I've had a few 'experiences' that are funny only in hindsight.
Like dropping the bike I was test-riding (the first bike I bought) in the flower garden of the lady who owned it.
Like doing a magnificent feet-up powerslide in the gravel around the back of the shop I worked up after school. I parked the bike, and took my helmet off, and copped an earful from the manager of the furniture shop that backed onto the shop I worked at. It was a very hot day and he'd opened the back door of his shop to let some air flow through. And the big dust cloud I'd made....
When I worked on a farm, I had to retrieve a dead sheep from the paddock we were working in, by myself. The gate was at the upper end of the paddock, the sheep was at the lower end. It was my first time using the bike trailer, and I had a real struggle getting traction and/or keeping the front wheel of the bike on the ground. In the end, I got off, and walked beside the bike, dropping it several times, losing the sheep off the back of the trailer several times, and getting top-dressed by the plane that was scheduled to spread super phosphate in that area. D'Oh!!
Later, I learned that it was easier to just tie dead sheep to the towbar by one leg, and drag them along the ground. Usually that worked (if I didn't ride too hard and rip the leg off...)
Another time on the farm, I managed to drop the bike against the electric fence....
My most recent misadventure is still too recent to be funny. I was late going home, and decided that because the truck I was stuck behind was taking up too much of the lane to overtake safely, I'd go up the inside. Unfortunately, it started to move, and I decided to "play it safe" and not risk getting jammed between it and the kerb. So I went up the (handily placed) gap in the kerb and onto the footpath. Unfortunately, the slight braking/turning manouevre I had to make was on the damp grass verge, and not having knobbly tyres the front end didn't wish to comply. I ended up dropping the bike and did a faceplant onto the footpath in front of the stationary commuters and the people at the nearby service station.
Why does that always happen? :spudwhat:
The 'incident' prior to that involved doing a faceplant in front of road workers.
Luckily no-one saw some of my other oopsies, like when I was 17 pulling a nice wheelie up the drive at home, then realising I'd accelerated too much, backing off the gas, braking hard, and sliding the bike through the carport on its side and into the back wall.
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Originally Posted by avgas
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