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"

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

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

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

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....

[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

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

[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...

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........

[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.

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!!!.

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 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....

Loved that bike .....

[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

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

[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 saw a clearing yes!!
went to shoot the gap with heaps of rev's back wheel locks up
forgot to take the bloody d-lock off

[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

[TOTO]

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

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!!!