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Old Mar 2, 2013 | 12:59 AM
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So, I spent the better part of the day tooling on the bike, installing saddlebags and turn signal relocation. Get the bike down of the lift and start walking it around the garage so I can get my car back in. Well, it would only roll about two feet forward and back. It was in neutral, clutch in, checked the tire over and over. It was so strange. Then a lightbulb went off after about 5-10min... I had dropped a quarter size washer and it landed square on the drive belt. It would stop the bike as it hit each sprocket going back and forth.

That's it. Was too funny not to share.
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Old Mar 2, 2013 | 01:03 AM
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Two kinds of funny. Funny hmmm..what is doing that?? Funny haha...when you find the simple solution. Aren't you glad that's all it was?!
 
Old Mar 2, 2013 | 01:14 AM
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Makes me think about bikes that have no belt guard and gravel on the road?.
Its a good job you had to move the bike by hand cos if you had just set off it would of spoiled your day.
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Yeah Tbone, that could have sucked!
 
Old Mar 2, 2013 | 05:29 AM
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Your lucky you just didn't start it up and ride off, it would have done some serious damage.
 
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Theres something to be said about running belt guards
 
Old Mar 2, 2013 | 07:16 AM
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Good story. Imagine if you had not found it and had to haul it into the dealer to find it.
 

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Originally Posted by TheGeek
Your lucky you just didn't start it up and ride off, it would have done some serious damage.
This is what I was thinking. You should have looked for it, when you dropped it. Not finding it on the floor would have drove me crazy.
 
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A great forehead thumping moment. I've done stuff like that so much that my wife says that I now have a fivehead!
 
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Originally Posted by BassCatcher
Good story. Imagine if you had not found it and had to haul it into the dealer to find it.
That would have been funny, but maybe too funny/embarasing to share here.
 
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