The most stupid thing you have done (while riding)

[Monolith NZ]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


I have rode into a mcdonalds car park, going about 40km while looking at my watch, before realising what i was doing

I just missed a reversing car :shit:

[RantyDave]

Normally I ride home, go about one bike length up the path along the side of our house, stop, open the shed, then ride the bike in. One day as I approached I realised that I'd left the door of the shed bungee'd open and fancied my chances just riding in to the shed without first stopping...

...and hit the door frame, bending the bolt that holds the crash bung on and completely ruining my pride :)

Dave

[kneescraper]

Forgetting to put the side stand down while dismounting my first bike at the local petrol station, the poor FZR250 hit the ground hard which seemed to amuse the staff. I paid for the petrol and rode off as fast as I could...nursing a red face and hurt ego!

[babyblade250rr]

my first ever bike cbx250rf sat there trying to start it till the battery went flat then realised i had forgotten to put the the engine stop switch to on!! haha (Hey i was hung over!!)

[alecks69]

just got my nsr kiking it over wouldnt start tried many times after and still nothing in the end rode it down the hill tried jump starting it still nothing

oh whoops got to turn the kill switch off

[inlinefour]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


I have rode into a mcdonalds car park, going about 40km while looking at my watch, before realising what i was doing

I just missed a reversing car :shit:

Was racing another MX bike down on the beach, riding much harder than normal, then came over a rise in the sand where the reef ran out into the sea and boom, hit a bloody big rock at full speed. Got to be the most stupid thing I've ever done as it resulted in some pretty serious and perminent injuries. Have done a few other things, but allways got away with it... :whocares:

[marty]

pulled out onto SH3 from the airport on the busa, having just upgraded from the (relatively gutless) TL1000.

looked left - saw an ATR taking off - thought - 'i bet i can keep up with that!'

1/2 k down the road, approaching 250km/h, i looked forward (for the first time) to see the back of a car approaching at ohh, about 150km/h!!!

oncoming traffic - fuck! down the inside i go, almost into the grass ditch....at 250km/h

[Conquiztador]

Full speed with dirt bike. Beach turns right, there is wet small rocks. I go over them lean bike to right. Back and front end slips. Next thing I remember is walking around bike trying to lift it up. But no strength to do so. I get some help to get off the beach. After seven broken ribs, punctured lung and a week in hospital I have learnt to watch out for wet rocks on the beach.

[007XX]

For me, it wasn't so much while riding....just having to do a spot of maintenance on my old GN250 after I bought her.
The battery was dead flat, and so my male flatmate was kind enough to put her on charge for me.
Thing is, when it came time to go for a ride, I was all by myself...and had never placed a battery back in a bike...:dodge::slap: yeah, I know give me a break, it was long time ago!
Aaaanyhoo...absolutely petrified at the idea of getting zapped by a live battery, I gingerly handled the battery with oven mitts ( I kid you not!:o) and called a mate to make sure I was wiring the bloody thing correctly.

After putting up with about 5 good minutes of irrepressed hilarity on the other end of the line:killingme
I was able to straddle my grunty beast and go for a much deserve trundle around the block:scooter:

I've grown so much since...Thank heavens!

[Smokin]

Racing a mate downhill, Both on XR500's, I was getting away to a healthy lead when I told myself there were three more corners before the bridge and then I'll open her up, Just started taking the first corner out sideways and I saw the bloody bridge that was ment to be another two corners away.

Missed the bridge completely with the XR getting tangled up the Blackberry bushes as I did a very untidy dive into the shallow river 10 meters below.

[Meanie]

I saw someone riding through town a short while ago texting Thought that was a little dodgy :yes:
The most stupid thing i ever done was ride my bike after a night in the local, got home ok but not in as good a condition as i left, lost most of my fairings and broke the gear lever off jamed in fourth and still rode the rest of the way home Thank god i grew up................... I did i realy did

[avgas]

Got on the bike - rode a 100m's down the road and realised i wasn't wearing a helmet.

[McJim]

Middle of a rain storm - could barely see the hand in front of my face, car pulled across my path, grabbed a handful of front brake while turning a corner on a white road marking.

Doing a stoppie...on a white line...in the rain....while turning a corner.

Did I keep the bike upright? No F*ckin' chance.

Only my ego got injured.

[quickbuck]

Got on the bike - rode a 100m's down the road and realised i wasn't wearing a helmet.

Yep, done that too.

Wondered why the little beast was sounding a bit rattly, and why everybody was looking at me!

for me, stupidest thing would be Riding my immaculate Limited Edition CBR400 onto a dark patch of stuff on an intersetion and dropping it! As it turns out, it was oil!
Now I know that if the surface looks dodgy, then don't ride on it!

[Spuds1234]

Got on the bike - rode a 100m's down the road and realised i wasn't wearing a helmet.

I've done this too.

I was wondering why riding felt so... well freedom-ish like.

Then I realized and turned around and went home.

[kiwifruit]

I've never done anything silly on a bike, gosh.

[Whynot]

Stayed over at a friends place in winter, got up and left well before the sun was up. It had also been raining during the night.

Steepish driveway with a car parked in it, so instead of riding around it i thought
"I'll just push the bike (zxr250) around the car and go from there."

bad mistake, driveway was grass/mud with two concrete wheel tracks. As i got to the car i managed to slip over on the wet muddy bit and the bike went down.

Luckily it fell into a muddy patch but still broke the fairing around the rhs indicator and dinged the pipe. :innocent:

[Sidewinder]

ME and carver the other day when carver binned it with his ex on the back.

and maybe the stunt vid that me and zeroindex are about to go make soon tonight in the wet!!!

[Chickadee]

Guess for me was trying to follow a mate around a corner when I didn't expect him to turn off, I had no chance of making it, I hadn't set up the corner, caught a bit chucky stone with the back wheel - bike slid out at the back, doof, on the deck. Luckily pride and bruising were the only injuries.

[Delphinus]

Sitting my full practical last week... had to take helmet off to put earpiece in... completely forgot to do up buckle on helmet when I put it back.. got 100m down the road with the instructor behind me, oh fuck loose buckle... carefully pull over and whip gloves off to redo up the strap... Guy didn't say anything while he was sitting behind me... dunno if he knew what I was actually doing.
Passed thankfully.

[swbarnett]

1. Trying to tell a bus they'd had their indicator on for ages, lost my line and nearly went head-on with an SUV.

2. Relatively fast rounding of a traffic island in an empty car park, straighten up and think "let's test the brakes", came to a stop and bamn! Oh shit, my wife was right behind me! I went flying right, she went left. Her knee hit my left exhaust pipe (bent 90deg up) and broke her kneecap. (Her bike was less than 24hrs old)

[peasea]

Castlepoint, on the Wairarapa coast; on a Saturday night. Beach party, yours truly gets all pissed up thinking his 650 Triumph is safely parked for the night. Some dork decides he's gonna do donuts on it in the low-tide sand. (That's me.)

Up and down the beach in pitch black to warm it up, round the fire a few times to get the crowd going, onto one foot, grab a handful, round and round a few times, drop bike, collapse into drunken heap, hot exhaust burns reminder into left leg.

Spot the moron..........

[COP_B8]

Took my bike to a Law Ball, (The Irony of it) after a few drinks and as we were leaving "moved" my bike, was subsequently caught on Courtney Place, 7 charges against me later and a night in jail in my tuxedo.

Stupidist move of my life and last time that will ever happen.

[moT]

deciding to go to a track day still fairly intoxicated

[BIGBOSSMAN]

deciding to go to a track day still fairly intoxicated
Yes, that's a fucking stupid one alright :brick:

[Gremlin]

Going down symonds street, just past K road. In left hand lane, normally I'm always in the right hand lane, left never feels right. Anyway, car in front puts left indicator on, I assume he's going into a side street a little way down.

Yes, made an ass out of myself. Looked to right lane, to go round slowing car. Look back in front of me... car was almost stopped, and I was almost in his boot. :gob:

Swerved into the space in the right lane, which I knew was there, and dunno how the fuck I ever made it round the back of the car :shit:

[ZeroIndex]

Took my bike to a Law Ball, (The Irony of it) after a few drinks and as we were leaving "moved" my bike, was subsequently caught on Courtney Place, 7 charges against me later and a night in jail in my tuxedo.

Stupidist move of my life and last time that will ever happen.

Can you please list those 7 charges? Me and Sidewinder are trying to work them out...

We came up with this list, please clarify:
1. Speeding
2. Riding while intoxicated
3. Riding after 10pm without a full license
4. Riding a bike with a cc rating of over 250cc
5. Riding with a pillion on incorrect license
6. Riding without a helmet or possibly going through a red traffic light?
7. Dangerous driving

[moT]

Can you please list those 7 charges? Me and Sidewinder are trying to work them out...

We came up with this list, please clarify:
1. Speeding
2. Riding while intoxicated
3. Riding after 10pm without a full license
4. Riding a bike with a cc rating of over 250cc
5. Riding with a pillion on incorrect license
6. Riding without a helmet or possibly going through a red traffic light?
7. Dangerous driving

thats a good 3000-4000 fines nice for 1 hit.. pay it off with community service if ur lucky they will charge you out at 80-100 an hour

[jazbug5]

There's probably a few too many examples I can think of, but for me the scariest was the time I turned around to wave goodbye to a mate who'd just split off. When I turned back I was on the verge of hitting the central reservation: managed to *just* save it in time, but there was only about 5 cm in it.
Shudder.

[jeremysprite]

Laughing at the BMW C1 on the other side of the road for a moment too long, looking back into my lane to see that the traffic had slowed considerably...
But man those things look stupid.

[babyblade250rr]

i've also been a victim of the white road markings, mine was stopping a on a pedestrian crossing in the rain and yes it hurt it really did!!

[COP_B8]

thats a good 3000-4000 fines nice for 1 hit.. pay it off with community service if ur lucky they will charge you out at 80-100 an hour

A very long list of mitigating circumstances and numerous court appearances resulted in 6mnths disqualification, no fine and 200hrs of community service.


Can you please list those 7 charges? Me and Sidewinder are trying to work them out...

We came up with this list, please clarify:
1. Speeding
2. Riding while intoxicated
3. Riding after 10pm without a full license
4. Riding a bike with a cc rating of over 250cc
5. Riding with a pillion on incorrect license
6. Riding without a helmet or possibly going through a red traffic light?
7. Dangerous driving

1. Speeding
2. Drunk Driving
3. No WOF
4. No REG
5. Driving whilst disqualified as well as driving whilst holding an inappropriate license
6. Running a red light
7. Careless

and almost failing to stop.

Not a great night, but as above a long list of mitigating circumstances and a good lawyer :D resulted in the dismissal of alot of the above and the getting off of most of it, kinda woke me up though!

[carver]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


I have rode into a mcdonalds car park, going about 40km while looking at my watch, before realising what i was doing

I just missed a reversing car :shit:

see my bin thread

[Oakie]

As a newbie (fairly) I pulled out to pass a car that had slowed near the centre line in a suburban street. I lined up to pass her on the right just as she started to turn right. Perhaps the fact that she was indicating a right turn might have been a clue to me:dodge:. Fortunately she saw me coming and slammed on anchors enough for me to be able to miss her front right by a metre.
Is it vivid in my memory? Hell yeah. 27 years ago but I can still see the brown Austin Allegro, the woman driver with grey hair and the passenger who was a middle aged woman. NEVER made that mistake again.

[Timber020]

Got my pant cuff stuck on the brake booster guard when pulling up to an intersection. Couldnt get my leg down so did the slowest speed fall in the middle of town. TWICE.

[BarBender]

I've been sitting here trying to think of one...but ashamedly realise there are just too many too remember let alone mention.
:shutup:

I've been known to have the ego the size of a jumbo jet, extremely competitive, impulsive and bad tempered. Obviously key attributes to have control over when applied to any area of life let alone riding...
...and especially with a pillion on the back...which in terms of being stupid on a bike - has to rank highest on the stupid-o-metre.

[MotoGirl]

I've had a couple of :shit: moments while lane splitting and certainly wonder how I made it through those gaps.

[mattimeo]

I just put my bike down on some black ice about 20km north of Murcherson (sth island) - I should have been more careful reading the road conditions. Bugger.

As for stupid moments: Forgetting to tuck up shoe laces, thus getting my left hand laces tangled around my gear leaver and almost falling over at the traffic lights. JUST saved myself with a quick swerve...

[janno]

I've never done anything silly on a bike, gosh.

Me neither.

