I am not talking premeditated stupid thinks lime speeding but more unexpected stupid ops moments. I will start with today. Long time ago I realised that if there is a flock of pigeons on the ground in front you have to scare them off prior to riding in to that as feckers do not bother to move till last minute. I also realised horn is not as effective as revving the engine a bit. Today I revved the engine but forgot to clutch in prior resulting in uncontrolled surge forward and wheelie. Looked quite a bit more like an idiot then usual. What did you do?
I once saw a bloke ride off on an old gsx250 that had the (headstock) steering lock on. Still laugh about it now. Stood up on the pegs on the back of a mates cj250 just as he was turning to park, stupid boy!! Christ that hurt.
Tried to do a U-turn in a narrow road with my 1000RX.......lots of central camber and short legs.........Stab! Crunch! AL
Saw a guy waiting to turn right on a wet road. A Bus was coming so he revved it and dumped the clutch. The bike and rider did a complete 360 right in front of the bus and he didn't fall off. Never seen anything like it.
When I was 8 I jumped my Honda Z50A off a 1.5m loading bank, no big deal? They have no rear suspension, folded the pegs and handlebars down 45deg but worst of all that bike had the imprint of my "package" in the back of it's steel tank for the rest of it's life! Me, I recovered after about 2 weeks.
getting on the back of a mates bike to get a kebab in only chino's and trainers, no gloves who prompty crashes at 110 in a 30 !
Many many years ago, 'Making progress' against another bike, lots of red mist, probably doing about 70, suddenly realised i was about 40 yards from the end of the road and a major T junction, slammed on the brakes, back wheel locked up and went straight accross 2 lanes and down a farm track, luckily there was nothing coming either way at the time, it is usually a very busy main road.
pretty much the same. Took the S4Rs up to the outlaws in Yorkshire. Big queue of traffic on the A1, so was filtering down the middle. Went to rev the motor to warn the traffic of my arrival but forgot the clutch bit. Massive 60mph wheelie... FFS!
was riding my dads fazer to work and my lace of my boot got tangled unknown to me so I pulled up at the security gate......and fell off when I couldnt put my foot down.
When I was dispatching, delivered to a place that had a ramp down to an underground car park. Minus 12 degrees, it was. Got down the ramp okay but couldn't even walk up it, it was so slippery. Now, at this point most people would consider putting down grit, or just leaving the bike there. Not your correspondent. Figaro builds up speed by lapping the perimeter of the car park, then fires it up the ramp at maybe 40mph... By the time we hit the top of the ramp, me and the bike had parted company, my progress being halted by a woman pushing a pram, the bike's by a plate glass window across the road. As I attempted to lift the young mother from on top of me, I inadvertently copped a feel of her boob (a genuine error, I might add), at which point she punched me in the throat. At least she didn't kick me while I was down.
Very much the same . Nipped out to the shop on my fireblade and the lace on my work boot got stuck round the peg on the side stand whilst trying to put it down. Same result .
The old one but on my first 125 in uk, while bit drunk, I stopped at lights and forgot to put my legs down.
Something similar. Wearing an old pair of nylon overtrousers in the pouring rain, but the ankle zip had bust during the ride. The loose nylon hooked around the left footrest, stopping me from putting the side stand down. BMW tipped over into a ditch, which was full of mud because of the rain, until it was virtually upside down. No-one else around, so had a hell of a job dragging the bike out on my own. This was in Germany by the way.
Kick-started my 750 Sport(bevel) on the mainstand outside a pub with delish new gurlyfriend, took it off the stand and it roared away into the wall. In gear,doh. Broke the gearlever so taxi home.
17 and the proud owner of a blue and white Yamaha DT100. Girlfriend, and her mates, stood at the bus stop with me in the petrol station opposite. A few doors down from the petrol station is a land fill site, with lorries coming and going all day. I came out of the petrol station and went for the big impresive wheelie in front of said girlfriend and her mates. Only problem is the road has patches of mud on it from the lorries going to the local land fill. Back wheel spins on the mud .... and I just pin the throttle. Back wheel clears the patch of mud, grips and flips me straight off the back .... in front of everyone. I'm winded so hard that I can't get my breath, the bike slides accross the road and ends up revving it's nuts off in the gutter. All ok, apart from a fragile 17 year old male ego which has been crushed. Now I know why I still avoid wheelies 30 years later.
I wholeheartedly agree with that remark. I could pull any kind of wheelie on any kind of bike, do stoppies, rolling burnouts, you name it. But the second I tried to do it in front of someone else it always went tits up:frown:
just reading how many other fell off the same as me, maybe that should be another warning added to the owners manual lol.
