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It hurts, it sucks, and it's surprisingly difficult to deal with. I would like to share an old story about my first motorbike.
We are all very attached to our bikes, and maybe even more so our first ride. My first bike was a 1988 Yamaha Riva scooter that I purchased from a seller on craigslist.org, the bike was 1 year older than me and at the time the only thing that I owned.
My old Yamaha was the victim of some DBAGs lack of respect and thirst for trouble. The damage to the bike was very minimal and yet I felt very victimized. There was never a confrontation, confession, or closure in the classic sense.
With the intention of a prework ride around town I geared up and headed to the scoot for what was probably going to be the highlight of my day. As I walk through the apiartment complex parking lot I immediately notice beer bottles placed on one side of the bike, close but not too close. I hate litter, grab the bottles and place 'em on the floor board of the bike. Start her up, vroOOMM! I let her idle on the center stand, tighten my gloves, gas gauge says were good, turn on the brights. Pushing off the stand I notice nothing unusual, driving towards the dumpster I notice nothing unusual. I throw the bottles in the bin and zoom off, still in the lot I CHECK MY LEFT MIRROR and something isn't right. I'm not seeing what I usually see when I check the mirror. Still driving I reach out to make the proper adjustments, no mirror in my hand just air, somethings not computing. Stop the bike, take a good look the mirror that I just tried to adjust and its ******** hanging off of the mirror mount! I quickly look at the right side mirror and it's the same ******** thing!!! Sitting there I can't believe that I didn't notice sooner if not immediately, wt*. I consider the situation. Fortunately the mirrors easily remount, and all is quickly back to normal. I drive back to the parking spot and it all quickly begins to add up. My bike is really old and uncommon, my mirrors are surely specific to scooters. Pillaging my mirrors probably wasn't the goal, at least not to sell or place on another bike., maybe as a story or trophy. Ok so the beer bottles enter the equation... ... Did this ****** sit on my bikes throne and drink 2 beers while trying to take my mirrors!?! What else did this unscrupulous person do to MY precious piece of crap!?
I skipped the prework ride and went straight to work, frustrated and dissapointed. In my experience scooters get more attention than standard style motorcycles, good and bad.
Has your bike(s) ever been messed with? How did you act, or react?
if there isn't a thread for this topic then I guess this it.
We are all very attached to our bikes, and maybe even more so our first ride. My first bike was a 1988 Yamaha Riva scooter that I purchased from a seller on craigslist.org, the bike was 1 year older than me and at the time the only thing that I owned.
My old Yamaha was the victim of some DBAGs lack of respect and thirst for trouble. The damage to the bike was very minimal and yet I felt very victimized. There was never a confrontation, confession, or closure in the classic sense.
With the intention of a prework ride around town I geared up and headed to the scoot for what was probably going to be the highlight of my day. As I walk through the apiartment complex parking lot I immediately notice beer bottles placed on one side of the bike, close but not too close. I hate litter, grab the bottles and place 'em on the floor board of the bike. Start her up, vroOOMM! I let her idle on the center stand, tighten my gloves, gas gauge says were good, turn on the brights. Pushing off the stand I notice nothing unusual, driving towards the dumpster I notice nothing unusual. I throw the bottles in the bin and zoom off, still in the lot I CHECK MY LEFT MIRROR and something isn't right. I'm not seeing what I usually see when I check the mirror. Still driving I reach out to make the proper adjustments, no mirror in my hand just air, somethings not computing. Stop the bike, take a good look the mirror that I just tried to adjust and its ******** hanging off of the mirror mount! I quickly look at the right side mirror and it's the same ******** thing!!! Sitting there I can't believe that I didn't notice sooner if not immediately, wt*. I consider the situation. Fortunately the mirrors easily remount, and all is quickly back to normal. I drive back to the parking spot and it all quickly begins to add up. My bike is really old and uncommon, my mirrors are surely specific to scooters. Pillaging my mirrors probably wasn't the goal, at least not to sell or place on another bike., maybe as a story or trophy. Ok so the beer bottles enter the equation... ... Did this ****** sit on my bikes throne and drink 2 beers while trying to take my mirrors!?! What else did this unscrupulous person do to MY precious piece of crap!?
I skipped the prework ride and went straight to work, frustrated and dissapointed. In my experience scooters get more attention than standard style motorcycles, good and bad.
Has your bike(s) ever been messed with? How did you act, or react?
if there isn't a thread for this topic then I guess this it.