Noobie mistakes - you name them

[Mom]

Come on you guys, lets have a laugh. What is the funniest thing you have done, or seen a new rider/driver do. Really embarrasing stuff only please...

Had to really LAUGH today.

My youngest daughter got her license (car) last week, has been busy volunteering to drive places, go buy things, do errands you name it! If it involves getting in her car she is a starter! I remember the days...

Today she kissed me goodbye and headed out to school. I heard what I thought was the recycle truck collecting until she came back up the hall saying, "I have a bit of a problem, I have run over the recycle bin, I am bellied and cant go forwards or backwards"

:laugh: I looked out the window and saw the damage. Funny as!! The poor blue bin was upside down under the rear suspension strut, her rear wheel was off the ground (got to hate curbs and gutters sometimes) and the front wheel was free wheeling on the softest lawn :eek:

Lucky we share a similar sense of humour because I was laughing at her,(as was a same year, young man, that happened to drive past at the wrong time)
he stopped and roared laughing too :killingme

I managed to get the car off the lawn with the help of the neighbour, who was not laughing either :dodge: The recycle bin needs recycling :laugh:

She was at school all day and seems to have survived the teasing with good heart.

Who else has an

"I have just got my freedom, I did a dumb thing" story.

Mine can wait....:shifty:

[yod]

my bro backed dad's car into mum's car when he was learning

[mstriumph]

14
i put a boyfriend's car through a hedge on a country lane and ended up bogged in a field of cabbages .......... first thing i said was 'it must be an austin healy SPROUT' - but he wasn't laughing :confused:

NO sense of humour, these enthusiasts ...
.... thought that was quite good at the time - sprite/sprout - well it WAS green an all ....... :mellow:

[Mom]

my bro backed dad's car into mum's car when he was learning

When I was learning I was taught off-road styles. Down hill grassy slope, not steep. Was told to gun it as hard as I could till I heard a shout (I was young and ignorant of the ways of 2 wheels then so forgive me here) then brake as hard as I could. I did!!!

I discovered I had some words in my vocabularly that I had no idea I had, once I had my breath back that is...:lol:

vocabularly - wa going to edit but no...laugh away...LOL

[de_wood_elf]

Went riding with my mate who just got his first bike. I was behind him as he pulled up to a stop sign and for no reason just tipped the bike over (I saw him stop and then just fall over). I was laughing on the inside but didn't want to show it so he wouldn't feel like a total dick.

[awayatc]

My first car......driving into my friends garage for an under bonnet checkover.....
Reversing out of said garage i am keeping a very keen eye out over my shoulder so as not to hit anything behind me.....
Completely unaware that my front bumper catches on the garage post......
My mate yelling and desperately supporting the front part of the timber garage that slowly starts to desintegrate....

Luckily it did not completely collapse........
:scooter:

[Her_C4]

Straight off a 250 and taking rather lovely Ducati748 in prinstine condition (thanks Flame!) for test ride - first ride went well, and I gauged the camber for 'touchdown' well.

What I didn't do at all well was gauge the weight of the bike, and the camber of the other side of the 'drive' when I was about to depart.

Yep dropped it - right outside the shop on a busy saturday!! Bugga was an understatement - but it was an awesome bike so I bought it.:love:

Err I actually dropped it on a number of occasions - peoples driveways, outside cafe's (not enough throttle, and no ground beneath my foot!) but the really funniest one was outside my flat. I was absolutely knackered and had spent all day over the hill in Martinbourough and surrounding 'burbs.. fantastic day - pulled up the driveway without thinking and pulled too close to the flat and put my foot down - down - down straight into the garden!!!:laugh:.

The bike pinned me against the flat and the angle was such that I couldn't lift it off me. I stayed trapped there for about 10 minutes losing circulation to my leg :doh: until a neighbour over the back noticed that I was difficulty and jumped the fence. Lifting the bike off me - he was kind enough not to laugh out loud until he returned to his mates and his BBQ....:jerry::shit:

Loved that bike .....:laugh::laugh::Punk::love:

[awayatc]

when in the army in Europe I was in command of an armoured personel carrier...officially you needed somebody walking behind vehicle when reversing....
Out on excercise at night we needed to reverse....she'll be right, forget about getting somebody behind it.......
Backed up into a dug out tankposition, and ended up on our reardoors....
machine gun pointing up to the sky.....
10 soldiers with gear, weapons and ammo all piled up at the back..

Took a bit off explaining.....

had to explain few more things regarding bogged down APC's ......

[scuzeme]

I once came to a stop in a sort of carpark area on my Duc 750ss only to find that my right hand leg was too short to touch the ground, overbalancing i had to launch myself off the bike before it landed on me.
Funny thing about it was two young guys sitting in a car infront of me saw the whole thing happen, as i got up and looked at them they both just remained stoney faced started the car and drove past trying not to meet my gaze as they drove off, man they must have pissed themselves once they got round the corner and out of airshot.

My God that was embarrasing.

[MadDuck]

I once came to a stop in a sort of carpark area on my Duc 750ss only to find that my right hand leg was too short


I did a similar thing at the Petrol station in Wellsford. Only had the SV650 for a week and was meeting some KBers for the first time. Just come off a VTR250 and was unfamiliar with the turning differences. The gas station was full as it always is on a fine Saturday and oddly no one came to ask if I needed help. I must look like a mean bitch :lol:

Managed to pick the bike up (dont ask me how) and lean it against the wall before gathering myself. That was embarassing for sure.....

[fire eyes]

Ohh ohh a few years ago I backed into the trolley stand at countdown! husband was not impressed, then a couple of months later I backed into a power pole at our local park, again he wasnt impressed ... I find it hard to miss things that stand still :o

[ghost rider12]

heres one for the history books
bout three weeks ago was parked up at downtown car-park getting ready to leave started bike putting on gear (helmet gloves) hopped on setting there waiting for some tin top's to get out the way :argh: saw a clearing yes!!
went to shoot the gap with heaps of rev's back wheel locks up :gob:
forgot to take the bloody d-lock off:Oops:

[TOTO]

I've seen a guy drop a bike, then picking it up got it to the top point and then sosmething happened and he dropped it on the other side too.

He said he did it on purpose to be symetrical :stupid:

[TOTO]

went to shoot the gap with heaps of rev's back wheel locks up :gob:
forgot to take the bloody d-lock off:Oops:

its ok when you are on your L plate.


btw I have done that too

[mowgli]

Not long after I started riding I was approaching my bike after work and couldn't find my key. "Damn", I thought, "I must have left it on my desk". It was about then that I saw my key stuck in the seat lock. I'd left it there all day ... parked in the street!!!

[Nagash]

Doing a bit of showing off on one of the wednesday night learner rides.. (some boys might remember this)

Coming into the car park meeting point with all the biker's lined up, I leaned extra far into the corner with tyres as bald as an eagle and low sided the thing..

Bike slid a good 6 or so metres leaving big gouges in the car park and not a single scratch on the bike.

That was embarrasing.. and there's an embarrasing reminder int he form of gouges every time we return to the car park..

[Gubb]

First time ever on a bike, tried to put my leg on the ground coming to a stop, only to find that I couldn't move it. Toppled over with the 125 on top of me.

The kick-starter had gone into up trouser leg, and I couldn't move off the pedal.

:clap:

[ajturbo]

i brought a bike....

[rustycharm]

Showing off on my nice shiney GSXR 250 years ago in front of the girlfriend .. come rolling down the front lawn lost the front wheel on the grass... bike went one way ... i went cartwheeling into mums lovely rose bushes and she pissed herself laughing at me.... musta worked.... she married me despite my inadequate stunting skills

[FzerozeroT]

My second bike, PE250 had to be stalled to stop, I was parked in front of dads shed and dropped the clutch, you guessed it, launched straight through three planks of fibro!