The three or four times I've dropped the bike were all carefully planned to demonstrate to others what can go wrong if you are inexperienced on too big a bike. I'm generous like that. Nothing is too much trouble . . . :innocent:

[more_fasterer]

My stupid list is topped by me running out of gas on the newmarket viaduct the first time I rode my mate's CBR250... wasn't until I'd pushed it 3/4 of the way across the viaduct and had a rummage around til I found the fuel tap :slap: Nearly got taken out by at least a dozen cars too :shit:

Second place goes to my recent bin (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=52030).

[R1madness]

Stupidest thing i have ever done while riding is

Accept a cash offer for my R1.

[Meanie]

My stupid list is topped by me running out of gas on the newmarket viaduct the first time I rode my mate's CBR250... wasn't until I'd pushed it 3/4 of the way across the viaduct and had a rummage around that I found the fuel tap :slap: Nearly got taken out by at least a dozen cars too :shit:

Second place goes to my recent bin (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=52030).

:rofl: Done that myself on a CB750 K racing, i mean riding with a guy in his porsche just out of Taupo

[Mr Skid]

Would any fellow team jandal members care to comment on my behalf?

[Devil]

This one is fairly high up the list for me...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=534671#post534671

[Meanie]

This one is fairly high up the list for me...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=534671#post534671

:rofl:Id have paid money to see that

[Glass_rain]

went to ride away from my usual parking spot outside a busy cafe only to find that it was still chained to the pole. JOLT!

[marty]

Took my bike to a Law Ball, (The Irony of it) after a few drinks and as we were leaving "moved" my bike, was subsequently caught on Courtney Place, 7 charges against me later and a night in jail in my tuxedo.

Stupidist move of my life and last time that will ever happen.

7 charges? You made a meal out of that one. I guess EBA/Failing to stop/Dangerous but what else?

[ZeroIndex]

7 charges? You made a meal out of that one. I guess EBA/Failing to stop/Dangerous but what else?

look back at the previous page... he answered... i tried guessing... got 5 out of 7 right :yes:

[breakaway]

On my RG150. Forgot to take disc lock off, went down right in front of a cafe with over 9000 people watching. Went to launch real hard, got about half a meter, front locked, down I went. That was embarrassing as shit.

[banditrider]

As a learner: getting caught on a 400 @ 80km/h in a 50 zone going in and out traffic - got off though. Wasn't as lucky another day - done for 135 on same bike & license but cop didn't notice licence...

[Blair-SV]

Probably my dumbest was when I was learning, decided to chop down more than one gear at a time, dumped the clutch out half way through a turn, didn't realise I was in first until the back locked up (almost instantly). Fortunately I was going slow (about 25ish) and I managed to slam a foot down to keep vertical. Guess that's what learning is all about.

[quallman1234]

Probably my dumbest was when I was learning, decided to chop down more than one gear at a time, dumped the clutch out half way through a turn, didn't realise I was in first until the back locked up (almost instantly). Fortunately I was going slow (about 25ish) and I managed to slam a foot down to keep vertical. Guess that's what learning is all about.

That happened to me except it didnt lock :P, lucky i was on the dirt did i mention the part were i added some throttle as well?
Off the back i went Long time ago luckily ive learnt since

[peasea]

7 charges? You made a meal out of that one. I guess EBA/Failing to stop/Dangerous but what else?

They mount up when you piss on the cop car, bash the copper and wreck a few things at the cop shop............oops.

[ZeroIndex]

They mount up when you piss on the cop car, bash the copper and wreck a few things at the cop shop............oops.

I think that would make it closer to 15... :p

[Chrislost]

As a learner: getting caught on a 400 @ 80km/h in a 50 zone going in and out traffic - got off though. Wasn't as lucky another day - done for 135 on same bike & license but cop didn't notice licence...

got caught for the book and a bit on my 400 after i had crashed it and before i got my proper licence for it...
got enough demerits in 2 tickets to end up with no licence

[roogazza]

Wheelied over the back from front row of traffic lights with wife on the back and a huge audience !! Gaz. :shit:

[N4CR]

tried to pull a really lazy half arsed wheelie with gloves that very occasionally after riding for ages and moving around sit rather tight, so tight you can't let the throttle off completely or much at all. it wasn't half arsed, it was **** over... infront of a lot of cars. expensive and painful... hahaha live and learn.

that and probably riding from gym while sleep deprived and absolutely gym raped and clipping a car on a shiny just painted zxr while wondering why it was stopped.

ooh and trying to turn onto ladies mile at about 50-60kmh in a 90degree single lane bend with cold tyres.... haha good luck

heaps more things but i'll save em for another time.

[SARGE]

Middle of a rain storm - could barely see the hand in front of my face, car pulled across my path, grabbed a handful of front brake while turning a corner on a white road marking.

Doing a stoppie...on a white line...in the rain....while turning a corner.

Did I keep the bike upright? No F*ckin' chance.

Only my ego got injured.



now see?.. i thought you were gonna say ..

" Buying a Ducati.."

[Monsterbishi]

Fell asleep once - with the wife on the back too :gob:

Was on Old Tram Rd down here in Canterbury, yay for the longest straight bit of road in the country!

Woke up before anything bad happened.

[Str8 Jacket]

I honestly couldnt remember one really stupid thing that ive done that really stood out. My first year of riding was rather tragic and was filled with what I would rather call alot of "learning experiences"! :D Thankfully ive come a wee way!

[moT]

A very long list of mitigating circumstances and numerous court appearances resulted in 6mnths disqualification, no fine and 200hrs of community service.



1. Speeding
2. Drunk Driving
3. No WOF
4. No REG
5. Driving whilst disqualified as well as driving whilst holding an inappropriate license
6. Running a red light
7. Careless

and almost failing to stop.

Not a great night, but as above a long list of mitigating circumstances and a good lawyer :D resulted in the dismissal of alot of the above and the getting off of most of it, kinda woke me up though!

that sux i dnt think u had a very good lawyer 200 hrs is quite a lot it sux doing 80...umm some advice next time if there is one say your in a position to pay a fine they like that better they will give you something like $4000 then wait a week and apply for community service to pay it off you will probably go to a different judge and they will give you like 60-70 hours community work insted of the 200 you got..yeah and dont let them choose where you do community work they give you the worst work instead go to a non profit orginisation eg: an old home and there very nice there and easy work and they give you cookies and cake if your nice..

[xwhatsit]

This one is fairly high up the list for me...

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=534671#post534671

<hints id="hah_hints"></hints>I am sitting here, tears rolling down my face, shaking in silent belly laughter...

:lol:

The horn too! Bahahahahaha! :D:D


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Most stupid thing I've done? Early on, I read about how to bump start my bike, which is good as it has starting issues and (especially at the beginning) often I couldn't/can't start it by kicking it. So I ran up and down my driveway trying to bump start it. A couple of times it caught, then cut out.

So, knackered, I sprint down the driveway one more time, bike in first gear. Jump on side saddle, drop the clutch, engine fires, catches, and jerks me backwards causing me to grab a handful of throttle! Swerving left, narrowly make the small gap between letterbox and fence (still side-saddle), then the rear wheel spins up on the wet grass big time, catches on the footpath, and throws me off in a side-saddle high side (went over backwards). All happened in a blink of an eye. I remember thinking `let go of the throttle' but for some reason I couldn't. Probably because it was the only way I was still hanging on.

After I'd ascertained that there was no damage, I very happily went and bump started it again, this time without incident (yay! I can start the bloody thing!).

[Fryin Finn]

Kick starting a trail bike wearing bell bottom jeans:dodge:

[avgas]

Oh yeh there was the big wheelstand than ended abruptly when the front landed.......turns out i left the disc lock on.
Worst way to leave a party.

[FkNAmerican]

Two stupid things:

1. Rode like a bat outta hell all the way up to the mountains and back.....which was about 550 miles in just a shade over 5 hours. How I didnt get arrested by those crazy mountain cops or end up in the trees I'll never know. But it was damn fun!

2. Sold my bike to my friend in preperation for coming to NZ (yeah, Ill be there soon ladies) and had him ride it back to his place on some back roads with less traffic. BIG mistake. I shoulda rode it back for him so he could learn in the parking lot considering he hadnt been on a motorcycle since the MSF course 5 months earlier. He was following me and binned it at a corner going about 40 mph. Some big SUV was stopped coming the other way with its signal on and my friend got scared locked his front brake and low sided. I was looking in my rear view mirror and one second he was up....the next second he's down. All I could think was "Oh fuck!!". Good news was that the bike wasnt totalled and all he got was some nice road rash, destroyed gloves, scuffed up jacket and jeans, F'd up helmet, and a good bit of lost pride. Made me want to cry though seeing my baby (the bike) all F'd up and my friend lying on the pavement nursing his elbow and knee. He hadnt even made it home and it was his first bike. I could tell he was hurtin bad but he just got up, picked up the bike and refused all help. Everybody within sight ran over to help but I could tell all he wanted in the world was for them to fuck off because he was so embarassed. I woulda felt the same way. Why didnt I just ride it home for him????? Argh. The worst bit was I had to ride the bike over to the shop afterwards to get the repairs done and I could just feel how expensive it was gonna be. The rear brake and mounting bracket were cracked and bent in, the triple clamp was screwed up, the right indicator was snapped off, the right bar end was f'd up, the fairing was all scratched and the front fork was tweaked pretty good. There was also a small coolant leak. To make matters worse I think the zipper on his jacket scratched the tank when he slid forward so there is this nice big scratch running up the back of the tank. The whole thing just felt "off". I actually thoguht the frame might have been bent or something. Made me just want to cry.

[Meanie]

Had an old TX 750 when i was a young lad, Parked between two cars right outside the movie theartre to impress all the young lasses, as you do
This bike had a f***ed starter motor and a whole lot of compression I kicked it while still on the side stand and the dam thing decided to kick back and left me on the bonnet of the car next to me as all the movie goers came out of the theartre:slap:
The single most embarasing moment of my life :no:

[Madmax]

poping a wheel stand on the beach and putting
the wheel down crossed up
wound up in the surf
:love:

[Dilligaf]

Hmm as a pillion it would have to be reaching round to unzip husband to let him know without a shadow of a doubt about my intentions :love:
only to go round the corner into what looked like a police road block.... but it was okay - only a dead body on the side of the road and we were waved through. Could have been pretty embarrassing though....
:innocent:

[Stella]

Well, I laughed myself silly earlier in the history of this thread, particularly at the one about stopping for petrol and forgetting to put the side stand down...

Then came Saturday.

I rode out to Bunnythorpe to meet a friend, got utterly lost, found Bunnythorpe but needed to consult my map to find her.
Yup, side stand not fully down, and I wound up gently pushed to the ground....

I think I was seen by a small child, but my ego ignored their nice call of 'are you all right?'.

Just thankful I read a while back how to pick up a bike easily.

[Meanie]

Well, I laughed myself silly earlier in the history of this thread, particularly at the one about stopping for petrol and forgetting to put the side stand down...

Then came Saturday.

I rode out to Bunnythorpe to meet a friend, got utterly lost, found Bunnythorpe but needed to consult my map to find her.
Yup, side stand not fully down, and I wound up gently pushed to the ground....

I think I was seen by a small child, but my ego ignored their nice call of 'are you all right?'.

Just thankful I read a while back how to pick up a bike easily.

OMG you live in Palmerston North and got lost in Bunnythorpe :gob:Hey your not related to cowboyz are you :dodge::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[codgyoleracer]

Didnt know that it wasnt possible to do stupid things EVERYTIME you ride your bike......:yes:

[phiretrojan]

when i first got my fxr150, as im so used to a Scooter i jump on the bike to learn to ride it , 30min later, it stopped, in the middle of the road, i jumped off, without thinking, push it to the side, and jump back on, trying to start it .. it wouldnt start, called the AA service, they couldnt help, as they pretty much no nothing, i was so pissed off, i just yelled, out "F!!!" of course people turned there heads, i rang a mate, who travel from wellington to Tawa to help, and looked at the bike and said "f!! your a Dork, " .. turn your Fuel Gage on!!!! lol

i was RED as hell, and hummm pay my mate $20 for gas lol

[Gareth123]

Borrowed my brothers bike to go to the bike shop to buy a new one. Lady pulled out in front of me at a round about and in my ignorance of how to ride and on a unfamiliar bike i high-sided it. LOL it all worked out well though, the ladys' husband paid $400 for it. Don't think the bike was worth $150

[Omega1]

Mine, riding around to Mate's place on my ZX7R up the driveway and onto the backlawn, crowd of people on the deck watching me. I stop flick down the sidestand and try to dismount, the sidestand holds for 2 seconds long enough for me to think its going to hold its weight bloody wrong... bike sinks down on its side with me trying to push it up.. heavy Barstards those 7's my coolness factor sunk to 0 and I can still hear the laughter......

