What I've learned from moped repair is:

Justice . /

Go to branch

Feb 28, 2009 06:10PM

It's never lupus, or in other words, no gas

I was breaking in my kit all day yesterday, fouled a plug or 2 and kept on moving. I got downtown around 16th street when all of a sudden Weeeeeeeerrrrrrngghhh, and my bike dies.

What came to mind immediately was my spark plug since it's been the pattern of my day, but luckily I bump into Rachel who is just getting off of work, and has a sparkplug tool (mines I left somewhere).

Check the plug, black as Wesley Snipes, and oily. I'm glad that it's still running rich, yet I don't have another spark plug to replace it with, so Rachel and I go sit down at Leelas an have a drink. I consider snatching a sparkplug off of one of the many scooters downtown, but something told me karma would respond rather negatively on my kit.

SOOOO Long story a shorter, I walk about 2 miles back to my place and change out spark plugs and with no success get my bike started. After a shit load of fustration, while trying to pedal start again I fall and guess what... No gas is pouring out of my carb or tank...

There was nothing left to do was Laugh, there has to be someone up there writing scripts for everyday stupidity.

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other Andy /

quiznos8

Feb 28, 2009 07:14PM

I've done that. Nothing like pedalling yourself to death, buying a new sparkplug, and cleaning your carb just to find out that you ran out of gas. Fun stuff. My bike is starting to learn some manners though. I was running a little rich and needed to drain my tank and remix. My bike was nice enough to empty the tank on my garage floor while I was asleep.

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Al . /

ironfist

Feb 28, 2009 07:51PM

Yup gas in a moped lasts so long, eventually you forget it needs fuel and sure enough, just when you forget this VERY important piece of information is when you run on empty!!

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Lyman /

tucknroll

Feb 28, 2009 07:59PM

my favorite, is when you fire it up on a cold day, get exactly half way to work (a two mile trek) and it dies... and then you fight for 20 minutes trying to get it started, and give up and just start pedalling it because you're already late for work... when you pull into the parking lot at work, you park your bike as usual, reach down to turn off your petcock, as usual, and realize then, that you had never turned your petcock on in the first place, and rode the first mile (mostly downhill) on the fuel that was hanging out in your float bowl.

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Downhill Harvey (OFMC) /

ajwasp

Feb 28, 2009 08:06PM

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michael Hardy /

mustang_hardy

Feb 28, 2009 09:05PM

i too have had my carb allz apart just ta realize i were outta gas... laughing crazely at ones self is all ya can do... at least it becomes an easy fix' .. funny stuff..

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steve /

stevep1989

Feb 28, 2009 09:18PM

jesus this happens too often. you think after you ride peds for a while youd figure it out. even yesterday i took my ped out for a ride (first long ride in a while, mind you, so i was a bit rusty), and made it like 3 blocks on one float of gas. i had just got the bike running so it spooked me, but it was oh so relieving to find out i was just being an idiot.

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max /

maxspam

Feb 28, 2009 09:39PM

The First thing i do when my bike randomly dies is pull the tube off the carb and see if it dripps onto the groud if yes I continue in my efforts to get running again.

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SpartaFoxiLover /

phoenixrising

Feb 28, 2009 11:29PM

Roflmao don't you hate it when you have a blonde moment?LOLOLOL

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Tate /

madtownmick

Feb 28, 2009 11:32PM

I think everyone has been there. Just be glad it wasn't the other way around, like you think it just needs gas but something in the case had a heart attack.

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