[bomma]

i got my first bike, an fxr150, in sixth form and was keen azz for a ride so woke up early the day after i got it and took it for a spin.....got out of the driveway and had done a lap round the block and was round the corner from home. got to an uphill section and a stop sign, this was at about 7.30am when EVERYONE was headed to work. i looked to the right, was clear so went to go...stalled....:doh: restart and go....stalled.....:doh: restarted and go.....stalled.....:doh: restarted and this time started gettin movement, engine on the verge of stalling and i lost balance and dooof bike fell....in front of about 10cars filled with pissed off suits who had been held up by me......specially embarassing coz it was near my house so they'd know who i was too :doh:

[Maha]

Can you recycle a recycle bin????
If not, then that will explain why they left it behind......its munted!!!!

[James Deuce]

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[McJim]

Logging in to KB

Amen 10 chars :rofl:

[Big Dave]

Sorry - nothing to contribute. Born hip.

[James Deuce]

The kick-starter had gone into up trouser leg, and I couldn't move off the pedal.

OMG I nearly wet my pants. Can't give you any more bling, but OMG that was funny.

Good thing the 125 was on top. You'd have killed it if it had been underneath.

[DarkLord]

Dropped my bike into my mates car.... boy did I feel like a right twat....:o

On the same night he cracked the fairing on my other mates bike.

A catastrophic evening on all accounts.

[Big Dave]

OMG I nearly wet my pants. Can't give you any more bling, but OMG that was funny.



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[Donor]

Turned up to a KB ride at the usual BP

Pulled up with shrubbery on my right hand side, looking pretty damn cool

Took helmet off, leaned right to drop helmet on said shrubbery... kept bloody going...

McJim not only kindly hits the kill switch for me, but also lifts the RZ250 off me.

[ManDownUnder]

Teaching a friend of mine to drive a car ... learning to start off... easing the clutch out... **stall**
"OK - try again"... more revs, plenty in fact - ease the clutch out.... **stall**
"It's ok" says me, everyone stalls 3 times at first .... even a few more revs, ease the clutch out ultra slow .... **stall**

"ok - now take the handbrake off..."

[WolveNZ]

:doh: that the best one yet :laugh:

[Strang0r]

I made the mistake of expecting a council worker to actually use the backing camera that was fitted to his truck :(

[dyls]

Well this was way back in the day....like when I was about 10. I was on wheels though....

In the apartment complex I lived in (in Singapore) there were always workmen around doing stuff. One day I was skating around kinda bored and went up to the cab of this truck and asked the guy if I could hold on to the back of his truck when he left so I could 'hitch a ride' around the complex a la back to the future styles. It was kind of hard to communicate cause he didn't really speak english but I gather he was pretty much telling me to fuck off, no doubt not wanting to be the one liable for squashing a 'rich white kid' under his wheels.

Not being one to be discouraged I sauntered off around the corner and a couple minutes later when I heard his truck start up I snuck back, craftily avoiding being in his mirrors as much as possible, crouched down on my skateboard and held on to the tailgate.

Unfortunately what I wasn't expecting is that he was going to go somewhere in reverse.

The rest is all a bit blurry being around 20 years ago but suffice to say I made it out alive, uninjured....even my skateboard avoided the wheels as I went arse over tit.

Funny thing is when I look back on it now I see how easily it could have gone REAL pear shaped...but at the time I was just more embarassed than anything else.

[Kornholio]

I bent over in front of Gordie once...never again, was no laughing matter :buggerd:

[The Pastor]

Trying to adjust a helmet strap with both while riding very very slowly at a very busy petrol station.

[niero]

I was washing my RF and there was a bit of oil/dirt that was very hard to get rid of, I started rubing so hard that the bike tipped over the other side. So much for bike love eh!

[zeocen]

I can only think of two..

I backed into the front of my sisters car on my GPX250.. destroying her indicator and headlight. But to make it worse...

A few months earlier, on my GPX250.. I backed into McJim's Ducati !!

