How many times has your trusty steed let you down?

[mitzy]

Big factor when looking for a bike.

How many times has your two wheels let you down?

I would say once, the second being my fault

[StevRS]

Ran out of petrol yesterday (went home without my wallet and thought I'd make it...)

Conked out momentarily once after being resurrected from 18 months stood & me not cleaning the carbs etc...

Aside from that spot on

[lawrence567]

I left the lights on once & the battery died, thats about it really!

[speed_monkey]

lawrence567 said:

I left the lights on once & the battery died, thats about it really!

+1 did this on Sunday!

[Wyvern971]

Well not let down so much as crap on the roads

I've been riding for a little over a year now and to date I have had;

1 Front puncture
3 Rear punctures - the last on the M1 in the outside lane

[Hyperion]

Once at a petrol station where it wouldn't restart due to worn starter motor brushes finally giving up the ghost...my fault really - it'd been iffy for weeks. Had to ask someone to give me a bump start!

Once when it ran out of petrol...again, my fault - the light had been on for a good 45 miles.

That's it.

[AndyDRZ]

ZX6R - Rear hub carrier bearing failure. Locked rear wheel, Launched me down the dual carriageway and flipped end over end.

So, didn't even let me down gently

[Bruggy]

Every second journey, well it is a Lambretta!

[xspencex]

Christ...and I went for a reliable BMW..but have had

Immobiliser failure... Bike to dealer
2 X Run out of fuel even though the gauge said I had 20+ miles left
Air bockage in oil cooler, que recovery to dealer


The above actually stopped me in my tracks... then there's a long list of other stuff that has resulted in a replacement engine, and a whole host of warranty replacement/repairs. I guess my bike was made at 5pm on a Friday!

[y2blade]

my fireblade...in the 6+ years i've owned it...has NEVER let me down

my DRZ400...in the 3+ years i've owned it...has NEVER let me down


both are serviced and maintened by me as i know what i'm doing

[Buggy52]

ha ha ha.......run out of petrol umpteen times

replaced the: throttle cable, rectifier and battery apart from that runs sweet

[randlemarcus]

CBR600F - multiple battery failures due to the PoS alarm/immobiliser draining. One fuel due to my inability to turn back from reserve the last time I filled up.
04 Fireblade - genny failure left me stranded a couple of times before I figured it out
02 F4S - ECU playing silly buggers when the Meta alarm overheated. P/X

02 RSVR - never. 04 F4 312R - never. 04 Nera - touch wood, never.

[RizzoTheRat]

Reg/rec died a few years back and fried my battery, waited 4.5 hours for the bloody RAC to recover me!

[Hooli]

14 - never, had punctures but goo or plugs have got me home ok. it almost fell apart in spain but rode it back with a loose front sprocket, duff steering bearings & dodgy front brakes.

stroppy - hardly ever nowdays. when i got her she'd be built by a 'professional' a few years before with bills to prove it. all i can say is god knows what hes a professional at but its NOT building bikes. took a total rewire, adding in missing parts like a regulator, modding the steering bearings so the adjuster worked, countless stripped threads etc etc. oddly enough now shes built properly she works much better & for longer. currently off the road with the engine in bits to sort the last of his cockups though.

[Zead]

only by punctures. I have a misfire at the mo that I cant get to the bottom of, but it still works. 6 years of mainly self maintenance, it's never let me down. (That's blown it.) If the point of this post is to show the reliability of our rides, then it works as so far it's pretty positive.

[evo stu]

never

[dern]

y2blade said:

my fireblade...in the 6+ years i've owned it...has NEVER let me down

In the first 5 years I had my blade it was faultless. It then spat a plug taking the head thread with it which meant stripping it all down. The following two years were ok. This year I've had 2 stators burn out, a fuel pump burn out and the front fork casings crack (although this was supposed to be subject to a recall but I didn't get the letter).

[dern]

randlemarcus said:

04 Fireblade - genny failure left me stranded a couple of times before I figured it out

When you say figured it out, how do you mean?

[randlemarcus]

dern said:

randlemarcus said:

04 Fireblade - genny failure left me stranded a couple of times before I figured it out

When you say figured it out, how do you mean?

Coming from a bike with an alarm that would discharge the battery in three days, it was kept on a conditioner, so it only showed up when it started failing to do SE London to W1 trips. I'm no spannerman, so it was a long, slow process to understand what it w
s (and get money back from the dealer)

[dern]

randlemarcus said:

dern said:

randlemarcus said:

04 Fireblade - genny failure left me stranded a couple of times before I figured it out

When you say figured it out, how do you mean?

Coming from a bike with an alarm that would discharge the battery in three days, it was kept on a conditioner, so it only showed up when it started failing to do SE London to W1 trips. I'm no spannerman, so it was a long, slow process to understand what it w
s (and get money back from the dealer)

Ah, see what you mean. There's been a few few have a number of stators burn out in quick succession and wondered if it was that problem you'd resolved. Cheers anyway.