My bike smells like boiled vomit

[knary]

Well not always. And I've never smelled boiled vomit but I imagine it's something like this rank odor.

It comes from the oil cooler. It's saturated with rotting organic matter from my last big ride that gets cooked on every ride. So every time I start forward from a stop I get hit by a fragrant wind not too different from the most noxious breeze to come off the most polluted beach at low tide. Blech.

It might be time to clean my bike. :ha

[OUTBACKUFO]

Well not always. And I've never smelled boiled vomit but I imagine it's something like this rank odor.

It comes from the oil cooler. It's saturated with rotting organic matter from my last big ride that gets cooked on every ride. So every time I start forward from a stop I get hit by a fragrant wind not too different from the most noxious breeze to come off the most polluted beach at low tide. Blech.

It might be time to clean my bike. :ha


Did you remember to take a shower after comming home from your last ride... ??? :nyah Remember some of us call the cooked bug materals dinner... :eat

:stick

another reason not to passout and use you bike as a place to sleep off the partying... :hungover :lol










:hide

[Visian]

i know exactly the smell you mean.

use a pressure washer and squirt from the inside out. you won't believe the biology that comes outta there.

[Bokrijder]

Thank you for the breakfast read. I wasssss enjoying this bowl of granola.

Motard

[henzilla]

my breakfast taco tasted funny now!...but, oh yeah on the heated bug odor

[SheRidesABeemer]

Thank you for the breakfast read. I wasssss enjoying this bowl of granola.

Motard

Yeah...nice way to start the day...fresh coffee, a toasted English muffin, and boiled vomit. :hungover

[PAGoldsby]

< ComicBookGuy > Best ... thread ... EVER! < /ComicBookGuy >

[Rod Sheridan]

Thanks Scott, perfect timing.

I'm sitting at work clearing my back log of e-mail (and reading the Forum of course), and now I'm imagining that: my mug of black tea smells funny.:sick





regards, Rod.

[BubbaZanetti]

It might be time to sell my bike. :ha

yeah, i think so

[mrich12000]

Did you remember to take a shower after comming home from your last ride... ??? :nyah Remember some of us call the cooked bug materals dinner... :eat

another reason not to passout and use you bike as a place to sleep off the partying... :hungover :lol
:stick :eat :eat :buds :buds :bottle :bottle :sick :banghead :wave
:hide


Place a piece of screen door material over the cooler:wave ok.
:stick

[pvtpepper]

I thought it was yer upper lip. :nyah

[jdmetzger]

You camped at Camp Beers it could be anything ?

Sorry, it was a long walk to the port-a-johns, and I just couldn't hold it anymore! I thought it would help cool down the bike, too!

[BeemoKat]

Sorry, it was a long walk to the port-a-johns, and I just couldn't hold it anymore! I thought it would help cool down the bike, too!

but you just don't learn: Deny everything, admit nothing!

[Hodag]

You camped at Camp Beers it could be anything ?

there is still an odd smell in the camper???

[Mika]

I am still wondering what life experiences, both experientially and olfactory, lead you to the analogy of boiled vomit? At the same time I am wondering; why am I asking this question and do I really want to know?

I am not certain which should be back flushed first, the bike or you. :lol

[jdmetzger]

but you just don't learn: Deny everything, admit nothing!

OH! Wait! It wasn't a GS! It was some OTHER brand.. looked like a V-twin of some sort.... :brow

OK fine... I'm a slow learner. :)

[kbasa]

I guess that's better than poached vomit, huh?

[PAGoldsby]

I just hate enclosed bathrooms with radiant floor heating........sorry for the hijack.I bow to your superior sense-memory-fu!

[Rapid_Roy]

I started to choke a bit upon reading this, and then I thankfully realized I have no idea what boiled vomit smells like. I must lead a sheltered life.

[wezul]

my breakfast taco tasted funny now!...but, oh yeah on the heated bug odor

MMMMMMMM, breakfast taco! Scott, the reverse power wash sounds like the solution to your odiferous ordeal.

[Mika]

A very ruff draft of the steps to reverse wash Knary's bike's oil cooler

Get off bike
Remove Sheep
http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181499295-M.jpg

Set up power washer
http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181499307-M.jpg

Dress in appropriate power washing ATGATT
http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181499276-M.jpg

Use caution or the bike could be damaged
http://www.drivebuv.org/images/pwr-wash-S10.jpg

Next thing you know you will be back riding.
http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181499344-M.jpg

Please feel free to add or improve steps for him to follow in solving this problem.

[kbasa]

I started to choke a bit upon reading this, and then I thankfully realized I have no idea what boiled vomit smells like. I must lead a sheltered life.

It's easy to make and doesn't take much heat, if you start with fresh supplies.

[BradfordBenn]

there is still an odd smell in the camper???

That smell was there when we got there!!! I thought it was cause we were next to the trash cans.

Now in terms of the vomit and Knary's bike, did you perhaps enjoy any tequilla?

[jgr451]

Barfed on the bike didja?

Oh well.Eventually it will boil away.

[rinty]

Does this smell any worse than over ripe cat litter boxes in summer? That haven't been cleaned by cats' teenage owner in spite of regular and effusive promises?

Rinty

[knary]

Does this smell any worse than over ripe cat litter boxes in summer? That haven't been cleaned by cats' teenage owner in spite of regular and effusive promises?

Rinty

We have an old house with a dirt floor basement. The local cats have, for years, had access to the basement via a few hard to locate holes. Yes, you guessed it. It's a giant litter box. On a hot humid summer day after a good rain, the bouquet is unmistakable.

[jgr451]

Knary,I remember when you bought the house.You were not expecting eau de cat pee to be a part of the ambience.That would be called fug,anyway.
If you are anywhere near a pulp/paper mill,get some of their discarded "mill felt", the stuff they use on the long conveyers that catches the pulp and carries it till it's dry and becomes paper.Cut a piece the size of your dirt floor.Lay it down.Cats don't like this.
Try your local scrapyard for when the mill felt comes in.

[FredRydr]

Well not always. And I've never smelled boiled vomit but I imagine it's something like this rank odor.Being curious, I leaned that "boiled vomit" warrants three pages of links on Google. And this thread is at the top.

Who would have guessed?

Fred
'07 R (smells like tar and chips)