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Got soaked in a thunder storm ... now T won't start

Bleeding obvious and I'm sure you've tried it but I had the same symptoms once when stopped at box hill. After frantic searching turned out I'd hit the kill button without noticing it. It has two positions - Check its not pushed in!

Cheers

Chris
 
Bleeding obvious and I'm sure you've tried it but I had the same symptoms once when stopped at box hill. After frantic searching turned out I'd hit the kill button without noticing it. It has two positions - Check its not pushed in!

Cheers

Chris

Hello Chris and thanks for replying to my call for help.

As it happens I spoke to a well known Aprillia guru this morning and the first thing he said was "check the kill switch"

What kind of fool did he take me for!

Bloody kill switch indeed!

Did he honestly think I'd nearly kill myself trying to bump start the ****?

Anyway.

The kill switch was indeed in.

And now I must await a seething storm of derision and merciless piss taking

Let's see how long it takes ... time now 1420hrs
 
Nae long **** fur brains! 14:23 so 3 mins tae be precise.

TOTAL FUD ye are Newels min......... (we have awe done that nugget at least once in oor bikin lives but nae since a teenager!)

Hing yer heid in shame...
 
Dont tell me , the kill switch was wearing cammo gear and you couldnt see it.
 
I will not lower myself to take the mick given the easily made and genuine mistake on this occassion, could happen to any of us. Some may post questions even though they have not checked this hidden switch.
This clears up the L and R markings on your boots and the H on the helmet presumably for head.
Any moderators out there can the evil twin status be down graded to fud twin on this occassion?

At least the bloody thing is not broken :) and you only missed the best weather so far this year due to this easily made mistake(well by a complete ***** anyway).

And remember everyone next time you see newelly on a ride out, press the kill switch at any given stop just for the fun of him calling the AA !!
 
I spent two hours trying to start my misses bike two weeks ago, same thing so I can only sympathise. (yamaha)
Might be time to don the cammo gear so we won't know where you are. Any face to face may incur some ribbing tho'
Good shot Rico.
 
Haha :) must admit to that schoolboy error on my first bike - never since!!
 
What no comments from Bay or Aldo?

Sssssssssssssshhhhhh!

I think I may have got away with it!
 
Oh, give it time, give it time..

Fair play to you son, for even admitting it on a forum, and for the 1st time ever i agree with picklemon, your etwin status needs revising.......



but this, i find the best...... there was 2 of you fuds !!!!

"I tried bump starting it today ... 3 attempts pushing it to the top of my road and then peddling with feet to 16mph left me gasping and heaving for air ... but the T would not fire"

:kicknuts
 
Oh, give it time, give it time..

Fair play to you son, for even admitting it on a forum, and for the 1st time ever i agree with picklemon, your etwin status needs revising.......



but this, i find the best...... there was 2 of you fuds !!!!

"I tried bump starting it today ... 3 attempts pushing it to the top of my road and then peddling with feet to 16mph left me gasping and heaving for air ... but the T would not fire"

:kicknuts

Yes it was a moment of determined and premeditated self deprecation that "The Guru" advised against.

Nice to know (3 so far) others have made similar gaffs but do you know what was worse than missing 2 x of the best riding days since I took ownership of the T ?

Getting slagged off by Pikemyth!

Oh ... and nearly having a coronory bumping my baby down the hill

Oh well ...
 
n, yer a welly. Enjoyed a muttly style snigger, bet yer were pleasantly surprised that's all that wis wrong.
 
Only a **** would make a mistake like that.

Then again I always thought only a **** would throw their bike down the road on shiny new tyres.

We all **** up sometimes, best thing to do is to own up and take the abuse like a man (as I did and you did) and rest easy in the knowledge it's only something you will do once (at least I bloody hope so).
 
You could make a keep fit video ................

Pushing the bike uphill and running alongside it downhill
 
I'll give that a 7.5/10 on the ****-o-Meter. Only because I've done worse but shan't tell.
 
Newelly some things are easily overlooked. For example it's taken me this long to notice this thread has been replied to and I'm one of the last people to reply. I have to hang my head in shame now for missin such an opportunity. I've also got a confession to make and it grinds me to have to admit it but it was my little ones 3rd birthday yesterday and I took him to buy his 1st push bike. Anyway they had lovely red one down the local bike shop but alas it seems my 3 yr old is too tall for this one and has to have a bigger one. Anyway the guy in the shop said "what's your favourite colour". My little ones answer as gilo can verify when I took him down to see the motorbikes on Sunday "green". He even said his favourite motorbike was one of gilos mates green triumph. Anyway the guy goes away and comes back with this box opened it up and low and behold there's a bloody green URBAN CAMMO bike under the cardboard and my little one loved it. Anyway cut a long story short I'll let you off on this occasion due to the shock of my little ones 1st bike.

Ps glad it's not broken and I've missed this nice weather as well due to sons birthday party on Sunday and his actual birthday on monday.

Pps no one else on the forum even suggested the kill switch. Call ourselves a forum? Flaming eck we shoulda realised with the t's being as reliable as they are it was nothing more than the kill switch.
 
Fud!...... But how did it feel to find out it wasnea anything serious? Went from an Italian whore to the love of your life in the space of a heartbeat I bet! :thumbup
 
been there done that. a reckon most people will have. sat and watched me brother thumb his horn instead of starter 1 day not just once 3 or4 times (just about pissed meself). done it meself since, felt like a *** at the time but you have to laugh.
 

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