[Kornholio]

Just got my first GSXR and after 4 days went for a ride to Waihi from Paeroa with my mate on his ZXR...thinking I was Aaron Slight and tried to keep up with him forgetting that I didnt know how to corner that well went straight off the road and watched it peel all its fairings off in the metal... Mate came back and said 'WTF did you do that for?' Lol, I had no answer to that DOH

[FkNAmerican]

hehe, these stories all make me laugh. Its nice when the mistakes dont result in death or serious injury as they all too often do.

[swbarnett]

hehe, these stories all make me laugh. Its nice when the mistakes dont result in death or serious injury as they all too often do.

The thing to remember is that they more often than not don't. Something I wish the law makers would take in to account.

[SPman]

In hindsight...riding through Te Hana at 70k on the gixxer, texting to Black Yoshi to see where the group were having lunch!
It seemed perfectly reasonable at the time..........

[idb]

Hmmm...most recent would be on my Europe trip over the last couple of months.
Riding onto the motorway on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France at 10pm.
Felt the petrol run out about 20m short of the on-ramp so pulled off into the last side road just in time and the guys in front of me carried on not knowing I wasn't behind them anymore.

I pushed the fully-laden bike for 2 and a half hours until I came across a cafe/bar that was just closing.
The owner's mate took me to a service station to fill up a couple of litre bottles to get me going again.

I got on the bike again and took off to find a good spot to kip.

I somehow got into the airport and got stuck in some diabolical roundabout system that I couldn't get out of.
I rode round and round this damn airport for about 40 minutes until I finally got out.
I then ended up lost in some town.
I finally got back to where I started and for some reason thought I would shoot up the motorway to Cannes which is where we were headed and I might catch up with the others.

I went past three exits and thought I would just make for the next one and then pull off.
Well.......predictably......I ran out of petrol again soon after.....on a French motorway....at 2am.

No proper pull-off area within cooee, I'm stopped in a short half-lane....no credit on my phone....nobody knows where I am.....oh woe, oh woe.

Nothing for it but to pull out the sleeping bag and doss down over the barrier with my bike parked on the side of the motorway.
Surely a patrol will come along at some stage and find me......nah.

About 4am a Volvo stops just behind me and a businessman gets out to have a leak or something.
I loom out of the darkness dressed in my black leathers looking a bit worse for wear and speaking in tongues.
He threw his hands up while babbling hysterically in French, bolted for the car and took off!!!!!

That was a very lonely night.
Dumbarse!

[vifferman]

I know a few of those (apart from those already posted).

A guy at school, drinking too many beers, then riding his bike side-saddle, pissing off the side, past some cops.

A classmate, following his brother's instructions when riding his brother's bike for the first time: "Twist the throttle till that needle is just below that red mark there, then let the clutch out".
I'm not sure who was stupider - the classmate, or his brother, pissing himself laughing as his newish bike crashed into the fence.

My sister's boyfriend, trying to "crack the ton" on our street, with his girlfriend's brother on the back, on a borrowed T500, on a busy Saturday afternoon.
Yes, 97 mph on a 30mph zone in traffic IS very scary.

A guy I went to high school with buying a Kawasaki 500 MachIII as his first bike. He dropped it nearly every week. When he (inevitably?) wrote it off, he replaced it with a Z1.

Alright, I'll 'fess up - I've done some dumb things too.
Here are some, in chronological order.
First day I rode a bike: stopped on a steep hill, across the hill (good thinking), lost my balance, and put my foot down on the downhill side (not good).

Testing the first bike I owned: dropped it in the owner's rose garden.

Wheelieng the first bike I owned up the driveway, realising I'd run out of room and was going a bit quick, grabbing a handful of front brake and sliding to a stop on the slippery concrete, lying down, just as the bike touched the back wall of the garage.

Kick-starting the Elsinore a bazillion times without success (very tiring), noticing the killswitch was in the "Off" position (good), switching it to "Run" (OK), kicking it again (hmm...), igniting all the gas in the cylinder and muffler (...umm) which backfired, and sent my knee into the very hard and unforgiving mirror bolt on the handlebar.
Ow.
Well - actually more like eye-watering, breath-grabbing, hobbling-around-in-a-circle-for-a-couple-of-minutes-trying-not-to-scream PAIN.

Writing off the first bike I owned: practicing wheelies, came up to an uncontrolled intersection, and planted my bike in an uncontrolled fashion into the side of a car.

Writing off the fifth bike I owned: Planted my bike in a semi-controlled fashion into the side of a semi-uncontrolled car (good huh? Some progress there!)
Actually, this wasn't really the result of my stupidity, except that a little voice in my head said, "I don't think he's seen you; tootle him vigorously with the horn!" and I didn't, he hadn't, and we clashed rather violently.
And painfully...

Now THIS is rather stupid.
I had new front brake pads fitted to my FahrtSturm, and they needed bedding in. I almost always use 1 or 2 fingers, but obviously :rolleyes: this called for something more aggressive. Fifty metres or so from having them fitted, I start giving them death, with four (4) fingers.

On a damp road.

On a smooth, damp road.

On a smooth, damp, road, with tarsnakes.

They worked! They bit!!
The grip from the front tyre wasn't there! And then all of a sudden, a few millliseconds later, it was!
The bike stopped! I didn't let go of the lever (those damned 4-finger death grips!), and I didn't stop!
I landed on my head in front of a group of road workers.

But, of course I learned, and never, ever again did anything remotely stupid.

Of course I did.

Not.

I was riding my VFR home one night, and the traffic wasn't going anywhere in a hurry. But I WAS in a hurry.
I was also - to be fair - not feeling very well, and my brain was malfunctioning (the droogs had worn off), and because it was malfunctioning, my judgement was faulty. And because it was malfunctioning, I didn't really notice I wasn't fully capable of rational thought.
So, I come upon this non-moving traffic. I don't want to be silly, and overtake on the right, because there's nowhere to go, and there's traffic coming.
:sherlock:
I know - I'll overtake (undertake?) on the left! :first:

Uh-oh - the truck ahead of me is starting to move forward, and it might not be safe to go between the truck and the kerb/curb/kurb/cerb. I could get squished! :shit:

No worries - I'll shoot up that convenient little gravel bit, up onto the footpath, then back onto the road up ahead. (Yes, I've overtaken on the footpath a few times, as you do...)
Here we go... better scrub off a bit of speed, and ...
When the front tyre (which wasn't a knobbly, y'unnerstand, as VFRs don't generally have 'em) hit the grassy verge, forward progress turned into downward/sidewards progress, and I face-planted on the footpath.

Luckily, there was a captive audience in the stationary traffic, and (as if that weren't enough) lotsa people in the service station to my left, to enjoy my stunting.
I think that was even more embarrassing than the BrakepadBeddinginEpisode.:Oops:

[Lissa]

As a complete noob, only been riding for 6 months or so and still on learners I have done alot of stupid things, but lucky nothing too serious, and things I have been able to learn from. My main goal in life is to advoid doing serious stupid things.

But things I have done, and continue to do are.. but arent really biggies:

1. Putting my bike into neutral when taking off, and ALWAYS infront of other bikers..... I just cant get the hang of looking cool when I am on my bike. (yes I can hear them laughing)
2. Dropping the bike in a drive way, and in the gutter.
3. Dropping my bike when trying to get it on the center stand.
4. Stalling bike... only when other bikers are around, otherwise I never ever do it. Grrrrr.

But the one good thing is... most bikers have done the exact same thing, even if they admit it or not. :shutup:

[Brutus]

Yeah , i'd pay money for that too.

[Brutus]

I used to leave blackies in garage from locking up front when arriving home. until I left a tyre print and dent on freezer, holes in the wall from freezer impacting and sprained thumbs.

[Yamman]

As I stopped at the destination car park my right side shoe lace got caught on the foot peg causing me to completely loose my balance. Dropped the bike, hit the kill switch and summoned some help to get it back up. When I returned 12 hours later the bike wouldn't start (and we all know why don't we -kill switch!). Thing is the battery warning light had been flashing for ages so I naturally though it was dead. Three strapping young fullas exhausted themselves pushing me up and down the road and then I remembered... I'm a member of the AA! Half an hour later they arrive and then I remember... the kill switch!!!
Ride home happily but with a new modification -seems the drop has done something to the throttle and I now have cruise control. It's kinda cool but unsettling at the same time. I ride around like this for several weeks saving up my money before seeing the mechanic only to have him give the thing a twist -all fixed, no charge.

There really is so much to learn!

[Animal]

The list is long and humiliating...

Here's one that springs to mind: I was racing a fairly large bunch of riders to a campsite we'd hired for a weekend away. Me and my ego wanted to get there first, so I was riding hell hard. I did get to the campsite first, and somehow neglected to notice the chain strung between the gate posts. I hit the chain at some insane speed and it shot in between my front tyre and mudguard, changing the dynamics and shape of the forks completely. The bike stopped and flipped onto it's back and I got some airtime which ended at a huge pine tree.

[ZeroIndex]

The list is long and humiliating...

Here's one that springs to mind: I was racing a fairly large bunch of riders to a campsite we'd hired for a weekend away. Me and my ego wanted to get there first, so I was riding hell hard. I did get to the campsite first, and somehow neglected to notice the chain strung between the gate posts. I hit the chain at some insane speed and it shot in between my front tyre and mudguard, changing the dynamics and shape of the forks completely. The bike stopped and flipped onto it's back and I got some airtime which ended at a huge pine tree.
That reminds me of the time Frosty rode into the pit entrance chain...

[driftn]

Riding down parkway extention in wainui on my cb250rs 2up at the ripe old age of 15. Come to the round about that i usually do a wheelie over(has a small crest in it) and not to sure what went through my mind but thought id try a jump and WHAK in to the side of a van at 75kph. I walked away a bit sore mate had a broken ankle. Wont do that again.:doh:

[R6_kid]

Highsided at approx 10kmph outside Africa Bar, on my mates bike, who was standing 20m away... the reason was mud covering the rear tyre on the GSXR1000k3. I was on the ground before I knew WTF was going on. Thankfully no damage other than a bent rearset which was fixed the next day. Still felt/looked like twit... and no matter how many times my mate says 'dont worry' i still feel responsible!

[kevfromcoro]

rode my T-Bird through someones lounge at a party one night,grabed a handfull and dumped the clutch.tore the carpet clean off the floor. when traction took over..couldnt stop and embeded the front wheel in the lounge wall

[Young&Stupid]

rode my T-Bird through someones lounge at a party one night,grabed a handfull and dumped the clutch.tore the carpet clean off the floor. when traction took over..couldnt stop and embeded the front wheel in the lounge wall

Shit. That is brilliant!:rockon:

[breakaway]

rode my T-Bird through someones lounge at a party one night,grabed a handfull and dumped the clutch.tore the carpet clean off the floor. when traction took over..couldnt stop and embeded the front wheel in the lounge wall

We have a winner.

Bling awarded.

[Meanie]

rode my T-Bird through someones lounge at a party one night,grabed a handfull and dumped the clutch.tore the carpet clean off the floor. when traction took over..couldnt stop and embeded the front wheel in the lounge wall
:rofl::rofl::rofl: That would have been bloody funny, unless you owned the home

[.produKt]

Having just passed my first year of learning to ride on my Zxr, i have made the following mistakes.

Forgotten to bring the foot stand up and tried to corner left (4 times)

Have switched the tank switch to reserve, then promptly forgetting about it, and running out of gas 3-5 km's from a gas station (2 times)

Riding down Papanui road, bored and in need of entertainment, fanged it a bit up to about 16000 rpm then turned the killswitch on, pumped a fuckload of unburnt gas into the cylinders, then turned the killswitch back off. ..... Slightly toasted bike and ego Check! (1 time, never doing that again, but bike is cleaned up now :P)

In the Eastgate mall car park on the rooftop one, just leaving from buying some steak and eggs at the supermarket, fired her up and took off got up to about 30 k's and a vehicle pulled out from a park some 30 metres ahead. Unbeknownst to me there was a large 4 meter long oil or coolant or detergent patch right ahead of be.I touched the brakes just just slightly and I went left, the bike went right, fucked up my leg, and broke 8 out of the 12 eggs... least the meat was well tenderized tho. :third:

And yea, that's my disasterpiece of a year of motorcycling :(

[Sleepr]

[QUOTE=.produKt;1132841]...

Riding down Papanui road, bored and in need of entertainment, fanged it a bit up to about 16000 rpm then turned the killswitch on, pumped a fuckload of unburnt gas into the cylinders, then turned the killswitch back off. ..... Slightly toasted bike and ego Check! (1 time, never doing that again, but bike is cleaned up now :P)

[QUOTE]

Holy, now why would you do that? Thats like a sudden stop while making love at full peak. You just wouldnt do it -_- All the bits inside the engine must've taken a toll.

[.produKt]

76583 Km's atm i think the internals are tolled enough!, Engine has a strange rattling noise on idle as it always has even after replacing the cam chain. But still, this was a few months ago and she's still goin strong :D.

Albeit the headers are getting bloody thin as they do over time, but meh:innocent: :P

[NhuanH]

Would any fellow team jandal members care to comment on my behalf?
For you, it's easier arithmetic to count the times you have been sensible while riding.

The 100m Whitianga sprint is right up there though.

[Insanity_rules]

Don't sneeze in your helmet with the visor down doing 100. Nuff said?

[ZeroIndex]

When doing wheelies, always cover your rear brake with your foot.... ALWAYS. If you don't, you get to go shopping for new bike pieces, and if you're lucky, like I was, you get to carry walking around without going to hospital...

[bert_is_evil]

Don't sneeze in your helmet with the visor down doing 100. Nuff said?

I concur
10

[Meanie]

Don't sneeze in your helmet with the visor down doing 100. Nuff said?

eeewwww yuk

[The Stranger]

Highsided at approx 10kmph outside Africa Bar, on my mates bike, who was standing 20m away... the reason was mud covering the rear tyre on the GSXR1000k3. I was on the ground before I knew WTF was going on. Thankfully no damage other than a bent rearset which was fixed the next day. Still felt/looked like twit... and no matter how many times my mate says 'dont worry' i still feel responsible!

Well hey, you were responsible.


But don't worry.


Seriously, I wouldn't loan my bikes out to anyone who didn't have respect and I wouldn't loan a bike out if I was going to cry because it got damaged.
I know that shit happens on bikes at times, that's life.

[.produKt]

To highside your bike is to do what?

not something this newbie has heard of before :P

[breakaway]

When your rear steps out and then grips again, which makes your bike jerk violently and throws you off. Low side is when the bike slides out from underneath you.

[.produKt]

Holy shit :third:. That means that i've both highsided and low sided my bike :(.

Coming out from from a side street onto a main road, spotted a gap and fanged it abit, about to straighten up when the rear slid out under power, i got back vertical (phew) but then i got tankslapped when the bike was shaking left, right left right and then bang, got me a good one. =\ (ouch)

not sure if that could still be called highsiding or not tho :P

[dmc]

breaking your ankle 1 1/2 hrs from home isn't a great idea :nono:

[Kittyhawk]

Hmm Day one of owning a zx6r....rode too fast into the drive, so parked on the grass, it rained, the stand sunk and the bike fell over.

Pulling up at the petrol station and forgetting to put the stand down, cracked left hand side of all the fairings..

Dropping while trying stoppies...

My poor bike *looking back at this lol*

Worst of all..............

Trying to release a g string wedgie in full leathers while riding! :shutup:

[marioc]

Man had a good chuckle reading that so thought I might share. :yes:
Minutes after taking delivery of my new bike I decided it was time to jump on and have a ride round my street.
Now I live down an extremely steep driveway and of course the bike was at the bottom of this.
One thing to remember here this is the first time I have even sat on a bike let alone trying to ride one.
No problem I think to myself how hard can it be.
I start her up and click the gearshift one notch up in to FIRST right?
Wrong! little did I know that was in fact second ^^
gave her a handful of throttle and dropped the clutch!
Things were going ok till about halfway up she started to shudder and shake and in a panic i gave her a handful more and legs flaing launched in to the flax bushes lining the side of driveway.
Not one to be discouraged I grab the flattie and we push her up the drive.
Right lets have another crack at this i tell myself.
And wobble off down the street this time in first gear and going ok.
however the end of the street comes up rather quickly and its turn to turn round in the cul-de-sac.
As i get slower and slower the bike starts wobbling mid turn and in a panic i twist the throttle the wrong way,mount the kerb and go ass over kite in to the neighbours lawn! while the bike buries itself up to her elbows in the soft grass.
Little did I know a bunch of the local kids were all watching from a handy window!
Now everytime I go out for a bit of practice in the street they all emerge from their houses in the hope they might get another free comedy show!
Luckily my skills have improved some so thats not likely to happen again .
On hindsight I was pretty lucky I did not damage the bike at all,and straight off the bat showed me just how careful you need to be when learning and to treat a motorbike with the respect it deserves.
Cocky newbie rider 0
Motorbike 2 :yes:

[hospitalfood]

crash starting a old trail bike into a garage door ( not my bike )

walking out of my mates house to drunk to walk, get on my bike ( VF 750 F at the time ), start it, bike and I fall over, with a handfull of throttle and reving the shit out of the bike, pick it up, turn round to see about 7 people in the lounge of my mates house laughing at me, bike and I fall over on the other side, pick it up again and by this time its getting heavy, somehow manage to back out of drive, then ride from Parnell to K road without putting my feet down for fear of dropping my bike. seeing double.

[ajturbo]

falling asleep...

[90s]

There was this ...
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?p=1036179

But a really stupid thing I did that did have consequences was to be adding 2t oil to a bike I had "borrowed" from my Dad for a few months, and then to look at the bottle I had taken off the shelving and realised it was clutch fluid. And directly into the fuel tank too.

That poor scooter had a tough time.
A friend at school (this is many years ago) asked to try to ride it. Sure, I said, so he grabs the throttle to hold it and get on - instant wheelie. However, he was able to hang on to the bike as several of us grabbed the bike and tried to stop it. "Let go" we shouted, "I've got it!" he screamed hanging onto the throttle for grim death.

That bike must have sighed with relief when it was written off.

[DONT DROP IT]

I have only had my brand new Hyosung 250 for a couple of weeks.
Brand new I heard you say.

Yes yes indeed, because my 20 something year old Honda 250 CBR decided to catch itself on fire in our drive way nearly taking the house and cars with it.

Refusing to get on anything that wasnt brand new, in fear of another catching on fire, hyosung it was.

So I went with boyfriend for first "big" ride down to Foxton, coming back at the lights the brand new hyobag dies. Honestly....

Had heaps of cars behind me, I panicked jumped off the bike to push it off to the side to get out of the way, lost my balance. Bang down she went....there were tears.
(turns out Id hit the kill switch...bloody thing)

Thankfully had boyfriend there to help me get her back up, bloody heavy, only took a $10 indicator to get it back and the paint, who knows how, was all fine. But it appart from the old honda catching on fire (which apparently was bad luck) dropping my BRAND NEW bike in front of lots of people is the stupid thing I have done....so far, as I said havent had it long

Thanks to all those who have posted, it made me feel alot better that Im not the only one doing silly things while learning.... :)

[rossrc]

Seeing a large stag at the side of the road, braking hard (sensible), then accelerating again as he turned away to "help" him decide to run away (the stupid bit)... of course he changed his mind again... :doh:
So I guess this could also count for the one and only stupid thing the stag did while on my bike??

Stupid thing when I was a kid - Tying a rope to the back of my bike (WTF?) and riding round and round a pole... and down I went. What was I thinking?? :confused:

[judecatmad]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


Falling off and writing the damned thing off :mad:

[Kittyhawk]

Going top speed on my minimoto, clipping the foot peg in a corner going around a 4x2 piece of wood and flipping, both me and the bike.

Was a write off after that. But I picked it up the bike and pieces laughed then walked away :yes:

[Spuds1234]

Locking up the front wheel when it was raining on the way to the doctors with a urine sample in the pocket on my right hip.

I was lucky enough to fall onto my left side and as I lowsided and slid down the road all I could think about was not rolling over.

The jar didnt break.

[Bren]

Top of my list is a real beaut...When I was 18 I went to a party at a mates place...It was cold and wet, but inside real warm. We played euchre most of the night while getting more and more stoned...then had the bright idea to get pissed on top of being stoned...as most people know it is not a good combination. Well anyway, the night turned into a real blast....someone threw up in the fireplace, and it smelt like a badly made stew, and that reminds me of a story I shall tell later. Well, after a hell of a sick party decided it was time to go home so staggered outside into the cold, put all the gears on and hopped onto my crappy bike. Started up, got down the driveway and to the end of the street where I felt this urge coming from my guts...I pulled over but could not remove my helmet in time and I powerchucked into my helmet....:sick::sick::sick:...didnt even have time to lift the visor....

[petesmeats]

Whilst on my GN250 in my own driveway i decided it would be quite cool if i could do burnouts... Leaned forwards, got the revs up and dropped the clutch. I did a wheely and binned it in my own driveway. I had to tell people that i had just slipped on some oily/watery concrete.
Funny thing is i did more damage than when i binned the bike at 70kph round a t-intersection with a carload of mates behind me to witness the whole thing.

[EJK]

I rode my bike 20 meters...
With the lock chain still on the front wheel...
I was like "hmm... why is it so stiff today?" lol

Tried to do burnout on my old scooter at my driveway, but instead the rear wheel caught grip and
I crashed into the letter box.

One day I wanted a fast acceleration. So on 1st gear, I reved upto 9,000rpm (9,500rpm is the redline on Scorpio)
Then I gripped the clutch, shifted up. But stupidly I shifted half-way up which turns out to be the "Green Light" Neutral.
The engine reved up really high (I'm guessing 10-12,000?). I thought the engine would blow (It really scared the shaizer out of me)

[Trippin113]

Falling asleep on the back of a harley in the rain. Worst mistake? GETTING ON DA BACK OF A HARLEY!!!!:gob:

[Nivosus]

to much front break on a gravel drive way

story tells itself :<

[ceebie13]

Not only trying to read a text message on my mobile (through the map pocket of my tank bag), but also trying to send a reply one-handed whilst riding the fast lane of the M1 in Buckinghamshire!

Makes me shudder to think of such lunacy!

Managed it though.

[Meanie]

Not only trying to read a text message on my mobile (through the map pocket of my tank bag), but also trying to send a reply one-handed whilst riding the fast lane of the M1 in Buckinghamshire!

Makes me shudder to think of such lunacy!

Managed it though.

Saw someone else doing that one day

[Animal]

Not me personally, but a laugh worth sharing...

I was lounging about in my flat with a bunch of people on a freezing winter night, dicussing the route for the next day's ride. We heard another mate approaching from several blocks away on his hell noisy CB900F. The exhaust system on this bike was not healthy, and we could hear him gearing up and slowing down for the many intersections on the way to my flat. He eventually howled up my driveway, scaring children and animals for miles in every direction. Then the bike went dead silent. Very suddenly, like he'd hit the kill switch. We all looked at each other in surprise, then carried on drinking / looking over maps. After about five minutes, our mate came in, dripping wet and clearly soaked through. He'd sped into my back yard and parked his bike in the bottom of my bloody swimming pool!

[Qkchk]

Ever sneezed inside your helmet when youre gunked up with the flu?

[fireball]

i rode my trail bike over a angry bees nest once... once is enough they fly pretty quick!:shit:

[Bren]

Ever sneezed inside your helmet when youre gunked up with the flu?

Would rather sneeze in a helmet than chuck in one...

[Possum41]

Probably the worst for me would have to be a few years back when i had my TL1000R. I'm only about 5'6" or so tall and TL's aren't the lightest of bikes around.
I saddled the beast in town and went to ride away but somehow lost balance and dropped the bike on its side. This happened in the middle of the day on the main street of town.
So i picked myself up and tried and pick the bike up, with my pride already damaged i tried at least three times to pick it up and on the last try i somehow managed it, started her up and quickly rode away.
My face was so red from the embaressment, and became even brighter trying to pick the bike up off the ground. I think if i strained any harder i would have had something else to be embaressed about.
That was the last time i ever parked in that spot.

[Animal]

On a roll now as my memory brings back more embarrassing moments...

Some background first: In South Africa, tubular steel crash bars that formed a C-shaped cage on both sides of your bike, front and back, were compulsory for bikes until the mid-'80s. The front crash bars were usually bolted onto the bike's frame near the exhaust header, and between the frame and pillion footpegs at the rear. The rear bars were usually mounted so that the top of the bar was leaned back a few degrees in relation to the bottom.

The theory behind the crash bars was that they prevented your bike from crushing your legs if you dropped it. However, theory and reality seldom met and the bars tended to get hooked up on your legs and drag you to wherever your bike was going to end up. Pillions were especially vulnerable, and the fatality rate as a result of these bloody things were high, yet the traffic cops enforced their fitment with great enthusiasm as they were great quota material. Public outcry and a nationwide rebellion by most bikers (after two riders burnt to death because they were tangled up in a bike that caught fire and exploded) saw crash bars finally withdrawn as a legal requirement. Not surprisingly, the only people sad to see them go were the traffic cops, and the bike accident fatality figures dropped significantly.

I was on holiday in the UK and saw the launch of the 1100 Katana, which was several months before it first appeared in the South African media. I got home, and immediately went to the local Suzuki dealership and put my deposit down. The agent was surprised because the dealers were under instruction to keep the whole Katana thing secret, but he obliged by putting my name on the top of the list. Three months later, I owned the second 1100 Katana in South Africa - complete with the compulsory crash bars. Of relevance to this incident, and for those of you that remember the weird speedo / tacho unit on the Katana, this was a bizarre design where the needles appeared to be running in opposite directions. I never quite got used to that, but for the first few days, it really fucked with my head.

It all turned to shit during my usual riding-too-fast-while-lane-splitting commute through central Jo'burg traffic a few days later. I approached an intersection between two rows of stopped cars and as the lights turned green, I opened up the throttle to get ahead of the traffic, as one does. However, several things happened at once: The bike stopped dead; I headbutted the speedo / tacho; the speedo dropped to zero; and the bike redlined before I figured out that things were going badly wrong! The gap I'd taken between two cars was way too tight, and the rear crash bars had jammed between them, stopping the bike as effectively as a brick wall would. The angle the crash bars were mounted at caused the back wheel of the Katana to lift off the road by a few inches, hence the zero forward speed and second gear redline.

The drivers of the cars helped me dislodge my new bike and park it on the footpath. Kind of them, but once my helmet came off the knocked the snot out of me! Half an hour later, still trying to stop my nose, gums and head from bleeding, those fucking bars were removed and never went back on!

[scorpious]

id say that my favourite is backing into the testing officer lol
still passed :first:

[Qkchk]

I got home, and immediately went to the local Suzuki dealership and put my deposit down. The agent was surprised because the dealers were under instruction to keep the whole Katana thing secret, but he obliged by putting my name on the top of the list. Three months later, I owned the second 1100 Katana in South Africa - complete with the compulsory crash bars.

Really interesting story - You would happen to have any photos of these "Crash Bars" fitted to the Katana or any other bike? (Just shear curiousity)

[Mom]

id say that my favourite is backing into the testing officer lol
still passed :first:

That made me laugh. When i did my test a hundred or so years ago, it involved a trip round the block with a traffic officer following you, oh and a few figure of 8's in the carpark. Hand signals were required as there were no indicators..lol.

The guy that tested me said go out here, turn left, then left etc......me i turned right and right and.......got back to the MOT office, cop gets out of car shaking his head, says if i had to pass you on following directions that is a definate fail, but you ride well!

The really dumbest thing I have ever done on a bike was at the Hahei motorcamp about 30 years ago. Riding my boyfriends brand new bike to the camp store, shorts, bare feet, bikini top (yeah, yeah, I once was young and stupid!) I elected to undertake a stationary car that i had followed back through camp. As I went past the rear left passengers door it opened on to my arm, before i could even register the ouch factor the front door opened and took out the indicator and very nearly unseated me from the bike. Now i am a bit shaken, shitting bricks cos the boyfriends bike is showing wiring where it shouldn't, and thinking gee my arm is going to be real sore later, the driver got out and abused the shit out of me at the top of his lungs! Now my cheeks are burning to boot. I slunk back to our camp site feeling very sorry for my self. B/f was ok about the bike, more concerned about any injuries, and very supportive when the camp managers came up and read the riot act to us as well :o

[ceebie13]

Ever sneezed inside your helmet

Nah, I can't get my head down there ... not that I've tried, you understand!:gob:

[fireball]

Nah, I can't get my head down there ... not that I've tried, you understand!:gob:

im sure you wouldnt leave a big mess it would be an easy clean! :yes:

[james89000]

Haha oh these make me laugh.
Lets see,
I was topping up my oil level, and almost put the engine cap into the container of oil haha oops.

Going for a ride with a friend, i looked back to see if he was far behind,
turned back round and i was heading off the road into the big rocky ditch!!
Was really bumpy and had to fight to keep the bike up, and finished it off with a allmighty rev off the engine.

Or, busting to take a leak and pulling off into the grass verge. doing a big rear skid all across the grass haha.

Or my friend who left his keys in the igniton for a good 2 hours.
Luckily it was in a rural area haha

[karmakillernz]

Well I've done a few silly things, but the most embarrassing was attempting to start the bike while it was in 1st gear.

It happened as I was leaving work. I usually start my bike and let it warm up a bit while I put the rest of my gear on. So I turn the key, lean over and go to start it... Well, before I know it, the bike lurches forward into the wall then comes hurling down on it's side towards me. Luckily I managed to grab it before it hit the ground and hold it inches above the ground before I could get help to lift it back up again. :niceone:

Thankfully no damage (apart from my ego, of course). Guess who now always starts the bike with the clutch disengaged? :D

I've also enjoyed some classic newbie mistakes like trying to kick over my RG150 for 10 minutes before realizing the kill switch was on. :innocent:

But my worst (as in the most dangerous) was when I wasn't paying enough attention while cruising through a small town. I didn't notice the van in front of me stopping for a pedestrian crossing. I soon realized I was coming up way too fast and grabbed a handful of front-break (completely forgetting I had a rear break at my disposal too). Suddenly my front wheel locks up, starts wobbling all over the place and screeching to high heaven. Somehow I managed to gain control again and stop in time.

It was embarrassing for sure (especially as it was a busy Sunday and everyone looked around :shutup:), but it also pissed me off because it was such a stupid mistake to make. Oh well, at least I learned that I always need to pay full attention - even when crawling through town. :yes:

[Big Dog]

To many to mention with 15 years of ammo, letting skiddy have a go on the scooter rates right up there. Too much power for that boy.

Had to stop it before he killed himself, or I did.

[liamrae]

Rode around with the petrol switch turned off. when it finally cut out i spent about 5mins trying to figure out why she wouldnt turn back on!

[McJim]

Rode around with the petrol switch turned off. when it finally cut out i spent about 5mins trying to figure out why she wouldnt turn back on!

I did that. Cowpoos switched it off one evening at The_Dover's without telling me....when did I find out? At about 120kph in the outside lane of the Southern Motorway - managed to get across the lanes without much power and roll halfway up an off ramp.

[LilSel]

The most stupid thing you have done (while riding) ....

hahaha.... more a funny... yeah ok... stupid as well...

..... have a quick *ahem* (2up of course lol).... :niceone::msn-wink:

[McJim]

..... have a quick *ahem* (2up of course lol).... :niceone::msn-wink:

You cleared your throat while riding? Er....you rebel....you......

:rofl::killingme:rofl:

[LilSel]

You cleared your throat while riding? Er....you rebel....you......

:rofl::killingme:rofl:

ummmm... no... it just didnt sound as crass as saying 'quick root' :innocent:

[LilSel]

I did that. Cowpoos switched it off one evening at The_Dover's without telling me....when did I find out? At about 120kph in the outside lane of the Southern Motorway - managed to get across the lanes without much power and roll halfway up an off ramp.

LMFAO.... that is so mean but SO funny lol... :laugh:

[LilSel]

If your on the right at traffic lights... with another bike next to you... reach over and flick the kill switch on ya mates bike when about to go... then gap it quick cuz when they catch up, you'll find yourself in trouble!!! lol... :niceone:

[avgas]

I was topping up my oil level, and almost put the engine cap into the container of oil haha oops.

This reminds me, once i was changing the oil, slipped, saw my hand heading to the catch tray full of oil so quicky tried to avoid putting my hand in the oil, hit the edge of the tray, flicked it, and chucked oil all over me.

[-=G_R=-]

If your on the right at traffic lights... with another bike next to you... reach over and flick the kill switch on ya mates bike when about to go... then gap it quick cuz when they catch up, you'll find yourself in trouble!!! lol... :niceone:

Nah ya do it while riding past at a decent speed, the look on their face is priceless if you can see it. Gremlin knows what I'm talking about... ^_~
Or do the texmo and nick the keys at an intersection.. lol.

Stupidest thing i've done is probably 160 something plus in the pissing wet with galeforce winds side on, a huge tramping pack (the ones with back support and crap), a big oilskin raincoat and racing an dc2 integra down a closed motorway, between a car and a truck on a 250. On the cats eyes... ja, real smart. Runners, stunts in wrong place at wrong time and shit like that probably up there too.

[mstriumph]

Got my pant cuff stuck on the brake booster guard when pulling up to an intersection. Couldnt get my leg down so did the slowest speed fall in the middle of town. TWICE.

i've done that - only with shoelaces before i got the boots .... :o

........... then there was the time i turned the bike around and rode back the wrong way up a one way street to tell a cop off for behaving dangerously [jumping out in front of me trying to wave me down] ....... he wasn't amused :shutup:

[Indiana_Jones]

I did that. Cowpoos switched it off one evening at The_Dover's without telling me....when did I find out? At about 120kph in the outside lane of the Southern Motorway - managed to get across the lanes without much power and roll halfway up an off ramp.

After I got off the m-way, and home. I noticed my fuel tap was on the 'off' position the whole time!:buggerd:

The bike still goes when it's switched to off, i have a bugger tap lol

-Indy

[unrealone]

Most embarrasing for me must be after a LAN with all my mates at a friends place. Was a long night, keeping myself going on many cans of V and various other junk.

Was raining almost all night, and my friends driveway was rather poorly designed (honest, it was). The driveway is very step and has a slight bend to it. To top that off, its pratically a MARBLE surface. The surface coupled with rain made for a slippery driveway. I proceed to warm the bike up weighing up the driveway and the condition of the arsehole Shinko tyres I still had on my bike at the time.

Figured I'd give her a bit of power to keep traction (it was seriously that sort of driveway where going to slow you'd just drift back down). Approaching the top, so far so good and I see a car at the top of the driveway directly ahead - go to turn slighty to make the bend and not go flying into or over the top of the car and low slided... jumped off quickly and end up doing a spider like position (hands and feet down body facing to the air, talk about frickin dance pose?).

All my mates who were leaving aswell were all watching. Got the thing back up and rode off in shame. Lost the indicator, bent the footpeg and got a few ugly scratches on the fairing. Laptop and external HDD all in the bag luckily didn't get touched :>

[koba]

Ate a scoop of chips on the motorway between Trentham and Lower Hutt.

[surfchick]

ummmm... no... it just didnt sound as crass as saying 'quick root' :innocent:

OMG how do you do that while riding? be a bit onesided from the rear wunnit? :buggerd: ...may be my lack of imagination... and i thought i had a good imagination. maybe the twisties are good for this too? :whistle:

[BigG]

Hit a Pine cone and rote me bike off.:cry:

[quallman1234]

New one for me...

Lost the back and got ran over by another racer/kber @ 60-70kmh :stupid:.
Didnt get hurt at all, amazing!

[LilSel]

OMG how do you do that while riding? be a bit onesided from the rear wunnit? :buggerd: ...may be my lack of imagination... and i thought i had a good imagination. maybe the twisties are good for this too? :whistle:

:lol:... sneaky hands, slip down the front... bingo... button found!

[Out-law]

Accelerated down the hill 95km/hr on neutral... than couldnt put it back in a gear.... so had to slow down and got nearly hitted by an angry driver who started overtaking.

[HungusMaximist]

Looking at hot girls. It happens ALOT, especially the fit and trim ones that do their daily runs along the waterfront.

When I spot one, I always turn my head 180, give me a toot or a wave to show them my appreciation. They usually reply by blowing kisses or make a 'call me' sign with their hands, after that I always seem to end up on the other side of the road.

[skidMark]

had just (as in finished re asembly 5 mins beforefully restored my old gn250 at the time custom paint full engine rebuild etc etc....

put in a remote start alarm

fired her up for the first time rode her up the street and back and parked it on the drive

my dad came home...

hey dad look at this...**presses remote start button**

whirr whirrr thud!

it was in gear...:blink:

[skidMark]

Looking at hot girls. It happens ALOT, especially the fit and trim ones that do their daily runs along the waterfront.

