Any embarrassing motorcycle moments?

[Yamerhaw]

I remember once back in my younger days, cruising the local strip on the bike, some girls stop me, talk to them a little while, and one wants to go for a ride later on, well as i'm getting ready to leave, i put on my helmet..... backwards! almost all the way on too! never saw those girls again:idk:

[Ninjakel]

Does dropping your bike at a gas pump count, when its your 1st offical ride by yourself?? When about 20 of my friends were sitting there watching me?? :lol:

[Rider]

No, none, ever.

[Corey]

When I first started riding I was tearing ass through this small town I was living in at the time. I think I had my 600R for all of three months, tops, so I was of course a master level rider by then. I was coming up to a light when it was starting to turn yellow and I was a good distance away, so naturally I poured on the speed to blow through it. That's when I noticed the cop car waiting for the light to turn. So I grabbed a handful of front brake and mashed on the rear brake and locked up the rear wheel and came to a embarassing skidding stop right in the middle of the intersection. I backed up the bike and waited for the cop to come pull me over for being a general dumbass. He just looked at me, shook his head, did the ol' finger wag, and drove off.

[Papa_Complex]

I got into the habit of kicking the bike into neutral, chopping the engine, and kicking out the kickstand all in one motion so that I could virtually drop the bike onto the stand and walk away.

... until one day when I kicked the stand a little too hard and it bounced halfway back. The bike started to go over and I saved it by getting my knee under it, then struggled with it for what must have been 5 minutes in the vacant parking lot until I could get enough leverage to lift the damned thing.

[Yamerhaw]

me and a couple of friends worked on a old honda hurricane for 3 days trying to get it to run, so after 3 days somebody flips the kill switch to the "on" position and it fires right up!

[xx CURVE xx]

owned this at one time :idk:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/xxCURVExx/katana600.jpg

[Rider]

owned this at one time :idk:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/xxCURVExx/katana600.jpg

No shit? Marko had a bike just like that except it had yellow wheels.

[RACER X]

when i first started riding, i met a friend and his entire family at a rest. as we were leaving, i forgot about the disc lock.........1st gear take off, BAM, STOP fall over, in ft of the WHOLE family........broke a brake mount.

did that again as i was leaving on my way back to TX in CA.......D'oh , luckily my friends B-I-L worked at a honda shop, we fed-ex a new brake mount.

pitched the lock after the 2nd time.

[Papa_Complex]

me and a couple of friends worked on a old honda hurricane for 3 days trying to get it to run, so after 3 days somebody flips the kill switch to the "on" position and it fires right up!

OK, that's classic :lol: Right up there with when a buddy thought that his bike had died, until someone turned the petcock to reserve :D

[buzzcutt2]

Do close calls count?

Pulling up to a light next to a harley...I'm basically stopped, start leaning to my right - my foot doesn't make it to the ground. My shoelace got caught...I stood on it with all my weight - shredded the lace but was able to save myself from laying it over in the middle of the road.

[xx CURVE xx]

No shit? Marko had a bike just like that except it had yellow wheels.

yeah takes a while to wash off the gay :lol:

[KSGregman]

Unfortunately, this one has happened more than once. :/

Out on a group ride with friends...I wear my gear all the time...they don't. So...they are standing there waiting after a fuel stop as I gear up....get on the bike, reach down to turn the key...to discover the key is NOT in the ignition, it's in my pocket.

Lots of swearing and name calling as I remove the gauntlet, get the key, put the gauntlet back on and ride away. :lmao:

[Particle Man]

Unfortunately, this one has happened more than once. :/

Out on a group ride with friends...I wear my gear all the time...they don't. So...they are standing there waiting after a fuel stop as I gear up....get on the bike, reach down to turn the key...to discover the key is NOT in the ignition, it's in my pocket.

Lots of swearing and name calling as I remove the gauntlet, get the key, put the gauntlet back on and ride away. :lmao:
I have, unfortunately, duplicated this several times. I've also skipped the step of putting my helmet on and fastening it and gone right to getting my gloves on and fastened... only to go "Shit" and have to take the gloves back off. Always in front of people, of course.

[Mr Lefty]

the first ride after buying and bringing my bike home... the snow hadn't cleared out of my drive way but the roads were clear... so I coasted down and rode off... rode around for a while then came back... tried to walk up and dropped the bike a couple times (into the snow so no marks... but I couldn't get any footing and trying to push a 400lb bike up hill sucked :lol:

the only time I ever killed the bike was at a light talking to a hot girl from work...

my Kawi had a appetite for miss shifts before i changed to synthetic oil... it was embarrassing any time I got on it hard and found a false neutral.

oh... and I looped my fuck'n bike in the middle of nowhere Indiana after riding 4000 miles from North Dakota to FL and back up to Indy... just lost concentration and the clutch lever slipped outta my fingers at a light. then had to come back and explain to all the fuck tards here what happened...

