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Check your nuts

Started by saddlesore, Sun 04, Sep 2016, 19:34:26

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saddlesore

  During a ride today I stopped for gas for the final leg home.  I got back on the highway but some didn't seem right with the windshield.  Was it my imagination?  Should I wait till I got home to check things out?
After many years and a lot of miles of looking through that shield  I knew something was wrong. 
  I started envisioning the shield coming completely off and decapitating me so  I took the next off ramp and found one of the bolts was loose enough that the wind at 80 mph was enough to move the shield.
  Moral of the story....check your nuts,screws,bolts and rivets.     :)   
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

CajunRider

Eh... no need... I already know I'm nuts.   :uglystupid2: 

Seriously though... glad you noticed it before it turned bad.   :cooldude: 
Sent from my Apple IIe

The emperor has no clothes

I don't really check mine. But I do adjust them on a regular basis.  :coolsmiley:

SpidyJ

....gotta find 'em first!   :D
1999 Fast Black Interstate

Peace,
johnnywebb

Hook#3287

Just checked, all's good :cooldude:

Now I'll go down to the garage. ;D

Hook#3287

Quote from: SpidyJ on Mon 05, Sep 2016, 09:48:54
....gotta find 'em first!   :D

Are you married?   Ask the wife.  :)

Firefighter

That is one good thing about cleaning your bike. You will find loose bolts and nuts and or problems before they get too bad, except for the windscreen bolts of coarse.
2000 Valkyrie Interstate, Black/Red
2006 Honda Sabre 1100
2013 Honda Spirit 750
2002 Honda Rebel 250
1978 Honda 750

SpidyJ

Quote from: Hook#3287 on Mon 05, Sep 2016, 09:59:46
Quote from: SpidyJ on Mon 05, Sep 2016, 09:48:54
....gotta find 'em first!   :D

Are you married?   Ask the wife.  :)

She keeps 'em in her purse...but I sneak 'em out some times just so's I can remember what they feel like!  :crazy2:
1999 Fast Black Interstate

Peace,
johnnywebb

Karen

And here I was sure that this was a post I could ignore...  :-[

Mr Whiskey

On a ride up around Oneida last year with The Wild Bunch
& caught my clutch lever as it tried to fly away :cooldude:
Peace, Whiskey.

saddlesore

  I should follow my advice more often. I remembered earlier this year I checked my manifold nuts. The left side was missing two nuts and three were loose.  Right side had three loose nuts.
  I saw someone lost one of their side bags along the hiway last week too.  Now that hurts. :crazy2: 
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT