Interesting ways to drop your bike

[Jackrat]

Drive ways seem to be my favorite place for these things.
Racing a mate home one day,me on 550,him on 750,finaly got the drop on him an i,m not giving up,Braking hard into last corner before home,useing everything,backend hoping,front shuddering,
hook it around the corner,hard right into driveway an the bloody gates closed.Laying on the ground my dauhter comes out from the house with mates an yells out,THATS MY DAD,

Blast up mates driveway an doberman latches on to me leg,lose all interest in direction and run thru,bushs into fence,dog lets go an does runner,Mate still don,t belive me.

Mr cool,flips stand down,walks off lookin,good,bike crashes to ground,Next time make sure ground level Aye.Not cool!!!:D

[wkid_one]

Garages are another great spot - esp when hoisting the bike on paddock stands etc.....again the stand being the culprit (or lack of it being down).....

I don't think CK has overly found memories of driveways lately either

 

[matthewt]

I was parking my cbr900 in a road and didn't notice I'd put the sidestand on a raised manhole. Turned around to walk to the ATM and heard this crashing noise as the blade' tipped over to the right !!

Two days after buying the same cbr I was pushing it back in the carport and the sidestand caught on my big toe (was at night so no shoes on), f**k did that hurt, xrays the next day and I had to drill the top of the toe-nail to let blood out. So painful I nearly let go of the bike but being only 2 days old the toe could wait.

[modalx]

Cornwall Park on a Sunday - beautiful summers day but the odd shower. Blipped the RD350 past a tintop full of young ladies (as you do) then noticed the cattle stop on the corner by the kiosk was wet. No way but the low way and skidded off the road (on my arse and elbow trying to keep the paint off the tar) down the grassy bank and into a wedding party having their pictures taken.

No real damage for me and a good pretty good wedding story for them.:D

[Motu]

Done the domino thing outside Bill Russels one friday night,taking down half a dozen British bikes - I'm lucky to be alive.

Doing a peg scraping U turn,a touch of (left) rear brake and the bike just stopped....lying on my side in the middle of the main street.

The flares Jack - I'm glad young people are just as stupid now as we were then.I did the same thing,but was under a building and got trapped between the bike and the framing...no leverage to push myself up,it was a big struggle to get free - but no one was looking.

More recently in the middle of nowhere my XLV 750 jacked itself off the sidestand - this thing is so heavy and I'm such a girl that I can't pick it up - NOTHING comes up this road...fuel pissing out.So I rip up a 2 metre half round to lever under the steering head.All the sheep who witnessed this drama (and didn't help either) have been slaughtered to silence them.

Not too long ago at all I dropped a near new DRZ 400 onto the ground with the owner watching :o :niceone: He's gone for a ride with his trailer up North,so we won't get into trouble.

[Motoracer]

I have too many to mention but here is one of them:

Just gave the bike a good service. I had put extra big sprokets at the back and small ones at the front. Took the bike out for a blast and I was happy with the extra acceleration I got. As I was slowing down to pull back into to the drive way, I noticed 5 young ladies walking along the footpath. For about 1.5 seconds my attention driffted away... by this time I had missed my braking point. When I finally did realised this, I had to break even harder and the front end gave up. I crashed right outside the driveway and got stuck under the bike. Luckily the nice and very fine young ladies came to my rescue and lifted the bike up.

I was way too embaraced for anything other than giving them a quick thanx and rolling my brusied bike, body and pride down the drive way as fast as possible. :o :(

[Firefight]

Since all you guys have come clean, I guess I should too,

I was out at woodhill a couple of years ago, had been going great all day, came back to the carpark after last run, big crowd, thinking to myself, time to show off, and load the bike onto the trailer without the ramp, (just like John Nick frm Kiwi rider).

So big wheelie up the length of the carpark, slowing slightly as I approach the trailer, too much speed, shit I am committed to this
got the front onto the trailer, dropped power, back wheel nearly made it up, just got caught, dropped it sideways, me under bike, broke, a lever, but thankfully, my body absorbed most of the impact, damage to bike minumal, amazingly nearly everyone watching came over to help lift the bike off me:o :o :o :o :o

That was two years ago, still get the odd reminder when I am working out there, I might be signing someone up to ride, and then I get "Hey your the dick that tried to load himself and his bike on the trailer ?""

No Bro (sorry Jack) that was my twin brother:o :o .

Moral of the story, when you try to impersonate an ex Enduro champ/legend, make sure no ones watching.

firefight.:o :o

[bungbung]

The entrance to the workshop at wellington mcycles is down a ramp, which has bikes angle parked on it waiting to be serviced.