:zowned: = me

[marko138]

owned this at one time :idk:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/xxCURVExx/katana600.jpg

I can put that can-o-tuna to shame. 1992 GSXR 750. Pink and proud.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/clean2.jpg



Tipped it over in the drive way twice while cleaning it. My wife was the only one who saw...and I wasn't embarrassed, I was pissed.

[Particle Man]

I can put that can-o-tuna to shame. 1992 GSXR 750. Pink and proud.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/clean2.jpg



Tipped it over in the drive way twice while cleaning it. My wife was the only one who saw...and I wasn't embarrassed, I was pissed.

yeah, it's one thing to drop a blue and white one but a pink one adds insult to injury :lol:

[G-Rex]

Marko, I had the exact same bike! Blue wheels for me though! :D

[unknownroad]

Was on my way to work on a 1981 CX500 I'd just finished fixing up, so I was taking it pretty easy. As the road opened up past town, a small pickup truck towing a trailer started to pull alongside me. I figured, geez, he was in one heck of a hurry. Then I saw he was pointing at me.

Crap.

So, I immediately pull over to see what was wrong with the bike, expecting anything from a dead taillight to billowing flames.

In fact, I had just dragged a 50-foot, bright yellow extension cord almost five miles from my driveway, snagged on my kickstand. Down a gravel driveway, a dirt road, three 90-degree turns, a set of s-curves, and a good 3 miles at 60 MPH, with only a vague idea that the 25-year-old rear shocks would have to go :idk:

[marko138]

Marko, I had the exact same bike! Blue wheels for me though! :D
No kidding. I've never seen one with blue wheels...black but not blue. Where they off of the blue and white 92?

[G-Rex]

No kidding. I've never seen one with blue wheels...black but not blue. Where they off of the blue and white 92?

No, I took them off and had them powdercoated to match the shade of blue in the stripes.

[xx CURVE xx]

I can put that can-o-tuna to shame. 1992 GSXR 750. Pink and proud.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/clean2.jpg



Tipped it over in the drive way twice while cleaning it. My wife was the only one who saw...and I wasn't embarrassed, I was pissed.


Thats a GXR though!..not a can of tuna like mine! :lol:

[marko138]

No, I took them off and had them powdercoated to match the shade of blue in the stripes.
Nice. You have any pics? That was my first bike....just got rid of it last May and bought the Buell. The Zuk was good to me.

[Phenix_Rider]

On a group ride, we pulled up to an intersection and stopped to decide which road to take next. I was off to the right of the group of five guys. Pulled up, put it in neutral, put my right foot down, and down, and down... in a pothole/storm drain. Held the bike at some crazy angle until two other guys got the picture, hopped off, and helped get it upright.

[marko138]

Thats a GXR though!..not a can of tuna like mine! :lol:
That thing was a monster. Good bike. Handled well, the whole deal.

[G-Rex]

Nice. You have any pics? That was my first bike....just got rid of it last May and bought the Buell. The Zuk was good to me.

I attached one. Look up. :D

[Archren]

I have a couple rather embarassing bike-related tales. :lol:

First one happened about a week or two after I bought my first bike (Buell Blast, for those of you who don't know me). The guy that sold it to me asked me to come out to their Buell/Ducati bike night at Polvos. So it's Thursday evening, I'm riding out to bike night, and it starts to drizzle. Ok, no big deal, I'll have to deal with rain sooner or later, might as well get used to it. I'm coming up on the restaurant, and as I'm slowing to make the left turn.. I made the rookie mistake of using too much rear brake, especially for slick conditions. I was nearly stopped, but even so the bike wiggled it's rear end in a bit of a fish-tail. I tried to put my foot down to stop the bike from going over, but the road was SO slick with the oil that hadn't quite washed off yet, my food slid right out from under me! :panic:

Fuck. Just dropped my bike in the left lane of a busy road. I go to try to pick the damn thing up.. when none other than a farking cop pulls up behind me, lights on and all! Thankfully she was just there to block traffic and help me get the bike accross the street into the parking lot. Suffice it to say, my first impression on all the Buell guys was a memorable one. :lol: Although if you would to hear my buddy Chad tell the story, it would come out more like, "yeah, and then she skid to a stop, cops with lights ablaze, all bad ass like! And when she pulled her helmet off and we realized it was a chick, we were all like, 'WHOA!!' ". :lmao:

[Mr Lefty]

Nice. You have any pics? That was my first bike....just got rid of it last May and bought the Buell. The Zuk was good to me.
uh you saw the pic... it started the whole blue wheels discussion :panic: you ok over there marko? :lol:

[marko138]

I attached one. Look up. :D
I always wanted the seat cowl. You polish the frame yourself? Mine was done when I bought it.

uh you saw the pic... it started the whole blue wheels discussion :panic: you ok over there marko? :lol:
It wasn't there when he first posted.

[Mr Lefty]

I always wanted the seat cowl. You polish the frame yourself? Mine was done when I bought it.


It wasn't there when he first posted.

ahh it was by the time I read your post about not ever seeing blue wheels :idk: :lol:

[HurricaneHeather]

The only two times I went to any bike night I had a problem with my Honda wanting to fall over.