[Maha]

those GPX's must be flash, i didnt know they had reverse. :buggerd:

Get a job you homo...
posting eactly what I was thinking at the exact time....spooky!

PS: if this offends, please ask me to remove it.
PPS: I have deleted my real funny post....its all yours now

[The Stranger]

I made a common noob mistake - got lost and stuck it in the wrong hole.

[Maha]

I made a common noob mistake - got lost and stuck it in the wrong hole.

That happened to Disco Dan and look how hes turned out....;)

[BOGAR]

New bike and a very cold morning:cold: pulled up to gas station and simply fell over. :doh: i had just sat there while the bike fell over. Wont do that again. Was rather annoyed and quite embarrassed.

[The Stranger]

That happened to Disco Dan and look how hes turned out....;)

Wasn't me.

[CookMySock]

First car, parked it in the shed and noticed a strong brick wall in front of me.. hmmm, burnout time! Put the front bumper against the brick wall and open her up and dump the clutch!! WOOHOO! SMOKIN!! KA-RASH!!! through the wall and into the back yard ! :stupid:

Steve

[zeocen]

those GPX's must be flash, i didnt know they had reverse. :buggerd:

That's why it was so terrible, I flintstone'd it twice.
Chickadee is a small girl but the fire that was raging within after hearing the sound was as enormous as a dragon.

[Maha]

That's why it was so terrible, I flintstone'd it twice.
Chickadee is a small girl but the fire that was raging within after hearing the sound was as enormous as a dragon.


Mmmmmmmm best leave that alone Maha.......:shutup:

[Forest]

My biggest noob mistake was trying to do a u-turn on a steep Dunedin St. My feet couldn't reach the ground on the down-hill side and I went tumbling down the hill.

Here's a random youtube video that always makes me laugh.

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[ManDownUnder]

That happened to Disco Dan and look how hes turned out....;)

A little shit?

[Maha]

A little shit?


No.......Lost!

[Mom]

First car, parked it in the shed and noticed a strong brick wall in front of me.. hmmm, burnout time! Put the front bumper against the brick wall and open her up and dump the clutch!! WOOHOO! SMOKIN!! KA-RASH!!! through the wall and into the back yard ! :stupid:

Steve

Sorry that really made me laugh and put me in mind of something I witnessed back in my yoooff. Motorbike in the house (as you do when you have no choice :innocent:) wheeled into the kitchen, front wheel against the cupboards under the bench. Huge burnout! But...

The floor had those 300x300 lino tiles on it, them puppies flew all over the show...:laugh:

Disclaimer: Alcohol and or drugs may or may not have been involved, and it was not me!

[Harvd]

got my first bike and one day out on a ride near diamond harbour chch and went too hot into a corner and went straight off the corner... into the sea:lol: flew off a 2m cliff and landed thankfully in what was high tide. stll got bruising on my back from the submerged rocks and bike was munted and had drowned.

all in all i was fine and fixed the bike and still have it

[The Stranger]

I made a common noob mistake - got lost and stuck it in the wrong hole.

Who idea was it anyway to put a sewer next to a play ground?

[Mom]

Who idea was it anyway to put a sewer next to a play ground?

Who is responsible for our make up? Sewers are not so bad, if they are clean and fresh and empty :yes: Cant imagine one full of it!

[Oakie]

went straight off the corner... into the sea:

Hah. Hunniest so far IMHO.

I guess my big noob mistake was on my old CB125 back about 1979. Cruising around a big grassed area beside the road at Kakanui near Oamaru. I was looking somewhere other than where I was going and when I did finally look straight again there was a wooden power pole in front of me. Aghhh .. "Brake or Turn" my mind screamed and gave me about a second to decide. Unfortunately I took both options at the same time and consequently finished up sliding on my back across the grass in front of the assembled Sunday drive crowd.

[Mom]

Hah. Hunniest so far IMHO.

I guess my big noob mistake was on my old CB125 back about 1979. Cruising around a big grassed area beside the road at Kakanui near Oamaru. I was looking somewhere other than where I was going and when I did finally look straight again there was a wooden power pole in front of me. Aghhh .. "Brake or Turn" my mind screamed and gave me about a second to decide. Unfortunately I took both options at the same time and consequently finished up sliding on my back across the grass in front of the assembled Sunday drive crowd.

You are that old??

Thank you for sharing, that is really funny!

I can do a noob pillion story :o

Mind you it took a while for me to see the funny here :mellow:

This would be late '70's. Small, single seater bike, me pillion with a duffel bag (anyone remember them?) of big brown bottles on my back. Yeah I have grown up HEAPS since then. Him up front, shows off to assembled, rev like hell drop the clutch! Yep, yep, yep, me on my bottom/back, him tearing off into the distance.
Lesson learned, if you are on a single seater as pillion, with no foot pegs, you hold on around the rider hard enough, so that when he gives it berries you both come off!

Have I mentioned I grew up since?

[MadDuck]

Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....:innocent:

[jtzzr]

Hah. Hunniest so far IMHO.

I guess my big noob mistake was on my old CB125 back about 1979. Cruising around a big grassed area beside the road at Kakanui near Oamaru. I was looking somewhere other than where I was going and when I did finally look straight again there was a wooden power pole in front of me. Aghhh .. "Brake or Turn" my mind screamed and gave me about a second to decide. Unfortunately I took both options at the same time and consequently finished up sliding on my back across the grass in front of the assembled Sunday drive crowd.

How long ago was 1979 ?, did the same thing but with a wooden picnic table, and with a cb650 , no doubt the shame was still the same, at least me and my pillion had a six pack of quarts in our backpack, Since then I have a fear of picnic tables, motorcycles and beer.

[FJRider]

Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....:innocent:

How many weeks ago was the last one...??? :innocent:

[KiwiKat]

70's - i think I remember
2nd week with Honda cb175 I didn't lean into a corner in suburban street. Too fast. Nice neighbours picked me up. Embarassing.

Forgot to take steering lock off on Gt380. Right hand turn great. Left hand turn at traffic lights and bike fell over. Little old lady came up and asked if I needed help.

On same bike getting caught in side wind gust, downhill at speed in cutting. bike got speed wobbles. I braked. Downhill, wobbles, front brake, school jersey doesn' t work. We learn by our mistakes. pain helps.

I went to school

[Mom]

Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....:innocent:

You can get stuffed! Really...:yes:


How long ago was 1979 ?

Yesterday! Long time no see...I feel a PM in the making.


How many weeks ago was the last one...??? :innocent:

You can "flufel up a gum tree"!

I am grown up now, mind you I may have a couple of other stories I might share...LOL

[Manxman]

Never sat on a bike before. First bike arrives and my neighbour tells me the clutch is left lever, throttle is right twisty, gears are left foot, etc. Sweet. How hard can this be? Off he goes back inside.

Hop on, switch on, pull clutch in, engage gear (but not brain, as we'll shortly find out...).

Bugger, the thing stalls. Go through it again. Start gain. Stall again. Start again. Stall again. Ad nauseum.

Neighbour comes back out and nonchalantly says "don't forget it's one down, five up"...

D'oh. I'd been trying to set off in second for the last 15 mins.

[Oakie]

You are that old??
Yep. Fossilised almost. Without giving too much away, back then in 1979 I was 19.

[martybabe]

Always looking for somewhere to ride my DT125 off road, I came across a flooded field and went for a ride round in the shallows. I was having the time of my life, buzzing in and out of the water, felt like a real adventure rider.

