Here is a question from a real rookie. Ok go ahead and type your lol and get your smileys ready.


After I ride my bike I smell of gas/exhaust. It is pretty bad. Is this normal or is there a problem? I thought is was from riding behind my friend but I rode alone yesterday for about 25minutes and I just plain reek (gas/exhaust not bathing habits). So lets keep the ragging on me to a minimum.


Thanks
Thom

05 600RR 400miles on it.

 

Nope...sounds normal. It's a byproduct of riding so close to the fuel tank and exhaust.

 

Oh. Just checking. My wife hates it. Thanks for not laughing at me.

 

Yeah normal problem! I hate it too. You don't realize it until you change though. Then you smell your clothes and they smell like that! Not a laughing matter...

 

I wonder how flammable I become.

 

Some bikes give off a more potent odor than others. I don't smell that bad from riding my bike, but when I've rode on the back of my mans' bike....I f*cking stink and so does he....that's how it is.

 

It happens mate,

I find that textiles absorb more smell than leather does.

Hope that may help.

 

C'mon -- it's like bike perfume After being at the track all day in the sun the gas and burnt tire smell mask the sweaty funk

 

thats great! i love it when i go somewhere and somebody asks "whats that smell" and i tell them i ride a bike. its like helmet hair, wear it with pride!

 

Weird, my wife and I haven't experience the gas smell at all after I ride alone or with her on back. My wife hates that gas/exhaust smell. Her nose is so sensitive to it she complains every time I am working with gas in the garage and she has to walk through on her way into the house.