When dropping off my first bike for a new back tyre, I thought I would be helpful, and slot it into a small gap in the row of bikes.

Lifting my leg back onto the ground I clipped the pack rack and tipped it over. I ended up under my bike, which had also knocked over 3 more.

I was trapped until a helpful mechanic picked my bike off me.

I felt terrible, but I was lucky that the other bikes were GN250/CB250 courtesy bikes, not flashy plastic monsters. They were undamaged.

[Car Dodger]

On the piss on sunday afternoon, was jacking up back of the Kingswood using a couple of old car jacks as I was going to work on the suspension. Earlier I had been riding and had parked the GSXR250 right next to Holden. Went to the shed for some tools, as I was walking back I heard the car begin to creek. Being pissy eyed I didnt take too much notice, until CRASH the 2 Jacks lop to one side and the back end of the Holden ends up on my bike. (Bike pretty Fucked) Managed to get my insurance though, told them my mate had backed over it.

[Rocket]

Sorry to laugh guys :p , but some of these stories bring a bit of a grin to my face. Keep them coming hehe :2thumbsup

[duckman]

O.k. - I have no shame too.

Out racing at Pukekohe for about the 3rd or 4th time, Dave tells me.. "Just try and follow my line" Entering the left then right turn after the jennian homes sweeper trying to overtake, way too hot and very very wrong, I straighten up and cut across the grass, back onto the track and straight into the barrier at about 50 kmh.

Bang!!! ouch, stunned and confused the marshalls run over and ask how got round the track again so quickly after my previous crash ?? Now I'm really confused....

Apparently Dave had done the same thing 1 minute earlier on his bike which has the same paint job.

" I followed your bloody line Dave"!!!! :angry2:

:p :p :p

[James Deuce]

This would be like 11 years ago, but here goes anyway.

My bro came down from Auckland with a mate and all three of us went for a ride through the Wairarapa. We went out round Lake Wairarapa along the East West Access road, down to Lake ferry and back to Martinborough for lunch. On those undulating straights on the way into Martinborough from the south, my brother's mate runs out of gas. We manage to jury rig a tow (after smacking him about for bit - bloody idiot) and get him to Martinborough, get some gas and head out off to Gladstone.

We end up at Castlepoint and then head home back through Masterton and SH2 to Wellington. Anyway, brother's mate runs out of gas again in Featherston. Me and the bro stop on the side of the road while dumb ass fills up (fills up properly this time!) Featherston was WINDY as all hell and the kerb where the bro and I had parked was particularly deep, as I went to pull away a HUGE gust of wind just about topples me off as I lift my left leg up.

I managed to shoot my leg out and catch the edge of the kerb stone. If I'd tried to put it down in the gutter I would have fallen over for sure. I've got all 185kg of RC30 plus my 85kg resting on my leg in what feels like a 100km/h gust and I can feel my knee socket rotating in an uncomfortable way. Meanwhile my bro is casually chatting with his mate about 10m away and can't hear my helmet muffled imprecations for some "F__KING HELP HERE". I get desparate. I rev the snot off the bike, slip the clutch (140km/h 1st gear), smoke up the rear tyre and shoot off down the road, back the way we came, narrowly missing an articulated sheep truck, do a u-turn 100m down the road and pull up alongside the bro and his mate, all without them noticing.

He asked my why I was walking funny when we got back to Lower Hutt and got all arsey when I smacked him round the head as an answer.

Jim2

[Coldkiwi]

well I think you all know this one,

last week. feeling good get to the end of teh drive and see a small gap between the approaching cars. give it the berries only to make it 5m before the rear lets go without warning, I have abit of a panic and keep the gas on which proceeds to spin the bike about its front wheel while its heeled over. Quite spectacular for the onlooking cage drivers but not so good for the paintwork and fixtures!

I nearly dropped my ZXR after forgetting to take the disc lock off. I'd started rolling and had full lock steering lock on to turn around when it grabbed and tipped the bike right over. My only recourse was to stick a leg out and haul like a maniac on the bars to stop it hitting the deck. All well and good except that it was 12:30 at night and I was trying to be mousy quite for the apartments that overlook the carpark and instead redlined the bike while hauling on the bars (think 250cc bike doing 19,000 rpm with a pretty open exhaust)!!

I'm sure the neighbours thought i was a real bastard.

 

[mangell6]

Jim2 wrote:


plus my 85kg

A bit more now . . .he he he

Riding back from Mt Maunganui to UH via Gisborne, long way always the best way, pulled in to have a piss stop and a walk around at Eketahuna. Decided to complete a Uy to park in front of the toilets, leg was slow at coming off the pegs and I gently laid the bike down on the soft paniers saving major scratches to my slip-on.

