Sneaky nearly joined The Smiled Club this morn'nin!

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Yep, I darn’near binned it propa this morning:blink: I wasn’t sure wtf caused it but as I dived (ahem) peeled gently into the rounderbout at Sainbury’s in Ilford, the rear tyre was slidin one way then the next and back again!:frowning: At this point I’d like to tell you what a mega hero I was in saving the day with skill and extraordinary bravery, but I was about to start screaming like a-big-girls-blouse and looking for somewhere soft to crash when it more or less sorted it self out!:DThe rear tyre looked odd when I got to work, I had just brimmed the tank about a mile before the slide, my kit stinks of fuel too? It happed again to a much lesser extent a couple of times in the next few miles, but the first one actually made pulled over (thought I had a punture)! Being a Super-retard rider by heart, we just normally ride throught it! .

It should be fun on the ride out this evening to the Essex Advanced Motorcycle Group:cool: Perhaps I’d better stay at the back of the ride? I will go check the bike later, make sure that the tyre is still black and round…:wink:

Sneaky-luck-bsatard 1, Smiled Club 0 (how’bout that for tempting fate!:hehe:)Right, how will I get these tyre marks from my underware?:blush:

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You do know, if you did bin it in Ilford, someone would have some and kicked it! With you lying next to the bike.

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dude!!!

was it wet ths morning?? see if it was i told you its no fun!!!:smiley:

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just ordered a new front cos mine is way to bald for the rain! and im sensing a bit of patchy weather on the run up to the end of summer.

bloody tires… they cost a fortune and even then, your bound to get a screw in them or hit deisel and render them useless.

glad you survived your little episode sneaky

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No, was bone dry m8. Some of us are grafters and have to get up early (in this case prior to the rain) to switch the street lights etc on for you lazy lot!:stuck_out_tongue:

I guess it was fuel running from somewhere on to the rear tyre? I have a pillion for this eve, plus it will be wet, so will have to check it over thoroughly!:wink:

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Lucky Sneaky :w00t:

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You got that right m8:cool: I’ve have hit a brick wall if I’d have fallen…no way to treat a wall!:wink:

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Were you on The Duke George?

Glad you managed a great save mate, I’d hate to see them pristine leathers go down the road;):smiley:

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Glad you saved it. Had a near off myself yesterday… MI6 bridge, North side of the river, turning right to follow the river along Earls Court, the ENTIRE road surface, just slid out from underneath me… front wheel slipped sideways about 3 feet. Luckily I held it up cos I wasn’t shifting and wasn’t leant very far over.

Turns out work crews had been laying that ruddy green grit stuff down that marks bike lanes. At the edge of the green zone, they just sprinkled ordinary gravel down, so the surface was consistent but NOT the colour. HOWEVER, they hadn’t put asphalt down on this bit to stick it down.

Its now an enormous MINEFIELD of slippery gravel…

Anyone else using the right turn lane on the approach to MI6 bridge/Vauxhall on the North side of the river… You’ve been warned!

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Yeah, on the Riot it prolly not been problem (magical powers, you see). You think the local council would have sent me a bill for cleaning up after my leathers had been down the road (and up that wall):DI’ve found the reason for the fuel leaking. Which ever to$$pot fuelled the bike this morning never closed the filler cap properly!:blush: I nearly broke the key trying to free the fuel cap, it had jammed half closed? Which fuggin eejit did that?:angry: Oh, good gracious! Is that the time, my book binding classes!:Whistling:

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dont you join the smiled club yet sunshine…!!!:cool:.

glad ur ok mate;).

smiled:).

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If you insist, I better put it off till another time?:hehe: I’ll see if that Elad will let me join his gang instead? He might be less fussy… or if he hit his head at Silverstone, should that be fuzzy!:smiley:

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Very lucky mate and glad you found out what caused it.

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Yep, I found out what caused it. ME!

Thank you for all the kind words above folks. But I brought that sh1t on myself. I found the cause of the fuel leak, it was me not checking if the filler cap was closed rather than jammed! To add to my day, the brake pads fell out of my bike on the way back from the EAMG ride out we did tonight, who fit them at midnight on Saturday? **Me! ** Finally got home tonight to find a NIP from the Police sitting on the table, who was driving? Me!

I have given all this great thought and come up with this:

I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob, I’m a knob. I think that just about covers it?:frowning:

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No it doesn’t cover it:w00t:

You are a big knob you are a big knob :D:D:D

Now repeat after me :P:P:P:P

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I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob, I’ve a big knob! Oh b*llox, I’ve even cocked that up!:smiley:

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I’m glad that you are OK … and still smiling :slight_smile:

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Thanks for hanging around for me!:slight_smile:

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Glad you didn’t lose it…

Having just brimmed the tank is it possible some of it slopped in the inner cap area and made its way down the overflow drain tube as you went around the corner?

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Blimey sneakey you do love living on the edge eh???

my half mile ride to Little Waltham after the meet passed by very uneventfully

:Whistling: