This is kind of a long story so bear with me. Five years ago, my brother and I bought our first high performance atv, an 86 350x. The bike was in nice shape, not perfect, but I was proud of it. About a week later my friend had a 4th of july party. He told me to bring the 3 wheeler and we would do some riding. My friend has a very fast cr250. Someone at the party wanted to ride it. My friend asked me if he could follow on my 350x. I said ok just take it easy. Anyone knows a cr250 is faster than a 350x. So those 2 guys take off for some trails. The first thing my friend does is jam his fat knee into my original oem atc seat so he could do some wheelies. I told him to stop because I didn't want my original seat ripped. He did this same thing to my 250sx and tore the seat. So they take off down a paved straight stretch of road and turn off into the woods. About 10 minutes pass as I wonder what my friend is doing to my bike. Then I see them turn back on the paved road with the cr in the lead. The guy on the cr guns it and flies wide open down the road. What does my idiot friend do after I tell him to take it easy? Right, he decides to go wide open, too, to catch up. After what seemed like an eternity with my recently purchased 350x at full throttle. He turns into the driveway. He does a wheelie across his yard and then parks it by the garage. Right now I am mad enough because my best friend would abuse my new toy. Then I look at the 350x and white smoke is rolling from the exhaust. I got madder yet. I asked him why it was smoking. He said, "Oh, I probably just floated the valves." I'm not stupid, I know it is abusing an engine when the valves float. Now I'm just disappointed that my friend would do this. I told my brother, "Let's just go home." I ride the 3 wheeler home and my brother follows me in his truck. We get home and start messing with the 350x trying to see what kind of damage was done. As we revved the engine more smoke came out. Now my brother is really upset. We went in half and half on this 3 wheeler, but my brother was the reason we actually bought it. It was more his new toy than mine. My brother, Jess drives back up to my friends house and lets him have it. Jess called him everything but a human being. My friend knew we were mad. But, it's been 5 years and he has never apologized. I haven't spoken to him since. Needless to say he is no longer my friend. You need to know something about my former friend. He is one of these rich kids that doesn't care about anyone else's stuff. The 3 wheeler still runs, but on cold starts it smokes for about 4 minutes. What actually did my former friend do? What would make an air cooled 4 stroke smoke white? On the upside, I have to give Hondas credit. Their stuff can be used and abused and still run. The 350x is still a good machine and it will be at trikefest this year along with my 450r. Any feedback to this story would be appreciated. Thanks.
Marty
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by mywifeknowseverything
Let it be a lesson to ya. I have several nice machines, and it gives me pleasure to let other people enjoy them sometimes. But the only people I ever allow to get on them are people that I know very well, and that I know have respect for the machine they are riding. It's a shame that some folks don't have any respect for other people's stuff. You shoulda kicked that dude's ass. I've found that "friends" like that are not worth your time. 
