"yamahog" (yamahog)
06/04/2014 at 22:48 • Filed to: None
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"yamahog" (yamahog)
06/04/2014 at 22:48 • Filed to: None | 6
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(Following up on my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and back story)
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So I had to make a 3.5hr drive up to the Toronto area today. "Gee, looks like it'll be a nice day, might as well take the bike! Much more reliable than the Jeep too!"
About halfway through, cruising at about {redacted in fear of Mounties} in the left hand land, I find myself losing power, speedometer and tach dropping rapidly, twisting the throttle to no avail. I pull off to the shoulder, trying not to freak out. In almost 10 years and over 44k miles, this bike has had zero serious mechanical failures. I couldn't see anything obviously wrong, so I managed to get it going again and limped to a gas station, power still cutting in and out. Used my dad's AMA Roadside to get towed to a shop !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (now very highly recommended by me) and waited for a coworker to come get me on his way. I was guessing everything from spark plugs to a bad fuel injector, until I got the call from the shop (they had bumped my bike to the second in line).
"Good news and bad news," he said. Good news was they got it fixed right away for under $100! Bad news/TL;DR?
"There was a nest of spiders in your killswitch. They overheated and shorted it out."
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY RIGHT HAND WAS RIGHT THERE THE WHOLE TIME BLISSFULLY UNAWARE OF THE NEST OF NOPE WRITHING WITHIN!!!!!
(Big thanks to the mechanics at Performance Cycle in Cambridge, Ontario for getting me back on the road quickly, safe and sound and spider-free. Highly recommend to any riders in the area.)
Cajun Ginger
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:51 |
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ah man. I don't even mind spiders but if a nest of them hatched and started crawling up my arm, inside my jacket and gloves, would take every last bit of self control not to dump my bike.
Viggen
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:52 |
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Your bike has now been selected for Orbital Anti-Spider Strike.
Brian Silvestro
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:53 |
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Well I was kind of close not really.
Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:54 |
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"Overheating killswitch? Not in my Honda! Hahahaha!"
/says the man riding an extremely-detuned CBR
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yamahog
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
06/04/2014 at 22:56 |
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You sound smug now, but stuff it with a spider's nest and see how toasty it gets!
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Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:59 |
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.. I'm good. E10 fuel nearly killed me and I don't feel like having to get a hypo just for anti-venom.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:59 |
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You had a nest of spiders overheat and disable part of your vehicle. That's pretty damn metal. Killswitch Spider [Dis]engage
Vicente Esteve
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 22:59 |
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Prepare to cry
Logansteno: Bought a VW?
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:00 |
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Nope. Nope. Nope. Fuck that.
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Vicente Esteve
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:00 |
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Prepare to Cry
OkCars- 22k Crossroads
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:03 |
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MOTHEFUCKERS! Go make your NOPE stupid nest on a tree. Why does it always have to be on cars/motorcycles/bikes
scoob
> Vicente Esteve
06/04/2014 at 23:04 |
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Knowing me, I probably would've blown that...
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Vicente Esteve
> scoob
06/04/2014 at 23:06 |
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If That Happened to be I would seriously bring a glade and a lighter and burn the SHIT of these Diabolical creatures from the pages of Hell
BigBlock440
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:10 |
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I guess it's better than this:
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:12 |
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beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:15 |
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a nest of spiders?
Scary
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yamahog
> BigBlock440
06/04/2014 at 23:16 |
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At least his snake matched his bike.
Crocket Bernet
> BigBlock440
06/04/2014 at 23:20 |
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Nope snake all day every day.
The Compromiser
> yamahog
06/04/2014 at 23:43 |
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Cambridge is about 30 minutes from my house! Oddly did you know that no one in Cambridge actually lives in Cambridge? The live in Galt, Preston, Hespler, or about 50 other little villages that amalgamated into Cambridge. It's like New York City without the style.
ly2v8-Brian
> yamahog
06/05/2014 at 00:43 |
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Been waitin for an excuse to use this
$kaycog
> yamahog
06/05/2014 at 09:24 |
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OMG! That is so creepy! Glad it wasn't a serious (expensive) mechanical thing. I would rather break a fingernail than have those spiders.
jkm7680
> yamahog
06/05/2014 at 19:33 |
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Oh God! Good luck to them having to remove that nest of spiders. The good that I see is that it would be quite a surprise if somebody wants to start a killswitch war with you.
thebigbossyboss
> yamahog
06/06/2014 at 07:05 |
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NOPE NOPE NOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPEEEEE.
I hate goddamn spiders.
bob and john
> yamahog
06/06/2014 at 07:07 |
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oh, hey another biker in the GTA.....coming to port dover?
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yamahog
> bob and john
06/06/2014 at 08:18 |
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I live in Metro Detroit, I was just up north for work.
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bob and john
> yamahog
06/06/2014 at 08:43 |
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oh dam.....
my other question still stands, coming to port this year?