I was riding along and my cbr 600 just bogged down and died on me yesterday. I thought to myself call my friend up who is an H-vac , he'll bring some tools and we'll sort this out real quick(he lived two blocks away) . I didnt listen to myself and jumped to conclusions ,thought the worst called for a tow and payed the 80 bucks . I calmed down a day later and looked into what the heck happened. When I had last had my bike apart I had left the positive battery cable finger tight and over the past 500 or 700 miles it worked itself loose and ran down the battery. If had listened to what I had read in the chassis manual where it says always start with the obvious when your bike has a problem I could've saved some money,time,and aggravation. Could've hand tightened it possibly , pushed started it and limped home. I think this goes for any machine car , truck , whatever. If your bike dont start , check to see if your ignition is turned on , etc,haha. Have a good one out there.

 

Very true.... and it happens a good bit actually.
Always make sure you have fuel in it, too.... hehe!

 

yeah its definately easy to get nervous, frustrated, pissed etc... and overlook a real simple problem like not turning on the gas valve or a loose battery connection. but it sure does suck when u keep your cool only to find out ur fuel pump contacts **** the bed and your 100 miles from home :-(.

but thats what friends with trailers are for haha

 

The technical term for what you describe is the "KISS" principle. It stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid, and is one of the first trouble shooting theories I learned in avionics training in the Navy. (helps to prevent these )

 

LOL- I ran mine out of gas twice. On the same day.

On the way to work - forgot to turn the petcock on. Took me a couple of minutes roadside to realize what I had done. During that process I looked int he tank and saw fuel sloshing around. So in my mind, I now knew "I have gas in the tank."

Later that day, going for lunch, I run out of gas again (4 miles from where I ran out that morning). I'm like "What now? I have gas in the tank and the petcock is on this time"

5 minutes later, totally frustrated, I open the tank (that I knew had gas in it from the morning) and still see gas in there. At the bottom. Almost at the very bottom. Maybe 1/2" total in the tank.

/FACEPALM

Switch to reserve, crank it up and go to the gas pump.