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QuantumDuck:
I was wondering how many of you out there have stories from people who make claims for something that you know could not be true...working in a motorcycle shop I have several, but I recently heard one that has prompted me to write about...but I will start with 2 cases in point...

1. A guy came into my shop with an early 90's FZR600, at the time I owned a '94 ZX9R...so he comes and is checkin out my 9, looks at the speedometer and says,"I bet this thing will do every bit of the 200 mph on that speedo.", to which I replied..."Nah, it tops out at about an indicated 160."...His reply?..."No way...I've had my FZR to 170 your 9 HAS to be faster than my 600."...keep in mind not only was his 600 completly stock, but it was ragged out, rode hard and put away wet...the kicker to this guy was, he said he was having and electrical problem that another shop had diagnosed for him and told him (and this is a direct quote)..."uh..I can't remember what it's called...it's a...a...a flux something or other."...with my back turned to him I said.."The flux capacitor?"...and he said,"Yeah...yeah...thats it...the flux capacitor...can you get me one for my bike?"...I'll go ahead and end this one here...

2. I met a guy who seemed kind of knowledgeable about bikes so I was tellinng him about my KX project...I told him the bike had been set up for woods riding and needed a gear change because it only topped out at about 85 mph....he looked genuinely shocked that my KX500 would top out at such a low number...he then tells me about his mid 80's RM250 that would top out at  "WELL over 130 mph"...not believing him at all I asked what all he has done to it...all his mods amounted to...a pipe and air filter...wow, I think maybe we should all be riding Suzuki 250's instead of KX5's...

If anyone has any reason I should believe either of these two guys..please let me know...if not what are some tales you have come across?...Meanwhile...I'll be on Ebay lookin for a mid 80's RM250 :mrgreen:

Paul:
FLUX CAPACITOR HAHAHAHAHA nothing like a little back to the future :lol:

Its the yellow man, I heard that if you put yellow plastic on a KX500 it'll topout faster than a Ferrari Testarosa . ;)

I over heard my unkle telling a guy the reason his car was so fast was because of the hubcaps - he had those solid moon dish thingies like in the movie Cobra. I figured the guy know he was being b/s'd until I saw him with the exact same hubcaps :lol:

I love all those stories, it;s amazing what people will try to get you to believe.

badly:
One of the managers at the brewary i work who was not well liked was in a big panick there was sand loged in the jetter pump due to a backwash problem on our carbon filters, how can we have to prevent this from happening again he says, who's fault is this he yells to the meckanic, the meckanic calmly replys that the contracter who installed the pipe forgot to put in the sand magnets and this was why we were having all this trouble, Needles to say our fearless leader wrote up a large report on how the sand magnets were left out of the pipe and forwarded it to all the bosses,

one of those kind of funny because he was such a prick moments

HULKSTER:
The stupidest thing I ever heard is that the SC police won't be looking into my case for a few more weeks. Then they will be haulin' that bastard in. I can't wait. They better d**n well be....

rhinogrrrl:
...yeah, HULKSTER, what is the update on that? Did you make any headway with recovering the $$$ you paid for it?

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