So, are you an idiot like me?

[seevtsaab]

As in, you have all your shit laid out just so, well, just the stuff you need 'cause you're so damn
smart, doing your valves, and make the beast with two backsing sanding on your Shim Measuring Tool? 
(Wow that closer STILL binds a little? Huh!)

Ok so I only wasted a few minutes at it, and as slow as progress is sanding I didn't do any real harm.
But damn, you kinda like to have your head straight doing this stuff?

I'm sure I've done worse.

So what's something totally stupid you've caught yourself doing?

[Slide Panda]

Mine usually involves hunting around for some tool I just had, for ages - when I was super bright and stuck it in a pocket to keep it handy.

[Goat_Herder]

Mine usually involves hunting around for some tool I just had, for ages - when I was super bright and stuck it in a pocket to keep it handy.

+1  I usually would put all tools in one place and line up all bolts/screws in another area.  But while I am working on something, I would think ahead of myself by placing this one tool at where I will need it in the next step.  Like it would save me 3 seconds.  But then I would forget about that move.  Minutes later, I go back to the tool area and can't find shit...

I am an idiot 

[RetroSBK]

my list is long and storied... lol

Actually my big one is that I continually buy the same consumables over and over.. We do a lot of welding and fab work, and a lot of grinding and smoothing. (I prefer no welds to a row of nickels)

10,000 things going on all the time, and I go to Grainger 3 times, and buy the same damn grit sanding disk or Scotchbrite disk...

Arghhh

[Rob Hilding]

Too many to list here - that is for sure--


But this seems like an appropriate thread to see the chain made around the ladder rungs

Does somebody have the pic?

[Turf]

taking stock rearsets off bike at work

remove side stand bolt and have bike fall on me

not my best day

but pretty funny

[SacDuc]

No. I'm a different type of idiot altogether.

sac

[BMiller]

I've been beat down by a drill that ran away while drilling out a Honda 919 frame for sliders

But yeah, I usually do the "where is that tool" thing as well.....it's always right infront of you when you give up

[rockaduc]

No. I'm a different type of idiot altogether.

+1, me too.

[Grampa]

me three

[DrDesmo]

... At least you're not this guy 

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=595717

[redial]

yes i am an idiot.


first time i did my valves i measured an entire cylinder on the WRONG STROKE.
proceeded to sand the shims until they were double the needed gap and had to buy whole
new shims after i thought the whole adjustment was going to cost me $5 in sandpaper

awesome.

[arai_speed]

I had the problem of putting things back together to "test fit" w/out torquing down all the bolts....only to forget that things were not torqued to spec and assembling the whole shabang!

[DucHead]

Recently hand tightened most of the 14 bolts on the Bandit valve cover only to discover it was on backwards.   

[Rameses]

Recently hand tightened most of the 14 bolts on the Bandit valve cover only to discover it was on backwards.   

What's that about a rear brake caliper??