Found out that the 'tip switch' does really work and as it was about 9pm on a Sunday no-one was around to witness the 'fool' and his slow descent.

Mike

[Nouseforaname]

Out for a ride through the hills to Piha and some lunch...... get to Piha and pull up next to the takeaway store, i was only going about 15kph and was too busy watching some girls in bikinis, i squeezed the front brake but failed to notice the very fine layer of sand under my rubber (i was looking at girls remember). Front end slides out and i end up lying on the deck with my bike on top of me with at least 75 people as witnesses.

Funniest/Scariest thing i have seen was coming back from a long day ride, me and a mate pull off at Kyber Pass and get stuck at the red light, next thing i know my mate on his bandit is lying on the road for no reason, we werent even moving when it happened, it turned out he had fallen asleep and fell off his bike:gob:

[Andrew]

Originally posted by Jim2
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He asked my why I was walking funny when we got back to Lower Hutt and got all arsey when I smacked him round the head as an answer.

Jim2

LMAO, thats bloody funny! :2thumbsup

[MikeL]

Hey all these "true" confessions are a bit far-fetched if you ask me. Nobody could be that stupid...
I know you're all just making these stories up so as to make me feel better, being the only biker in the whole wide world who's had a bike fall over four times when he wasn't even on it.
:o :o :o:o

[James Deuce]

Originally posted by MikeL
Hey all these "true" confessions are a bit far-fetched if you ask me. Nobody could be that stupid...
I know you're all just making these stories up so as to make me feel better, being the only biker in the whole wide world who's had a bike fall over four times when he wasn't even on it.
:o :o :o:o

Heh!

That was just ONE of mine.

Another time I was giving my VFR400 a quick clean when I was away on holiday I was crouched down cleaning the under side of the fairing and I must have given it enough of a push to get at something to lift it off the sidestand. While holding the bike like that with my shoulder I must have knocled the sidestand up and when I stood up to admire my handywork it fell on me! Even more embarrassing the mother-in-law had to lift the bike off me (big woman!) because my legs were pinned (saved the fairing from any damage) and I couldn't reach far enough forward to get any leverage. :o

Jim2

[Motoracer]

I am sure the Italian bike owners have some tragic stories about accidents with those dodgy as spring operated side stands. Come on, time to confess :D

[matthewt]

Originally posted by Motoracer
I am sure the Italian bike owners have some tragic stories about accidents with those dodgy as spring operated side stands. Come on, time to confess :D

I've had several close calls, including one at a gas station recently while several bikers were watching.  The only time it's actually fallen over because of the stand was when someone sat on it while I was in a shop.

[danb]

it turned out he had fallen asleep and fell off his bike:gob:



LMAO :2thumbsup

[Coldkiwi]

that is pretty funny :) he must've felt like a dope!

[Dave]

Ever done the; pulled up at the lights,go to put foot down,shoelace looped around gear lever. Falls over.

[matthewt]

Originally posted by Dave
Ever done the; pulled up at the lights,go to put foot down,shoelace looped around gear lever. Falls over.

Did it on my cbr900 while going to a shop on my luchbreak (hence no boots on).  I know of a VINZ workshop that did that while they were testing a brand new MV F4 that had just been sold.  As the bike went down the the guy wound the throttle which spun the bike around (on the ground!!).  I had my MV tested there 2 weeks later so the same guy looks at me and says "I'll just go and put my boots on". 

[marty]

Originally posted by Dave
Ever done the; pulled up at the lights,go to put foot down,shoelace looped around gear lever. Falls over.

i didn't fall off, but a huge lane of cars that i had just split watched as i screamed off in 1st gear thru the red light, unable to untangle myself to change into 2nd.......

[Coldkiwi]

not actually crashed getting the lace stuck but been very very close to it sometimes! another great reason to wear proper boots :)

[Big Dog]

All of this makes some of my fuckwit moments seem pretty tame.

Not with the laces as I only wear laces on high tops on the bike.

Have got my foot stuck on both sides at different times after particularly aggressive cornering. Lesson 1 adjust your controls properly.

As to funnies here are 2

1 Just learning, so I take my Honda cb100 circa 1970 to a freinds house "just for the practice".
Mental checklist:
Clutch in.
Throttle off.
Out of gear (a bit of guess work here as there is no neutral light.)
Side stand down.
Swing leg over.
Make sure the stand will take the weight.

And now the drama. Let go with left hand to grab the key to switch off (no kill switch).
:Oops:
F@#$en thing still in 2nd up onto the back wheel and bouncing along on it's merry way. Please note by now I don't have either hand on the bars and it does not go down.