The reason this field was flooded when none of the others were, had not even crossed my mind, as me and the old DT sank beneath the surface with barely a ripple :bye:............................. Yes we found the river that had burst it's banks.:shit: Glug glug farking glug, it dawned on me that winter hadn't entirely released it's grip on England's waterways just yet as the icy water sloshed in through my visor hole. :laugh:

Here's a tip for ya friends. If you ever find yourself atop a bike as it's sinking to a river bed a couple of metres below, LET GO! mmkay, yes I know it's your bike but you will end up drownded and that's not terribly clever now is it. :laugh:

[Irontusk]

I think it might've been Dangerous Bastards post that made me laugh most.. but I had already read the one with the wet concrete driveway! I had seen that petrol station vid before too, it's excellent!! Heaps of good stories here.. similar to a 'stupid things you have done while working on your car' thread on some other forums, people hurt themselves in amusing ways.

A few years ago my OLDER brother woke me up early one morning, panicing cause he couldn't start my mums car and he had to go to work. I instantly knew what it was.. the power steering had pumped itself against the steering lock (I've had to help numerous other people with this problem too.. always an unimpressed laugh from me)

When I was 17 I drove my Commodore over a curb that I thought was just a couple of inches, turned out it was a couple of feet, it bellied out and we spent atleast an hour trying to tow it back up the curb. A car load of guys in an identical car ended up stopping (the bastards didn't stop the first few times they went past) and it took about 6 of us to push the front of the car up while my dad gave his clutch hell to tow it out.

[Creeping Death]

Outside an ATM in Te Rapa,Hamilton on me Gixxer 11,no-one around,sweet,so leaned over to put me eftpos card in...leaned,leaned then boom...200 plus kgs of bike on the ground,and it was a Saturday evening,all of a sudden 2 carloads of drunken yobs turned up...how I picked that bike so fast and without a struggle is still a mystery to me!:banana:

[RocKai]

Ok here's my stuff:
1st accident:
Back in the days riding my 50cc in Vietnam. Was in main st, HoT As HELL, and dusty(and no helmet law btw), stop-n-start traffic. My nose suddenly itch and ATCHOO, rip up my gas and #$*&% into the hide of the scooter :scooter: in front :Oops:. The lady was not impressed, keep saying sorry :whistle:

[RocKai]

2nd stuff: Got my first car, it was fun, a Black Mazda Mx-6 coupe. Couldn't wait, so I took it for a drive around the block behind Sky City. Been driving around for 5 mins and I smelled something burning, found out it was my HAND BRAKE!?!?! :second: . Anyway, took it up a slopey traffic light. A Mr :Police: on bike was right next to me in the front, he didn't look at me *luckily*. The light went green and he went straight, I turned right and was horrified to see the right-turning light was still red :rolleyes:. He didn't see me lol.

Ps Now I blame L-plate and Girlie drivers :devil2:

[RocKai]

3rd fix:
Had to oil change my car, DIY 1st time. As you know, there's a 1st for everything rite? :baby:
Anywho, piled up a few pieces of wood under the tyres and drive it up, and block it from rolling. Changed the Oil, (It was a horrid but job well done :2thumbsup ), and it was dark already.

Behind the car was the left outer wall of garage. Took the blocker off and climbed into it, released the brake, and put on 1st gear, somehow the car slide back and made a dull *thud* into the wall :pinch: . Dent it in 3 planks. LoL, had to fix it. Lesson learned. :lol: :sweatdrop

[kasper]

First
Got a second hand GL145 from a mechanic at bayride. didn't realise he had redone the gears (you stop thinking about keeping the front wheel on the road, then the front wheel would come up to meet you.)

Soon discovered this when at the lights tried to take off as usuall in my 1st gl145 (lots of revs away we go) this one the front end came up to meet me and I pushed the bike down right hand first, this spun the bike around 180 degrees, ended up turning the bike around facing the trafic. stoped the bike about 2 cms from the bumper of the bmw behind me.

The damn window washer guy stood next to me and said "COOL can you do that again?!"


Second
Was backing the loaded, 18tons, truck (class 4 mitsubishee (sp) fighter, it was also lowered to alow easy offloading) out off a customers drive.
Steep bastard I ended up grounding out the tail lift at the back and picking my axels off the gound due to the gutter. <_<

Took about an hour to get it out with the truck blocking 3/4 of papamoa beach road. efentually got 3 four wheel drives to drag the truck forward. Pissing hydraulic fluid out of the busted tail lift.

