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[Beezabryan]

............ has left the ignition switched on for several days?!
Battery now 3.9V

[stinkwheel]

Been there, done that on numerous occasions due to my habit of killing the engine with the decompressor but then forgetting to turn the ignition off.

A top tip is if it's got so low the battery charger won't start charging the battery, if you hook it up then briefly "jump" it with a charged battery, it will start. There is also a chance it's hopelessly suplhated and will just start gassing but I find they usually recover well enough to continue working on a bike with no electric start.

[Wheaters]

I always take the bike ignition key indoors. Seeing as I’m not allowed the bike in the house, the two are separated overnight.

[Leon Novello]

I once turned on the interior light in the Mazda, during the day in the carport to locate the peg which secures the driver`s -side floor mat, forgot to turn off the light and locked the car. SWMBO once didn`t close the door properly on our `62 VW Beetle, leaving the interior light on, another flat battery next morning.
There might be a club for people like us?

[trophyvase]

Leon will the club include not only those who run out of electric but also those who run out of fuel?

Among a few times that's happened on two occasions I ran out of petrol exactly opposite filling stations.
Once during the fuel crisis when filling stations would only allow regular customers to buy petrol.
After pleading that I was stranded with a 30 miles journey in front of me the kind man relented - and let me have enough petrol to get me home.
I've never forgotten how fortunate I was on that occasion.

There have been other occasions when I've found folk to be really helpful and willing to put themselves out to help.
Thanks to them all!!

[Beezabryan]

Will there also be a club for those who put diesel in their Bullet ?
Back to the battery, it is fully charged and has held up these past 2 or 3 days, now back on bike.

[Leon Novello]

I once ran out of petrol on the BSA A10, I walked across the road to a corner store and bought a bottle of Shellite to get me home. Also tried to fill the Bullet with Diesel, but the operator wouldn`t turn on the pump till I woke up.

[windmill john]

How about the good old leaving the side stand down. Glad to say that I can count that on the fingers of one hand.... just!

[papasmurf]

How about the good old leaving the side stand down. Glad to say that I can count that on the fingers of one hand.... just!

One of those things I suspect you only do once. (I did it myself two weeks ago.)

[Presto]

If we’re talking about the stupid things we did how about riding all day long all over the wild and abandoned hills and vales of Mid-Wales on a 50cc Suzuki without a mobile phone, no credit cards, no satnav and no real idea where we were going – as we all did many years ago!!