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So here's what happened. My bike has been laid up while I've been doing some mods. My friend Rusty has an 01 speed triple that he's been trying to kill for a while so he can get a new bike (he refuses to buy a new one while he still owns a running one) but the darn thing just won't die.Rusty went out of town the other day and let me borrow his bike so I'd have something to ride. First thing I noticed after a day of riding was it had developed what I thought was an oil leak. I called Rusty and told him and said I could stay off the bike if he wanted or keep riding and keep an eye on the oil level and fill it up if it got too low, he told me to keep an eye on the level and keep riding. I was riding later that day and it and it ran out of gas but the gas light never came on. No big deal, I filled it up and headed home. The next day I got a call from Gengras Triumph letting me know some parts were in so I jumped on the triple and headed out to pick them up. On the way home from the dealership the gas light came on and my thought was, "I filled it up yesterday after the light never came on and have put 60 miles on it since... That light must be malfunctioning." So I kept riding and I sputtered and died. I was out of gas. The leak that I thought was oil was actually gas, it looked like oil because the gas was washing the oil off the motor that had leaked out previously, and I didn't really smell it because the bike burns oil so everything about it smells like burnt fluids. So I was pushing the bike to a safe place on the highway and this guy on a Harley pulled up and asked what happened. After explaining everything starts helping me push the bike to some place safe. While pushing the bike a cop pulls up, asks what happened, after explaining it once more he tells us that we can't push a bike down the highway so he'll wait there while I do one of two things, one, I call a tow truck to bring me a gallon of gas which will cost me about $100 or the guy on the HD can go get me some gas and we can settle up how ever we see fit. I tell the guy on the HD that he's already done more then enough and that if he wants to just take off, I'll call a truck. He tells me that he'd go get gas and he takes off before I could change his mind. 15 or so minutes later he returns with a 3 gallon can of gas and gives it to me. I fill up Rusty's bike and get it started again. As soon as I get the bike started, the guy on the HD walks toward his bike. I call him back and explain that I didn't have any cash on me but if he'd follow me to an ATM I'd get him back with extra for the trouble. He shook my hand and said, "Don't worry about it, just do it to someone else and we'll be even." I really wish I could find this guy and pay him back for being so kind to me but since I can't, I wanted to use every outlet I had to tell this story in hopes that not only will I do the same for someone sometime, but that the people I know will do the same. I think that if I'm not the only one that repeats an action like this, I'll have repaid him several times over.

Very cool story .. thanks for sharing.

Pay it on thats the best way to do it. I never accept money for helping anyone, I always tell them just to remember it next time they see someone in need. Dont know if it ever works, but I can always hope in my head someone did it. Great story, its nice to know there are still people out there like that.

Cool!

how'd you like the triple?

awesome!

That's one of the things that facinates me about the human race. On one hand, we are incredibly stupid, short sited and vicious in some group settings, but on the other, we are caring, considerate and selfless. I sometimes think that the "Alians" up there just come to our planet to watch us and be entertained! Hats off to your unnamed benefacter and to you for sharing this positive example of human nature.

Great story. Thanks for sharing!

great story hats off to the guy and it kinda puts me in my place i will never buy a harley as it not the bikes it the average riders of them i have a problem with.
then every now and then they pop up and prove you to be wrong.
hope you dont mind i have posted on another forum i use as an example of how we should be helping each other out if it is in our power to do so

I've met that guy but in New York state with a similar situation. Best way to pay it back is to do the same thing to someone else who needs it.

That's being a biker. Awesome!

Put it on a poster board with a cool title like "Harley with a Heart" or "A real biker is". Ask Mikes Famous HD to post it up on the wall around the dealership.

Good post!

I try to stop if I see a bike broken down and most of the HD riders I know would too even the hardcore guys I know.

I've done that very same thing and have no regrets. I'd do it again.

I always stop and try to help any biker I see on the side of the road. Good karma always comes back around.

Stopped to help a guy last summer and once I stopped turned out he was missing from about 1/2 way down his forearm on and a leg too. He was on a trike and just out of gas and had a friend on the way. Just suprised me. One of my very good friends (Pappy) also rides a trike he has an aftermarket leg.

Great story, Tim. Hey, we are all bikers, no matter what brand we ride. And as far as good deeds, what goes around comes around.