Now I always reverse down at an angle. supprisingly I can get my truck through places others say cant be done thanks to this trick

Third.
Done this morning
I have discovered that the BMW F650's have a nasty habit of turning their parking lights on when you engage the steering lock, so when I returned to the bike after 14 hours of driving trucks :sleep: I find that the batter is dead.
No problem I suspected that I might have trouble with the battery so I carried a pair of jumper cables.
I get a car to jump off, hook up the leads; have to use a screwdriver to reach the positive terminal, so I am stuck by the side of the bike while the other driver is in the car reving the engine.

Shit how am I going to reach the starter. Oh yes I have the remote start on my alarm. reaching for my belt I start the bike, Sweet it works. Unhook the leads and geting ready the alarm beeps to remind me that the bike is on remote start. Ok turn off the remote start and the engine dies. Bugger obviously not enough juice, so try again; and again; and again.

At this time I look at my arm and see the bike key sat in its pocket waiting to be used:rolleyes:. Plug the key in start her up and ride over to the guys car, which just stalled. I say nothing but I did reconect his battery lead he had disconected.
Who says girls dont know their way around an engine bay?:Punk:

[awayatc]

You are that old??




Only alternative to growing old is dying young...............

similar noobies mistakes ......different outcome.....

:scooter:

[Oakie]

...and the old DT sank beneath the surface with barley a ripple

So it was a barley field?

[LittleAngel]

First time ever on a bike, tried to put my leg on the ground coming to a stop, only to find that I couldn't move it. Toppled over with the 125 on top of me.

The kick-starter had gone into up trouser leg, and I couldn't move off the pedal.

:clap:

This one made me LMAO! I could just see it happening!! Bling!

It would appear that I'm bit of a un-co clown sometimes :gob:

1. On my first bike, trusty ole GN250. Been out riding with Hubby and thought we would call into his brothers. They had just finished building their house and the driveway had been laid the weekend before. We pulled up, I got off, took helmet gloves off etc, grabbed key out of ignition and walked away - only to watch the "Hardly" fall over!! Hadn't put the stand down properly!!! :doh: It only just missed my hubby's bike, the New Falcon in the driveway!! Unfortunately it made a bit gouge out of the new driveway! :slap:

2. Was on FZ750 that was running like a bag of arseholes - and it needed to be over rev'ed to move, but I unfortunately got myself stuck in the dip of the entrance to our driveway (in the gutter basically) where I couldn't reach the ground - so in my wisdom - I powered on and dropped the clutch!:eek5: The bike took off like a fucking rocket and I landed in the hedge!!:thud: (and then the footpath!). :rofl: I was just really lucky that the open home that was on next door had just finished and everyone had left. Hubby poked his head around the hedge and helped me pick the bike up without laughing!! Had I been him I would have wet myself!! :yeah:

3. And the most embarrassing! We had just bought the RF and I was out tootling around getting used to it, when I thought I'd pop to the Eftpos machine - no sweat! I pulled into a really busy supermarket/shopping mall around about 11am on Saturday morning (you get the picture of how busy this place is!), when I decided to park the bike. After navigating around some old people and some cages racing out of the parking spaces - I found a park - but what I didn't see was the oil/petrol/anti-freeze on the ground and when I went to put my foot down, it kept going!!.. slipping... slipping...slipping.. PLONK! :thud: All in slow motion!! Couldn't do a damn thing!
A little ole lady came over to see if I was OK - Thank god she couldn't see the glow through my mirrored visor. Got up from under the bike - Took helmet off and then turned bike off. Went to pick up (incorrectly even though I knew how to!) And then proceeded to get stuck half way under the bike! :Oops: Lucky for me a couple of young guys came over to help me.. I'm sure they would have been cracking up before and after I fell off! :yes:

[avgas]

-rolling bike off center stand while not sitting one it.
-walking a burnout just off the pavement so the front wheel is sitting on the sodden grass.
-taking off with disc lock x 6.
-spilling brake fluid on tank and not cleaning up.
-hitting power valves mid-corner.
.....
i think i should stop there before i incriminate myself more.

