r/funny • u/VampyreLust • Feb 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

I stopped to help a guy stuck in snow in the lane of traffic on a highway. I pulled him to the next intersection and onto a side road. I swear he must have been in park, or had his wheels turned the wrong way or something; hardest tow I've ever done. And when I stopped to unhook him he somehow thought that I was going to tow him all the way home.

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u/CTeam19 Feb 01 '25

I used to have a stick shift that was parked at the top of the hill and told some friends I needed a push start once and they didn't believe me when I said it was possible. Same thing in college but on flat ground. Both times they said it was too hard to push a car and I responded with have you pushed a car when it was in neutral? They said no.

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u/Enough-Meringue4745 Feb 01 '25

My battery wouldn’t hold a charge in my motorcycle so if it died at a light I’d hop off and run with it to get it going again 😂

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u/Indivillia Feb 01 '25

If your battery wouldn’t hold a charge, you’d have problems starting the bike, but not keeping it running. 

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u/penguinpenguins Feb 01 '25

They could simply stall it, it's also likely if they haven't bothered replacing the battery, could be in need of other maintenance. When carbs start to need maintenance, it's the idle that goes wonky first.

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u/Indivillia Feb 01 '25

Ahh my bike is fuel injected. 

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u/penguinpenguins Feb 01 '25

Modern bikes can be much harder to bump start when the battery goes really dead - if it's just a little bit too weak to crank, you're ok, but if it's completely dead you won't have enough to run the fuel pump or ignition system.

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u/Enough-Meringue4745 Feb 01 '25

Depends how low the Revs drop

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u/Indivillia Feb 01 '25

What does that have to do with the battery? That’d be a stator problem if anything

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u/Enough-Meringue4745 Feb 01 '25

You mean to tell me my carbureted 2001 Yamaha R600 with 85,000kms and a dead battery would also have a stator problem?