First time I wanted to move it out a bit, parked between Moira's 998 and Kathy's Daytona. I didn't have much experience moving that bike standing next to it. I was on the left between mine and Moira's bike when it acted like it wanted to go over and I could feel myself putting pressure on the 998 :panic: I got it back up, and then nearly had an anxiety attack about it. I still cringe when I think about almost tipping over mine and Moira's bike. :lol:

Second time at bike night, I pulled in and Moira greets me, so I look up at her and don't notice the patch of grass my front wheel just entered, and down I went. :lol: I hurt my knee, but the bike was fine, thank god.

I don't go to bike night anymore. :lol:

[Archren]

This is Tracy... circa '93... :whistle:

[Corey]

This is Tracy... circa '93... :whistle:

Sweet, the power mullet AND the tight rolled pants. Tell me those are Oakley's and we've covered the trifecta of late 80's/early 90's bad fads. Hopefully you were more comfortable when you got out of the jeans and into some rad Zubaz pants, probably in Green Bay packers colors knowing Tracy. :rofl:

[Archren]

Sweet, the power mullet AND the tight rolled pants. Tell me those are Oakley's and we've covered the trifecta of late 80's/early 90's bad fads. Hopefully you were more comfortable when you got out of the jeans and into some rad Zubaz pants, probably in Green Bay packers colors knowing Tracy. :rofl:

:lmao:

ETA: And yes, those are Oakleys. :D

[G-Rex]

OH HEY NOW GODDA........

I hate you guys. :lol:

[Archren]

OH HEY NOW GODDA........

I hate you guys. :lol:

snort :rofl: I heard it in my head before I even read it..

[Ninjakel]

HOLY SHIT!!! :lol:


hahahahahahahahaha


You look like my ex husband did in that time frame. :lol:

[Corey]

snort :rofl: I heard it in my head before I even read it..

I was waiting for the "you're an asshole" comment, and it came right on cue.

[xx CURVE xx]

Bwaaaahahahaha!!!...

[ericr]

VTX rally in Denver CO, July of '06. 3rd day there me and a few guys make a run down to Colorado Springs to hit the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak. We get slowed down more than we planned at both and didn't make the summit of Pikes either cause it started storming on the mt and that dist was slick as owl shit. Anyway, we make a spped run back to Denver and the hotel for "bike games" that afternoon. I'm totally sucking at the all the slow speed manuvers after an adrenaline filled morning and during the one course there was a "slow as possible" section followed by an acceleration box then an "emergency stop" box. By the time I hit the acceleration box I was was out of the running so I hit the gas, pick the front wheel up a couple inches then do my emergncy stop. Cold tires by then, I locked and washed the front before I knew it and had 750lbs of VTX laying on my right leg :idk: :whistle:

There were at least 200 people from the VTX forum watching me :scared: but I had plenty of help picking it up off me. I got a little rash on my right forearm since I was squiding it on the parking lot.

Didn't break anything on the bike though and I just had to straighten the rear brake lever and do 400 miles through Rocky Mountain Nation Park the next day. It was an awesome trip!

[HRCNICK11]

I was on my 1993 F2 the night the Red Wings won a cup I was so happy I did a burn out in the Grass as we were leaving I started to let off the front brake and roll it out and some one walked out in front of me. I grabed the front brake and down I went on the wet grass. I was on the ground for about a second blinker was pushed through the bodywork.

On the way home I could hear my friends laughing on the freeway. We stoped for gas and one said somethng funny about the DIRTDOG on the F2. And from that day forth I was known as DIRTDOG its been well over 10 years and still they call me DIRTDOG.

One of my Friends thats a Suzuki rep now still giggles as he says it. I'm pretty sure he was the funny guy at the gas station.

[The Awesome]

I screwed up a victory wheelie on the cool down lap in front of a decent number of people. I just shrugged at them and they cheered.

[Dnyce]

I screwed up a victory wheelie on the cool down lap in front of a decent number of people. I just shrugged at them and they cheered.

u pulled a ebbs at the track? sweet

[Mr Lefty]

u pulled a ebbs at the track? sweet

hahahafuckyouahhahaha

[byron12]

I used to keep my previous bike i the laundry room which I had to ride up a ramp to get into. I onced slipped in dog shit trying to ride up the ramp did some minor damage tobike and got dog shit all over myself.

