******* of the Week Award

[dcarver]

Alrightty, then. Wabs, the fabulous 2007 DL 650 w/ ABS brakes that no longer ABS. Hmm. Don't I recall the sensor pickup and associated cable were severed by a rock and I band-aided it back together again?

Look, look, look.

Why yes, that DID happen.

Hey now, then where is that brand new and pricey replacement cable I bought?

Look, look, look.

No Joy, No Happiness.

OK, phuck it. I'll buy me yet another one.

WTFO, 200 dollars?

Crap!

Dumb Ass of the Week awards goes to me.

Last week it would have been Red Fish Hunter.

 

[FJRay]

I looked and it's not in the large pile of FJR, Honda, Kawasaki and misc. **** you have stored in Oregon.

 

[Geezer]

You'll find it right after you install the new one.

 

[exskibum]

I looked and it's not in the large pile of FJR, Honda, Kawasaki and misc. **** you have stored in Oregon. :finger: :lol2:

Check the Suzuki pile, Ray.

 

[FJRay]

The last of the Suzuki crap was pitched into the scrap pile. It was the POS centerstand we repaired once and then took off.

 

[Panman]

I've done it before, I found a special set of cams for a old Triumph I was building that I wasn't ready for. I put them some place special, had to buy another set for twice the price once I was ready for them. Found them when I moved two years later after the build!

 

[bluesdog]

Isn't it reassuring to know you're not the only one to put things 'someplace special'?

I try to blame the dog.

 

[RadioHowie]

So you broke Wabs???

Why am I NOT surprised?

 

[exskibum]

What pisses me off is when I specifically put something someplace "so that I won't lose it." But I neglect to take my brain out of neutral when I do that and then F'ing cannot find the damn thing when I need it later, though I have a very clear recollection of where it had been before I moved it.

 

[bikerskier]

What pisses me off is when I specifically put something someplace "so that I won't lose it." But I neglect to take my brain out of neutral when I do that and then F'ing cannot find the damn thing when I need it later, though I have a very clear recollection of where it had been before I moved it.

You will find this happens more frequently as you add miles to your body.

 

[Pterodactyl]

Do they offer a Life Time Achievement Award in this category?

I was installing some Jesse Bags on one of Spousal Unit's bikes. I could not find a nut; I had seen it in the package so I knew it was there. After an hour Annie walked out and asked what the problem was. I described the missing part and she pointed to the bike and said, "Is that it?" I had already installed it.

 

[exskibum]

Do they offer a Life Time Achievement Award in this category?I was installing some Jesse Bags on one of Spousal Unit's bikes. I could not find a nut; I had seen it in the package so I knew it was there. After an hour Annie walked out and asked what the problem was. I described the missing part and she pointed to the bike and said, "Is that it?" I had already installed it.

Not sure that qualifies for a lifetime achievement award - maybe only because so many of us have done something exactly like that.
But we really do owe serious props to our wimmens who seem to have an almost supernatural ability to quickly find things we've misplaced and cannot seem to find, . . . no matter how many times we've looked right at it. At least by this age, it's never "alright, what did you do with it?", but a sheepish surrender: "I give up; help me with your magical powers, please." Dunno how they do it, but it's uncanny.

 

[mcatrophy]

Well, I can put down a tool/nut/wheel just to take cup of tea or coffee brought to me by the Spousal Unit, then spend an hour looking for said tool/nut/wheel.

Unfortunately, Spousal Unit (who is first class at finding stuff in the house) just sighs, then turns away, mumbling all the while about how I should clear up all the mess in the garage. Won't help at all finding my stuff there.

Such is life.

 

[Pterodactyl]

After I work on the FJR I know I leave a trail of small screws, nuts, washers and rivets as I ride along the road. Parts that had fallen into the bowels of the bike and were undetectable by the human eye.

 

[BakerBoy]

Do they offer a Life Time Achievement Award in this category?...

I would think a Lifetime Achievement Award comes only to someone who's misplaced their bike, more than once !

(no, I haven't)

 

[Enn]

then, ... where are my glasses?

 

[Fontanaman]

If Carver had no bad luck he'd have no luck at all.

 

[user 6393]

If Carver had no bad luck he'd have no luck at all.

ditto

 

[FJRay]

If Carver had no bad luck he'd have no luck at all.

ditto

With Barb's return the world is in balance again so Don's luck should change. I sure hope so cause I spent almost 2 years recreating the KZ1300 and I don't want to do it again.