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I went for a midnight ride tonight and when I stopped for a smoke, it happened. The FJ broke.... ..... well, sorta. I was deploying the kickstand and felt something whack my boot. The kickstand spring done broke... and M.F'er, is it dark out there when your looking for a black spring in the dirt..... but I found it. One of the hooks on the end decided it was tired and packed it in. So I tied the kickstand up and finished my ride and went home. Once here, I bent a new hook into the end of it(strong bloody springsteel, I tells ya) and put it back on. Works great, the kickstand has a bit more snap to it now and I'm happy again.

So always carry some wire, twine, zip-ties, tape, ect... you never know when it will come in handy.

Duck tape! If that's the only thing that goes wrong with your FJ, you got smooth sailin' ahead.

that sounds like something that would happen in a cartoon

Black tape and bailing wire... Thems miners tools *lol* I use them all the time, wouldnt believe the stuff you can jerry rig underground with them. I have a feeling Ill be using alot on my bike too...

Sobereality wrote:that sounds like something that would happen in a cartoon

I wish my life was a cartoon... at least then I could take an anvil to the head and walk away, hide behind sign posts and eat a whole meal in one gulp... among the other, more entertaining stuff I could dream up....

But really it's more like a bad sit-com crossed with a really horrible soap opera....

I had nothing for supplies on the bike, bad me but I always have a selection of tools and assorted stuff in my pockets, I can reach in and pull out almost anything...... but money.....

Lastnight I had a roll of wire, a roll of electrical tape and a leatherman-type pliers thing among other junk. Thinking hard about adding a mini maglite But that stand wasn't gonna flop around on the way home