[rogue]

Sweet, the power mullet AND the tight rolled pants. Tell me those are Oakley's and we've covered the trifecta of late 80's/early 90's bad fads. Hopefully you were more comfortable when you got out of the jeans and into some rad Zubaz pants, probably in Green Bay packers colors knowing Tracy. :rofl:

Let's not start on mullets now. I had a real winner with the ex husband. :lol:


Back on topic:

My first drop was probably my most embarrassing. I just got the bike. Had not had it but a few hours. Rolled up to a gas station with the ex. Kicked the kickstand and thought it went down, but it popped back up. I went to dismount and the bike fell on top of me. :lmao: I'm laying on the ground still in my helmet, yelling at the top of my lungs "HEEEEELLLP!!!" so the ex could get her off of me. I was completely pinned. :lol: Since then I have this whole ordeal I go through everytime I put the stand down. Kick it down. Make sure it's down. Rock the bike back at least 3 times. Step ON the kickstand while I dismount and my hands are still on the clip ons. I'm a little anal about making sure she's not gonna fall on me again. :lol:

[Yamerhaw]

I used to keep my previous bike i the laundry room which I had to ride up a ramp to get into. I onced slipped in dog shit trying to ride up the ramp did some minor damage tobike and got dog shit all over myself.



:doh:

[Smittie61984]

One time when I was heading to get a new tire on. I go by this highschool that just let out. I was on my SecaII which is emberassment enough but as I was turning (I was rocking shorts and t-shirt too) I see two fine peices of jailbait walking. One gives me the thumbs up so I floor the bike. And then shift into neutral as I was going for second wide open.

Another time I was doing a stoppie for my friends (The secaII) but did it on a sloped parking lot so that the right side of my bike was higher up than the left side. I barely even did one and lost my balance at 0mph and the bike slowly fell over. I thought it was funny.

Oh yeah stalling at a redlight is fun too. Especially when you about stall it to grab clutch which lets the rpms go up but then you drop the clutch going into the panic jerk across the intersection.

By the way when you do screw up it will never ever ever be by yourself. There will be an audience around even if you don't realize it. It will either be 4 of your friends in a car at the redlight looking at you or a car load of jail bait right next to you or behind you.

[azoomm]

How did I miss this thread??

I once fell over on a HUGE ride that I planned and I was leading... 40+ riders. Me, on the ground.

:panic:

[shmike]

I screwed up a victory wheelie on the cool down lap in front of a decent number of people. I just shrugged at them and they cheered.

At least it was a Victory wheelie.

A dude looped his 1098 this weekend pulling out for a warm up lap. :zowned:

[vickibocc]

I'll tell Jarvis' for him and hopefully I don't get in trouble...

We had just moved into our current place, stoked to finally have a garage. The garage was filled with mostly empty boxes (some not) from unpacking. Phil went to move the bike outside for whatever reason, I don't remember. He kept the kickstand down and just walked it (standing on the side without the kickstand). However, as he was pushing through piles of boxes, one of them must have hooked the kickstand and put it up, which neither of us realized obviously. So once he had the bike where he wanted it, he set it down and it just fell over, bumping into my Blazer on the way down. His anger and andrenaline gave him the ability to pick it up quite easily.

I was standing in the doorway from the garage to the house the entire time. At this point, he turned around and began screaming at me that it was somehow my fault that I didn't warn him that the kickstand wasn't down. Like I would hide that information from him.

[04cbr1000rr]

I went swiming on a sunday ride :zowned:
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z305/04cbr1000rr/new/l_866f4626610143e8b88bf8c6c7f2300e.jpg

The bike was only inches away from joining me :panic:

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z305/04cbr1000rr/new/l_8a957431ca864cb5334a283bbd1a12ed.jpg

Kinda looked like this

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z305/04cbr1000rr/new/14615995_125x125.jpg

[DLIT]

I had my girl on the back and we stopped at red Lobster for a bite. She got off the bike, I put the stand down and got off. I didn't realize until I got off that the stand was only half way down. So the bike started to fall over and I caught right at the point where it was too much to finish picking it up myself. It caught me off-guard and I wasn't positioned right to pick it up. So I'm sitting there with the bike leaning on me and my girl's just looking at me. So I throw out an innocent "help".

[Mr Lefty]

oh I forgot one...

I was loading my bike in the back of my truck... and decided to ride up the ramp out of my garage... well the ramp slid back and fell on the ground... but I kept the bike up... so I tried again... only this time I backed my truck closer to the garage and used the lip of the garage floor to stop the ramp from sliding back...

only I didn't figure that going up the ramp sitting on the bike I'd be too tall... so as I'm riding I figure this out... go to lean over and put my foot through one of the holes in the ramp (ladder style atv ramp) and so here's me... leg through the ramp... bike on top of me... hang'n off the side of the ramp... had to slide the bike over (scratch'n the fairings) so I could squeeze my leg out... then stand the bike back up... and try again...

:lol: I'm retarded

[was92v]

There are so many I wouldn't know where to start...but my post over in the "How many times have you crashed" thread is one of them for sure.:whistle:

[was92v]

There was one time that feeling lucky may be stronger than embarrassed. One evening when I was young and very dumb, I was riding through town after consuming a few to many beers (drunk as a fish is what I was) and made a right turn in front of the police station. It must have been shift change or something, but there were about 15 or 20 cops standing in front of the building and next to the street. I wheeled around the corner and crashed the fuck out of myself, right there in front of all those Cops. I got up and looked over at them expecting to get hauled in. Most, if not all of them were laughing their asses off, like doubled over laughing. I just shrugged, like WTF, and any that weren't laughing before, were then.
I picked the bike up, kicked it over, and rode away shaking my head.
I decided that embarrassment still beat the shit out of a night in the poke.

