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Bike Caught on Fire!

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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 @$$hole
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cdirth said:
I emailed my friend and just let him know that I took his bike out and it caught on fire. No other details. That'll keep him thinking for a while. I am an @$$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
we used to get girls to call our buddies and tell them that they were pregnant.. lol.. that one always worked great...
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
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