I'm a dumb arse: Indicators

[p.dath]

I've always found it annoying that on a bike when you indicate you have to flick the indicator back to the middle to turn it off. Why can't they have a simpler system like a car.

Then I was thinking, I can push the indicator button in on my bike (Honda CBR), why can't that just be used to turn it off.
Low and behold, I try it out, and sure enough, it does turn the indicator off. No more trying to flick it back to the middle position without going to far and turning the indicator on in the other direction.

What a dumb arse. Have you got any dumb arse moments?

[Katman]

What a dumb arse. Have you got any dumb arse moments?

No, you win.

[P38]

No, you win.

Hahahaha

Your not wrong.

[Dealer]

Hmm, try getting 4 or 5 people to give you a push start, because your bike wont start, and after a few goes someone suggests you try the killswitch.
Only happened once, but it was in front of the whole ATNR.
Now its the 1st thing i check.

[Usarka]

HD designed a system for people who could never grasp that concept.

[grusomhat]

How long have you been riding?

[p.dath]

How long have you been riding?

I started my learner licence about 1999, so 10 odd years.

[nallac]

No, you win.

yip I agree as well

[YellowDog]

Forget DumbAss and try TooHonest Ass :)

There are some things that are best not shared.

[sil3nt]

Haha how silly can you be! I would never do anything like that (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=97039):shifty:

[Taz]

You guys should get the internet. Lots of good info on the internet......... Or read your bikes owners manual...... Or if it came with no owners manual look for a pdf owners manual on the net....... There is more to the internet than KB thank god. :niceone:

[Headbanger]

Push starting a quad in the pits at a flat-track event, once we got up to speed I jumped on the seat and dropped the clutch, managed to roll over the seat and off the bike, upside down, face into the mud, back wheel runs right over top of me.

I get to my feet to the sound of dozens of people laughing like they have never laughed before, and probably since.

[Katman]

Push starting a quad in the pits at a flat-track event, once we got up to speed I jumped on the seat and dropped the clutch, managed to roll over the seat and off the bike, upside down, face into the mud, back wheel runs right over top of me.

I get to my feet to the sound of dozens of people laughing like they have never laughed before, and probably since.

Stop the press - we may have a new winner!

[Headbanger]

Stop the press - we may have a new winner!

Its surprising how many of my stories end with self-injury and public humiliation.

[wbks]

I'm pretty sure everyone has had funny and/or dumb ass moments on a bike. If they say no than they're a liar!

[PrincessBandit]

Hahahaha, snicker snicker snort, keep up with the minties moments guys! Not too many could beat the indicator story though. lol

[McDuck]

Lol i have not had two many, i wish i could have figgured out the kick stand interlock myself tho

[PrincessBandit]

Actually, I lie. In the early days of my riding I frequently would travel through an intersection which was a left turn immediately followed by a right (coming from Hill Rd, turning right into Station Rd in Manurewa for those of you who know the area). I'd get very frustrated canceling the left flick to immediately indicate for the right, not realising you could just push the indicator straight across from one to the other. Duh. I still think p.dath is the winner tho.

[varminter]

The time scale is a little hard to top, I did however have the same problem when I started on the GN, it was a few weeks before I found the "press the button in" answer. I think I come second in that case.

[quickbuck]

My silly moment was to do with kill switches....

It was a very dark night and I was in a bike shelter about to take my CBR for a trip into town.
Anyhow, I put on all my gear, and sit on my bike apply the choke and press the starter. Usually it fired up within a second or two., Not this time. So I keep winding it over... and over... give it some gas... then thing, bugger, i smell fuel. So FULL Throttle to lean out all the fuel in there... Then think DARN IT! Somebody has flicked my kill switch. Put it to RUN, hit the Starter....
Then WOOMPHA!
No more lighting issues in the shelter! Flame out the pipe seemed like 5 metres! Lit the place up really well, and sounded like a canon.

How to attract unwanted attention on a Military Base....

[Metalor]

Hmmm... I'm a HUGE dumbarse at times, can't say the indicator thing caught me though, I was too pre-occupied fiddling with the bike!


One thing I did (when i hadn't gotten my learners yet), went for a quick ride round the block a few times to get used to the bike before I sat the basic skills test, thought "wow, this is a piece of piss!" and went to turn across my driveway, which is on an incline UPWARDS from the road, which joined the neighbours driveway so plenty of room... come tearing up across the neighbours first then onto mine, leaning to the left... I then found out in a hurry it's very difficult to do that going uphill and went stright off the other side of the driveway and into the bushes.

:)


This is why I am glad they have the learner 250 rule.

