I'm a dumb arse: Indicators

[p.dath]

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....

That would have scared the shit out of me!

[p.dath]

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.

Haha. That's a goody. Would have been so funny to watch.

[Maha]

I will not even go into the time when I bought a Triumph....the shop got it out and running, Im off for a short test ride, I love it I want it. Turned it off when I got back to the shop. Then wanted to here it one more time before I left to sort out the money side of things. Wouldn't start!! everything seems to working but it would start. I said to the salesman (who was just filling for the day) to get that sort please before the weekend. When I went to pick it up, I asked if they had sorted the starting issue? Boss man said ''yeah yeah its all good''. Once again, the bike was running when jumped on to ride off into the sunset. Meet up with Busa Pete on the Motorway and stopped off at the Autobahn at Dairy Flat. Went to leave, turn the key on and 'nothing'!!!
Pete said '' pull the clutch in''...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh there ya go!....

Oh, and that sidestand thing as let me down once too, it would start in neutral, then put it gear and it would stop, had me fucked for about 5 mins, until Anne got off the bike and said '' lift the sidestand''.....
I was just testing the pillions skill level....really, I was.

[AD345]

There was the time I ran over my own foot.....


best forgotten I think.

[mugins]

Not on the bike but got up at four to go fishing ,put the rubber duckie on the ute ,quad on the trailer,off we go. Get to the beach,take quad off trailer pull infaltable straight onto trailer,off down the beach,not a breath of wind ,20 minutes later back trailer to waters edge,pull infalable off,pisssssss,ripped 6 inch hole in the f#@king bottom.Diddn't say a word ,back home by 6 to do all the jobs i thought i was going to get out of.
You wouldn't beleave the amount of people that go for test rides and you tell them the side stand,clutch in thing etc, and you get a phone call telling you the bikes a heap on shit because they cant start it,

[The Pastor]

once i tried to do a burnout ona triumph 600 in netural, it was pretty epic, because it was at this mad as biker party and everyone was watching me

[jono035]

First time I took my gsx250 out for a ride (while it had the now-fixed choke-stuck-on problem) and everything was fine, got back onto the driveway and couldn't get up it due to steep driveway and bike that was running so rich it would barely rev below 8k.
After stalling it half a dozen times I finally rode the crap out of the clutch all the way up the driveway, overshot past the garage and thought stuff it, I'll just turn around at the other end and come back. Got to the other end, tonnes of space I thought, was a little wobbly on the turn then noticed I was going to clip the back of my car. Grabbed a handful of front brake, bike stopped instantly and I did a perfect slow motion upright to lying down transition without even taking my foot off the pegs...
Broken indicator, scratched fairing and broken brake lever... Goddamnit.

[Pegasus]

Mine is turn bike on to warm up, finish getting gear on, hop on bike lift it off the side stand, then realise I have left the stearing lock on (again).

Done that a couple of times now, couldn't do it when no one there to see me though, could I.

[danchop]

havent heard any brake disc lock stories

[Viscount Montgomery]

I've always found it annoying that on a bike when you indicate you have to flick the indicator back to the middle to turn it off. Why can't they have a simpler system like a car.

Then I was thinking, I can push the indicator button in on my bike (Honda CBR), why can't that just be used to turn it off.
Low and behold, I try it out, and sure enough, it does turn the indicator off. No more trying to flick it back to the middle position without going to far and turning the indicator on in the other direction.

Well my old 78' yamaha musclebike has self-cancelling indicators as standard, a mercury switch inside the speedo shuts the contact after a certain distance travelled.. A bit too classy for the modern stuff nowadays huh?

[jono035]

I made sure the first thing I did with mine was find a long, empty carpark and practice emergency braking, got used to what it feels like as the front wheel locks. Took me a long time to actually get that far though because at that point you're stopping pretty bloody quick.

[Indiana_Jones]

once i tried to do a burnout ona triumph 600 in netural, it was pretty epic, because it was at this mad as biker party and everyone was watching me

This one time at band camp, I put my Suzuki 125 back together with the carbs on backwards and then binned it down the road and everyone was watching me

-Indy

[The Pastor]

This one time at band camp, I put my Suzuki 125 back together with the carbs on backwards and then binned it down the road and everyone was watching me

-Indy

go back to your knitting grandma!

[Leyton]

I started my learner licence about 1999, so 10 odd years.

It is nice after 10 years to be awarded a feature such as this one Think of it like that.. hehe

I never knew bikes had them until I was on the bike market! Then I found just about all new bikes (Except real cheap chinese ones) have it

[NDORFN]

My first bike died at an intersection the first day riding it. Tried a few things to get it started then rolled it to the verge to let traffic through. After pissing around for 5 minutes with the choke and cranking it over and over and anything else I could think of... you guessed it... I discovered a little lever with ON/OFF/RES on it.