Loose your Bell and see what happens
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Road Warrior
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Orange County Texas
Loose your Bell and see what happens
Lost my bell a week or so ago, no big deal I'll get the wife to pick me up another.
Left work Wednesday and got onto interstate, about a 1/8 mile between work and the interstate. Works over for the day, I'm on my bike and I'm a happy camper.
Go to change lanes and all of a sudden I hear Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack. Straighten up and the sound go's away. Go to change lanes again and again Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack.
Pull over on the shoulder and look the bike over and find no problems. Get moving again and the same thing, Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack.
The Harley shop is a half mile away, so I head there. Get there and pull the bags off and see the problem.
There a 3/4 inch bolts head sticking out of the tire slightly off center. Figure its a lag bolt and the 2700 mile old tire is garbage.
Its 5:30 in the afternoon I've got a shot tire, there isn't enough time left in the day to change it and I'm an hour from home.
So I do the paperwork with the service desk and express to the service writer what I'm going to have to go through to get home, he suggested I rent a bike for $50.00. I say F-ing A give me that Ultra-Classic and head for home.
After work the next day I go to pick up my bike and this is what they show me. It's a 1/2" bolt, 4 inches long stuck perfectly straight in my tire.
I tell the service writer I need to go play the loto because the odds would be about the same for this happing.
Keep that bell on your bike to scare the bolts away.
Left work Wednesday and got onto interstate, about a 1/8 mile between work and the interstate. Works over for the day, I'm on my bike and I'm a happy camper.
Go to change lanes and all of a sudden I hear Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack. Straighten up and the sound go's away. Go to change lanes again and again Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack.
Pull over on the shoulder and look the bike over and find no problems. Get moving again and the same thing, Clack Clack Clack Clack Clack.
The Harley shop is a half mile away, so I head there. Get there and pull the bags off and see the problem.
There a 3/4 inch bolts head sticking out of the tire slightly off center. Figure its a lag bolt and the 2700 mile old tire is garbage.
Its 5:30 in the afternoon I've got a shot tire, there isn't enough time left in the day to change it and I'm an hour from home.
So I do the paperwork with the service desk and express to the service writer what I'm going to have to go through to get home, he suggested I rent a bike for $50.00. I say F-ing A give me that Ultra-Classic and head for home.
After work the next day I go to pick up my bike and this is what they show me. It's a 1/2" bolt, 4 inches long stuck perfectly straight in my tire.
I tell the service writer I need to go play the loto because the odds would be about the same for this happing.
Keep that bell on your bike to scare the bolts away.
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Glad it worked out for you. Surprise you didn't say that you came back the next day and bought the new Ultra & left your bike there
I picked up a screw this spring and ruined a tire with about 2500 miles on it too. But I HAVE a bell on my bike that my kids gave me. It wasn't doin its job. But I didn't wreck when the tire went flat so I guess I'm good
I picked up a screw this spring and ruined a tire with about 2500 miles on it too. But I HAVE a bell on my bike that my kids gave me. It wasn't doin its job. But I didn't wreck when the tire went flat so I guess I'm good
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I'd have plugged it. (yes, kidding)!!
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Road Warrior
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I never lost air pressure in the tire, guess i should have just rode it 
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