[Dnyce]

I had my girl on the back and we stopped at red Lobster for a bite. She got off the bike, I put the stand down and got off. I didn't realize until I got off that the stand was only half way down. So the bike started to fall over and I caught right at the point where it was too much to finish picking it up myself. It caught me off-guard and I wasn't positioned right to pick it up. So I'm sitting there with the bike leaning on me and my girl's just looking at me. So I throw out an innocent "help".


that reminded me of the movie the fly- "help me" lol

[Dnyce]

hahahafuckyouahhahaha

lol:pat:

the one that first comes to mind is when i first got my kawi, riding around, its running funny-like shit lol

i pull over, take off my helmet, bike still running, im looking under it, around it, somethings smoking-i try and get a closer look and burn my forehead on the left engine case, and when i jerked my head back i damn near pushed the bike over.

the covers are finned, so i had "grill" marks on my forehead for awhile lol

turns out it was just bad gas, and the smoke was from the clutch cable touchin the exhaust. why i didnt see that to begin with, :idk:

[askmrjesus]

I stopped by a clients house to pick up the final check for a remodeling job I did.

Propped my '74 750 GT Ducati up on it's centerstand in his driveway, got the check, said good bye and fired up the bike. Revved it up a bit and dropped it down off the centerstand.

I then proceeded directly into his garage door, punching out two of the wooden panels, and knocking the guide track completely out of the wall on one side.

It was in gear...

JC

[JoJoYZF]

Both of my drops can be counted in this category.

1. I was rolling up to an intersection, went to put my foot down and it just slid out from under me. Then since I was retarded and had people waiting behind me, I wasnt thinking and just tried to pick it up with one leg on either side, which Im no where near strong enough to do, so by the time I went to the side some other guy had pulled over ad helped me out. Luckily no damage at all, I was able to slow it on the way down.

2. Went riding with a female friend of mine for about an hour or so after she got out of work, and as we were turning into her gravel driveway (me leading), I still had my fingers on the front brake and managed to wash the front end out. I basically walked off the side and never hit the ground but the bike was too far gone and hit the ground. Put some nice scratches on the side and a few dents in the can.

[HurricaneHeather]

Oh yeah....

Just a few months ago I started up the Ninja in the parking lot after work, forgot to put it in neutral. usually not a big deal because I catch it before it goes anywhere. Well, this time I had set my helmet on the ground in front of me, so I was leaning over too far to catch the bike.

Down she went and kicked over my helmet. I was more mad about my helmet than the bike :lol:

Bad thing is, my work building is 90% windows and everyone always tells me that they love watching me get geared up and take off in the afternoons. Grrrrr

So, I took off my backpack and slammed it down on the bike cursing at the bike(like it was her fault:lol: ) Pick her back up and rode off in anger.

[Quick281]

Pretty typical story.

Riding through my college town one night I decided to swing by my favorite Mexican restaurant for food and to meet some friends.

Turns out the space right in front of the entire restaurant is open. I pull up right as a gaggle of sorority chicks walks out trashed and barely dressed. I am immediately overwhelmed with questions and don't even think to put the kick stand down. I think the bike got a couple of inches away from hitting the ground but I was still able to save it. Not in enough time to save face though.

[HurricaneHeather]

I dreamt all last night that while riding with my dad he kept dropping his old Z1000. And everytime it was my fault :lol:

[z06boy]

My very first bike was a 1988 Ninja 600R and I had no clue how to ride it other than 1 down and 4 up...right hand for the brake and left hand for the clutch.

I drove it off of the lot and took it into a neighborhood behind the dealership to ride around before hitting the busy city streets at 5:00 pm during rush hour. :whistle:

Well the bike cut off and would not start back up several blocks away so I parked it and walked back to the dealership to get some help. The guy looked at me and asked if I flipped the tank to reserve. I didn't even know what he was talking about but when it registered about a second later I just turned around and walked back to the bike and sure enough...it started. :doh:

I'm surprised I got home alive...but I did. :dthumb:

[unknownroad]

A dude looped his 1098 this weekend pulling out for a warm up lap. :zowned:



That's some epic schadenfreude right there! :dthumb:

Here's another good one- I'd installed heated grips on my SV, only to discover that the glue they'd provided had completely dried out in the tube. So, the grips were loose. No big deal, right?

So, I'm riding around for a couple days, loose grips, no bar ends since I knew I'd be taking the grips back off. Everything's fine.

Then, I'm coming home from work (dead sober, I swear!!), and as I'm pulling over to the side of the road to check my mail, I pull off too early, and the bike comes down HARD off a 4" drop.

No major crisis normally, since by now I'm only doing about 15 MPH, but as I'm trying to correct, my right handgrip flies off in my hand. Not good. Big wobble, overcorrect and start falling to the left, stick my leg out, kick the bike back towards vertical, drop the wayward handgrip. By then I hit the driveway, which is 4" back up to road level, bounce totally clear of the seat, slide off the right footpeg (and brake) and by some miracle manage to grab the right bar again and stop the bike before it crashed into the mailboxes.