When I spot one, I always turn my head 180, give me a toot or a wave to show them my appreciation. They usually reply by blowing kisses or make a 'call me' sign with their hands, after that I always seem to end up on the other side of the road.


shuld be stopping for a number

i try that but um yeah....

i'm usually going too quick to see thier reaction...or they block thier ears as i aproach cus my bike too frigging loud...

that and it's single seater..... so they know they cant come with mwuahhahahahahaa

cash grass or ass...noone rides for free

[skidMark]

Hit a Pine cone and rote me bike off.:cry:


yeah you fucked that up bigtime :)

[ZeroIndex]

yeah you fucked that up bigtime :)
joining the ranks of the understatements of the year :killingme

[smudge]

If your on the right at traffic lights... with another bike next to you... reach over and flick the kill switch on ya mates bike when about to go... then gap it quick cuz when they catch up, you'll find yourself in trouble!!! lol... :niceone:

Ummm I did that to a workmate once, he was on an SR500 (I'm old ok) cant remember what I was riding an X7 or maybe my enduro bike, we were on the Southern Motorway at the time....

Hmmmm, or maybe it was riding 5 up on a Honda 100

Nah it would have been the time I zapped past my mate after a close ride and sat up just after I passed him and he hit my bike (both RZ's) because I was dumb stupid - he bent the pipe up at 90 degrees to where it was supposed to point, luckily neither of us crashed and his bike was undamaged, the front wheel nut hit the pipe, but that was really silly and close to disaster.

Or was it the time I split the exhaust open doing 'bangers' on my SL125??

Here's a silly one....I bought a MT250 Honda.

[Big Dog]

that and it's single seater.....

cash grass or ass...noone rides for free
2 good reasons you never have a pillion.

:girlfight:

[deanohit]

Looking at hot girls. It happens ALOT, especially the fit and trim ones that do their daily runs along the waterfront.

When I spot one, I always turn my head 180, give me a toot or a wave to show them my appreciation. They usually reply by blowing kisses or make a 'call me' sign with their hands, after that I always seem to end up on the other side of the road.

Haha, funny how that happens.:lol: You'd impress them real well if you managed to crash while checking them out.:pinch:


had just (as in finished re asembly 5 mins beforefully restored my old gn250 at the time custom paint full engine rebuild etc etc....
put in a remote start alarm
fired her up for the first time rode her up the street and back and parked it on the drive
my dad came home...
hey dad look at this...**presses remote start button**
whirr whirrr thud!
it was in gear...:blink:

:doh::killingme:stupid:

[Street Gerbil]

Me. Kill switch. Nuff said.

[paturoa]

many many too many years ago..

I was riding with my buddy up Hobson St heading for the m'way. I looked in the mirror and he was slowing down, "funny" I thought.

Well I kept looking at him in the mirror as he was waving frantically! ...and eventually I looked in front. The reason he was slowing down was for a red traffic light, and the reason he was waving at me was cos he knew that I hadn't seen it.

F%#K. sphincter clamp, and major brakes, swerves etc etc.

Well long story short the traffic was well under way from a green light ot my right and somehow threaded my way across all of it without becoming a statistic.

[badassbandit]

Cruised over to catch up with a mate out in the waps by puke he wasnt there so thort id test out the roads out past his place anyway was giving it sum arseholes up a rise then over the top the bastastard banked hard to the right, knowing there was no way in hell i was going to make it i over ran into a ditch filled with mud and layed her down nicely coating the whole left side with an inch of dirty road runoff sh*t.was so embarresed i used a good t-shirt to wipe it all off so no body would know guess the best way to learn is from experience.:angry2:

[owner]

91 TZR see a pig going 90 in a 50 1am on a learners going the opposite direction. I figure Im gone! Ill make 3 quick lefts go down a drive kill the lights. Get to the first left. shit outta gas, come to a stop, fumble with the reserve switch. Shoulda stoped there. kept on going with pig attached to back wheel very very stupid. I just pulled over when I relised I wasnt good enough to shake him

Hmmmn,fell off that TZR 13 times on the road:Punk: Topped up the 2stroke oil bottle with water. seized
shoe lace around the peg many times

[surfchick]

:lol:... sneaky hands, slip down the front... bingo... button found!

ok... so now i've 1) got to figure out how to get pillion on my bike which has no back seat, and 2) got to find a pillion with really long arms to reach round the front since the riding position is so stretched out on my bike... :shit: all of this could get a little complex... though thoroughly worth it I'm sure :shifty:

oh yer another dumb thing I did was to chase a bike lanesplitting on the n.western then when we got off at the exit i pulled up beside him for a how-do-you-do and nudged the bike up from first to what I thought was neutral and let the clutch out without checking the neutral light. one stalled 996:shit::rolleyes:...

[LilSel]

ok... so now i've 1) got to figure out how to get pillion on my bike which has no back seat, and 2) got to find a pillion with magic hands :shifty:


1) I have a pillion seat...:lol:

2) I have magic hands too :wari::innocent:

[awesker]

Was half alseep, going around a partly damp round about and pulled in the the clutch, redlined it and dumped it (on my mc22) bike lurched up, legs flew outwards, bike squirmed all around and took off, I dont know how the hell I didnt fall off it, or got high sided or something, I learnt my lesson.

[Shiny side up]

I was in the pub one night at Tirua. My mate said he had to pop home and grab somthing and insisted I wait for him. He didnt get back for half an hour. When He did get back he had a scratch accross his cheek. I asked him why it had taken so long. He finally admitted he had fallen asleep on the way home. I said "but you left on your motorbike....." And the scratch on his face..... He had been so tanked he had fallen asleep on the bike while riding. He had come to rest, as he stalled the bike, with the bike in the water table, upright, and his sholder against the clay bank. The scratch on his cheek was the only injury and that was from a little bit of blackberry on the bank. When he woke up he managed to get the bike started and came back to the pub. He had forgotten what he went home for. Riding drunk not clever. Waking up and riding back to the pub... what was he thin........ nah he stupid.

[mitchilin]

A dog unit was chasing me cause I was doing about 80kph on the footpath after happyhour at work.He pulled out of the copshop,I had to get of the path onto the road back onto the footpath and crashed on my front lawn.We chashed each other around a tree for a while.I was two up as well.The cop seemed to accept I was now safe at home and let me off even though I was pretty pissed,though he reckoned I was close to having the dog set on me.My excuse for riding on the footpath was "I knew I was over the limit so thought it was safer."

[carver]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


I have rode into a mcdonalds car park, going about 40km while looking at my watch, before realising what i was doing

I just missed a reversing car :shit:

wearing quasi gear while riding

[megageoff76]

Slowed to a stop and went to put my left foot down, but nothing happend.
Turns out my shoe laces were all tangled up around the lever. Luckily the laces snapped just in time, but was the last time i rever rode in shoes.

[james89000]

Ate a scoop of chips on the motorway between Trentham and Lower Hutt.

Hahaha i wish i saw that :D
Awesome!

[puddy]

It's a tie between lose my licence and CRASH!

[cynna]

ive done a few stupid things

- when i was about 12 i was charging the battery off dads bike. put too much water in it so decided to suck some out with a straw...... didnt get much in my mouth but it wasnt a pleasent experience. mum made me drink a bottle of milk just in case

- my xv400 wasnt running properly so i decided to pull a spark plug lead off while it was running. elbow ached for days after as my arm got a bit of a jolt

- got push started dwon the muddy hill to the old canvas town rally. bike fired up and i took off sideways into a massive puddle at the bottom of the hill and laid the bike down
right in the middle

[release_the_bees]

The stupidest mistake I ever made was back in the days when I was a learner. I was riding in a 70km/h zone following a truck which put it's indicators on to turn left, but then started moving towards the right as though it was going to turn into a side street. Assuming the driver had hit the wrong indicator I dropped a gear and flew past the truck on the lefthand side. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw the cab of the truck heading straight at me. I don't think it missed by much.

Another stupid thing was forgetting to put the lead back on after changing the spark plug on the GS500. By the time I'd realised my mistake the ignition coil was burnt out. Turned out to be a $200 spark plug change.

[motelbob]

tried to read a small print map at 140kms /hr. Corner came just as I looked up. Just managed to save me and bike but shat myself in the process. At that speed long straights aint that long.

[trump-lady]

I must say I have enjoyed ALL your stories.... mines a typical
I was all excited because my fixed up, new painted bike after 3 months was being freighted to Auckland. We get her off on the road.....she wont start. I call the mechanic bitching cause it wont start. He recomends charging battery. I ask the whole dam neighbourhood for jumpers before remembering I have AA. Call AA after bitching and complaining for 45 mins to anyone who will listen to have him come...turn the kill switch off..... and say to me "new rider?" red faced I told everyone he jumped started it shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh LOL

[trump-lady]

I got one more. Letting my boyfriend of 5 years learn to ride on my new bike hoping he would have the same passion for riding and stop bitching about me always riding and having no time.
He did a flintstones stop...dropped it and fucked his leg up.
Best thing I ever did
LEAVE HIM..........
Mental note,,,,, next boyfriend must have own bike. You cant make people like bikes

[Tonka]

Went to blip coming up to a 45km/h corner and pulled too much front brake and front end went....slid across the road and thankfully nothing coming in oppposite direction. If that wasnt bad enough, what made it worse was it was my mates bike:pinch:...a very expenisive lesson:doh:

[FruitLooPs]

Follow too close to a car prepping to overtake, looked away turned back and was heading straight for a stopped car at 70km/hr, swerved round him - straight into the path of an oncoming tiptop truck :eek: went between the two by the slimmest of margins packing my dac's, hit the drivers wingmirror on the way thru amidst a blaring of truck and car horn.. :spanking:

All the usual, dropped into 1st by accident stalled. Kickstarted in first, changed down instead of up after switching bike to race pattern :oi-grr: dropped it from a standstill in a slow and steady fashion a couple times i'm sure too..

That or cut someone off and take them out at levels raceway, first time out on track in a highlighter newbie bib. Felt about 2inches tall after that, especially since I managed to preserve myself. :Oops: :ride:

[bert_is_evil]

I sneezed inside my helmet with the visor down. Messy.

[rainman]

Ah, that would be today. Splitting slowly into work down the northern, dry road, happy monday morning commute, maybe not paying as much attention as I shoulda been when a car in the left lane just in front of me breaks quickly across to the gap in the right, no indicators or anything. :angry2: Oh Shit moment, go into emergency stop mode but for some dumb reason lay into the back brake more than the front. Lost traction on the back wheel, bike cut out, and I almost shed enough k's to miss - just gave him a bit of rubber loving on the back bumper. Mercifully didn't slide sideways that much. Kept the bike upright, no damage but to my underwear, and we both pulled over, checked the vehicles out and decided not to make anything of it.

Lessons I learned:
1. Concentrate extra hard on the first work day back after the school hols - the cagers are out of practice.
1a. Watch out for Mondays - I'm obviously out of practice!
2. When the traffic is just about stationary and you go past a truck on the right there will 90% of the time be a gap in front of it that someone may just want to get into. They may be in a hurry.
3. Watch the indicators and the wheels of the cars, for when the indicators aren't there.
4. Use the damn front brake!!! What was I thinking? :argh:
5. Slow down even more... I was doing about 40 at the time.
Oh, and thank $deity that it wasn't wet.

Felt a little nervous on the way home, which I'm thinking is probably A Good Thing.

[steveb64]

The stupidest mistake I ever made was back in the days when I was a learner. I was riding in a 70km/h zone following a truck which put it's indicators on to turn left, but then started moving towards the right as though it was going to turn into a side street. Assuming the driver had hit the wrong indicator I dropped a gear and flew past the truck on the lefthand side. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw the cab of the truck heading straight at me. I don't think it missed by much.

Another stupid thing was forgetting to put the lead back on after changing the spark plug on the GS500. By the time I'd realised my mistake the ignition coil was burnt out. Turned out to be a $200 spark plug change.

Had one of those near truck misses too... not at 70 k's tho... On my old GSX1100 (Yoshi kitted, CR smoothbores, 18" spokes)...

I'd been out for a ride (over the back of the Wairarapa) with some mates who had just finished racing the NZ national series - on GSXR1100's and FZR1000's, we'd stopped for a smoko break at the top of the Rimutakas, on the way home, got going again - and I peeled off to head for my abode - over Haywards, then Pahatanui inlet towards Porirua, still in full speed mode. Came rocketing out of a corner, into the next one which was blind onto a straight - to discover a 5 ton flatdeck truck just pulling out to do a U-turn in front of me (well, near the end of the short straight) - problem was, I was doing somewhere around 160 - 180 kph. I grabbed a huge handful of front brake (could feel the muscles in my arm rip!), the poor old 1100 was bucking, front tyre squealing, and I wasn't going to stop. Not even close. And the road went left after the truck which gave me no visibility for going 'round the outside. At this point, the only option left was to jump just before I hit the back of the truck, and hope I skidded to a halt on the deck, before I hit the cab (Yeah - right). Then I saw it - the light! Down the left side of the truck, as the left corner of the cab just cleared the bank that sloped right down to the road. So - off the brakes - haul the bike hard left, straighten up, and rocket through the gap - riding where there should have been a ditch! And I mean rocket - I was still doing over 100k's when I came out past the front of the truck, and to this day - I can't remember actually going past it. Brain censor cut in - TOO SCARY! Hauled things up back on the road - turned around and gave the truck driver the fingers - and a couple of other rude gestures - then decided that _I_ was a dumbfuck for going so fast in a relatively built up area (well, it was a 100k zone, but...), clicked back into gear and rode off. Much slower. Still shitting myself. It was years before I could even think about that one without getting a huge adrenaline rush...

