Any embarrassing motorcycle moments? - Page 2

shmike · 12-11-2008, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

At least it was a Victory wheelie.

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

vickibocc · 12-11-2008, 02:34 PM

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 · 12-11-2008, 08:03 PM

I went swiming on a sunday ride

The bike was only inches away from joining me

Kinda looked like this

unknownroad · 12-12-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by shmike

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

That's some epic schadenfreude right there!

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.

Papa_Complex · 12-12-2008, 02:57 PM

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

xx CURVE xx · 12-12-2008, 03:07 PM

fuck me i almost forgot about this beast i had

12-11-2008, 08:03 PM	#3
04cbr1000rr sofla refugee Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 70	I went swiming on a sunday ride The bike was only inches away from joining me Kinda looked like this __________________ http://www.myspace.com/vw_jetta_08 Last edited by 04cbr1000rr; 12-11-2008 at 08:05 PM..

12-11-2008, 02:34 PM	#2
vickibocc Meh Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: South FL Moto: the backseat of an '06 600rr Posts: 220	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.

12-12-2008, 02:57 PM	#5
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,152	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

12-12-2008, 03:07 PM	#6
xx CURVE xx SMELL MY LEVER Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Texas Moto: Tards Posts: 1,034	fuck me i almost forgot about this beast i had