The Bus wont start!

[Throwdown!]

You can definately push start the bike.
That was my only means of getting it going at one point - for about 4 months!!!

Hope you live at the top of a hill

Had some guys help me push start once , trouble is once it fires its out of there and the guys both ended up taking a tumble, couldn't even stop to buy them a coffee or we would have had to do it again...

I wouldn't go anywhere without a slop in sight, but I have a long history of cars with the same needs so it seems like a normal mechanical component to me now.

You can get used to anything pretty quickly and then forget it' s not suppose to work that way. My brakes once gave out on my Triumph TR8 on the motorway doing 110km. After getting away with it and sh/ting myself, I went around on the handbrake only for about 3 months happy as anything.

Modern cars and bikes are mechanical marvels - I drove a Renault 5 for hundreds of miles with oil that didn't even touch the tip of the dipstick. Such adventures are lost to me now that I can afford to have things fixed.