My biggest noob mistake was trying to do a u-turn on a steep Dunedin St. My feet couldn't reach the ground on the down-hill side and I went tumbling down the hill.
Here's a random youtube video that always makes me laugh.
My biggest noob mistake was trying to do a u-turn on a steep Dunedin St. My feet couldn't reach the ground on the down-hill side and I went tumbling down the hill.
Here's a random youtube video that always makes me laugh.
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Sorry that really made me laugh and put me in mind of something I witnessed back in my yoooff. Motorbike in the house (as you do when you have no choice) wheeled into the kitchen, front wheel against the cupboards under the bench. Huge burnout! But...
The floor had those 300x300 lino tiles on it, them puppies flew all over the show...
Disclaimer: Alcohol and or drugs may or may not have been involved, and it was not me!
got my first bike and one day out on a ride near diamond harbour chch and went too hot into a corner and went straight off the corner... into the seaflew off a 2m cliff and landed thankfully in what was high tide. stll got bruising on my back from the submerged rocks and bike was munted and had drowned.
all in all i was fine and fixed the bike and still have it
Hah. Hunniest so far IMHO.
I guess my big noob mistake was on my old CB125 back about 1979. Cruising around a big grassed area beside the road at Kakanui near Oamaru. I was looking somewhere other than where I was going and when I did finally look straight again there was a wooden power pole in front of me. Aghhh .. "Brake or Turn" my mind screamed and gave me about a second to decide. Unfortunately I took both options at the same time and consequently finished up sliding on my back across the grass in front of the assembled Sunday drive crowd.
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Thank you for sharing, that is really funny!
I can do a noob pillion story
Mind you it took a while for me to see the funny here
This would be late '70's. Small, single seater bike, me pillion with a duffel bag (anyone remember them?) of big brown bottles on my back. Yeah I have grown up HEAPS since then. Him up front, shows off to assembled, rev like hell drop the clutch! Yep, yep, yep, me on my bottom/back, him tearing off into the distance.
Lesson learned, if you are on a single seater as pillion, with no foot pegs, you hold on around the rider hard enough, so that when he gives it berries you both come off!
Have I mentioned I grew up since?
Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....![]()
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70's - i think I remember
2nd week with Honda cb175 I didn't lean into a corner in suburban street. Too fast. Nice neighbours picked me up. Embarassing.
Forgot to take steering lock off on Gt380. Right hand turn great. Left hand turn at traffic lights and bike fell over. Little old lady came up and asked if I needed help.
On same bike getting caught in side wind gust, downhill at speed in cutting. bike got speed wobbles. I braked. Downhill, wobbles, front brake, school jersey doesn' t work. We learn by our mistakes. pain helps.
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Never sat on a bike before. First bike arrives and my neighbour tells me the clutch is left lever, throttle is right twisty, gears are left foot, etc. Sweet. How hard can this be? Off he goes back inside.
Hop on, switch on, pull clutch in, engage gear (but not brain, as we'll shortly find out...).
Bugger, the thing stalls. Go through it again. Start gain. Stall again. Start again. Stall again. Ad nauseum.
Neighbour comes back out and nonchalantly says "don't forget it's one down, five up"...
D'oh. I'd been trying to set off in second for the last 15 mins.
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