Jinxed Myself

[76GMC1500]

I use to brag to my friends that I have never broken a lever. Well, I still haven't broken a lever yet but I did bust my clutch lever perch today. I was a really stupid crash, too. I stalled in a turn and tried to bump start the bike on the exit. By the time I gave up bump starting, the bike was already stopped. I couldn't get a foot down in time and the bike dumped me down the side of a hill. This is when the perch broke. Of course, I had about 5 miles of black diamond trail ahead of me and I am riding a motocross geared CR250. I push started the bike down the hill only to get stuck in a giant mud puddle that was twice as deep as I was expecting. The bike stalled and I fell over in the mud and filled my boots with water. I had no hill to bump start the bike this time. I had to kick start it and put in it gear and hope it didn't stall. I made it out on the 2nd attempt but I really hated to do that to the transmission. Once I got going, I made it the rest of the way without stalling. I had to go really fast over some stuff I normally would have slipped the clutch on. The steep downhills were trecherous because if l locked the back wheel up at all, that would have been the end of me (the bike would stall and there would be no way to regain traction on the rear wheel). Back at the truck, I bet I sure looked funny running next to my bike every time I needed to start it.

A few days ago, I miraculously bent my handle bars back straight falling backwards down a hill. Well, today I fell going forwards again and they're bent even worse than ever. Nobody will ever want to ride my bike because bent bars are so uncomfortable to people who aren't used to them.

 

[IndyMX]

A comedy of errors! Hate if tor ya.

 

[Moose]

I broke a lever this summer too..basically throws the whole day down the drain.

Tried to powerslide a turn, being a beginner I kept on the throttle and didn't touch the break, the bike slid out from underneath me, I put my foot down and basically did the splits. Fell to the left so my clutch lever broke in half. Sucked big time.

 

[IndyMX]

I broke my clutch lever this past weekend.. I had a 2 inch (No Effin Comments!!) clutch lever the rest of the day.. It was a pain in the butt trying to ride that way, thru the woods...

 

[Chili]

I broke a lever this summer too..basically throws the whole day down the drain.

There should always be a spare set of levers in the tool box, no sense losing a day of riding to a mickey mouse repair like that. Even for a day of open or practice riding I carry extra levers, nuts/bolts, safety wire, clutch cable (learned that one the hard way ( :bang: ) a cheapy clutch perch and a few other odds and ends that are escaping me at the moment.

On race weekends we have another whole assortment of things like bars, subframe etc in the trailer.

 

[thebleakness]

I have yet to break a lever. *knock on wood* But I would have had I not had barkbusters. I hit a ditch going around 50 and the bike cartwheeled handlebar first into the ground. The barkbuster was almost 90 degrees straight down but no broken lever. Thank god for those things.

 

[76GMC1500]

Our local OHV park has a store, they sell perches. $16 later and I was back on the trails.

 

[KX250Dad]

76GMC1500... thanks for story. I do the mx things with the boys and ride with a target on my back... nothing beats jumping over the teacher. Not to long back I was just sitting on the KX at the peak of an up hill double... had a brain fart and simply lost balance and fell over (age thing), my rear number plate sticks inside the top of my boot, I can't get the other leg over to move the bike and the next thing you know my son and four others come to help thinking I looped out or something... embarassing, and yes I bent the brake lever. To this end my friend your not alone, neat thing is guy's like us are secure enough to laugh. Bet you IndyYZ85 has a tail or two... (lets hear it?)

 

[76GMC1500]

I forgot to add that during the crash that straightened my handlebars, one of the wires to my kill switch was ripped off. Well, while I was down in the mud puddle, that loose wire started shocking me. It took me a while to realize where the shock was coming from and finally move my hand.

 

[Dangousity]

HAHA .... awsome this one time I was washing my hands in a OLD concrete washtub, ... and I used to scrub my hands on the bottom to scrub the grease and oil off em. well one time i did that and I got a stinging feeling... thought I had got a cut while working on my Bike, So i kept doing it. Pulled my hands out of the water to discover there was an electrical back feed from the pump house and i now have blisters on my hands from the shockage.

P.s on another note, Double check the power when your grandfather tells you he "thinks" the power is cut off.. flying off a 10 foot ladder is fun .. no really.

 

[FruDaddy]

... embarassing, and yes I bent the brake lever.

I bent a brake lever a while back, kept forgetting to change it out, the day I finally did, the ground moved under my front tire in a particularly narrow turn (track was in the process of being worked on). I fell into a 6-8 in drop off and snapped the new lever. Luckily, I always carry at least two, and I started that day with four.

 

[trial_07]

Each time I slip and fall in a curve there's that damn clutch lever that breaks. Fortunately they aren't very expensive.