Funny bike stories

[FROSTY:Me]

I figure this is a thread worth dredging for shits n giggles

[Blinkwing]

The guy that sold the VL250 to me told me that when he was doing his BHS, they were teaching them how to 'walk' the bike with throttle on, etc.

Someone managed to rev the the engine up, wheelie and run it up a wall & drop it. Instructor was pretty pissed off from what he told me. :P

[miloking]

The guy that sold the VL250 to me told me that when he was doing his BHS, they were teaching them how to 'walk' the bike with throttle on, etc.

Someone managed to rev the the engine up, wheelie and run it up a wall & drop it. Instructor was pretty pissed off from what he told me. :P

Well thats just stupid walking bike around with gear in and holding clutch.....but still funny!

[Bender]

Not me but a good friend. Fanging down the highway in Queensland, girlfriend on the back. He comes up behind a big truck and as he begins to overtake a large rock that has been stuck between the truck's dual rear tyres fires out and scones him right in the centre of the forehead (the joys of open face helmets).

He drops to the tank, out to it. Girlfriend has the sense to lean forward and grab the bars, steering the bike as it slows down and she gets it to the side of the road. My friend ends up in hospital for a couple of weeks and still has a scar in the centre of his forehead to this day.

[mansell]

As a teenager we were teaching one of the girls to ride. She was on my mates 50cc Suzuki, dumped the clutch and proceeded to ride it up a tree (no joking), I doubt if I will ever see anything like that again in my life - the bike must have made 5 or 6 metres straight up.

[scumdog]

any harley

As a fellow Suzuki owner I should be able to see the 'funny' in that.

But I can't.

Please explain....

[Blinkwing]

Not me but a good friend. Fanging down the highway in Queensland, girlfriend on the back. He comes up behind a big truck and as he begins to overtake a large rock that has been stuck between the truck's dual rear tyres fires out and scones him right in the centre of the forehead (the joys of open face helmets).

He drops to the tank, out to it. Girlfriend has the sense to lean forward and grab the bars, steering the bike as it slows down and she gets it to the side of the road. My friend ends up in hospital for a couple of weeks and still has a scar in the centre of his forehead to this day.

That's actually scary & funny at the same time :|

[Blinkwing]

Not me but a good friend. Fanging down the highway in Queensland, girlfriend on the back. He comes up behind a big truck and as he begins to overtake a large rock that has been stuck between the truck's dual rear tyres fires out and scones him right in the centre of the forehead (the joys of open face helmets).

He drops to the tank, out to it. Girlfriend has the sense to lean forward and grab the bars, steering the bike as it slows down and she gets it to the side of the road. My friend ends up in hospital for a couple of weeks and still has a scar in the centre of his forehead to this day.

That's actually scary & funny at the same time :|

[shrub]

When I was much younger my bike was needin some lovin, and i had a girlfriend who had a Suzuki A50 which she offered me for a ride. Anyway, i took her up on it and discovered you could have a lot of fun on a 50. I went to visit some mates in the country who had a lawn with a dip, so I came flying up their drive at full nail on the 50 and hit the dip in the lawn at a speed. I flew for several meters (it was a big lawn), spun her round and started doing donuts in front of the house. I finished with a wheelstand and parked the bike feeling pretty pleased with myself and looked up at my mates porch to see about 10 61s lined up trying to decide whether to laugh or smack me.

We ended up having a donut contest on the front lawn.

[dblancer]

Full license test
Spent the day before adjusting everything.. making sure the bike was all ready and good for the test.
Went down to VTNZ all dressed in gear, the test started..
First intersection my clutch cable snapped -> fail.

gutted

[JR1]

here we go..

so my little brother was learning to ride my old lta50 quad in the front lawn, poting around slowly and as he turns around to give my old man a wave he inadvertently turns towards the trampoline which at seat height for him was perfect to knock out a couple of his front teeth as he turn back around. L O L !

[shrub]

1981 when I had my 72 Bonnie. Riding stoned along the waterfront in Auckland on a sunny Sunday. A car load of pretty girls were driving alongside me giving me the look and I was being as cool as I could be with by loud pipes and grunty bike (it WAS 1982...). We got to the lights and I was too busy looking good to remember to put my foot down.....

[Cayman911]

" I rode with a muppet once who ran out of fuel between
Kaiaua & Orere Point on his TZR250. It was subsequently revealed he
used to always ride on reserve because it was only the small tank and
when that ran out he figured he'd have the main tank left. I shit you
...not."

oh i love that one

[bones135]

Well why not....not long after i got the Honda i was at the Awakeri gas station waiting for my kids to gas up, sitting there waiting on the bike. Time to go & put it into gear & clunk...it stalled, oops try again & clunk stalled again, people looking & im getting slightly embarrassed as i look down & oh the stands down....hey thats quite cool i thought as i finally got going & away....Thank god for full face helmets,lol

[nudemetalz]

Well I got a beauty,.....

Coming home from Brass Monkey back in 1993 (I think) on my RZ500. Big long stretch of road somewhere in Otago and following a friend on his RG500 and Trevor Pierce (the same one with the ChCh bikeshop) on his VFR750.
I see the speedo calibration markers on the side of the road & I think "hmm,.. good opportunity to see how good the Yamaha speedos are".
1st km, 2nd km ,....errrr look up just for a second and see an RG500 nearly come to a stop directly only about 50m in front of me and I'm doing 100(ish) km/h !!!!!!! Holy shit !!!
So grab all 3 discs hard and flick the bike to the right to avoid the RG, don't quite succeed and rip off the soft pannier luggage clean off his bike as it catches onto the side of the RZ going past it !!
I end up on the wrong side of the road 90 degrees from my travel. My mate dunt look too pleased and Trevor is laughing !!

Turns out a dog came out of nowhere in front of them forcing an emergency stop....

Taught me a lesson about awareness !!!