Do you stop to help someone broke down?
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RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
I just don't understand today's bikers...
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From: Santa Clarita, So. Cal. & Bullhead City, Az.
RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
Do onto others...
Always stop! I'm pretty mechanically inclined. Moved 2 return throttle cables to replace the broken pull cable to get people home. Helped another out of a ditch after the Love Ride a year or two back. What goes around comes around. A great guy trailored my old Springer back to the hotel in Las Vegas when I melted the ignition pickup on the Memorial ride. (10,000 riders, and I was pushing my bike down Las Vegas Bl.
Always stop! I'm pretty mechanically inclined. Moved 2 return throttle cables to replace the broken pull cable to get people home. Helped another out of a ditch after the Love Ride a year or two back. What goes around comes around. A great guy trailored my old Springer back to the hotel in Las Vegas when I melted the ignition pickup on the Memorial ride. (10,000 riders, and I was pushing my bike down Las Vegas Bl.
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RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
I have stopped on occasion, gave a guy on a Jap scooter a ride to get a battery and back once and I've had people stop for me the couple of times I've needed some help. The last time was a couple of years ago when the clutch on my trusty old '82 Ironhead decided to fry on the way home from a ride. Thankfully I had my cell phone and was able to make a call for the 'ol pickup truck, but of the dozens of cars and bikes that went by, the only one who stopped was a guy and his lady on a bagger. I told them I had already made the call and thanked them. Stopping is a crap shoot, someone could actually need help or be looking to help themselves to what you have. You have to be careful.
Funny story, my neighbor stopped to assist an old woman who was on the side of a local highway with a flat tire. The woman was by herself, so being the gentleman that he was, he got out the spare, jacked up the car and put the spare tire on. Just about this time he looks up and sees the old lady's husband coming out of the woods along the side of the road. SOB was just waiting for him to finish before he came out and got back in his car. This PO'd my neighbor who took it upon himself to jack the car up again and take off the spare and left. Boy was he steamed.
Funny story, my neighbor stopped to assist an old woman who was on the side of a local highway with a flat tire. The woman was by herself, so being the gentleman that he was, he got out the spare, jacked up the car and put the spare tire on. Just about this time he looks up and sees the old lady's husband coming out of the woods along the side of the road. SOB was just waiting for him to finish before he came out and got back in his car. This PO'd my neighbor who took it upon himself to jack the car up again and take off the spare and left. Boy was he steamed.
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RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
"around here there is a chance they would borrow your ride if theirs was broke down".
TC,
Where you're from, I can understand that concern. Where I'm at, I have a .45 ACP anti crime alarm unit that would discourage that from happening.
Regards,
Bill
TC,
Where you're from, I can understand that concern. Where I'm at, I have a .45 ACP anti crime alarm unit that would discourage that from happening.
Regards,
Bill
RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
Damn Skip,
After a ride like that I could see where you might have traded that puppy for a Honda
Terry
After a ride like that I could see where you might have traded that puppy for a Honda
Terry
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RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
ORIGINAL: billnourse
"around here there is a chance they would borrow your ride if theirs was broke down".
TC,
Where you're from, I can understand that concern. Where I'm at, I have a .45 ACP anti crime alarm unit that would discourage that from happening.
Regards,
Bill
"around here there is a chance they would borrow your ride if theirs was broke down".
TC,
Where you're from, I can understand that concern. Where I'm at, I have a .45 ACP anti crime alarm unit that would discourage that from happening.
Regards,
Bill
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RE: Do you stop to help someone broke down?
ORIGINAL: terryt1955
Damn Skip,
After a ride like that I could see where you might have traded that puppy for a Honda
Terry
Damn Skip,
After a ride like that I could see where you might have traded that puppy for a Honda
Terry