My first off in 20 years

[Berries]

Well, had to happen sooner or later so I post it for your amusement. I ride everyday so a bit of rain doesn’t bother me. In normal Dunedin rain by the time I get to the end of my 14km commute I can start to feel the odd drip of water getting inside my gloves. This morning it was proper jungle rain. So much so that the wife offered to drive me in to town but you know, cars? No thanks, it’s only water.

So I’m not even half way to work and I can feel that my gloves have filled with water and the rain has got up under my jacket so my shirt is wet. Decided to get some petrol in town. Pull in to the Mobil, stop next to the pump then raise both my hands and am fascinated by the sheer volume of water that pours out of them. Fill up and get off. As I swung my leg over the bike and put it on the side stand I had the sudden realisation, just as it went past the tipping point, that I hadn’t put the stand down because I was too busy emptying my shithouse gloves. Bastard. Went and paid, put the bits and pieces in the bin.

Moral of the story?

Get apehangers.

[jaffaonajappa]

Ohhhh Classic!

I prefer filling up while sitting on the bike too - unless its got a centre stand.

but up here in Dorkland....majority of petrol stations get all anti about it. Explain that its safer for me to sit on it while filling, rather than balancing it with one hand while off the bike...usually encourages the 'we just follow the rules we don't make em' line. Insist on filling my bike to the brim - can't do that on a its side stand.

But yeah - never quite forgot to put the side stand down before using it. BUT......know of a few people that assumed their stand was FULLY down only to find out the hard way that it was half down / not locked in.

20 years aye. Personally...I don't think this counts as an "off". Your record remains intact!!

[hayd3n]

oh thats not a off thats a woopsie

[Oakie]

oh thats not a off thats a woopsie

True ... unless your arse hit the ground too.

[Swoop]

Where is the old unwritten rule of KB that the bike has to travel more than its length to be classed as an "off"?

[Katman]

Moral of the story?

Get apehangers.

Typical - blame the handlebars. :whistle:

[Zedder]

Sorry to hear about your "Bugger!" moment but it's probably something we've all had at some time.

[The Pastor]

i had a bike fall off the side stand once, that was gay

[5150]

I once had an off when I forgot to take off the disc lock right in the middle of town.......... Outside Starbucks with lunchtime crowd watching :facepalm:

[Tigadee]

i had a bike fall off the side stand once that was gay

Oh, you ride a Honda, do you? :innocent:

[G4L4XY]

[R RATED][/R RATED]

When I first started riding I went to get onto the bike and the momentum of me getting on kept going to the other side of the bike and I had tip over the other side, was using all my strenth to hold it up.

Another time I was at a set of lights... I let the clutch out too early and it lurched forward, I lost my balance and dropped it :( by the time I had struggled to get it back up people then asked if I needed a hand, they're not bloody light these things!! I felt stoopid, was blocking a whole lane of traffic haha shame :(

[yod]

Did it twice on my old NS250, caught it and saved it both times - you can do that with a 140kg 2-stroke :Punk:

Did it once with my GPz900 - absolutely no fucking show of saving that one! :facepalm:

[slofox]

Insist on filling my bike to the brim - can't do that on a its side stand.

You may well lose some gas through the overflow pipe if you fill it right the way up - as it warms and expands. My SVS used to do that even though I did fill it on the side stand.

[The Lone Rider]

+1

Thats not an off.. that's a drop!

Did similar with one of my bikes a month ago, but thankfully I had a wooden shipping crate right next to it and it ended up snuggling the crate rather than the ground.

[oneofsix]

Typical - blame the handlebars. :whistle:

Thanks for the correction, I thought he was blaming the gloves. Don't suspose it matters as long as you don't blame yourself :wari:

That's not an off that is just embarrassing. :facepalm: At least the last time I forgot the sidestand I was in my own garage :facepalm: no damage but.

[baffa]

Dont know why people need to sit on their bikes while they fill it. It just seems stupid.
With any of the bikes I've ridden on their side stands, you can get them stupidly full, even if you stand it up straight you can only fit another perhaps 200 ml of fuel in, I dont really see the point of overfulling the tank.

[Interceptor]

A while back I pulled of at BP Papakura to fill up before a bike trip all loaded up with gear, stopped at the fuel pump and promptly started to get off the bike, was halfway off when I realised that I had not put the side stand down - doh! Amazing during an oh sh*t moment what a bit of adrenaline does to you when it comes to keeping the bike upright. Just managed save it and get it onto the side stand.

I don't see the point of filling a tank while sitting on the bike - does not seem necessary to me. The tank on the VFR looks pretty close to the max even with the bike on the side stand when filling up.

[Berries]

I don't see the point of getting off to fill it up. Each to their own.

[ducatilover]

Bugger mate!!

The guy at VTNZ did that with my CB400...I was right next to him and caught the handle bar, somehow managed to keep my bike from dropping :blink: He fell over a bit, fuck him, bike's are more important.

[FJRider]

Typical - blame the handlebars. :whistle:

Nah .... the gas station was at fault. It didn't put up signs saying he HAD to put the sidestand down ... :shutup:

[Trade_nancy]

I read a thread on the Triumph Sprint UK forum - someone reportedly pulled up to some traffic lights behind a police copper on a motorbike....as the cop pulled up at the red light ,....he left both his feet on the pegs and just sat there, till he slowly went leftwards to the ground......te he he. Must have thought he was in the car! Poor bugger must have been mortified with embarrassment.

[Phreak]

...fuck him, bike's are more important. Too right!

Glad it wasn't a skittle down the road, if that's your only incident in 20 years, good on ya mate! And I don't think it counts as an "off" either.

I fill up with the bike on it's sidestand, no point in going for more 'cause the petrol would just expand - out the overflow. Last thing I need to be doing is dripping the liquid gold on the road (and possibly my back tyre in the process...)

[actungbaby]

Well, had to happen sooner or later so I post it for your amusement. I ride everyday so a bit of rain doesn’t bother me. In normal Dunedin rain by the time I get to the end of my 14km commute I can start to feel the odd drip of water getting inside my gloves. This morning it was proper jungle rain. So much so that the wife offered to drive me in to town but you know, cars? No thanks, it’s only water.

So I’m not even half way to work and I can feel that my gloves have filled with water and the rain has got up under my jacket so my shirt is wet. Decided to get some petrol in town. Pull in to the Mobil, stop next to the pump then raise both my hands and am fascinated by the sheer volume of water that pours out of them. Fill up and get off. As I swung my leg over the bike and put it on the side stand I had the sudden realisation, just as it went past the tipping point, that I hadn’t put the stand down because I was too busy emptying my shithouse gloves. Bastard. Went and paid, put the bits and pieces in the bin.

Moral of the story?

Get apehangers.


gee dude i did similar back in the 80s but my cb 750 was on its sidestand .. and normal i always check was in gear ..

U probley relize what happened next was on slight slope aghhh talk about superman lift of the ground.

One borken left indiactor later and bike shop didnt belive my story either rekon i had a off

Least you didnt do what car driver did when was last in petrol station here

he drove off with nossle still :eek5: in his tank and pull the hose out the machine , he stoped sheeplishly took out

the nossle out the filler i was like stading with my xl100k2 tank only petrol storage device at the time

Thinking is it A, going go up like roman candle , or b should i take lid the tnak get free shower of petrol:facepalm:

Didint hose down herad radio that affected people alot i was on my pushbike had change all my cloths had water going where

U dont want to damm bikes water just flick up of the back wheel not guards to speak of nasty man

[mossy1200]

I stopped at a crossing to let 4 girls cross the road and shoe lace was caught in rear brake pedal.I got laughed at and a burnt leg from exaust but its hard to damage a xl185s.

[Interceptor]

I don't see the point of getting off to fill it up. Each to their own.

If I could stay on the bike to fill up and pay as well then that would be nice, sadly it looks like most stations now have removed the option to pay at the pump so I have to get off the bike anyhow.

I had the impression that the stations that had pay at the pump found they were missing out on additional revenue due to customers not coming into the station and buying drinks etc. Nowadays you also get a swag of questions about discount vouchers, flybuys and type of receipt!

[G4L4XY]

They say there are two kinds of riders... Those who fall off and those who are gunna fall off

[actungbaby]

I stopped at a crossing to let 4 girls cross the road and shoe lace was caught in rear brake pedal.I got laughed at and a burnt leg from exaust but its hard to damage a xl185s.

Yeah i got problem with getting tangled in my laces still do , my 2 yr son the same its like:facepalm: he inherited my genes there

I pulled up to giveway i actaully remember the place too in chch dude took of on pushbike was icy day he feel of , I must thought was funny

Then dude accross road got good laugh when did the same on my xl 250 rf must be xl thing dam single i also managed to burn trough gum

boots a pair wet weather pants i even extented my exhust guard with bit of folded over tin

Worst one was on my xl 100k2 i managed to ride along edge of rut with water in it and mud slip of getting soaked in fromt my mates family

its not can say was powerful bike and had trouble taming the beast

Then last one i did was 1 year ago went to buy the xr 200 r i have in bits in the shed test rode it nice family too. they had a farm .

can i ride it ,sure they said ride in this paddock great i rode around the edge then i rode in the middle oh the grass is long here mmmmmm

this mud smells bad its all over me and the hot exhust oh the wife says thats not mud , oh hehe i laughed my bad.

They Must have laughed about that one for weeks . i still think its funny myself

[Zedder]

Yeah i got problem with getting tangled in my laces still do , my 2 yr son the same its like:facepalm: he inherited my genes there

I pulled up to giveway i actaully remember the place too in chch dude took of on pushbike was icy day he feel of , I must thought was funny

Then dude accross road got good laugh when did the same on my xl 250 rf must be xl thing dam single i also managed to burn trough gum

boots a pair wet weather pants i even extented my exhust guard with bit of folded over tin

Worst one was on my xl 100k2 i managed to ride along edge of rut with water in it and mud slip of getting soaked in fromt my mates family

its not can say was powerful bike and had trouble taming the beast

Then last one i did was 1 year ago went to buy the xr 200 r i have in bits in the shed test rode it nice family too. they had a farm .

can i ride it ,sure they said ride in this paddock great i rode around the edge then i rode in the middle oh the grass is long here mmmmmm

this mud smells bad its all over me and the hot exhust oh the wife says thats not mud , oh hehe i laughed my bad.

They Must have laughed about that one for weeks . i still think its funny myself

Achtung, sprechen sie englisch bitte.

[ducatilover]

Achtung, sprechen sie englisch bitte.
:yes: Sehr gut, ja.

[p.dath]

I call those "pride" injuries.

[BMWST?]

I don't see the point of getting off to fill it up. Each to their own.

but you then put the bike on its side stand to go into pay....why bother with sit and fill routine

[BMWST?]

when its hosing down and or a longer ride(and i guess 14 k is long enough i put my sleeves OVER the gloves and pull the cuffs as tight as i can bear

[Berries]

but you then put the bike on its side stand to go into pay....why bother with sit and fill routine
Just the way I have always done it. Why bother with the getting off to fill routine?


when its hosing down and or a longer ride(and i guess 14 k is long enough i put my sleeves OVER the gloves and pull the cuffs as tight as i can bear
They have been shit gloves since the day I got them, just too short. My winter gloves are fine but you would never get the cuffs over them. On a long ride in the rain I might wrap duct tape around the cuff but in the end I expect the water to get through so take a spare pair of gloves with me. The only time I have managed to stay fully dry on long wet rides was when I had some sweet one piece Belstaff waterproofs and some excellent long gauntlet summer gloves and dishwashing gloves. Good for some decent length rides when I lived in Jockland.

[brp]

I once had an off when I forgot to take off the disc lock right in the middle of town.......... Outside Starbucks with lunchtime crowd watching :facepalm:

Lmfao - fark yeah easy to forget about the disc lock, wrecked rear plastic break housing on kx just moving it round garage.

Went we went to leave Akaroa yesterday was a decent crowd sitting outside the cafe, one mum was pointing at my bike to her little boy - gave the throttle a blip off the kerb only to land on the road and stoll, electric start would have been real handy :D

[brp]

[R RATED][/R RATED]

When I first started riding I went to get onto the bike and the momentum of me getting on kept going to the other side of the bike and I had tip over the other side, was using all my strenth to hold it up.

Another time I was at a set of lights... I let the clutch out too early and it lurched forward, I lost my balance and dropped it :( by the time I had struggled to get it back up people then asked if I needed a hand, they're not bloody light these things!! I felt stoopid, was blocking a whole lane of traffic haha shame :(

lolllolll can just picture it :lol:

[brp]

Oh, you ride a Honda, do you? :innocent:

Next time ya down in Christchurch pm me and we could take a trip to Akaroa :D