Starter button stuck + dropped bike = pretty bad day

[Thorby]

As I started rushing to work this morning at the first red light I noticed an odd sound coming from my engine, turned off the bike, realized the starter was stuck on, ran out of battery due to the short slow ride I had done with the starter stuck on, flooded the engine trying to kick start it (a common occurrence for me) finally found a driver with cables to give me some spark to try cranking on the bike again but I think the engine was pretty flooded and the stuck starter was draining the current I needed to keep the bike on.  I started pushing the bike, pretty frustrated, and dropped it away from me and unto the curb.  The man with the cables had not driven away yet and he helped me lift the bike up.  I then pushed the bike back home in some pretty nasty traffic, good thing for the reflective vest I wear, huh?

Good thing that first red light hit me just a quarter mile from my home, hopefully saving my starter from burning.  If I had gotten a green, I'd have ridden at least 15 mins on the freeway with the starter cranking the entire time.

Tonight I'll open the starter switch and I bet I'll find it stuck together, I'll borrow some cables to get a spark from my car's battery and hope I can be back on the bike again.  Thank God I fixed my Maxima's battery problem just in time, otherwise I'd be on foot and very miserable.  Its battery was dead last Friday but I took it to the Auto Zone and charged it back to life.

[cdaiscool]

Damn, good to read you've got some good luck in there with the bad!

[Lucky 1]

I can relate to that story. Sorry that happened.

[Half-Caf]

Ah yes, I had a day like that last fall -dropped the bike in the rain, killed the battery, AND fried the charging rotor...
But the upside is that I later took the cute girl that gave me a jump out on a date  

If you don't have much luck with that sticky starter button, I have some RH controls with a bad kill switch you can have for cheap.

[shinyribs]

Were you trying to throw the bike down on its side to un-stick the starter button? Thats harsh,Thorby! You can borrow my hammer next time.Just picking on you,Thorby.

I'm glad it wasn't worse than it was,sounded bad enough as it was

Hope you get her fixed fast and easy!

[Thorby]

shinyribs wrote

Were you trying to throw the bike down on its side to un-stick the starter button? Thats harsh,Thorby! You can borrow my hammer next time.Just picking on you,Thorby.

I'm glad it wasn't worse than it was,sounded bad enough as it was

Hope you get her fixed fast and easy!

LOL I haven't done a damage inventory yet but the gas tank is now even looser than it was before.  I don't even know where the bike hit the high curb exactly.