[bubs.65]

Last year when on my Learners, forgetting to put down my sidestand and fell over in a crowded supermarket carpark during peak shopping time. Was then unable to lift my bike up. (Kawasaki 250) Then having to ask the nearest bloke to help. :rolleyes:

[LaytonNZ]

Welll.....I pulled my GN 125 to bit's when i was "learning" to ride it wouldnt start so i pulled it to bits then half way though pulling it to bits i looked at the kill switch..i just about cryed haha


:headbang:

[Danae]

Nice one, guys :headbang:

[Icemaestro]

Hmm so today picked up the new bike (upgraded from an '83 to a 92..pretty good I thought!) - Both myself and the owner couldn't for the life of us figure out why it kept stalling when it was put into first gear....then he clicked...and put the centre stand up...hahaha...my lil cbx neva had one of them cutoff switches!:-P

[allycatz]

Got pants leg caught in peg of cbf250 when I got off....so bike came with me and I ended up squatting with bike in my lap....and no one would help, too busy laughing at me

[Rayray401]

mm...mine was when i first got my bike..kept trying to turn the key to start the bike..wondering why the bloody key wont move and the bike wouldnt start...then 20 mins later realise im on a bike not in a car..

[sil3nt]

mm...mine was when i first got my bike..kept trying to turn the key to start the bike..wondering why the bloody key wont move and the bike wouldnt start...then 20 mins later realise im on a bike not in a car..haha i think we have a winner!

[Metalor]

haha i think we have a winner!

Yep, that one definitely takes the cake.

[LBD]

I did a spectacular wheelie right over backwards when ...I was walking my bike a couple of hundred meters home with a flat back tire, I had got tired of pushing so started it, put it in first and idled along, tripped and did not let go the throttle, twisting it instead.....

I did a second spectacular wheel stand 30 years later on my present bike, 25 odd km on the clock, pulled out of a country drive way at 3 am in the dark, in second, accelerating, went to put high beam on and hit the kill switch instead.
Realising my error, switched it back on.... still with a good bit of throttle and only 1/2 holding on....gauges came to meet my face, twisted the throttle off, and came crashing down then my left thumb(recovering from another mishap) wrenched under the handle bar and promply fractured....
nearly stacked my brand new bike....

[p.dath]

My silly moment was to do with kill switches....

It was a very dark night and I was in a bike shelter about to take my CBR for a trip into town.
Anyhow, I put on all my gear, and sit on my bike apply the choke and press the starter. Usually it fired up within a second or two., Not this time. So I keep winding it over... and over... give it some gas... then thing, bugger, i smell fuel. So FULL Throttle to lean out all the fuel in there... Then think DARN IT! Somebody has flicked my kill switch. Put it to RUN, hit the Starter....
Then WOOMPHA!
No more lighting issues in the shelter! Flame out the pipe seemed like 5 metres! Lit the place up really well, and sounded like a canon.

How to attract unwanted attention on a Military Base....


That would have scared the shit out of me!

[p.dath]

Last year when on my Learners, forgetting to put down my sidestand and fell over in a crowded supermarket carpark during peak shopping time. Was then unable to lift my bike up. (Kawasaki 250) Then having to ask the nearest bloke to help. :rolleyes:

Haha. That's a goody. Would have been so funny to watch.

[Maha]

I will not even go into the time when I bought a Triumph....the shop got it out and running, Im off for a short test ride, I love it I want it. Turned it off when I got back to the shop. Then wanted to here it one more time before I left to sort out the money side of things. Wouldn't start!! everything seems to working but it would start. I said to the salesman (who was just filling for the day) to get that sort please before the weekend. When I went to pick it up, I asked if they had sorted the starting issue? Boss man said ''yeah yeah its all good''. Once again, the bike was running when jumped on to ride off into the sunset. Meet up with Busa Pete on the Motorway and stopped off at the Autobahn at Dairy Flat. Went to leave, turn the key on and 'nothing'!!!
Pete said '' pull the clutch in''...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh there ya go!....:eek:

Oh, and that sidestand thing as let me down once too, it would start in neutral, then put it gear and it would stop, had me fucked for about 5 mins, until Anne got off the bike and said '' lift the sidestand''.....:confused:
I was just testing the pillions skill level....really, I was.

[AD345]

There was the time I ran over my own foot.....


best forgotten I think.