My wife was following me in the car, and asked if I wanted a cowboy hat and a giant belt buckle for that trick. :whistle:

[Papa_Complex]

10 extra points for the correct use of the word schadenfreude. Minus 10 for using it in a place where maybe 3 people know what it means :lol:

[xx CURVE xx]

fuck me i almost forgot about this beast i had :lol:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/xxCURVExx/suzukisavage.jpg

[LeeNetworX]

I can put that can-o-tuna to shame. 1992 GSXR 750. Pink and proud.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/markgraves138/clean2.jpg




Why does the Miami Vice theme play in my head when I look at that pic. lol

[marko138]

Why does the Miami Vice theme play in my head when I look at that pic. lol
I think thats a legitamate question. That bike came SCREAMING out of the 80's.

[z06boy]

:lol: "Miami Vice theme"...

The 88 600R Ninja I posted about above looked like this one...not quite as sleek as my R6 is. :lol:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2565222326_5427d01db2.jpg?v=0

[LeeNetworX]

Other than stalling out in first a couple of times, I can't think of anything really embarassing.

[HurricaneHeather]

:lol: "Miami Vice theme"...

The 88 600R Ninja I posted about above looked like this one...not quite as sleek as my R6 is. :lol:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2565222326_5427d01db2.jpg?v=0


Funny, that looks remarkably similar to my 14 year newer 250 :lol:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e183/hurricaneheather/kawigreensm-1.jpg

['73 H1 Triple]

This was a two for one sale. :zowned: :zowned:

My friend Mark and I ride to the local Dairy Queen to check out what's going on. ( back about 1983) Mark is on his RD400 and I'm on my '74 H1 500 triple.

Mark goes to leave but forgot to put up his kickstand. His intention was to go left out of the parking lot but did a 540* on the kickstand and ended up going to the right instead. Never missed a beat and wheelied away. :dthumb:

The girl I was talking to asked me "what are you going to do to top that?" So I decide to do a burnout.

I'm smoking the tire real good in second gear when the master link breaks on my chain. My chain goes zinging across the parking lot.

Since I didn't have an extra master link with me, I had a nice 1/2 mile push to one of my friend's house. :bash:

Jeff

[was92v]

My very first bike was a 1988 Ninja 600R and I had no clue how to ride it other than 1 down and 4 up...right hand for the brake and left hand for the clutch.

I drove it off of the lot and took it into a neighborhood behind the dealership to ride around before hitting the busy city streets at 5:00 pm during rush hour. :whistle:

Well the bike cut off and would not start back up several blocks away so I parked it and walked back to the dealership to get some help. The guy looked at me and asked if I flipped the tank to reserve. I didn't even know what he was talking about but when it registered about a second later I just turned around and walked back to the bike and sure enough...it started. :doh:

I'm surprised I got home alive...but I did. :dthumb:


LOL, that reminded me of doing the same thing. When I was 17 I bought my first new bike, a 250 Yamaha 2-stroke
street bike. It fouled the plugs about 2 miles from the shop and they came out and put some new bullets in it. Ran great and away I went. The next day I was coming down the street and it sputtered and died about a block from the shop. I was just sure it had fouled the plugs again and pushed it to the shop and told them just what I thought about those plugs! The mechanic came out to look at the bike, turned the petcock to reserve, kicked it twice and it started. He gave me "That Look" over his glasses and suggested I might find a gas station. I felt like exactly what I was, a dumb ass kid. I learned something that day.

[tached1000rr]

Well a few of us mounted our bikes to leave the restaurant, I go to start mine and NOTHING, my friend looks at me half stupid and smiling, calmly walks over to me sitting on my bike and kicks up my kickstand:zowned: My cbr has the kickstand kill switch DUH!!!!!!!!

[OneSickPsycho]

Stalled a bunch of times recently... cannot get used to the TLR's clutch...

Stalled a bunch of times in the past...

Fell over at a gas station in Arkansas...

Allowed my week old bike to fall over onto the sidewalk because I didn't have the kickstand completely down...

Nothing really else...

[Smittie61984]

Here is one I did before. I never use the kill switch to turn my bike off. I always use the key because if I don't I usually leave the key in. I let a buddy ride my bike to try it out and when he finished he killed the kill switch and turned the key off. Well I'm fixing to leave (I'm about 50miles from my home) and I turn the bike on. The headlight comes on and I hit the start button. Nothing. I hit it again and I figured I killed my battery somehow.

So I run and try to push it off. Nothing. I run and push it some more. Nothing. I roll it down a hill and let off the clutch. It still wouldn't start. I'm getting pissed at this point (and as Murphy's motorcycle law states. There were girls + friends to view this) and start pushing it up hill to try it one more time. I push it up hill and then notice my kill switch in the off position (After I pushed it up hill of course). I turn it on and the bike starts right up.

