This is a thread for those nice run-ins with the man in blue.  This topic started to overrun the "All New Members Check In" thread, so I decided to start on deticated to those fun and not so fun incidents....

As I stated in the other thread, you have to remember that they can always bet the bigger a$$hole!

When I was younger, me, my brother and our girlfriends were riding around.  My brother's girlfriend (Dana) was driving and I was still young enough that I couldn't drive.  Well it was cold out, so we had our jackets piled up in the floorboard in the back...  Well the cop was giving everyone hell, being a dik...  And when he's interrogating everyone, he asks me ho old I am...  I had just had a birthday so I started to say one age and then corrected myself.  He comes back with "Don't you know how old you are boy?"...  I was a little punk, so when he asked his next question which was "Do you have anything under those jackets?".  I responded with a nice, "I don't know, Dana, do you keep and guns, drugs or maybe tanks under this crap..."  Of course I recieved a nice scolding look in the rearview and from the cop...  But it was all I could do that couldn't get me in trouble.     I know it was just talking a little crap, but keep in mind, I wasn't even old enough to drive yet.  I considered it a small victory or revenge to his smart ass comment.

I was running down the highway @ about 60-70mph and my RPM's just dropped and the bike died...  I coasted over to a shoulder, couldn't get it started so started pushing.  I would stop pushing every now and then and try to turn it over and I could get it to start sometimes, but I'd put it to an idle at around 4-5k and then without taking off the throttle the RPM's would just drop back down and it'd die again.  And then I couldn't get it to turn over again for a while.  But after a while when I could get it to turn over again, it's just do the same thing.  I was going to bring my maintenance manual to work so I could go through it and try to figure it out, but I forgot it at home.

I was low on gas, but not out and I put in more gas and that didn't help the problem.  My dad thought that since I was low on gas, maybe condensation built up in the tank and I had watered down gas, so he had me add two caps full of rubbing alcohol to the tank.  Still not working...  Plug looks a little dark, maybe no fuel...  If there's a fuel problem, it's coming from the carb cause unhooking the hose from below the shut-off vavle, has gas runnning everywhere.  So the gas is making it past the filter...

Any ideas?

Okay people, I talked to Skadamo and he turned on our avatar's!  Now we can pick some sort of representaion of ourselves.  If you want an avatar and have any trouble setting it up, hit me up and I'll see if I can help.  Same thing goes for signatures...  I know, all they are, are little things to help us computer dorks feel a little more individualized.  But I also know I'm the only dork using them right now and that makes me feel a little too special.    

So if  you need any help you can either respond to this or hit me up in PM.

Okay, this is something I noticed a while back about most users of this forum.  Nobody tells where they are...  We'll exept X, Rob, Rebel and myself...  
Rebel tells the state, while me, X and Rob tell city and state.  I guess Rebel figures they'll be harder to find if you only have the state.  
Then allow me to remedy that.  

Also, FYI...  If you don't already konw, you can subscribe to full forums.  Doing this will make it where any time there is a new topic or an update on an existing topic, you'll recieve an e-mail.  So then you don't have to actually log in every so often to see if there's been any activity.  :lol:

How many people have done this so far?  I'm actually at 600mi and I'm planning on trying mine this weekend.  I was just wondering if anyones done all the stuff that it says to do in the manual???  Adjusting the valves and such...