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My latest FU

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So after a horrible extended weekend of doing a fork seal replacement, I take the 750 out Sunday afternoon for a road test. Great ride and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Tonight I have a look at the bike and what do I see but the speedo cable is detached from the gear drive on the axle.....WTF???? It gets worse.............I go to put it back on when I realise there is no inner cable:eek: I lost it somewhere on the ride:o

Sheit, if it wasn't for bad luck , I'd have no luck at all.

I think I better quit riding while I'm still in one piece.

I think I'm well out front in the running for GSR F-Up of the Year.

Cheers all,
spyug
 
How the f'in heck did that happen......

I say you go back out, retrace your ride and find the cable, stick it back in, and give er....just to get even....

but seriously that sucks
 
After buying the bike a 6 hour drive away, I got home and unpacked my bike from the trunk of the car, got it running and took it for a jaunt down the road to find out the spedo didn't work. Checked and sure enough, the cable was missing out of it.
So I ordered one.
When it got here I rolled my bike out of the garage and knelt down to remove the old cable shell from the drive gear, and what do I see?
The old inner cable laying right under my foot, pressed into the gravel!
I had the forks off the bike to make it fit in the trunk, and when we hauled it out and put the forks back on, it must have fallen out.

Long story short, I have a spare cable I could send you!!


Tank

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tkent02 said:
Last time I did that the inner cable was wrapped around the axle. Tightly.
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Hey spyug,,,,,there is still a chance you didn't lose it......

have a look around your axle.....:D

I couldn't resist...:eek:
 
Hah, I'm starting to enjoy reading your f-up threads, the backwards oil filter is still the best one though :D
 
Hah, I'm starting to enjoy reading your f-up threads, the backwards oil filter is still the best one though :D
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I'm just practicing my standup comedy routine. Just call me Seinfeld.......or make that Kramer :)

Cheers,
spyug
 
Steel Toed Tank said:
After buying the bike a 6 hour drive away, I got home and unpacked my bike from the trunk of the car, got it running and took it for a jaunt down the road to find out the spedo didn't work. Checked and sure enough, the cable was missing out of it.
So I ordered one.
When it got here I rolled my bike out of the garage and knelt down to remove the old cable shell from the drive gear, and what do I see?
The old inner cable laying right under my foot, pressed into the gravel!
I had the forks off the bike to make it fit in the trunk, and when we hauled it out and put the forks back on, it must have fallen out.

Long story short, I have a spare cable I could send you!!


Tank

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I love this pic as it brought back memories of me hauling a beat up old Kawi 1000 down from northern Ontario with it sitting in the back of a ' 78 Cordova. had some interesting stares from folks as my tailpipe was dragging over bumps in the road.
 
the bike in the trunk is the most redneckist picture i've seen in a long time. brings tears to my eyes. thank you mr. tank.
 
Yeah, the previous owner and his roommate thought we were nuts.
He went inside to get the ownership, and by the time he came back out we had the tank off, the seat off and the whole front fork assembly off and in the back seat.
He looked kinda puzzled for a minute until I said "Think you could give us a hand lifting it?"
He said "Lifting it to where?"

Why into the trunk of course!, lol.



Tank
 
I wouldn't even notice if my Speedo quit...I never look at it!
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Well my speedo had quit and I run a bicycle computer which was more accurate anyway so looking at it wouldn't tell me anything either.

Spy
 
Tank, you just need to get a slightly bigger car as they also fit into the back seat...

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Those pic's are AFTER the other swing-arm and these were removed...

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After being put together...

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Eric
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spyug said:
So after a horrible extended weekend of doing a fork seal replacement, I take the 750 out Sunday afternoon for a road test. Great ride and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Tonight I have a look at the bike and what do I see but the speedo cable is detached from the gear drive on the axle.....WTF???? It gets worse.............I go to put it back on when I realise there is no inner cable:eek: I lost it somewhere on the ride:o

Sheit, if it wasn't for bad luck , I'd have no luck at all.

I think I better quit riding while I'm still in one piece.

I think I'm well out front in the running for GSR F-Up of the Year.

Cheers all,
spyug
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You didn't notice your speedo quit working? Or where it quit working?
I'd retrace your trip, who knows you might find it.
 
Mercaholic said:
I love this pic as it brought back memories of me hauling a beat up old Kawi 1000 down from northern Ontario with it sitting in the back of a ' 78 Cordova. had some interesting stares from folks as my tailpipe was dragging over bumps in the road.
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thank you for that. I laughed my ass off...!!
 
My swing arm F***up tops your speedo cable....see my post in suspensions. Gawd that ****ed me off...:mad:
 
I had the spare tire (full sized) from the car in the back seat, along with the gas tank, front tire and front forks, a baby seat, and a 5 gallon gas can, along with a 10'x10' blue tarp that I just stuffed in there because I was too cold and wet to fold it up.

The picture was taken the day I got my bike, in the city I picked it up from.
Snow blizzard in late may, lol.
 
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