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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Maha View Post
    That happened to Disco Dan and look how hes turned out....
    A little shit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ManDownUnder View Post
    A little shit?

    No.......Lost!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    First car, parked it in the shed and noticed a strong brick wall in front of me.. hmmm, burnout time! Put the front bumper against the brick wall and open her up and dump the clutch!! WOOHOO! SMOKIN!! KA-RASH!!! through the wall and into the back yard !

    Steve
    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!
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    Nonono,

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    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 sea flew 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

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    I made a common noob mistake - got lost and stuck it in the wrong hole.
    Who idea was it anyway to put a sewer next to a play ground?
    Quote Originally Posted by Tank
    You say "no one wants to fuck with some large bloke on a really angry sounding bike" but the truth of the matter is that you are a balding middle-aged ice-cream seller from Edgecume who wears a hello kitty t-shirt (in your profile pic) and your angry sounding bike is a fucken hyoshit - not some big assed harley with a human skull on the front.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger View Post
    Who idea was it anyway to put a sewer next to a play ground?
    Who is responsible for our make up? Sewers are not so bad, if they are clean and fresh and empty Cant imagine one full of it!
    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    Nonono,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harvd View Post
    went straight off the corner... into the sea:
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    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.
    You are that old??

    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?
    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    Nonono,

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    Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    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.
    How long ago was 1979 ?, did the same thing but with a wooden picnic table, and with a cb650 , no doubt the shame was still the same, at least me and my pillion had a six pack of quarts in our backpack, Since then I have a fear of picnic tables, motorcycles and beer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadDuck View Post
    Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....
    How many weeks ago was the last one...???
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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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    Quote Originally Posted by MadDuck View Post
    Mom you seem to have rather a lot of "Noob" stories.....
    You can get stuffed! Really...

    Quote Originally Posted by jtzzr View Post
    How long ago was 1979 ?
    Yesterday! Long time no see...I feel a PM in the making.

    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    How many weeks ago was the last one...???
    You can "flufel up a gum tree"!

    I am grown up now, mind you I may have a couple of other stories I might share...LOL
    Quote Originally Posted by Gubb View Post
    Nonono,

    He rides the Leprachhaun at the end of the Rainbow. Usually goes by the name Anne McMommus

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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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