Ok, so come on. Lets own up to some of our more stupid biking mistakes. I'll start with one I've mentioned on another post. I've missed a gear on my ZX6, bounced right off the limiter full throttle. Got a gear, opened the throttle but the bike just stopped. I called the AA, waited for a small repair van to turn up, then a specticle lift and finally a flat bed, bike went to dealers who turned the fuel tap to reserve and sent me away rather red faced and 4 hours late for work. I also put that ZX1 xxtralube in my R1 before a track day and shagged the clutch completely. And took the swingarm out of my first bike to change the chain. Anyone been more stupid?
I was riding my Diavel home after the 12 month service. After about 40 miles, the oil warning light came on. I rang the dealers and after the mechanic who had done the first service came on the phone, I realised it was the low fuel warning light. Doh!
I jumped a hump back bridge on my 748. Landed in the back of a metro. In my defence the road was clear, but there was a right turn just after the bridge which a car 3 in front wanted to turn down.
I lowsided on The Corner of Death, where five or six others went down over the course of the morning. One of the folks to come to my rescue at the time was, of all people, AndyB. A replacement clutch and I was out again. like a greyhound on ice :smile:
Are you on about the never ending series of lefts in the infield? I love them. Only been there once when it was damp. I ran full race wets to be safe but remember a guy on a vfr400 falling off half way round the first lap, following the instructor doing the slow sighting laps. First green flag lap and an R1 highsided out the hair pin and that red flagged it.
Oh too many.. Accidentally knocking a Yam Diversion into gear while waiting at the lights, it lurched forward and dumped both bike and myself on to the tarmac. Moving the Honda Bros a little off the road to smoke a roll up in Germany, and dropping it down a ditch.. Lent right over around a corner on a VFR400..a corner that buses go around just before going into the station in Slough..you can imagine what happened next.. 'Blowing up' a Suzy GP100 while going down a hill..to find out that the spark plug had vibrated out.. Bump starting a Guzzi V50 by jumping on it side saddle, and falling off the other side when it failed to start..
Would that be the right hander just before the small rise? Yentwood i think? If so thats where i came off (and so did quite a few others thatday)
That would be the one, I think. I like the idea of Rockingham, it's the teflon surface I objected to!
Not mine, but too funny not to tell. When a yoof on my supermoto, I found some corners I could put it in the gutter, and kinda wall of death style it round real fast. Stupid I know. I told a mate at uni about it and after a few days never saw him for a while. When we next met, he was in an arm cast and said he'd tried my trick on his NSR250. Only he didn't see the drop kerb onto a drive until it was all too late and the NSR was a write off.
Shagging a bird called Simone. Looked like a bloke and went like a sack of spuds but a bet's a bet...and she had big tits
Many years ago I pushed my bike across Bath to Barton motors as it had cut out and would not start? I had a pair of handlebar muffs on and didn't see the kill button was activated, very red faced as Malc identified the problem in front of a full shop. Then a couple of years ago I broke down on the m3 coming back from Belgium, breakdown service brought me all the way home, he was an ex Ducati mechanic and identified the problem, I prefer to describe it as a fuel starvation issue (the light didn't come on is my lame defence)
