I'm a dumb arse: Indicators

[PrincessBandit]

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

[McDuck]

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

[PrincessBandit]

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

[varminter]

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

[quickbuck]

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

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

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

[Metalor]

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


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




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

[bubs.65]

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

[LaytonNZ]

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

[Danae]

Nice one, guys

[Icemaestro]

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

[allycatz]

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

[Rayray401]

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

[sil3nt]

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

haha i think we have a winner!

[Metalor]

haha i think we have a winner!

Yep, that one definitely takes the cake.

[LBD]

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

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