really? In which case thats me for 23 years grass tracking and hedge busting doesn't mean falling off
Hold on a minute, I've not tasted tarmac since 1990, so that 24 years. Who's the fkin' daddy now, eh..?
Fell off on Saturday afternoon in Reigate High Street. No more than 20 mph, front washed out on some loose grit when turning right onto A25 London Road. Certainly surprised the people waiting to cross the road!. Good job they were there to help get the bike off my leg. Should have gone in the Red Cross Inn to calm my nerves.
I've only been riding for 3 years now, but I've never fallen off. I've had some moments though. Running very wide out of a corner and nearly going of the tarmac at over 120km/h would've been a good one. Going through a nice right hand turn onto a drawbrigde only to have my foot slip of the rhs peg going into a right hander again... brown trouser moment. The drawbridge was a bit higher than the road going up to it and coming of it. Bump, slip... Oops!
Fell off riding through a cabbage field wearing a white ben sherman and white stapress and desert boots on Lammy. I came out proper two tone. I also got taken out on my 19th birthday by a police car turning in front of me and I left the scoot so quick, i left my deck shoes behind. Bastards tried to breathalyse me too. It was 9am. Crashed into a JCB when it was either that or the cortina that had stopped in front of me. I had no brakes. I had new brake shoes on me after just buying them. Ive got countless 'offs' on scoots. Glad I started on these and not bikes when i was young. Fell off outside maccie d in eltham at lights in front of a gang of babes. Foot got caught under brake pedal and I just literally toppled over. Crashed into a bush at chiselhurst caves after watching The Troggs. Forgot about the 90deg bend at end. It was nightime and i was wearing sunglasses. Fell off on a13 after throttle cable snapped and I had wrapped it round my foot as a bodge to get home. Stopped at junction. Forgot and put foot down, opening throttle fully. Scoot took off with me holding on with one hand. Ive got loads.
bootsam said: Fell off on a13 after throttle cable snapped and I had wrapped it round my foot as a bodge to get home. Stopped at junction. Forgot and put foot down, opening throttle fully. Scoot took off with me holding on with one hand thats funny im crying and got the giggles just imagining that.
I've been riding nearly 4 years, over 50k bike miles, 5 trackdays and so far I've stayed shiney side up... A few close shaves and slides in that time though Sam
I sometimes wonder how the hell I am still alive. Thus my 'i cannot be killed by conventional weapons' belief. Someone up there either likes me or hates me enough to make sure I'm delayed. My wife thinks its the latter.
This is my 20th year in the saddle and I've not fallen off since my 10th day, when my enthusiasm rather overtook my experience: I had a moment of doubt entering a bend and grabbed a fistful of brake, the bike straightened up and before I knew it I was bumping over the grass verge... For about a year I would get vivid flashbacks whenever I approached a similar bend, which was rather unnerving!
Scooters...Hah! Spent my early years before legally riding on the road learning how not to fall off on stubble field and country lanes on a 350 and a 500 Enfield Bullet.............. a bit difficult for a 13 year old shortar*sed weakling, but for three years I gt away with only a burnt patch in my jeans on the inside of my thigh (Amal carb spat a great glob of petrol out of the bellmouth). And then...........I acquired an LDB 150 Lambretta and a Cruiser 80 Francis Barnett......... The LD was a runner, so I thought I would get it ready for my 16th birthday...... ...had licence and duly fitted L plates and away I went....... Three miles later, came across a long sweeping bend, wet road, hit the front brake and down it went........... Forks bent, fairing (left legshield) bent, but I rode it home..........bashed the fairing straight-ish, and then dropped the front wheel out of the forks and set to with a lump hammer....... That did the trick.............So two hours later i was off out on it again........... Ran the LD for at least a year..............never fell off it again. Decided to take my test and got the Cruiser 80 running..............but it was such a dog and really noisy, so I borrowed my mates Li 150 with all the mirrors and lights.........Examiner couldn't tell if I was using mirrors or not.......there were so many.......Passed first time. Reverted to the FB and went miles and miles o the d*mn thing until one day I had the big one..............nearly lost a foot and / or could have bled to death if it wasn't for some kind first aider...... I became (a bit) more careful after that).........
LDB 150? That thing was slower than walking. Plus its rear brake on scoots. The front brake is just asking for trouble. If it works. Which they never did. All the weight is on the rear. The front brakes on a scoot are a shortcut to tarmac.
i once advertised a TZR250 YPVS for sale and met the prospective buyer just off the M1 near Sheffield. we were going to my mates garage for him to have a look over the bike. at the first roundabout i hit a iron manhole cover while cranked over and lowsided it straight up the road trashing it. he at least stopped to help me pick it up and then gave me a good luck wave before riding straight off home i chopped it in the same afternoon at a local garage for next to nothing against an FZR600
