Any embarrassing motorcycle moments?

[unknownroad]

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.