Dropped My Bike

So the other night I rode to the Red Eye Saloon, and drank, I swear, a single beer. When I left to head home my '79 650 would crank, but not fire. Once in a while it'd cough, but wouldn't catch.

Tried shutting off the fuel petcock, cranking with throttle closed, wide open, various choke settings, et cetera, nada.

So I went back in and waited a while, drank, again I swear, only 1 more beer, then tried it again. Again, nada.

So I started to push it home; not that far. As I was pushing I figured I'd try to push start it. Pulled in the clutch, put it in first, got up to running speed, and popped the clutch.

It fired, but bucked and snorted, and the upshot was that it bucked out of my grip and fell over on its side. Broke the right rear turn signal, and broke my windshield into 4 large pieces, and bent the brake handle. But, after picking it up it started and I rode it home.

Had plenty of gas; don't know why it wouldn't start. Have not had any trouble with it. Some days are like that.

I would love a cold one right now....

Sorry to hear that, tears ya up don't it? "Honerst Offifer, I ronly had one"! :whistle:

Bluemeanie wrote:

Sorry to hear that, tears ya up don't it? "Honerst Offifer, I ronly had one"! :whistle:

And I swear to drunk I'm not God! :ohmy:

i was at a car show talking to a guy with a mint 76 or 77 kz1000 that had 6k on it and he was having a little bit to drink, i don't know how much he had to drink but i wouldnt have rode if i was him.

he said he's looked on kzrider so hopefully this will get him to join :side:

bummer did you check the vacume line sounds like it ran out of gas by the way I am in kuna close to the redeye i could help you out

Sounds like Someone was trying to tell you something!

I fiddled with the petcock and whatnot, but didn't specifically check the vacuum line. I did check gas; the tank had plenty. Still dunno what happened.

Z1Boise wrote:

Still dunno what happened.

Were You drinking LITE-BEER?
Drinking a lite-beer has been KNOWN to piss off Your bike...try something from Canada,and I guarantee Your bike will perform flawlessly!:laugh:

The bike was pissed because you didnt take it in with youB)

sucks now you have to look for some parts to put it back again

I kind of lucked out on the parts issue. The Gringo pointed me to an ebay sale of a seat (he told me - correctly - mine is ugly, and he's been watching for seats for me. So, in addition to the seat, the guy was selling other parts, and I was able to get what I broke, though not the seat.

The only real expense will be for a new windshield. But I'll tell ya, it has much better acceleration without that windshield, so I'm conflicted.