Never a dull moment with a kicker! I named my bike "Cybyl" cause she always starts right up at home but she goes pshyco when I'm trying to leave anywhere in a hurry!
When my sons were young I used to tell em if you can start it, you can ride it. It was hilarious because I run a mag on her with no key so I have toggle switches that have to be set up correctly for her to start! Plus I'm running an old "L" block S&S carb on her. Don't even turn the ignition on till the carb spits at you... That was alot of cheap entertainment right there!! Five big old boys taking turns kicking ol' Cybyl! Kept the top end lubricated for me(lol)

 

Gump -


You are correct about the whole 'return it in the same shape or better'...and about having to chase them down to get stuff back.

I cannot tell you how many set of jumper-cables I have had to buy cause mine ended-up perminantly 'loaned'. I just started buying the cheapo's because I got tired of giving away the expensive stuff. Hell, I'm still waiting to get back a set that I built a while back with Heavy-Duty clamps and double-0 gauge cable. They have been 'on loan' for over a year.

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Unfortunately I am surrounded by a bunch of folks who really don't know how to do ****. I have literally (no bullshit) been asked to come over and help hang a picture on the wall. I'm thinking that if you can't hang a picture...then how do you even figure-out how to get dressed in the morning? Cause putting on a shirt, shoesand pants the right way takes a lot more mental aptitude than tapping a nail with a hammer. I can't figure it out. Don't even get me started on my Air Compressor...Not a week goes by that someone doesn't have a flat tire, basketball or a damned pool toy they need inflated. I have had a neighbor pull-up in my driveway and honk his horn until I came-out...then said he had low tires & need to use my compressor. I ended-up filling his tires while he smoked a cigarette (bummed from me) - then he asked if I was going to check the pressure with a tire gauge before he left. I think I may have gotten a "thanks" outta that one.

But the worst by far is my beer. Apparently these 'can't fix **** themselves' neighbors of mine can't buy beer either. I am not really a drinker, but like to keep beer in the garage fridge. About once every 2 or 3-weeks I'll have a beer or two in the evening. About once every 2 or 3 months I'll have 8 or 10 beers over the course ofa day while I am working around the house, BBQ'ing or if we have people over. Somehow - Wifey ends-up buying a 20-pack of Bud Light bottle EVERY week because my neighbors 'stop-by' to talk and end up drinking it.

I'll quit now becaue i'm ranting.

 

Jump - That's why I live in the middle of the Sierra with, what my friends call, "The driveway from hell!" If you're coming up to my place I know you're a friend, and someone that can ride a bike. If I hear a Harley, I know where it's headed. I'm just too far out to be the neighbor that helps everyone out. However, I do understand where you're comiing from. I really don't know if I could do the whole friendly neighbor thing anymore! Keep up the good work.

 

Not to pirate the thread, let me add, I live so far out in the boonies I rarely have a bud or neighbor borrow anything, a helping hand rounding up a loose cow or dragging my PU truck out of my swamp, yes, borrow no. I only drink a beer w/pizza or mex food, except when I am at a run/rally I will down a few.
That said, I pity the guys with their pushbuttons and digital bikes, they miss all the traditional HD fun and games w/carbs, kickers, and rigid frames.

 

UMM! Beer & Pizza. Bourbon & Bikes.... Now I'm hungry & thirsty! I do have a couple of electric start bikes too as you can see in my picture there but I still hold a special place in my heart for Cybyl! She's my TT bike (tavern to tavern) Even if I drink too much, kickin' her will sober you right up! And by the time she starts you're ready for the next tavern. Can only go 80 miles on the peanut tank anyway!

 

Hey, Tramp, you sound like "Panhead Roy". He has the 'driveway' from h*ll of the ppl I ride with. If you want to shoot the breeze with Roy, put your 'ridin' boots' on, big time.

Jump. speakin' of air compressors. When I lived in our other place, I 'loaned' my gas powered air compressor to a guy to paint his house and grudge, for the weekend. A month later, I come home, and there is the compressor, in the grudge, in it's spot. COOL!!! Some time later, I was going to use it in the other shop, pull it over there, flip the choke, grab the rope, and d*mned near ripped my fingers off. The engine was seized tighter than a gnat's a$$. Jack butt ran it without keeping an eye on the oil, as instructed. [:@][:@][:@] When I finally caught up to him, "Gee, not sure what you're talking about, Gumby, ran fine for me"
Boy, can we turn this complaint fest about complaints, into a complaint session or not?

On the brighter side, the chop is runnin', the sun has FINALLY come out this morning, so, C YA.

OH, and to that Tejas name callin' wimp beotch, Dr Fill comes on at 3:00 and Oprah at 4:00, so gots to get to town and back B4 then. Carry on, lad!!!

 

Gumby, who's this "Tejas" guy of whom you speak. I don't know about tramp or you, but if I'm drunk I always forget one of the essential steps in kick starting. I've forgotten to prime, pumped one to many times on the accel, kicked 6-8 times only to realize the key ain't on[:@]. Once flooded I will sober up long before I ever get it started. See, kickers are a safety feature too!

 

"See, kickers are a safety feature too!"
That's exactly what I'm sayin! Gump - maybe we can take this complaint forum up with de dr.phil....I'm sur Oprah could figer it out too!

You boys want to see some real snivelin and name callin? Go to the red light etiquitte thread!

 

"Hey, Tramp, you sound like "Panhead Roy". He has the 'driveway' from h*ll of the ppl I ride with. If you want to shoot the breeze with Roy, put your 'ridin' boots' on, big time. "
You can do some serious power slidin and hill climbin gettin to my place! Rigids really rock on my road!The ol' glide can get pretty serious if I wind her up too much!

 

There's a lot of commonality in this thread, happens I live down 5 mi of the worst blacktop in E. Texas. It was paved over sand 60 yrs ago and a little guy with a pickup truck full of asphalt comes by once a blue moon to throw patches on the worst potholes. I'd rather ride 10 miof gravel than go down my road. Maybe I'll take pics, you wouldn't believe it. It's like it's been pattern bombed by B52s then patched, bombed again, on and on. If I hadn't rode MX I wouldn't have the skills to get my rigid all the way home. Not pirating! Just complaining.