Battery Woe

Crikey, yes - that's the other way. Jump start it off the car.

 

Ooops. That was me not "er".

 

Only if you have no coordination. It makes the steering interesting but
that's what's fun about it.

 

its often borked to J11 but as I normally come off there it doesnt
bother me. back to 13 is another 10 miles.

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With a car? No. But I've towed bikes with bikes, both as tower and
towee. Most amusing was when I towed my mate's SL125 behind my
750Turbo.

 

Can be difficult if the bike has a rear rack and top box - instead of
leaping astride the machine there is every chance of kicking the top box
therby knocking the bike over - and then landing on the wreckage.


Tony

 

I think I'll just buy a car.

 

Chris Soanes says...

I'm an unfit 5' 8" tall weed. I used to be able to bump start my old
ZZR1100 on my own. You obviously can't select second gear on a ZZR1100
from standstill, so that makes it harder. It bumped easily within 10
yards of pushing

 

Champ says...

I towed and was towed a few times. The scariest was towing a broken down
RD250C with a KE100 trail bike for 10 miles. Towing blown up RD400s and
350LCs back from Chelsea Bridge with tied together football scarves was
a weekly occurence for me and my mates when I was a lad. I watched one
pair overtake a whole line of cars and bikes at well over 100 mph on the
M1 with nothing but 3 football scarves keeping them apart.

 

That sounds like fun.

I've never been towed on a bike, or been towed. I'm sure it's all
perfectly legal to tow a bike but you just hardly ever hear of people
doing that.

 

Why can't you select 2nd gear from standstill, I noticed that this morning
and wondered whether the gearbox was fubared or something.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

What Champ said.

Quite. That's why bumping the Wing is *so* difficult.
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Kawasaki's "positive neutral selector" or summat.

Go down as far as you can, then up, and you'll always be in neutral.

Simple.

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Oldbloke says...

A lot of Kawasakis are fitted with a positive neutral finder. It means
it's easier to find neutral at a standstill by not allowing you to
select second.

 

If you're at the BOSM, I'll tow you up and down the road if you like. Piece
of piss in reality.

 

Just get it rolling a little, even rocking it forward, while sat astride,
and it'll hook up into 2nd. Then get off, clutch in, and do the deed.

Slightly more technical is the bumping of a bike with a fuct clutch cable...

 

platypus says...

I've tried this on 3 ZZR1100s, it didn't work. Even trying to hook
second while bumping didn't work. I found it easier to push faster and
select first to bump the ZZR.

 

Okay, works on the Drifter.

 

Champ says...

They never break down cos they never do the miles like we used to.

Most bikers nowadays have breakdown cover as well.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

My mate's brother _pushed_ a Vespa 15miles home for the above reasons;
built like a brick shithouse he was, but the brain of a carrot. It was
just a broken LT wire on the ign coil.

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