This is how you stop your mate riding with NO front brakes

[fatboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYtbmlRIKE
He said can you help......
this is the only way to stop him riding the fucking thing with no brakes.....
yes he would have tried

[blinkey501]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYtbmlRIKE
He said can you help......
this is the only way to stop him riding the fucking thing with no brakes.....
yes he would have tried

I don't want to sound old before my time but why any one would want to put there pride and joy under such pressure i don't.
It fucks the transmission

[fatboy]

blinkey, put it this way, its a57 plate GSXR 750 he bought from new
The only original parts left now are frame,swing arm and wiring loom, the rest he trashed doing wheelies and throwing it down the road,he even bent the sub frame flipping it
He blew the motor after having plug thread repaired,he dropped a valve, snapped the cam....whilst he was running it in and not revving above 5000rpm ,he says
He rode to bath from bristol with both front calipers unbolted and in the fairing and was going to ride to work again rather than drive his car cos the sun was shining
Rear tyre was also spanked
My mate but an irresponsible twat

[blinkey501]

blinkey, put it this way, its a57 plate GSXR 750 he bought from new
The only original parts left now are frame,swing arm and wiring loom, the rest he trashed doing wheelies and throwing it down the road,he even bent the sub frame flipping it
He blew the motor after having plug thread repaired,he dropped a valve, snapped the cam....whilst he was running it in and not revving above 5000rpm ,he says
He rode to bath from bristol with both front calipers unbolted and in the fairing and was going to ride to work again rather than drive his car cos the sun was shining
Rear tyre was also spanked
My mate but an irresponsible twat

He gives good bikers a bad name....

He is a knob

[fatboy]

Yes. The gixer replaced a Kwack 636,brand new,lasted 5 weeks
Too fst round double S bend, hit 2 cars and stopped a Sprinter van with it
He walked away
The Kwak replaced a Triumph 955, he wrote a Blade off with that
the list goes on
Worryingly he holds an HGV
But he doesnt live near you !

[D-Rider]

I wouldn't like to have to pay his insurance premium!

......... how do you get some people to see sense?

[BikerGran]

Seem to be a lot of bike accidents lately that result in the rest getting a bad name!

There was one outside the NABD rally entrance - a rider that was nothing to do with the rally was doing about twice the speed limit, t-boned a car that was turning into the site. Lucky so-and-so only had concussion and a broken finger but I bet it causes problems when the NABD want a licence for the event next year, even though it's been taking place there for many years without incident.

[Willopotomas]

I bet it causes problems when the NABD want a licence for the event next year, even though it's been taking place there for many years without incident.

Yes, could prove a sticking point with the local plod. Even though the rider had nothing to do with the rally, the driver did.. So that'll be the link they'll try to use. Expect more hoops to jump through.

Saying that, at one of our rally's someone was stabbed in the gut. CID investigation and all sorts. Didn't effect the following year's rally though, which was a surprise. The only issues we had with future events were down to a certain motorcycle club who wear their patches on their backs.. Enough said there really..

[D-Rider]

The only issues we had with future events were down to a certain motorcycle club who wear their patches on their backs.. Enough said there really..

Ah yes those pensioners who forsake their bus passes for 2 wheels. Trouble makers ........

[randomsquid]

Community service is the answer. Make them take away people's nightsoil on an ER5 with a big topbox.

Which brings to mind a man I used to work with. Had a C90 with a big wooden topbox. Which we filled with water. Which all came out when he went over the hump at the end of the estate.

[BikerGran]

[fatboy]

To clarify matters.
the guy spinning the rear tyre out is NOT the bike owner but my mate who decided spinning the tyre out would stop him riding.
WRONG
The rear tyre spun off the wheel. The next day the bike owner pumped the tyre up and by some dangerous turn of fate it stayed inflated so the idiot owner then rides it 7 miles to my mates house were they discover a 4 inch strip of rear tyre bared beyond canvass,bared to the wire
Now I hope you can understand why spinning the tyre out seemed the best move
I think there is only one more thing to add, the gixer owner is a freind of mine. I hope he gets banned. Soon

[D-Rider]

Would banning him actually stop him?

Do you have a chain-splitter? - they don't go that well with the chain removed.

[Falcorob]

Strange how everyone on here is holier than thou' when they can have a go at someone worse than them.

Are you all seriously telling me that you don't speed, overtake when you maybe shouldn't, ride too close to the vehicle in front, have loud cans, or any other of the countless minor offences that most bikers commit without a thought? Just because this particular guy is a pillock has everyone up in arms and shouting for the guy to be hanged drawn and quartered.

Let those without sin cast the first stone.

[D-Rider]

Funnily enough I had thought of saying that I bet most of us have ridden/driven with a temporary-less-than-perfect fix .... however, my feeling is that is what it is, temporary until we sort it properly, we know its limitations and ride/drive well within them.

From what Fatboy is saying, its not that his mate is "responsibly" managing the risk but it sounds as though he's either unaware or just doesn't give a flying f###.
Well that's the feeling I've got from reading from our own chap who knows what makes his mate tick.