You know when somebody messes with your bike and you really wish they hadn't?

Was in Pakistan last week and I stopped in a friendly little place called Kingri on the way to Iran. After eating, drinking tea and chatting with the locals on the street, I later went past my bike in the courtyard where my room was and noticed my fuel filler cap was missing from my IMS tank. Now that's annoying enough but after I sounded off at the people there (directing my anger at the owners son...), no one was admitting anything and said it must have been like that when I arrived (!) so I took a look around the courtyard with my torch and somehow thankfully spotted it in a corner lying amongst some junk.

Anyway, after that I put the bike in my room and had a look into the tank to see if anything had been put in there too. I could see something at the bottom that was a familiar shape but it was only the next morning in the daylight that I could see what it was- they'd broken off one of my indicator lenses and put it in the tank...grrrr!

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commiserations. I remember back in the 70's when a member of the club I was in had spent months and and many hours rebuilding his 750 Honda and on one of its first outings the engine was wrecked because another jealous club member had topped up the oil tank with sand. Probably the first time I realized how malicious some people could be with some else's pride and joy.

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If you think you are too small to make a difference you have never spent the night with a mosquito.

In my early biking days I was riding a BMW R75/5 (which I still own). In Germany we called them "rubber cow" owing to their soft suspension and unstable chassis. At an outing with our club we camped in some paddock. I was by them probably the last BMW rider left, everybody else preferring cheaper Jap bikes that outperformed any BMW in any which way.

The next morning I discovered bundles of grass piled onto the cylinders. Somebody pointed out that cows need to eat grass, but if it didn't want to eat I should drain the oil, then it would certainly eat (implying that running the engine without oil would result in a "Kolbenfresser", the piston eating into the cylinder). This was all in good humour, of course.

Some time later our bike shop organised a rally for customers which also involved members of the same club. We had all booked into a camp ground near a small village in the Eifel hills. The camp also sported a pub, frequented by the locals. One of them was a young guy who made a nuisance out of himself riding his CB400F rather fast around and in and out of the camp ground, where children were running around. I finally decidd to teach him a lesson. After he disappeared back into the pub I casually wandered over to his bike with another club member to admire his bike. The I swapped the plug leads of cylinders 3 and 4. I never saw myself what happened later, as he stayed in the pub past my bed time. But my friends with glee reported that he had great difficulty starting his bike, coughing and spluttering, and that's how he puttered out of the camp. He never bothered us again.

Guilty as charged.

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Peter.

Europe to NZ 2006-10

I had someone locked my trotel lock down just so when I relesed it I stayed at speed lots of fun that.

I had a little scooter some one at work pushed over and broke the lights on it. That one realy pissed me off told every one if a see someone do that agen i was going to shoot them and brought in a gun to help reinforce that idea.

Had a tech once drain my oil then run my bike on a "test run" tryed to tell me it was full and no way can he make a mistake like that. Not mean or any thing may not have done much damage but I still traded it in and still will not buy any thing from them.

I took my bike in to a shop to get the electrics fixed and some of the plastics screws weren't put back in after retrieval so I found some and put them back in myself then a month later my electrics started turning off and on randomly so i got her naked and realised the battery was hanging on by one corner screw in a tab and the tab was really bent (almost broken off) probably from the speed I hit speed bumps (it's a motard). Needless to say I wasn't happy... now the battery always drains itself I think it was damaged, there are some cracks in the top of it.

I parked my F650 on the edge of a square in Milan with a load of scooters. Walking back towards it I noticed a guy in a suit looking at the bike very closely and thought enough of it walk a bit quicker. By the time I actually got back to the bike he'd run for it but left me a little present; a brand new Snap On scewdriver in the ignition

So, while Milanese bike thieves are obviously well dressed and don't buy their gear at ALDI, this one was a complete and utter muppet, the disk lock was untouched :confused1:

The ignition continued to work no matter if you used any key roughly the right size or a screwdriver, so no worries trip wise, I'm just glad I spent the extra fifty quid on the best disc lock I could get rather than rely on what BMW fitted.

In London I once found someone's sandwich box and three rounds of Ham and Cheese in the ex-Army rucksacks I used as panniers. Red MZ's with MOD panniers weren't that common and they'd done up the buckles, so I guess some sort of joke I wasn't a party to. I didn't risk the butties but the box served well for years as a storage container for assorted electrical bits.

Andy