[cdirth]

My friend is on Deployment right now and I am watching his 2011 Sportster for him. Before he left he dropped his bike and left me with the repair work. Today I took it out for a ride around the neighborhood to run the fluids through it. I started to smell something a little weird and looked down at the exhaust to see that it was on fire! I got back to my house ASAP, put out the fire and realized that somehow, oil was leaking on to the exhaust and at some point caught on fire and was slowly burning. It was easy to put out and clean up, the bike is fine but I have no idea where this leak is coming from. I emailed my friend and just let him know that I took his bike out and it caught on fire. No other details. That'll keep him thinking for a while. I am an @$$hole

 

[toby]

Waiting to wear more on this story!!! :-X

 

[erikh425]

I thought I was the only one that had things catch fire on the road. I had an old sporty that had a leak on the fitting where the line runs out of the oil bag under the seat. Maybe it is that, and then flowing down the and onto the pipe. Either way, that is crazy.

Maybe you have a friend who likes to play tricks on you. I have often filled a small contact lense cleaner container with used motor oil just so I could squirt it under a buddy's bike at a stop. It never gets old.

 

[galo8]

Wow man I'm glad nothing happened to you. It is this kind of stories that I keep hearing that make me reaffirm that I did the right decision when I chose the stryker over an HD

 

[XVS13]

 

[UrbanRage]

I am deployed now and my wife played a similar joke on me... she said that she ran into my bike while pulling into the garage.... I can tell you what.... he's gonna hit the roof........ Dude your such an @ss.... , cruel but awesome prank.. How long are you gonna make him wait?

 

[erikh425]

I am good with never telling him. It is also fun to put a little oil in the pipes and when they get hot they smoke like **** and smell like burning oil. Since I am one of the mechanical ones in the group they ask me what could be wrong. It could be all kinds of things ;D

I ride with a good group of guys and they get me too. Last year one of my bikes was a 2007 HD Electra Glide that I had modified to look like a street glide. A buddy of mine put it on Craigslist using my real number at a great price. I fielded calls for weeks on that bike

 

[Natedog]

Seriously? A Harley with an an oil leak? That's a first!

 

[dliszews]

Hardly unexpected

 

[goodwell163]

I emailed my friend and just let him know that I took his bike out and it caught on fire. No other details. That'll keep him thinking for a while. I am an @$$hole

that is an @$$hole move man.. there was two things that we worried about on deployments.. our girls and our bikes.. **** that is mean.. lol... but funny

 

[immortal13]

No doubt....reminds me of the time many yrs ago before I had my own business and the secretary for the company texts me that my "house was on fire". I was like WTF!!!??? It ended up being a minor thing but my mind was racing when I got that text. Stupid @%[email protected]%

 

[toby]

No doubt....reminds me of the time many yrs ago before I had my own business and the secretary for the company texts me that my "house was on fire". I was like WTF!!!??? It ended up being a minor thing but my mind was racing when I got that text. Stupid @%[email protected]%

That's fuuuuunnny. I've heard people that have talked about doing that but didn't know anyone that that ever happened to. HAHAHehe.

 

[goodwell163]

we used to get girls to call our buddies and tell them that they were pregnant.. lol.. that one always worked great...

 

[Skwerlee]

we used to get girls to call our buddies and tell them that they were pregnant.. lol.. that one always worked great...

dang man that's cold blooded!

 

[toby]

we used to get girls to call our buddies and tell them that they were pregnant.. lol.. that one always worked great...

dang man that's cold blooded!

Ya refer back to the funny jokes thread to my joke about the "Good Sport".lol
I did that joke at a party where there was girls standing around and I got my buddy to answer the phone and relay the conversation to me from the good sport so every one could hear it and when I said, tell her wow you are a good sport they looked at me like I was the devil. lol.

 

[goodwell163]

When I was in the Air Force I was a Security Forces Member and we used to send the new guys to the med clinic to get fallopian tubes or to the hangers to get a roll of flightline... lol.. or give them the phone number to KFC and tell them that Col Sanders wanted to speak to them and he sounded mad.. lol... we would usually call ahead and tell the guys there to send them somewhere else like to the other hangers to get jet wash so it turned into a fun wild goose chase.. lol

 

[galo8]

When I was in the boy scouts we used to do a prank like that to the newbies. We used to tell them "go get me the powdered gas" or the "leathered barb wire" and the newbies being so inocent would spend hours traveling the whole campground looking for this items... asking every senior member about them and then being sent off to the other side of the campground...

 

[saclean]

May be i should put my Buddys Raider on Craigs list, that one sounded really vicious. ;D