Looks like that drain cover was involved. Spun up on cold tires or put him off line... That's one video I would have erased........
I feel sorry for the owner - and as a father of a 23yr old myself, pissed off with the son! That said, how many times have we been in a group and seen a bike in front ride away with his side stand down? or done something like it ourselves? Shit! Chris said <<two of us know what we are posting, enough for me to rest my case :smile:>> did that happen to you Chris?...obviously not recently, but in your distant past?!.... I had an embarrassing moment with my new Speed Triple when I bought it three and a half years ago - didn't involve the side stand at a rate of knots, but it did involve my little short legs not being able to touch the ground on an extra steep camber near the kerb-side as I tried to lower the side stand...resulting in four pedestrians struggling to lift 220lbs of bike off of my crushed and trapped ankle joint....oh, and a bill for about £300 to repair the broken bits - it's funny, they lifted it just enough for me to remove my mangled foot then they had to lower it to the ground as it was too heavy for them and they obviously knew nothing about motorbikes - they stood in amazement as a little bloke who couldn't stand on one foot swore like a scalded cat and did the usual manual one man bike lift with my back into it...it made me smile but didn't make up for my embarrassment
I managed to lift my FZR600R on my own after a high side and 2 hours later an x-Ray revealed a broken arm. Amazing what you can lift with adrenalin pumping. Oh, and I rode home.
Reminds me of my youth.My mates folks went away so he decided to borrow his dads old GPZ NINJA. He was always a nutter but let loose on a big bike the inevitable happened and as he pulled a massive wheelie to us cheering him on outside the old air raid shelters he flipped it.Bike wasn't to bad but he lost a fair bit of skin as only wearing a t shirt and jeans. This was back in the day when people were made of tougher stuff.He couldn't be arsed going to A&E and turned up at the park the following night sporting his do it yourself blood soaked bandage kit. He got nuff respect for that and seemed to enjoy showing us all his wounds.He was a big hit with the local girls after that so I guess it was well worth it.
I used to have a similar problem with my little brother back when I was in my late teens. I had successive bikes - RD50, Honda 250wetdream, RD250LC, and then a Honda CB500T. The little shit that is my little brother apparently stole every single one of them at the weekend nights when I went out on the tiles. He only got caught when he crashed the RDLC - he got battered for that one when I got home! The extent of his 'borrowing' only came to light many years later! The side stand thing has given me a couple of scares as mine doesn't flip up. I took off from a petrol station on the old N1 from Dublin to the north, I realised when I came to a slight left hand bend and I was doing about 85. We both escaped unharmed, and didn't go down but it did involve the opposite side of the road's hardshoulder, and my side stand is probably now about half an inch shorter!!! Scared the crap out of me!
There was a guy we knew when we were still wet behind the ears mods on scooters who used to ride a RD350. I'm struggling to remember his name but I can still see him hooning it up and down william barefoot drive in mottingham. Wheelies etc. He was a good bloke and never once was derogatory towards our little scoots. However he left his sidestand down and it caused him to hit one of those concrete fences, the ones where you slide concrete panels down between concrete posts. He hit it head first by all accounts. Shame as he was such a nice guy.
i just remembered i had a, super dream for bit also. any of yous been up my way on your rd's there was a group up a year or two ago reeking the place oot.
Yeah was a great bike! I actually swapped my Superdream for it!! lol plus cash! The guy was desperate as he needed a bike to get to work and they wouldn't insure the 500 for him! Yeah i robbed it! I wasn't aware insurance was compulsory back then . . . or a bike test lol!! So I had to sell it and got the LC! Brilliant bike, loved it! White and blue! Chopped the rear mudguard down, frame blue, white wheels!! It looked the biz - some fella followed me home one day and offered me good cash for it! Sadly, a week later I took! :-( It was eating plugs and I'd got fed up bump starting every damn morning!!
Can't laugh at that video. Had a 748 in 2000 that the previous owner had decided to disconnect the side stand cut out switch. Had battery problems due to a faulty alarm and often had to bump start it down the hill outside my house, after a short straight there was a sharp left hand bend and one day the bike had just started and i leaned into the bend only to be thrown straight back up with a horrendous grinding noise, how I managed to hang on I don't know to this day. If a car had been coming the other way I would have been in serious bother.
Bloody Hell, for a second there I thought you were my old mate. He didn't bother with insurance or lessons or licences or any of that crap, either. He didn't get an LC though, he went for a Z400J. I think I went on the back of that thing, no helmets, through his estate. Interesting ride!
It was the early 80's in Belfast so Peelers (dibble) had other things to occupy them!! ;-) Tho I did get a year ban at 18 for reckless driving, on a wet night, testing a mates brand new 250 twin Honda - took them four+ miles to catch me! I hadn't seen them, tho they swore they'd the blues on! They called it reckless due to the speed and conditions - it was pissing down! They reckoned I was doing close to 110 in a 60 dual carriageway. My mate was well impressed - til he got done for permission without insurance! :-( What can I say - I was young and foolish!
That's what I said!! 95 was more like it! But being 18 - it was hard to argue - did u ever meet any RUC officers? That's what they said they were doing to catch me! Ok - I was flat out and chin on tank but it weren't that quick a bike, handled quite well tho!
