knightofaprilia
02-11-2007, 03:46 AM
A cold winters night two miles from home around 5:30 pm my Rs 125 gives up.
The bike had cut out and would not start again. I thought these bikes are heavy to push long distances especially up hills and with the cold air entering my lungs " ill phone the breakdown company".:rolleyes:
Ok so i gave my location, the details of the problem and was told " within the hour id get assistance" By eight o' clock 2 and half hours later an Rac patrol van turned up. He apologised and said the computer had forgot about me.
Any way he takes the seat of my bike and starts fiddling around with my flasher switch you know the thing that makes your indicators flash. After getting no joy from this after about ten minutes he takes my HT lead of my spark plug and gets a new spark plug out his van and plugs this into my HT lead.
Yes you guessed it, his spark plug works. So expecting him to take my old spark plug out and try the bike with the new plug in it i was overjoyed for a minute only. In the next breath he exclaimed " you have a fuel problem mate and i cannot touch petrol " So ill call a recovery truck to take you and bike home" :mad: How long will that take i asked? " within the hour he said "
Ok now by nine o' clock the recovery truck was with me yes a great big flatbed lorry for my little bike. It took the recovery people 30 mins to get my bike onto the back of there truck as they were set up to carry cars and after a bit of messing about with ratchet straps we were on our way home.
Outside my house it took them 20 mins to get my bike of the back but by ten o' clock me and my bike were back home. Four and a half hours to travel two miles home? Ok now as the Rac man had not taken out my old spark plug or even lifted my fuel tank, i thought changing the spark plug should be my first stop.
So i did and you guessed it im now back on the road,
The morall of my story is always carry a spare plug ang tools to get at it, and if your only two miles from home its better to push your bike home and sort it yourself.
The bike had cut out and would not start again. I thought these bikes are heavy to push long distances especially up hills and with the cold air entering my lungs " ill phone the breakdown company".:rolleyes:
Ok so i gave my location, the details of the problem and was told " within the hour id get assistance" By eight o' clock 2 and half hours later an Rac patrol van turned up. He apologised and said the computer had forgot about me.
Any way he takes the seat of my bike and starts fiddling around with my flasher switch you know the thing that makes your indicators flash. After getting no joy from this after about ten minutes he takes my HT lead of my spark plug and gets a new spark plug out his van and plugs this into my HT lead.
Yes you guessed it, his spark plug works. So expecting him to take my old spark plug out and try the bike with the new plug in it i was overjoyed for a minute only. In the next breath he exclaimed " you have a fuel problem mate and i cannot touch petrol " So ill call a recovery truck to take you and bike home" :mad: How long will that take i asked? " within the hour he said "
Ok now by nine o' clock the recovery truck was with me yes a great big flatbed lorry for my little bike. It took the recovery people 30 mins to get my bike onto the back of there truck as they were set up to carry cars and after a bit of messing about with ratchet straps we were on our way home.
Outside my house it took them 20 mins to get my bike of the back but by ten o' clock me and my bike were back home. Four and a half hours to travel two miles home? Ok now as the Rac man had not taken out my old spark plug or even lifted my fuel tank, i thought changing the spark plug should be my first stop.
So i did and you guessed it im now back on the road,
The morall of my story is always carry a spare plug ang tools to get at it, and if your only two miles from home its better to push your bike home and sort it yourself.