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Message started by zipidachimp on 07/17/17 at 19:24:20

Title: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by zipidachimp on 07/17/17 at 19:24:20

Took my S41 out for a run last Friday, within 3 blocks started to surge, buck, backfire etc., within 6 blocks, so bad had to turn it around and bring it home. Extremely loud, thought I had an airleak whatever. Started to take it apart, went to remove the battery, + terminal was loose, explained the wavering neutral light. Charged it up, put it back, took it out today, smooth as butter. Now all my terminals have lockwashers.
Why did it loosen? who knows. :-[

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by batman on 07/17/17 at 20:10:12

I think they call it vibration.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by Ruttly on 07/17/17 at 20:17:24

Cause you dunt have a Gremlin Bell !!!!

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by batman on 07/17/17 at 20:34:33

hanging a gremlin on your bike by his bells sounds mean.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by Ruttly on 07/18/17 at 07:04:59

Just one of my stupidstitions never paint a bike green and must have a gremlin bell given as a gift, they don't work if you buy it.
After that anything goes !

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 07/18/17 at 07:55:20

And I thought the Vroom motor was silly.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by Ruttly on 07/18/17 at 08:58:30

The sound wave created by the bell disables the gremlins so they can't jump on as you pass by.
Without it , well you can fall prey to those nasty little critters.
Yup , and I've seen Bigfoot too !
But I haven't seen any aliens , but haven't been to Texas yet ! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by ero4444 on 07/18/17 at 15:30:54

the way I heard it, they jump up from the street, get stuck in the bell and get their ears gonged, and they fall out and off in disarray.

as a new biker on an old bike, I was reading about gremlin bells, and it seemed like it couldn't hurt. I looked where to hang one on the bike and it was already there and I had never noticed. Gave me a warm-fuzzy for no reason.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by Ruttly on 07/18/17 at 16:05:47

Either way the bell serves its purpose keeping the little buggers off my bikes free to jump on the non believers bikes , where they belong ! ;D

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by hotrod on 07/18/17 at 18:20:14

I ride with a deer whistle . By the time I get it out of my pocket, and blow in it, the deer are gone.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by Ruttly on 07/18/17 at 19:01:58

Ya know they make ones that you can stick on the front fender.
Actually for cars but work on bikes too !

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by ohiomoto on 07/18/17 at 19:56:17

1A333F3F372063520 wrote:

I ride with a deer whistle . By the time I get it out of my pocket, and blow in it, the deer are gone.

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No need for the whistle these days. Modern day deer look both ways before crossing the road.
;)

Edit: True story, I was playing golf last weekend. Had a 6:30am tee time, at a course located in a national park. On 2nd shot on the 8th hole (along a road) a coyote appears, looks both ways before crossing the road, the fairway and into the adjacent woods.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by NitehawkCE on 07/21/17 at 11:29:15

16313030283D440 wrote:

Just one of my stupidstitions never paint a bike green and must have a gremlin bell given as a gift, they don't work if you buy it.
After that anything goes !

Actually, that has been changed. They work if you buy it yourself. But....They are more powerful if been given as a gift from another biker.

Title: Re: Lesson learned, DOH!
Post by batman on 07/23/17 at 10:46:34

I think you've all gonged crazy,what you say doesn't ring true,no gremlins have jumped on my bike (they can't ride without a helmet in NY ).