[niero]

First
Got a second hand GL145 from a mechanic at bayride. didn't realise he had redone the gears (you stop thinking about keeping the front wheel on the road, then the front wheel would come up to meet you.)

Soon discovered this when at the lights tried to take off as usuall in my 1st gl145 (lots of revs away we go) this one the front end came up to meet me and I pushed the bike down right hand first, this spun the bike around 180 degrees, ended up turning the bike around facing the trafic. stoped the bike about 2 cms from the bumper of the bmw behind me.

The damn window washer guy stood next to me and said "COOL can you do that again?!"

So wait, the other GL didnt have the gear ratio for a wheely? Did you mean to do a wheely, or just wanted to leave everyone in the dust? And why did you push with just your right hand down, thats quite hard to do when both your hands (i am assuming) are on the bars. None the less extremely funny, thanks for sharing your stories.

[FJRider]

You can "flufel up a gum tree"!

I am grown up now, mind you I may have a couple of other stories I might share...LOL

My Grand Mother used to say that... :whistle:

One of my noobie "error's" was one evening, after taking out a new girlfriend on the bike (CB750 Honda). I pulled up at her place, waited untill she got off. Then stepped off myself, and in eager anticipation of "our" first goodnight kiss, let go of the bike, and walked toward her. This without the sidestand down, or on the mainstand. Gravity had its way... but fell onto the grass. No damage to the bike, but petrol leaked out of the tank and killed a bit of the lawn. That didn't impress her dad...much.

[robo555]

-rolling bike off center stand while not sitting one it.


Are you not suppose to do that? I always stand next to the bike to push it off the centre stand?

[Mom]

My Grand Mother used to say that... :whistle:



So did mine you cheeky prick! :lol:

Well actually it was my Mommy...:o

[hayd3n]

I was at my cousins 21st party ,huge bon fire music piss etc ,it started to get late, and we couldent fine him anywhere ,search and searched , well eventually we found him somewone(learner) had reversed over his legs while he was in a drunken sleep behind a car .
both legs were broken and he had a few pins in for a year, we didint realise he had been run over just thought he was drunk so we dragged him near to the bon fire, just thinking he was having a good time so we gave him a few more drinks . he even didint notice untill the morning the his legs were broken when he tried to stand up BLOODY NOOBS LOOK WHERE YOU ARE DRIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there may be some piss head joed out behind your car~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!

[Irontusk]

reversed over his legs while he was in a drunken sleep behind a car .

That reminds me of when I parked on top of someones paddling pool! Don't ask a drunk person to move their car! (Not anywhere near as bad obviously, but still silly)

[The Stranger]

Some noob filled his SV1000 with diesel (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=48868&highlight=diesel).

[EtheB]

Having got back into biking after a forty year 'rest' I had a Honda CX400C and loving it! After about nine months and 8,000Km decided to read up a bit on the finer principles. I'd instictively pit my left foot down at stops but one guy in this book reckoned I'd be better off using my right foot as I could then pop it into neutral if I was waiting any legth of time.
Off I went one fine sunny Sunday morning to visit an old pal. Approaching give way junction and can see traffic on my left so prepare to stop. As I slow to a halt, begin to ready left leg, remember advice, switch to right leg - only problem is I've set myself up for the left leg to go down, ground the right leg, bike's leaning left - over it goes, so slowly, so majestically! Chap coming around corner stops and asks if he can help, no that's fine says I heaving the beast back into an upright position. What a b!**#% divot I felt.

All good fun though eh?:Oops:

[kasper]

nope the other gl145 did not have the ratio for a wheelie.

and i had planned to leave them in the dust.

and when it was up i pushed with the right and pulled with the left whilst leanign in ot the bike to push it down wiht my body.