duck
Life time member
Number of posts : 4249
Here's my flaming tale of woe:
I was selling a K100RS4V. The prospective buyer came by for a test ride and, per my terms of test riding, he gave me the cash to hold while he test rode it. I led the way on one of my other bikes for a while on the test ride since he wasn't familiar with the area so I led a course where he could get some turns in and a few freeway miles.
I let him the lead the way on the way back so he could set whatever pace he wanted. After we got off of the freeway I noticed he was oddly speeding up and slowing down. I wasn't sure what to make of it. After about a mile of funky riding like that he pulled off into a gravel parking lot.
It was then that I noticed smoke, then FIRE near the final drive of the K100RS4V. I was in a BIG hurry to put it out so I quickly threw my gloves off, grabbed a shop rag out of the tail of the bike I was riding and ran over to put it out. Since the fire was on the left side of the final drive I approached the task from that side of the bike.
Being left handed, that was the hand I used to try to put out the fire. While my left hand and intense concentration were focused on putting the fire out I inadvertently grabbed the exhaust with the full palm of my right hand and burned the living crap out of my hand. As one might imagine it was intensely PAINFUL.
Once I'd gone home to get my trailer and retrieve the bike with the burned up rear end, it took me several hours with my hand in a bucket of ice water and an entire fifth of Crown Royal until the pain was dulled enough for me to get some sleep that night.
Last edited by duck on Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:33 pm; edited 1 time in total
__________________________________________________
Current stable:
86 Custom K100 (standard fairing, K75 Belly pan, Ceramic chromed engine covers, paralever)
K75 Frankenbrick (Paralever, K11 front end, hybrid ABS, K1100RS fairing, radial tires)
86 K75C Turbo w/ paralever
94 K1100RS
93 K1100LT
91 K1
93 K75S (K11 front end)
91 K75S (K1 front end)
14 Yamaha WR250R
98 Taxi Cab K1200RS
14 K1600GT