[t-homo]

Sorry smittie, i was laughing at you as i read that. My worst was when I was in my garage, i had all of the fairings off, tried putting it on the rearstand on my own (something i have done many times before and since this incident) and the stand wasn't lined up right. I ended up trying to hold my bike with 1 arm with bending over lining up the rear stand. Bike got over too far and I didn't have a great enough grip to stop it completely. Luckily it was a slow fall, but still hurt my pride more than the bike.

[OneSickPsycho]

Stalled a bunch of times recently... cannot get used to the TLR's clutch...

Stalled a bunch of times in the past...

Fell over at a gas station in Arkansas...

Allowed my week old bike to fall over onto the sidewalk because I didn't have the kickstand completely down...

Nothing really else...

Ok... thought of two more...

The day I got my first street bike I drove back home and had my roommate help me unload it out of the truck behind a shopping plaza that had a good hill. I took off after we got it unloaded and I decided to go for a little ride, going the other way. Prolly a half mile down the road I turn into a residential area and the bike dies. :wtf: Try to start it and it turns and turns and turns and turns... nothing. :wtf: MOTHERFUCKER!!! JUST BOUGHT THIS FUCKING THING AND IT"S DEAD!!!! Start pushing it home... maybe 2 miles later... it hits me... "Petcock"... it was in the 'off' position. Turn it on, push the starter, it purrs like a kitten.

A couple years ago I stopped to get gas, knowing that my battery was suspect. Sure enough, hit the button and it turns over once then clickclickclickclick... I push it away from the pumps and a guy who was going in to pay said he'd push... he had a bike and blah, blah, blah... Awesome. So he pushes me, dump the clutch, it starts... I wave and get ready to pull out in traffic... fuckin' stall it. He was kind enough not to call me a dumbass and push started me again.

Here is one I did before. I never use the kill switch to turn my bike off. I always use the key because if I don't I usually leave the key in. I let a buddy ride my bike to try it out and when he finished he killed the kill switch and turned the key off. Well I'm fixing to leave (I'm about 50miles from my home) and I turn the bike on. The headlight comes on and I hit the start button. Nothing. I hit it again and I figured I killed my battery somehow.

So I run and try to push it off. Nothing. I run and push it some more. Nothing. I roll it down a hill and let off the clutch. It still wouldn't start. I'm getting pissed at this point (and as Murphy's motorcycle law states. There were girls + friends to view this) and start pushing it up hill to try it one more time. I push it up hill and then notice my kill switch in the off position (After I pushed it up hill of course). I turn it on and the bike starts right up.

You shouldn't have said shit, push started it, and acted like a super-hero.

[Phenix_Rider]

Sorry smittie, i was laughing at you as i read that. My worst was when I was in my garage, i had all of the fairings off, tried putting it on the rearstand on my own (something i have done many times before and since this incident) and the stand wasn't lined up right. I ended up trying to hold my bike with 1 arm with bending over lining up the rear stand. Bike got over too far and I didn't have a great enough grip to stop it completely. Luckily it was a slow fall, but still hurt my pride more than the bike.

:lol: I did nearly the same thing- I had just finished cleaning my chain, and was letting it down. I must have tried to kick the side stand down and it didn't go all the way, but bounced back. I caught mine by the passenger grab rail, and hauled it upright with one hand. Used the other to get the rearstand in position, then heaved on the grab rail and stand at the same time to get all the way on the stand. I was shaking pretty good after I saw that it wouldn't fall over. Had to step away for a while before I put the side stand down all the way and took it off the rear stand.

[z06boy]

Funny, that looks remarkably similar to my 14 year newer 250 :lol:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e183/hurricaneheather/kawigreensm-1.jpg

Oh yeah...I can see that. :lol:

[z06boy]

LOL, that reminded me of doing the same thing. When I was 17 I bought my first new bike, a 250 Yamaha 2-stroke
street bike. It fouled the plugs about 2 miles from the shop and they came out and put some new bullets in it. Ran great and away I went. The next day I was coming down the street and it sputtered and died about a block from the shop. I was just sure it had fouled the plugs again and pushed it to the shop and told them just what I thought about those plugs! The mechanic came out to look at the bike, turned the petcock to reserve, kicked it twice and it started. He gave me "That Look" over his glasses and suggested I might find a gas station. I felt like exactly what I was, a dumb ass kid. I learned something that day.


:lol: That and my experience would make a good "Wanna get away ?" commercial.

[cuttle]

:lol: "Miami Vice theme"...

The 88 600R Ninja I posted about above looked like this one...not quite as sleek as my R6 is. :lol:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2565222326_5427d01db2.jpg?v=0


I did own one of these.... and hated the handling :idk:

[cuttle]

I fell over at a gas station.... forgot to put a foot down :zowned:

[Mr Lefty]

I fell over at a gas station.... forgot to put a foot down :zowned:

ok... I can see forgetting to put the stand down... but forgetting to put your FOOT down? :lol: I hope this was after an iron butt or some shit :lol:

[Smittie61984]

ok... I can see forgetting to put the stand down... but forgetting to put your FOOT down? :lol: I hope this was after an iron butt or some shit :lol:

You try holding your beer and remember to put your foot down. It's tough.