No that would be too easy.

It's of down the main drag on one wheel with the "rider" in hot pursuit on foot. Caught up with it about 30m down the road (it went back down on two wheels about 15m up the road). Grab both handle bars but it's no good can't get a grip on the clutch run along side as the now accelerating bike tries to break free from the rapidly decalerating rider. Front wheel comes up. No choice I throw one foot on the pegs and mount up, kind of how you used to mount up on pushbikes before you grew into them.

No damage (except to pride) and I thought no witnesess until the following friday down at the pub the publican made the announcement that he had a video of special interest to the locals:o

2 A female of interest was dead cert that hogs were the shit and jappas were just shit. So when she agreed to a date I took here for a BLAT and showed her the superiority of a good sports bike:2thumbsup

All seemed well until I went to leave. Knowing she did not think much of stunters I thought I would impress her by not trying to impress her so I rolled the length of her drive in neutral:cool:
Until i got to the other end. Blackberry either side meant leaving the safety of the concrete for the grass strip in the middle. Yup gently apply both brakes. Blink. Why is my bike lying accross my leg?

For some unknown reason she never returned my calls.:o

[bluninja]

My embarrassing put down was  my first bike 1 hour after getting it. I had been 'learning' by lapping the college carpark and decided I would now head back to my hostel (housing 60 other teenage marine engineers). Arriving at the potholed driveway I decided I could lean the bike over and get across in front of the oncoming car. That was no problem.....leaning a suzuki A100 through a potholed tarmac drive was.

The bike went down, and I sort of stepped off executed an athletic forward roll and ran behind the bike as it slid on it's side into the car park with an audience of marine engineer students and their bikes. Only damage was to my pride and a snapped off brake lever end (which I never replaced).

Since then I have almost dropped a ZZR600 whilst dismounting. Swung leg off and leant bike at the same time onto the sidestand that wasn't down. Jammed my knee under the bike to stop it landing on it's side. As it was picth black nobody saw me, but I learnt to check the side stand is down before getting off.

My RSVR has now been down on both sides. First was me working on the bike. I had just put an easyrizer stand under it ready to jack it off the floor, when I heard my daughter screaming as if dying. I ran from the workshop to find it was just some minor sibling dispute. I returned just in time to see my pride and joy tip over (this stand is supposed to be really stable) and crunch the carbon fibre ari deflector against the wall.

Second time was at Pukekohe. I decided not to do tracktime as I didn't want to damage my bike. I parked it on the new tarmac at the bottom of the footbridge and went to find where my mates were parked up. Just as I'm walking back to move it I see it rotate over the silly sidestand and land on it's side with a crunch. The other air deflector, an indicator and some scrapes the only damage. The sidestand keeps the bike so vertical that 2 cms of sink in the tarmac made the bike tip over the top of the sidestand BUGGER!

TTFN

[Goddess of Goof]

My embarrasing "offs" have all had witnesses, in various stages of shock-horror, or amusement.  I dropped my Yamaha FZR 250 outside the Waitangi meeting house Russell, in front of a whole bus-load of fascinated Japanese tourists, I think it was the most interesting thing that they had seen all day, oh yes.   And dropped it again outside Uni in Alfred Street, where I gaily tried to park it on the gravel, looking cool as cucumber :cool:  didn't notice the bloody tree roots, bike over while I half on half off, motor still running and students swarming all over the place cos it was between lectures - a guy helped me pick it up, and he vanished quickly into the crowd, leaving me red-faced.     :o Dropped my brand new Suzy RF in front of a large audience of Wombles from McDonalds in Quay Street and the group of Ulysses Club riders I was with. CRASH ! Locked up the front by stopping too sharp and down I was, before I knew I had done that.  Goes to prove that girls shouldn't try to ride those damned nasty machines.:eek:  Dropped it on the OTHER side when trying to leave a veggie stand on the Riverhead road and was too slow and careful, not enough revs, Aaaaarg, caught head down in the gutter and foot under the bike, trapped until released by riding buddy....... the guys and checkout chick in the veggie place just watched. No concern. Goes to show, too many potatoes in your pouch is bad for you. :p   This is the funniest thread I've read for ages, thanks guys, cheered me up. :D

[k14]

Well i have dropped my current VT250 five times since i have had it.

1.) Owned it for about 3 months, come home from uni, go to put right foot down on gravel driveway, slide. Me pinned under it. No damage.

2.) Come home from shops with bag of chips in supermarket bag. Go to put bag down on the ground (gravel again) to get off. Bag catches on handle bars, sets me off balance then drop bike on left side. Clutch lever snaps and goes flying for about 5 meters. Stuff back trying to pick it up not bending my knees.