[mugins]

Not on the bike but got up at four to go fishing ,put the rubber duckie on the ute ,quad on the trailer,off we go. Get to the beach,take quad off trailer pull infaltable straight onto trailer,off down the beach,not a breath of wind ,20 minutes later back trailer to waters edge,pull infalable off,pisssssss,ripped 6 inch hole in the f#@king bottom.Diddn't say a word ,back home by 6 to do all the jobs i thought i was going to get out of.
You wouldn't beleave the amount of people that go for test rides and you tell them the side stand,clutch in thing etc, and you get a phone call telling you the bikes a heap on shit because they cant start it,:doh:

[The Pastor]

once i tried to do a burnout ona triumph 600 in netural, it was pretty epic, because it was at this mad as biker party and everyone was watching me

[jono035]

First time I took my gsx250 out for a ride (while it had the now-fixed choke-stuck-on problem) and everything was fine, got back onto the driveway and couldn't get up it due to steep driveway and bike that was running so rich it would barely rev below 8k.
After stalling it half a dozen times I finally rode the crap out of the clutch all the way up the driveway, overshot past the garage and thought stuff it, I'll just turn around at the other end and come back. Got to the other end, tonnes of space I thought, was a little wobbly on the turn then noticed I was going to clip the back of my car. Grabbed a handful of front brake, bike stopped instantly and I did a perfect slow motion upright to lying down transition without even taking my foot off the pegs...
Broken indicator, scratched fairing and broken brake lever... Goddamnit.

[Pegasus]

Mine is turn bike on to warm up, finish getting gear on, hop on bike lift it off the side stand, then realise I have left the stearing lock on (again).

Done that a couple of times now, couldn't do it when no one there to see me though, could I. :o
:lol:

[danchop]

havent heard any brake disc lock stories

[Viscount Montgomery]

I've always found it annoying that on a bike when you indicate you have to flick the indicator back to the middle to turn it off. Why can't they have a simpler system like a car.

Then I was thinking, I can push the indicator button in on my bike (Honda CBR), why can't that just be used to turn it off.
Low and behold, I try it out, and sure enough, it does turn the indicator off. No more trying to flick it back to the middle position without going to far and turning the indicator on in the other direction.



Well my old 78' yamaha musclebike has self-cancelling indicators as standard, a mercury switch inside the speedo shuts the contact after a certain distance travelled.. A bit too classy for the modern stuff nowadays huh?

[jono035]

I made sure the first thing I did with mine was find a long, empty carpark and practice emergency braking, got used to what it feels like as the front wheel locks. Took me a long time to actually get that far though because at that point you're stopping pretty bloody quick.

[Indiana_Jones]

once i tried to do a burnout ona triumph 600 in netural, it was pretty epic, because it was at this mad as biker party and everyone was watching me

This one time at band camp, I put my Suzuki 125 back together with the carbs on backwards and then binned it down the road and everyone was watching me

-Indy

[The Pastor]

This one time at band camp, I put my Suzuki 125 back together with the carbs on backwards and then binned it down the road and everyone was watching me

-Indy
go back to your knitting grandma!

[Leyton]

I started my learner licence about 1999, so 10 odd years.

It is nice after 10 years to be awarded a feature such as this one :) Think of it like that.. hehe

I never knew bikes had them until I was on the bike market! Then I found just about all new bikes (Except real cheap chinese ones) have it :)

[NDORFN]

My first bike died at an intersection the first day riding it. Tried a few things to get it started then rolled it to the verge to let traffic through. After pissing around for 5 minutes with the choke and cranking it over and over and anything else I could think of... you guessed it... I discovered a little lever with ON/OFF/RES on it.

[PrincessBandit]

My first bike died at an intersection the first day riding it. Tried a few things to get it started then rolled it to the verge to let traffic through. After pissing around for 5 minutes with the choke and cranking it over and over and anything else I could think of... you guessed it... I discovered a little lever with ON/OFF/RES on it.

Um, I pushed my ginny home once only to discover that I'd overlooked the "reserve" switch. Never did that again!

[p.dath]

First time I took my gsx250 out for a ride (while it had the now-fixed choke-stuck-on problem) and everything was fine, got back onto the driveway and couldn't get up it due to steep driveway and bike that was running so rich it would barely rev below 8k.
After stalling it half a dozen times I finally rode the crap out of the clutch all the way up the driveway, overshot past the garage and thought stuff it, I'll just turn around at the other end and come back. Got to the other end, tonnes of space I thought, was a little wobbly on the turn then noticed I was going to clip the back of my car. Grabbed a handful of front brake, bike stopped instantly and I did a perfect slow motion upright to lying down transition without even taking my foot off the pegs...
Broken indicator, scratched fairing and broken brake lever... Goddamnit.

Haha. I love those kind of stories. Could someone please make a "Motorcylist Funniest Home Videos" like the "Americas Funniest Home Videos" please. It would be hilarious.

[p.dath]

Well my old 78' yamaha musclebike has self-cancelling indicators as standard, a mercury switch inside the speedo shuts the contact after a certain distance travelled.. A bit too classy for the modern stuff nowadays huh?

That is very fancy. I wish all road bikes had that.

[jono035]

That is very fancy. I wish all road bikes had that.

Probably a pretty damn easy thing to build actually to be honest, providing you've got a digital wheel rotation sensor or somewhere to mount a magnet...

[Danae]

This one time at band camp, I put my Suzuki 125 back together with the carbs on backwards and then binned it down the road and everyone was watching me

-Indy

This one time, in the science carpark, I twelve o' clocked my 50cc scooter, then fell off and everyone was watching me


Um, I pushed my ginny home once only to discover that I'd overlooked the "reserve" switch. Never did that again!

Duuuuude :laugh:

[rocketman1]

Plus they have a turn switch each side on most models

[mnkyboy]

once i tried to do a burnout ona triumph 600 in netural, it was pretty epic, because it was at this mad as biker party and everyone was watching me

LOL

Indy is a f'tard

[Indiana_Jones]

LOL

Indy is a f'tard

sif, can't you read, RM did it.

Tard munch :bleh:

-Indy

[jetboy]

I've always found it annoying that on a bike when you indicate you have to flick the indicator back to the middle to turn it off. Why can't they have a simpler system like a car.

Then I was thinking, I can push the indicator button in on my bike (Honda CBR), why can't that just be used to turn it off.
Low and behold, I try it out, and sure enough, it does turn the indicator off. No more trying to flick it back to the middle position without going to far and turning the indicator on in the other direction.

What a dumb arse. Have you got any dumb arse moments?
....after reading your post I decided to try it out on my ride last night - and it works for the CBR250 too!! Makes life much easier.

No more fiddling with my glove to get the switch back to centre, or over correcting it and indicating the other way!

[jetboy]

Flame out the pipe seemed like 5 metres!


Was Vin Diesel standing about, telling you that any real racer knows that winning's winning?

[MDR2]

My previous ride (RG) was the easiest bike in the world to start, even for a kick start 2 smoker. Never needed any choke, would start and then just require the usual few minute to get up to temp before riding (your talking the time it takes to get your gear on)

The day I took ownership of the Hornet I rocked on up to it outside of the bike shop it had been dropped off to (And f@$K was I excited). Put the key in and had the common sence to flick the kill switch off before i hit the 'lecky start button and gave the throttle a wee twist. Whur whur whur whur whur vrooooommm blargh die. repeat 3 or 4 times...

WTF

Start looking for the petrol tap and can't find one for the life of me, 'Damnit!' I thinks to myself, 'I have to do something manly before people in the shop realize what a noob i am!' So on the phone to a mate in auckland you had previously ridden it before sending it down to me. and he runs through the pre flight check list with me.

We dont get to far into the convo before he asks if i've got the choke on...

What a tit

I laugh. It starts. it gets the victory blip on the throttle then i take off.

Personaly, I love the kickstand stall thingymajig.

[Indiana_Jones]

I can see the "pull the clutch in to start it" one getting a lot of people.

Bloody annoying >_<

-Indy

[quickbuck]

Was Vin Diesel standing about, telling you that any real racer knows that winning's winning?

LOL, Well he would have been if he had been invented then ;)

[skidMark]

.... a picture paints a thousand words...

http://www.shitsandwich.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Timmay.jpg

[quickbuck]

I can see the "pull the clutch in to start it" one getting a lot of people.

Bloody annoying >_<

-Indy

It is all in the way you are trained.

It goes something like this:
1) Carry out all pre-ride inspections and ensure Disc Lock is removed
2) All gear On
3) Get on bike (Holding on Front Brake, and checking rear)
4) Kick Side Stand up
5) Ensure fuel is on (or Res if level is low)
6) Set Kill Switich to on
7) Turn on Key (Checking all lights)
8) Apply full choke if cold
9) Pull in Clutch (Regardless of bike, Neutral lights can tell lies too)
10) Hit start button
11) Allow engine to warm up. you may let clutch out if you are sure it is in netural.
12) When engine is self sustaining, set choke to off position
13) Make sure there are no unusual noises, smells, leaks etc coming from bike
14) Pull in clutch, put in gear, check mirrors, indicate, look around... etc, etc..... Release Front Brake and Ride off.....


Sorry for hijacking a thread of silly stories..... But obviously not everybody gets taught formally, and short cuts are taken most of the time....

Oh, and I realise this looks like more like a pilots check list. That is no accident.
I consider US more astute to our machinery than Joe Average cage driver.

I know some questions will come out of this... and to be truthful I am a classic for starting bike and allowering it to run of the side stand while I put on my gear.... BUT There is a very good reason why we shouldn't!