting me around and making the bike feel squirrelly, but I figured it was nothing.

I get to my turn around point (McDonalds) and I smell oil burning. I look at the bike and don't see anything so I figure it is a car nearby. I have my drink and head back to the bike and notice a small oil spot under the bike about 4 inches in diameter. I figure Dang the bolt must be leaking on the pan. I get on the ground (all 325lbs) and the bolt is bone dry. No leak there, so I check the oil filter and it is bone dry. Hmmm, I look around hoping a gasket is not leaking and I notice the oil filler cap is not there! I figure I forgot to put it on yesterday when I changed the oil. :banghead:

Well, now I'm pissed! I'm so dang mad at myself I'm practically hopping around in the parking lot. I look at the bike and GOOD GOSH the ENTIRE bike from the oil filler hole on back is coated in brand new synthetic oil!! The back tire has about one third coated to the oil filler side. Oil all over my back brake rotor. I then notice my Kevlar Draggin Jeans on my right side are coated/drenched in oil and my tennis shoe is soaked in oil. I calm down after some passerby gentlemen point out I have an oil leak! :rofl: I call the Bike Tow number on my phone. They take 3 hours to come get me and drop it at the Dealer. I then have to take a cab home from the dealer. The dealer is cleaning it up, installing new rear brake pads and ordered a new filler cap.

So, all in all this was my ride:

Synthetic oil change - $35.00 saved $20 by doing it my self.
Leaving oil all over the north bound lanes of I-75 - Free
Soaking my shoe and jeans in oil - Free
Soaking the bike in oil - Free
Bike Tow - $125.00
Dealer - $135.00
Yellow Cab - $20.00
Knowing I saved that initial $20 on the oil change- PRICELESS!!!:banghead:

Luckily it was only down about 3/4 of a quart so it was no big deal. The buffeting by the wind was my tire getting oil under it. Thank God I didn't go down!:please:

The trials and tribulations of a biker!
 
The OEM filler cap is a piece of crap. It probably incurred a hairline fracture when you were tightening it up.
Don't bother with getting another one; get yourself one of the aftermarket aluminium jobs.
I have one of these: Billet oil filler caps (Seller is in the USA.)
 
man your lucky.....80mph driving in an oil slick the whole way.... lucky you. this could have been a much worse thread that was named......went down at 6:15 this morning.....oil on rear tire.

glad your able to look back and smile about the whole ordeal.
 
That sucks man...

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Glad you're ok Bro, sorry to hear about the mishap.!!
I was thinking if that WAS a hairline crack, I wonder if the bottom half of the plug is down inside the engine. I wonder if you could look down in there and see it.?? ???
 
I figure I left the cap off. I can't find it in my garage though. We will see. If that cap goes into the gears at 8000 rpm it will be turned into small pieces pretty quickly!
 
It cost you some money, but it could have been a lot worse for you with oil coating everything.. glad you are able to write the story.
 
On one of my oil changes I started to thread my cap on, just one thread, then moved on to other things and forgot to tighten it down, then took off for a short but VERY fast ride, 180+mph at times. When I got home the cap was still on...and I only had a couple of drops that had escaped. I couldn't believe how lucky I got :laugh: That could have been disastrous :poke:
 
I have done this too ..funny how you can't tell you are getting soaked with oil untill you stop... came to a stoplight put my foot down and WTF...rode slowly to a hotel to call my buddy...dripping oil all over the carpet... :rofl: and :banghead:.
Glad nothing but a hit to the wallet happend...too you !
 
mynewride said:
man your lucky.....80mph driving in an oil slick the whole way.... lucky you. this could have been a much worse thread that was named......went down at 6:15 this morning.....oil on rear tire.

glad your able to look back and smile about the whole ordeal.
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man you hit the nail on the head there, damn lucky indeed.


why did you send it to the dealer? Just get too frustrated?
 
really.. I'm not trying to laugh... And VERY happy you're safe.. But...

Synthetic oil change - $35.00 saved $20 by doing it my self.
Leaving oil all over the north bound lanes of I-75 - Free
Soaking my shoe and jeans in oil - Free
Soaking the bike in oil - Free
Bike Tow - $125.00
Dealer - $135.00
Yellow Cab - $20.00
Knowing I saved that initial $20 on the oil change- PRICELESS!!!
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That did it for me.
 
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