[Sully60]

I was dying to post in this earlier but I didn't so here I go:

Back in the days when Number One and I were still courting we both commuted from the UH to the big smoke. She on her RG150 and me on my CG125. So one Friday night after work I trundle down to my ladies new work to attend the end of week drinks. She was proud of her man and wanted to introduce me to her colleagues and extol my virtues. :love:

I remember that year as it always seems to be raining, this night was no different. I arrive at the entrance to the car park and the automatic gate opens to reveal the car park and a not insignificant crowd of people huddled around smoking and of course my girl.

Not one to be shy and retiring and needing only my own encouragement to perform (like a seal) I decide to bust out one of my super long broadsides (that I had spent some time perfecting) for the gratification of the adoring crowd.:corn::corn:

Well ok myself.:stupid:


So I set of into the car park as fast as my trusty little aircooled pushrod single would propel me. I ascend the ramp on to the roof level car park and hook second gear just after the crest, third soon after. Man and machine are now at the heady pace of forty kilometres an hour and things are ready to start my slide.

This particular CG had been modified to use CB200 wheels and brakes so getting the rear wheel locked was never a problem and so far things were going to plan. With the rear wheel now completely locked and starting to come around just nicely I glance over at the crowd and they seem ambivalent, feckers!<_<

Now I had calculated the distance to the end of the car park and had everything set up to arrive at the very end just in front of the crowd at ninety degrees to my pre slide trajectory, sounds easy enough doesn't it? Open space, wet tarmac, an audience, my lady this was going to look cool!:headbang:

Right up until the moment the wet tarmac turned to wet Butynol roofing membrane!:doh:

The nicely controlled drifting slide instantly turned into the most shameful slide of my life, on my arse following the bike that only a millisecond ago I was aboard. Feck the bike is now on its side and I swear we are both speeding up on the totally friction free Butynol.

I hadn't calculated what was required to get the bike and myself stopped from this situation so I resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't even a passenger anymore, more like two bodies on a diverging path awaiting a catastrophic impact.

The moment comes and I watch my trusty steed plough straight into the wall of the third floor as I brace myself for impending thud. I slide into the fence on my side, the impact wasn't too bad but I was sore enough to require a good hard rub before I move any further. I stumble to my feet as quickly as possible, it's damage assessment/control time. I get the bike back on it's wheels without thought and then wave to the crowd, I'm sure they couldn't see my hand through the bright red glare radiating from my cheeks:o

My lady checks to see if I'm ok and quickly shrinks away into the crowd also embarrassed. I assess the bike to find only a broken clutch lever and the forks slightly twisted.

We were actually quite popular at that particular gathering, we’d provided the call centre drones (sorry luv) with a good conversation topic and provided myself with a lesson about traction qualities of Butynol.

[NC]

Back in the day...*shudder*

When I was about 20 and I thought I was "death proof" so to speak. Me and a mate had been hooning around all night on our bikes on a un-named drug. So full of confidence on a wet road we went out to bethals beach. I was gasing it ( I think around about 125kms) down this "straight" and someone had removed the 25kmh corner sign. So basicly I ended up highsiding the bike into some bushes down a steep embankment, while I was flying through the air and landed in some vines down from the bike, landing on my feet.
While this was all going on, my mate was watching all this happen and lowsided his bike.

I strained my back pulling the bike up the hill, which was covered in bush matter.
And my mate had to ride home in second gear..

[Wiki Drifter]

Somewhere on SH1 near Turangi I was recklessly over taking a Tui camper van, who was driving very close to the centre line. I ended up in the opposite lane and missing an on coming car by a few cm, a collision at my speed at the time would have been fatal. I was disappointed that life did not flash before my eyes, just that anus clinching 'oh shit..' feeling.

And there was the time in Picton I was told to lead the way in front of 2 dozen cars onto the ferry. Started the engine and stalled 4 times before I noticed I had my side stand down. :bash:

[Deano]

You guys have got nothing on me and Jimbo.

We both thought we could keep up with Cycosis on the road.

Jimbo learn't the hard way on Piecock hill, me on the road to Castlepoint.

At least I got past him.......for all of 20 seconds before I biffed it.

We got owned.

[carver]

Post here the most stupid mistake you have made while riding your bike....


I have rode into a mcdonalds car park, going about 40km while looking at my watch, before realising what i was doing

I just missed a reversing car :shit:

riding so pissed i couldn't see where i was going on nice CBR 600!

loosing my license instantly for speeding

crashing on a straight piece of road

just to name a few...

[carver]

oh yeah, riding through hamilton 2 weeks ago at night with sidewinder and gazza in our underwear, helmets, gloves, and race boots

[CB ARGH]

Uhh well yesterday I sat the Basic Skills Handling test. I had never ridden a road bike before, just off road. Now, what is the difference? A horn, indicators, mirrors etc. Not used to any of those.

I sit the test, and instead of flicking the indicator button, I smash down the horn giving it a nice hoot, and to put icing on the cake... the button stuck down for a second or two till I hit it again to bring it back into place. I felt like a complete dickhead, the instructor just laughed his ass off. :Oops:

Still passed with just one point for stalling the engine once (You want to score NO points... points ARE BAD!)

Erm... my bad for the massive 5 month bump too XD :whocares:

[saltydog]

Mabuk(drunk) on arak (rice wine), hot exhaust on right inside calf. Big fucking sore blister the size of a baseball.
Once, only once...

[munterk6]

About 10 years ago I did a runner from the law from Omarama to Mt Cook turn off, 38kms and reaching speeds of 260kmh. Pretty fuckin stupid considering I was a gnats hair from being wiped out by an oncoming car whilst passing at that speed!
Lets just say, the Judge was NOT impressed. $1800 in fines and 9 mths disqualified. The cop chasing said she was doing 210kmh( in a 91 Commodore!) and could not stay with me, she was pulling off some pretty dangerous passes!
Death is so close when riding at speeds like that under the pressure of a cop after you, and when you are NOT familiar with the judgement that is required at that speed one small mistake can easily be final.
Me, I wanna live to ride another day.:soon:

[BIHB@0610]

Mabuk(drunk) on arak (rice wine), hot exhaust on right inside calf. Big fucking sore blister the size of a baseball.
Once, only once...

hehe! Back in the late 80s a friend of mine and I were dating two guys from Rotovegas. We pillioned them from Hastings to Vegas - her with her calf resting on the exhaust pipe for a considerable distance (I think she might even have been wearing shorts). She still has a huge brown mark on her leg ....... tells people it's a birth mark ....:dodge:

[Blossom]

Too many times to count I have fallen asleep on the back of the mans bike. Yes asleep.
Once when we were still dating, after a particularly hard night playing indoor basketball I fell asleep on the back of the gsx750, wedged nicely between him and the pack rack. Next thing I remember is hearing a tapping noise.
I open my eyes to see someones knuckles banging on the front of my helmet. I open the visor to see a very surprised Mr Plod staring intently at me. :sweatdrop
I got a good growling. I think he was more shocked than upset. :lol: Needless to say I find pillioning quite relaxing.
On a side note our 8yr old fell asleep on the way back from Paeroa the other night on the back of her dads RF900... must be genetic. lmao

[Kittyhawk]

Riding around the block with my neighbour on the back wearing nothing but biker boots, gloves helmets and lingere *when I was waaay slimmer*:devil2: average speed 30km/hr due to traffic stopping in the middle of the roundabout at panmure:(

[arj127]

Riding around the block with my neighbour on the back wearing nothing but biker boots, gloves helmets and lingere *when I was waaay slimmer*:devil2: average speed 30km/hr due to traffic stopping in the middle of the roundabout at panmure:(

i would so love to have seen that, mind you, i would love to see that now!

[dwnundabkr]

Good old 1979 xr250 with good traction knobbly's but riding on the road while raining coming from Glenden to the Te-Atatu round-about that has a pedestrian crossing as you are heading towards the motorway bike sideways out of the roud-about lost it on the pedestrian crossing in front of a bus that has just let of all the people of in peak hour traffic on my arse
rode home with the bars at about a 45 man that was a bike gave it absolute death but it always came back for more

[Nagash]

Good old 1979 xr250 with good traction knobbly's but riding on the road while raining coming from Glenden to the Te-Atatu round-about that has a pedestrian crossing as you are heading towards the motorway bike sideways out of the roud-about lost it on the pedestrian crossing in front of a bus that has just let of all the people of in peak hour traffic on my arse
rode home with the bars at about a 45 man that was a bike gave it absolute death but it always came back for more

BDOTGNZA, where are you in this grave time of need?

Anyway.. I have to say organising a Coro Loop on the 'Gut Feeling' that the weather would be good was pretty stupid.. Hammered down every inch of the way..

[Fudmucker]

I set off on my R80/7 one Sunday morning. The front discs were wet from rain the night before. I was riding slowly in second, applying the front brake to dry off the disks. As I was adjusting the mirrors with my left hand, the front wheel rode over a stick of celery lying in the road at the first turn from my house. The front wheel locked up and I lost the front end. I ended up on my back in the middle of the road, with my bike half way up the street , engine still running, back wheel still turning.

My ego hurt more than my banged-up thigh as neighbours came runningto assist. Was this punishment for many pots of potato and celery soup consumed over the years...? :(

[Hinny]

A mate of a mate tried to see how far he could ride with his eyes closed.

[VFR]

Got my pant cuff stuck on the brake booster guard when pulling up to an intersection. Couldnt get my leg down so did the slowest speed fall in the middle of town. TWICE.


Jeans to long so fold them back ,approached a red light, somehow it got tangled in the hereblob and i did a full 5 seconds of perfect balancing on the BRAND new VFR untill .....
I left with the mirror in my pocket.

Trying to read the GPS while doing 140km/h in rush hour traffic in Johannesburg.

Trying to zip the leather jacket up cos it start to drizzle .

Testing the ABS on the bike to realise it only works on back wheel.

I left with the mirror in my pocket again.

[vagrant]

My old XL had a hi comp 305cc big bore kit in it, so some times it could be difficult to start when cold.
I would normal hold the front brake on, to stop the throttle hand twisting while kicking it over.

Leaving a friends place one morning, I figured I would just roll down the hill and crash start it at the bottom.

Well I did crash it. Grabbed a big handful of front brake as I dumped the clutch and bounced down on the seat. Idiot!!:Oops:

[Mikkel]

Causing myself to fall off my bike... twice... pretty much the same way both times... :bash:

[Blossom]

The man may not agree here, but imho the stupidest thing he has done on a bike was while stopped at a set of traffic lights about to turn right with me on the back. We were behind a mini I think and this particularly attractive blond with bouncy boobs. (yes I noticed too) walks by on our left. The mans helmet does this move to the left to watch said blond as the mini starts to move forward as the lights have gone green.
Does the man take note of this? no.. still looking at blonds boobs. But he finally notices the car ahead of him is moving so he begins to turn the corner, still not really taking his attention off the blond and promptly runs straight up the back of the mini, which had stopped to give way. :lol:
The blond hearing the bang looks our way and the man is reduced to Mr embarrasment, no harm was done to the mini or the bike (although pretty sure the old lady driving the mini was a bit shocked) so he just rode off with me on the back hitting him and yelling at him to pull the *&^$*& over.
I can laugh about it now but boy at the time I was pretty pissed off. When we got to our destination and I got off the bike, all he could do was laugh.
Bastard. :bash:

[NOMIS]

umm crashed it..
txting while riding ( dont do this any more don't wana drop my new phone ) and its to cold to take gloves of now.
clicking in to neautral at full tit with the mp3 player going didnt know untill i thought something was wrong.

[Kittyhawk]

Riding a suzuki LT125 4 wheeler, doing jumps then the rear wheel falls off landing on 3 and bending the rear axel (they have no suspension lol):lol:

[alanzs]

Rode in shorts and jandals about 30k's through the canyons to the beach while on LSD. I kept pulling over because I heard sirens coming up behind me. I thought it was an ambulance.
The road was like a slithering serpent of translucent pulsating colours and my bike and I were like riding a dragon.
Fun, but not particularly safe.