[Mr Lefty]

You try holding your beer and remember to put your foot down. It's tough.

oh... well yeah I've had that problem many a time... just not on a motorcycle :lol:

[Papa_Complex]

I fell over at a gas station.... forgot to put a foot down :zowned:

At least you didn't do a drift into a gas stall and do the dramatic helmet off, hair shake to impress the hottie in the convertible in the next stall over, then step off the bike and forget to put the stand down like a buddy of mine did :lol:

[rogue]

My ex BIL did that. He rode his bike all the way from La to Ca (he was stationed at Twenty Nine Palms). After slabbing it all day and night and being exhausted, when he stopped at the first red light he came to, he forgot to put his foot down and fell over. :lol:

[cuttle]

ok... I can see forgetting to put the stand down... but forgetting to put your FOOT down? :lol: I hope this was after an iron butt or some shit :lol:

let's put it this way: it was about 20 years ago on a Sunday morning on the way back from a rally (with a bunch of peeps).

I thought we planned to depart around noon, but no, somebody wanted ot leave at 8am :panic: 3 hours of "sleep" in a sleeping bag w/o a tent wasn't quiet enough for the ride home: I fell over, the bike was on top of me, and I laughed my ass off :lol:

[Mr Lefty]

:lol: fair enough

[Particle Man]

I've been guilty of causing the kill switch thing with friends... I always hit the kill switch out of habit... I've had several people freak out 'cuz their bikes won't start after I've ridden said machine. :lol:

[Sixxxxer]

When Im out with My buddies and we are in the city We hit the hill switch sitting at red lights...the best is to do it when its about to turn green...so he looks like an asshole Holding up traffic.

[Smittie61984]

I've been guilty of causing the kill switch thing with friends... I always hit the kill switch out of habit... I've had several people freak out 'cuz their bikes won't start after I've ridden said machine. :lol:

One time riding in the mountains (By myself at that) I somehow hit the kill switch on the way down. I was on a mile length downhill and didn't notice for a bit. I hit the throttle and nothing. I didn't know WTF was going on. I slow down to about 25mph (Was at 80mph before) and then saw I hit the kill.

I got a buddy one time who was staring at a hot chick off to his left. I was on his right and hit his kill switch then took off knowing he'd chase after me. But he figured it out quickly since he did it to me before.

I also came close to kicking my buddy and myself off the road. We were on a 4lane road and we started to pretend kick each other. I ended up swerving over and kicked his bike and he kicked mine since I came so close. We both about went into the weeds with an audience of cars behind us.

Then this happend to a buddy (Sort of buddy) of mine. I was just out riding around and came upon a big motorcycle charity ride (Cops let people do wheelies and were running 100mph with a police escort) where I knew some friends where at. I saw them at a gas station so I pull in and do a small wheelie coming in.

My buddy weighs about 400lbs and is 5'5" and rode my old SecaII. He sucked at riding but thought he was the master plus a complete moron. But great entertainment if you weren't around him. Another guy on the ride was on a Harley and had his pretty decent looking old lady on the back. She gave a thumbs up to me for the wheelie. Genius not wanting to be outdone tried to do a burnout (400lbs planted on the seat) and kept stalling it. His 4th stall it jumped and he fell over. I almost fell over laughing.

Gotta say motorcycle riders are some major idiots (Me included). But it funner than hell though!!!

[marko138]

I've been guilty of causing the kill switch thing with friends... I always hit the kill switch out of habit... I've had several people freak out 'cuz their bikes won't start after I've ridden said machine. :lol:

I do that too. I've always used to the kill switch to shut the bike off...

When Im out with My buddies and we are in the city We hit the hill switch sitting at red lights...the best is to do it when its about to turn green...so he looks like an asshole Holding up traffic.

:lol: Or you could do one better than quick grab the key and drop it on the pavement.

[Sixxxxer]

Oh we do that to!!!

lol

[z06boy]

I did own one of these.... and hated the handling :idk:

It was my first bike and I didn't know the difference. :lol: In 1988 it was considered decent I guess. :idk:

[z06boy]

Oh yeah...thought of another "moment".

Pulled into the gas station...rolled up to the pumps that sit on a raised island...on my Kawasaki ZX-11 that still had the stock 4-into-2 header.

Well this was in my squidly days...wearing shorts...put the stand down and stepped off the bike. Well when it leaned left onto the stand it pinned my leg between the hot pipe and the "raised island" that the pump sits on. :lol:

Only did that once. :panic: :zowned:

[cuttle]

I do that too. I've always used to the kill switch to shut the bike off...

I hate that! One time I was in front of the "hangout" with my Morini, and kicked my ass off (it's kick-start only) I forgot that my hubby took it for a short spin and used the kill switch.... :rant: