Author Topic: Senior moment (Read 2791 times)

GILBERT · « **on:** 02 November 2012, 04:18:24 pm »

Only just come round to fessing up what I did on the weekend!
Decided to lube the swing arm bearings on my gen 1 fazer thou, so took all the necessary parts off to allow access to drop the swing arm out and re-grease, as anyone who has done this will know it is not a 5 minute job.
[/size]So having got the swing arm out and given it a good clean & re-grease, popped the swing arm back in and started to reassemble all the components littering the garage, carefully torqueing everything up as I went on. Just about to slide the wheel back in when I turned around and spotted the swing arm spindle sat on the bench gleaming at me.

[/size]Do you know any swear words – I do!

[/size]You know that moment when you look at something and see it in detail while everything around has become a haze – it was one of those! It surprising how much quicker everything goes back together the second time around. Does any one else have any ‘moments’ that they are willing to fess up to?[/font]
[/size] p.s. the garage was bloody cold last Saturday as well.[/font]

Skippernick · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 November 2012, 05:26:06 pm »

Thats how you create a spares box.

JZS 600 · « **Reply #2 on:** 02 November 2012, 06:10:02 pm »

Top tip after taking the tank off to service your bike, turn the fecking fuel tap back ON before reassembly and attempting to start

Yeah, took me a while to figure out what I hadn't done,,,

dickturpin · « **Reply #3 on:** 02 November 2012, 06:32:32 pm »

A while back I did top up the coolant before replacing the drain plug.....but I did confess on this site at the time!!!

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Fazerider · « **Reply #4 on:** 02 November 2012, 06:49:58 pm »

Having two attempts at reassembling anything is pretty much normal as far as I'm concerned.

Probably my worst mistake was forgetting to finish torqueing up the rear wheel spindle after a tyre change, nipped it up to the point where it was just tight enough to provide some decent friction whilst setting the chain tension... then headed off to work. After a few miles I opened the throttle and the bike was suddenly crabbing down the road sideways.

I've done the equivalent on the car too: puncture, change the wheel, do the nuts up finger tight, jack down, forget to torque the nuts up and off we go. Twenty miles later I'm wondering what that clunkety-clunk noise is.

slappy · « **Reply #5 on:** 02 November 2012, 08:28:15 pm »

not a bike moment but a car moment.I serviced my old capri a few years back and could not get it to start afterwards,3 hours later after i had given up for the day i found the rotor arm in my pocket!
A bike moment,my first ever bike back in 1973,a yamaha RD250 again i serviced at my girlfriends home,could not get it to start afterwards,pushed it 3 miles home and then found i had put the air filter in backwards.
Senior moments can happen at any age.

Dave48 · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 November 2012, 07:47:33 am »

Oh YES!!! Job going nicely, thinking to myself- soon be finished-then the awful realisation that its all got to come apart again. Oh well if a jobs worth doing why not do it twice!

Was in my local Yamaha dealer yesterday talking to one of the mechanics about my next autumn service job-yes youve guessed it-the swingarm & rear suspension bearings: clean,inspect &, hopefully, just regrease. So thanks for the prior warning

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I am lucky in that I have a large "drive-in" kitchen and can work on bike in warmth & comfort. Have a large flat work surface to lay out parts as I dismantle in proper order. Helps to have kettle,radio, central heating and comfortable seat on castors.
Have "Fond Memories" of working outside in freezing weather with tools & parts all over the tarmac-but not these days! Also find digital camera very useful because I know I wont remember where everything goes-just look at what they cram in under the fuel tank-everything has to go back just so-& thats not my OCD talking

MadDogMcQ · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 November 2012, 08:41:53 am »

Quote from: slappy on 02 November 2012, 08:28:15 pm

.... i found the rotor arm in my pocket!

Aaaahhh, the simple days of rotor arms! Bring 'em back. And Capri's!

UG · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 November 2012, 08:56:36 am »

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GringoRojo · « **Reply #9 on:** 03 November 2012, 11:07:46 am »

Helmut?

DILLIGAFF · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 November 2012, 12:14:27 pm »

Not a car or bike moment but a friend of mine was telling me about a cowboy builder he worked for.
They had to rip out some old French doors and fit a new sliding patio doorset.
All went well and he was just finishing off the new grouting to seal the shiny new doors in when the guy asked him for the door keys?????

In their enthusiasm to get the job done they had left them taped to the inside of the frame

The whole lot had to come out again.

Dave48 · « **Reply #11 on:** 03 November 2012, 01:45:47 pm »

Classic!

DryRob · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 November 2012, 03:01:41 pm »

More of a n00b moment for me;

When I first got mine I wheeled it out of the garage, put it on it's centre stand and locked up the garage. Started it up dropped it onto it's wheels and sat down, put it in gear and it cuts out, "that's a bit odd".
Back into neutral, started it back up, move into gear it cuts out again, "oh shite".
I try a few more times and the same thing keeps happening, start to panic abit and I'm swearing a lot under my breath as I put it back on the stand and unlock the garage wondering what I'm actually going to be able to do apart from putting it away and hoping it will fix itself.
Walk out of the garge with the lights on, "oh maybe it's the side stand"

slappy · « **Reply #13 on:** 06 November 2012, 12:40:28 pm »

Walk out of the garge with the lights on, "oh maybe it's the side stand"

I do that on a regular basis still,even after owning my gen1 for over 4 years.

GringoRojo · « **Reply #14 on:** 07 November 2012, 09:33:42 am »

You'll stop that once you drop it off the centrestand and the sidestand lands on your foot.

Ask me how I know.

JZS 600 · « **Reply #15 on:** 07 November 2012, 12:15:58 pm »

I had the back wheel land on my foot once when I took it off the centre stand,,,

DryRob · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 November 2012, 06:46:48 pm »

I found out the hard way how strong the spring is on the side stand when it decided to move it back up after I thought it'd stayed down, catching my bike nearly wrenched my shoulder out of it's socket

Fazerider · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 November 2012, 07:57:23 pm »

I'm definitely losing it.
Took the wheels down to my local tyre fitters to get the old Bridgestones replaced last Friday, lack of time meant I didn't get round to putting them back on the bike until Sunday. This morning I went out to the garage and discovered this:

Yep, I'd managed to leave a ring spanner on a caliper bolt.

The thing is, I commuted to work on the bike on Monday and Tuesday... how the hell could the spanner stay there for 150 miles?

JZS 600 · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 November 2012, 08:14:45 pm »

Classic!

I had a six inch nail that went through the edge if the tyre and out the side wall. Feck knows how long it was there but I noticed it one evening when I took the video back to the shop (yeah, it was a while ago,,,,)

DryRob · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 November 2012, 05:14:59 pm »

I'm after some tools, what brand is that spanner?

pitternator · « **Reply #20 on:** 13 November 2012, 05:50:42 pm »

you spanner !