[raftn]

having done a a few trips with my mate who owns a 1098, i was always taking the piss out of him cause its a 35000 dollar bike and holds about 2 litres, we were always having to stop so he could refuel.......so friday night ride off to the pub...yep you i guessed it i ran out of gas......."That will teach you he said"......and he rode off! I learnt my lesson......keep my mouth shut. he still winding me about it!

[trainingwheels]

um... riding along cheacking out hot chick walking down the road.... looked back at road....seen the driver door of a taxi opened wide..... i took that thing right off at the hinges!!!.... taxi man p*&^ed... but he ended up paying for new forks as he didnt look in mirror...

[scrivy]

Doing a wheelie on my GSX1100EF in Pizza Hut carpark back in '87 with Sidecar Bob sitting on the back. Well..... he was sitting on the back at the start!!!! I parked the bike, turned around to say that was cool, and low and behold - the f@cker had fallen off the back!! He was concussed for a wee while too............. :doctor:
Thank Christ he holds on to the sidecar better than the bike grab rail!! :first:

[scrivy]

Doing rider swaps at 200kph with the pillion!! That was fun!! Had to trust the footpegs!! Again with sidecar bob.

Also, learning how to ride a bike and wheelie sitting on the tank with feet over the handle bars. Whilst trying it out down the road (in jandals and shorts) I spotted two hotties walking on the other side of the road. I inadvertantly stood on the front mudguard, causing the bike to go down, with me on top. My old Swinger Chris Meads and his brother were filming me at the time, and both thought it was hilarious. Didn't stop filming and come to help me did they?!!!! Bistards!! Covered in blood from head to toes!! Dumb shit alright!:innocent:
Ah yes, the good old days. :yes:

[kiwifruit]

i rode with scrivy once

sooooooo, who is keen to have a go on his sidecar in October? LOL

[scrivy]

Oh yeah Fruitie, I also once got Chris Meads to do a wheelie with me on the back, facing backwards, dragging my helmet down the road!! I had a titanium strip screwed onto the top of the helmet!! Took a long time to stop laughing after that one!! :2thumbsup
Might explain some of my pshyc problems.......

I've got an old helmet in the shed - fancy sitting on the back of the Busa Fruitie?? :eek5::crazy::whistle:

[Roki_nz]

I just gotten my gsx a month earlyer and i turned it on and went back to the house to grab my gear, came back and the bike had roled forward and had fallen on too the side. Moral of the story is don't let your bike warm up on a slope

[sidecar bob]

Doing a wheelie on my GSX1100EF in Pizza Hut carpark back in '87 with Sidecar Bob sitting on the back. Well..... he was sitting on the back at the start!!!! I parked the bike, turned around to say that was cool, and low and behold - the f@cker had fallen off the back!! He was concussed for a wee while too............. :doctor:
Thank Christ he holds on to the sidecar better than the bike grab rail!! :first:

Yeah ya lick ball, that was pretty silly allright.
Actually, Why dont you tell them about the time you , As you put it "8 pointed" your EFE behind the hospital on the way to my place, Or the time you washed out the front at over 200k in the forest outside Taupo with Glenn on the back so badly that the front rim got a chunk ripped out of it by the road & you didnt crash.
Or the time you were going to show me how hot you could go around Baypark with me on the back & chucked it damn near away on the right hander & buggered your leathers & boot but didnt come off.
Yup, youve definitely been a dickhead in your time buddy.:2thumbsup

[scrivy]

Dude..... it was alot of fun though!!! You must admit!!
Remember doing the Buck Rogers Space warp with the rider lying down while the pillion rode at over 200kph!! Sweet Dob!!
What about the time you got a bloody lip from one of my wheelies coming home from N.P........:whistle:

You old softie!!! :lol:

[sidecar bob]

Dude..... it was alot of fun though!!! You must admit!!
Remember doing the Buck Rogers Space warp with the rider lying down while the pillion rode at over 200kph!! Sweet Dob!!


You old softie!!! :lol:

ahh yes, Space warp, I nearly forgot, This trick works well in conjunction with the 200k rider swap.
An 1135 EFE has a rather large screen, So the rider puts his hands on the top of the tank, palms down & rests the chin of his helmet on the back of his hands, The pillon leans forward & takes over the handlebars & twists the throttle wide open, Oh, I forgot to mention that this bike was fitted with a 77mm Wiseco 1229cc big bore kit & could fuckin seriously haul ass.
Anyway with your head up inside the bubble at 240k & not hanging on to anything just watching the road & seeing a huge rev counter & speedo swing around to the end of their scale was almost surreal & quite a rush, Then we would slow down to 200k & swap over & give the other guy a turn.

[sidecar bob]

Dude..... it was alot of fun though!!! You must admit!!

What about the time you got a bloody lip from one of my wheelies coming home from N.P........:whistle:



Another great memory!!! This guy is coming in to Inglewood from my sisters farm over some nasty blind brows at the usual speed (aprox 200k+) & im tucked in with my helmet almost against his back & he gives it one fuckin almighty heave to get a big wheelie going over one of the blind brows.
His back collided with my helmet & my helmet collided with my lip, causing considerable leakage of blood.
I have to admit to spitting the dummy a wee bit that day, But in hindsight, I was pretty lucky that was all that happened i guess.

Notice most of thes hyjinx are done two up & see who the passenger is all the time.
Most of this stuff was done 22 or 23 years ago, So maybe you can understand why we function so well together on a sidecar.

[scrivy]

Notice most of thes hyjinx are done two up & see who the passenger is all the time.

You see Bob - everyone tells me you're a bad influence - this just proves it!!!
Bloody passengers!!!!!

[Kornholio]

Lol........ Was on the back of Fish' ol GPZ600 and feeding it to Paeroa and went through this big dip and as we come up the other side and over the top I left the seat in a superman position and ended up having to grab under his armpits as i hadnt stopped liftoff then promptly landed on his head and almost ended up on the tank...All he could say is 'What the fuck are you doin man??' I punched him in the head :p

[Boob Johnson]

Lol........ Was on the back of Fish' ol GPZ600 and feeding it to Paeroa and went through this big dip and as we come up the other side and over the top I left the seat in a superman position and ended up having to grab under his armpits as i hadnt stopped liftoff then promptly landed on his head and almost ended up on the tank...All he could say is 'What the fuck are you doin man??' I punched him in the head :p
Lmfao!! at the ending :laugh:

[idleidolidyll]

That's easy:

I watched my mate Scelly hoon into a busy lay-by in Wales on his GS1000. He hit the rear brake and slid to a stop on the gravel.

I thought I could do it too.............goddam Guzzi, linked brakes................

I scraped off the chunks, took a bow and ordered a burger

[ynot slow]

Another great memory!!! This guy is coming in to Inglewood from my sisters farm over some nasty blind brows at the usual speed (aprox 200k+) & im tucked in with my helmet almost against his back & he gives it one fuckin almighty heave to get a big wheelie going over one of the blind brows.
His back collided with my helmet & my helmet collided with my lip, causing considerable leakage of blood.
I have to admit to spitting the dummy a wee bit that day, But in hindsight, I was pretty lucky that was all that happened i guess.

Notice most of thes hyjinx are done two up & see who the passenger is all the time.
Most of this stuff was done 22 or 23 years ago, So maybe you can understand why we function so well together on a sidecar.


Don't tell me you've never done similar along Anderson Rd at Eltham?
Going from SH3turn off from Stratford,even in a car is fun as you crest the hill,even better now since the road has hump sign to let ya know what can happen,reccomend it in a car at 130km,even fun on a bike at 100+mph,just need to keep relaxed(or rider does),similar to the railway crossing on Turuturu Rd,not as good as it was 20yrs ago,the crossing not so raised.

[doc]

There is that road top of Queen St, left at K Rd, it's next on the left but has a no left turn. Got to come to it from Symonds St. Ferk always wondered what it would be like to take a person who didn't know of it over it on a bike as fast as you dared. Comes out by the old Harmony house area I think.

[rocketman1]

Reverse your bike down a steep hill or driveway, driveway in my case, turn the steering to end up parallel to the slope and end up over balancing & having to put your foot down on the downhill side to hold the bike up.
Shite.... over I went it seemed like I put my foot in a deep hole, there is no way you can hold the bike up.
The bike is near horizontal before the foot hits the pavement, and moving towards it fast.
Boy did I feel like a dick, lucky only the neighbours wife was watching.
I tried to make out this was normal and I did it often. No way again for this cowboy.

[sidecar bob]

There is that road top of Queen St, left at K Rd, it's next on the left but has a no left turn. Got to come to it from Symonds St. Ferk always wondered what it would be like to take a person who didn't know of it over it on a bike as fast as you dared. Comes out by the old Harmony house area I think.

I know the exact road you mean, A mate that lived in Auckland took me over that at about 100k in a Mk2 Escort 1600 sport.
It was the night of the David Bowie Serious Moonlight concert at Western Springs, '83 or '84, Damn its a fright when you arent expecting it.

[idleidolidyll]

There is that road top of Queen St, left at K Rd, it's next on the left but has a no left turn. Got to come to it from Symonds St. Ferk always wondered what it would be like to take a person who didn't know of it over it on a bike as fast as you dared. Comes out by the old Harmony house area I think.

i remember hitting that one at speed in my mates GT351 V8; i nearly shat myself, weightless for an eternity

must have been late 70's, 1980 latest

[doc]

I know the exact road you mean, A mate that lived in Auckland took me over that at about 100k in a Mk2 Escort 1600 sport.
It was the night of the David Bowie Serious Moonlight concert at Western Springs, '83 or '84, Damn its a fright when you arent expecting it.


i remember hitting that one at speed in my mates GT351 V8; i nearly shat myself, weightless for an eternity

must have been late 70's, 1980 latest

Where are the pictures ?

[sidecar bob]

Where are the pictures ?

I dont remember cameras being around back in the olden days. To quote David Byrne (talking heads) The movies are all in my head.:doobey:

[whufcok]

Pulling up to a set of lights at red and stopping the bike with great balance before leaning left slightly before placing my left foot down only to discover my shoe laces tied round the gear lever boy did i feel a tit trapped under the bike for a while before pulling my foot out of my shoe ,pickin the bike up with my shoe tied to the bike then rode off in my sock just to get away with the shoe trailing behind me........

[Pedrostt500]

Tried to show the boys what a hero I was by jumping on my TT500 outside the pub and kickstarting it in one movement, fell off the bike on the other side, skin full of piss, large crowd watching, Dented pride.

[Kornholio]

Tried to show the boys what a hero I was by jumping on my TT500 outside the pub and kickstarting it in one movement, fell off the bike on the other side, skin full of piss, large crowd watching, Dented pride.

Lol, I think it works better on a horse
;)

[slofox]

1. Rode the 1953 Ariel 350 home after a party......where I had partaken somewhat. Spent fifteen minutes kicking the shit out of it and wondering why it wouldn't start..eventually remembered I had pulled the plug lead off to prevent "unauthorised useage"...got home (somehow - don't remember that bit) and stalled it crossing the gutter.....tried to kick start it - ground came up from the left hand side and hit me in the side of the head....WTF???....got up, picked the bike up (with a crane - it was a HEAVY bike) and tried again on the kick start, being careful not to lean too far left....this time the ground came up from the right.....repeat pickup procedure and try yet again to start. SUCCESS! Roared down the driveway and into shed, clipping door on way in and wondering why the lights were dicky.....found battery upside down on the footpath outside next morning - all the acid had run out and burned an impressive hole in the tarseal.....nursed headache all day....

2. When racing the Benelli 250 at Ruapuna in mid 70's, had to navigate an oil spill from the previous race (Castrol corner it was in those days - sweeper before the straight). During pre-race inspection, thought I could see a line INSIDE the spill..."snigger snigger nobody else will think of that" Second lap, running a close second, decide to take the "inside line" at about 100kph - other dude too chicken to try it....found that the "clear line" wasn't clear at all - just where they had not bothered to cover the oil with anything, thinking that nobody would be stupid enough to try to cut inside the spill....errrrr wrong guys! Discovery of the day - takes a long time to slow down enough to stand back up at that speed...........

[slofox]

Pulling up to a set of lights at red and stopping the bike with great balance before leaning left slightly before placing my left foot down only to discover my shoe laces tied round the gear lever boy did i feel a tit trapped under the bike for a while before pulling my foot out of my shoe ,pickin the bike up with my shoe tied to the bike then rode off in my sock just to get away with the shoe trailing behind me........

11 out of 10 from me for that one........:killingme