3.) At mates house, turning around in driveway. Foot slips on gravel again, down on left side. No one has seen so i try to quickly pick it up without anyone noticing with the ignition still on. Grab handle bars and knock the horn :o Mates come out of house pissing themselves. Guttered. No damage.

4.) Just backing it out of garage after doing fork seals. Standing too close to left side and it starts to go to the right. Dont have enough leverage to keep it up. Bent brake lever, but only a little.

5.) Pushing bike backwards down a gravel driveway at a bike shop. Drop it on the right side again :angry2: :angry2: Bend brake lever more, just about at 90 degrees. Try to straighten it to no avail, snap it in half, $15.

So i think i should be alright as long as i stay away from gravel driveways. Lets hope that 5 is my quota for the next 10 years :D

[bluninja]

Probably the most embarassing  tip off I witnessed. 30 of us descended on Wales for a weekend and parked on the promenade at the seaside. We all got on our bikes to leave revved up and set off. Apart from one poor bloke who had left his disc lock on and just stopped and fell over on his side. Apart from all his friends and fellow bikers there were hundreds of people around on a hot sunny day.

Poor guy was ribbed for nearly a year after that every time we went to set off.

TTFN

[Big Dog]

This is why I keep my disk lock in its case. When it goes on the bike the keys go in the case. This way whenever I get my bike keys out I am given a gentle reminder about the lock (if its on, the case is empty.).:cool:

[James Deuce]

Originally posted by Big Dog
This is why I keep my disk lock in its case. When it goes on the bike the keys go in the case. This way whenever I get my bike keys out I am given a gentle reminder about the lock (if its on, the case is empty.).:cool:

Holy Crap!! Common Sense!! :gob:

Where can I get some?

Jim2

[Big Dog]

Father time drops some more off every time I make a dick of myself. Hence I now have a lot of common sense.

:2thumbsup

[jrandom]

I don't think I've been riding long enough to have any *really* embarrassing spills... stay tuned I suppose. Apart from the two times I've binned the FXR properly there was one other, though... about a month after I got the bike, approaching a T-junction with a 'give way' sign to turn right, didn't see anyone and figured I'd go for it, then noticed a car going past from the left that I needed to wait for. Panicked, shifted up into third instead of down into first, stalled, panicked again, bike wobbled, forgot to put foot down, fell over splat at about 2kph.

Nice lady in car stopped with concerned look and asked if I was all right. Was very glad of full-face helmet and sunnies and absence of any other motorcyclists.

:o

[Coldkiwi]

oh yes.. I rear ended a car one bleary eyed morning on my GPX! (you just remnded me J!) that was dumb as and had three lanes of traffic wondering where I'd disappeared to when I tipped over!

[Jackrat]

Ok I long ago said I would never tell anyone about this but,,,,
Had a 1976 Suzuki GT750,Three weeks old,flash as a rat with a gold tooth.Went up to Auckland to see the Mrs before she was the Mrs,Must have had something else on me mind,so I stop at the harbour bridge toll gates to pay the tax,It had been raining of course,Auckland Aye!!Well I click it into gear forgetting I,m not on the old T500,give it a hand full and end up on me back as the bike
spins out from under an splats on the deck.The nice man in the box just looks at me an says,A lot of you guys do that. :o :o :o :o
Beware wet concrete,:Oops:

[PZR]

I had borrowed my mates ex cop 750 to go to a wreckers to pick up a car part. This happened to be a 1/4 window glass about 300mm long (triangle shaped) Now I did not happen to have anywhere to carry it so I shoved it down my pants with the sharp end next to the old fella. Off I went but after a couple of K it got uncomfortable so I pulled into a truck stop to move it. Just as I was stopping the front wheel hit a combination of gravel and diesel and went out from underneath me. As it went down I twisted the throttle and gave it the big rev throwing it down and round.
I got up very very carefully and patted around to check out the old fella and the boys to make sure they were still attached. Thankfully they were!! (Whew!!). Breathing a sigh of relief I pulled this 300mm piece of glass slowly out of my pants and looked up at these two guys sitting in a truck staring at me wondering what the hell I was doing.
Feeling stupid gives great strength so I hoisted that Yamaha up, tidied my self up, repositioned the glass (in a much more intelligent place) and rode home.
Damage report........
Pride slightly dented
Yamaha, a couple of small scratches
Me just fine
Glass still in one piece
Personal items, working just fine.
Though when I did get a real vasectomy later on I did not take a bike or 1/4 window glass