When I was a young teen I had been replacing the front end on my motorcycle/dirtbike when a bunch of friends were going for a all day trail ride and I wanted to join them and I soon started to put my bike back together when I realized that I had no grease anywhere. My biggest dilemma wasn't that I needed to have some form of lubricant for the bearings it was finding away to make the bearings stick upside down so I could put the triple tree back in and then it came to me Peanut Butter! ( don't laugh it worked,well sort of) After half the day and about 35 miles from home the steering was hard and it tended to lock from side to side when turned.
I was riding in last place trying to keep up the best that I could when I soon found myself alone and I made a last ditch effort to catch up, had to hit at least 50mph down a straight away into a left hand turn and found myself slamming into a deep rain rut because I couldn't straighten the front end out. When I woke up my friends were all around me just staring as they thought I was dead my bike was 25 feet in one direction and my seat was 25 feet in another with my pocket comb sitting right on top of it. They all had a good laugh at my expense when I told them what I used to put the front end back on ,I was able to limp the bike and myself back home when I realized that I now needed another front end because my new one was very bent in fact worse then the one I just removed.