So, something stupid happened today...

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  • quentinnash
    • Feb 2026
    #1

    So, something stupid happened today...

    I have been sick for a week and today I got into a disagreement with my SO and left our house on my bike in a fit. Well, before I ever left I checked my oil and added half a quart. I put the oil cap back on but didn't tighten it all the way. So somewhere over the 5 miles I drove it fell off and COVERED the right side of the bike and my right leg in oil. As soon as I realized what happened I shut the bike off and had to truck it home. I've spent the past two hours trying to find it with no luck, so I am hoping someone here can help me out.

    I seriously need an oil cap for a 1982 GS850G. If anyone could help me out, that would be great. Otherwise I am getting it from bike bandit. Just hoping I can get some kind of luck other than bad.
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    • Cipher
      Forum Sage
      • Mar 2016
      • 3129
      • Toronto Ontario
      #2
      theres cheaper vendor than bike bandit.........
      parts outlaw I thing free shipping with code BANG?
      1983 GS 550 LD
      2009 BMW K1300s

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        • robertbarr
          Forum Sage
          Past Bard Award Winner
          GSResource Superstar
          • Sep 2005
          • 2721
          • Joliet, Illinois
          #3
          There's bundles of them on ebay, fwiw.
          and God said, "Let there be air compressors!"
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            • Cipher
              Forum Sage
              • Mar 2016
              • 3129
              • Toronto Ontario
              #4
              six dollars 45 cents
              1983 GS 550 LD
              2009 BMW K1300s

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                • Steve
                  GS Whisperer
                  • Jun 2005
                  • 35925
                  • southwest oHIo
                  #5
                  Originally posted by quentinnash
                  ... I got into a disagreement with my SO and left our house on my bike in a fit. ...
                  Sorry about your predicament, but this is another opportunity to share some wisdom I learned long time ago.

                  Don't go for a ride "to cool off". Cool off, THEN go for a ride.

                  Unless everything is just absatively, posilutely PEACHY in your little corner of the world, you need to have ALL of your mental energy focused on the ride, not what you are riding away from.

                  .
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                    • JJ
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Steve
                      Sorry about your predicament, but this is another opportunity to share some wisdom I learned long time ago.

                      Don't go for a ride "to cool off". Cool off, THEN go for a ride.

                      Unless everything is just absatively, posilutely PEACHY in your little corner of the world, you need to have ALL of your mental energy focused on the ride, not what you are riding away from.

                      .
                      ^^--- What he said!

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                        • chuck hahn
                          Forum LongTimer
                          Past Site Supporter
                          • May 2009
                          • 25918
                          • Norman, Oklahoma
                          #7
                          Dont forget to get the oring too.
                          MY BIKES..1977 GS 750 B, 1978 GS 1000 C (X2)
                          1978 GS 1000 E, 1979 GS 1000 S, 1973 Yamaha TX 750, 1977 Kawasaki KZ 650B1, 1975 Honda GL1000 Goldwing, 1983 CB 650SC Nighthawk, 1972 Honda CB 350K4, 74 Honda CB550

                          NEVER SNEAK UP ON A SLEEPING DOG..NOT EVEN YOUR OWN.


                          I would rather trust my bike to a "QUACK" that KNOWS how to fix it rather than a book worm that THINKS HE KNOWS how to fix it.

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                            • davegs850
                              Forum Mentor
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 162
                              • buffalo
                              #8
                              There is much great wisdom in what Steve has said. Chuck too!
                              83 gs850
                              07 vtx1300c

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