i could do with a laugh, we all have storys about them, im not talking about "i was doing 140 and the backend got away and..." im on about pulling up at the local burger van and you forgotten to put the sidestand down and then skittled a line of bikes. i had a few like pulling up in my dads back garden on my ar50 went to put my footdown to find my trainer laces were wraped around the kickstart ending with me on the grass with a bike on top of me ,also on my tzr i took the inner speedo cable out as it was going over the mileage for its first service,i was riding it that night when the outter cable came undone hitting the front wheel, i stopped outside a local shop infront of a load of people, went to put my foot down to find the ground sloped away and fell off ,i was riding my nsr in to my back garden, got to the gate and clipped our wheelie bin with my left handle bar, the front wheel then turned left and hit the gate post, i fell left knocking the bin over next to my car ,i landed on top of the bin with my upper body pinned agaist my car , my left legg was trapped between the bin and my nsr, i could not get out,my wife had to pull the bike off me Anyone got some more
I hade the same thing happen in 84 when I wos working in luton, driving home from work ,pulled into the driveway( slabs/gravel centre) put the stand down and went to dismount, stand sunk into gravel and ended with a vx500 turbo on top of me for about 30 minutes until the next door neighbour got it off of me. Not nice.lucky for me the bike belonged to the honda test fleet so the cracks and scrapes were nothin to do with me.
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"not nice" but you laugh about it a few hours later :lol:when i talk to others who have done the same sort of thing there is always one word that pops into your head when you know whats about to happen "f!?k"
Does a really silly situation that could have become an accident count ?
Well, looking at Andy (who was going the right way on the correct part of the road) across the central reservation of a dual carriageway going around about a ton with a guy on the back asking the same question as I was - how did we end up here....
I think that is as obscure as it gets for me, I try my best not to get into 'accidents' but stuff happens.
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I was going like hell on an MBX125F, down-hill with the wind behind me, getting close to the magic ton, when I looked right and there, on an RG250, on the WRONG side of the central reservation barrier, was Binka - looking at me with eyes bigger that the proverbial startled rabbit!! I nearly pi$$ed myself!! :lol:
I think the worse thing i ever did wasnt on a motorbike but was on a push bike.... Picture this.
Im about 14 years old on what was a mountain bike and its raining. Me and a freind are heading to his house to we set off. As its raining i pull my hood up and take chase after him. We are going down this long hill and are both peddling for all we'er worth. Its raining so hard i duck my head to keep the rain out of my eyes. Im looking down at the double yellow lines, using them to see where im going (wheels between them)...
peddle peddle... peddle pedddle.... smack! some fool has packed a car on double yellows! I hit the car so hard i caused £600 worth of damage to its boot and shorted my bike my and inch. After gettin to my feet... and not feeling so good i remounted my steed and tryed to peddle off( one cant be caught by the crime). Unfortanatly the wheels were in no shape (the front for sure) to be ridden and me will blood pissing everywhere once again fell off. I woke up in hospital..... The lesson learned from this... never park anything you love on doubble yellows. You never know when fool is gonna run into it.
The second worse things was on my DT125. I had just got it and was itching to ride. One small prob. No front caliper. This i thought wasnt a prob as there was a very good rear brake... so i took it up the road and back down. Came shooting into my drive... this is where it should be know i'd never riden a jap bike only CCMs in mx where the gears and brakes are the other way around. heading towards the fromt of the conservatry i grab the front bake that isnt there... i then make for the rear brake... which is now the gear lever! I totaled the front of the house and most of the front garden ending up sat in the pond with the bike almost wedged in the letter box. I didnt do that again! _________________ If I have to take the carbs off once more...
i've got a couple.
when i worra lad i used to borrow a bike from the shop that i did my paperround from, twas a big oldy worldy steel thing with a rattly front mudguard, now this mudguard used to be my nemesis as it used to rattle like a bast**d and i cant stand rattles this was easily sorted with a quick boot while i was delivering my next paper. well one day i was not in a very good mood its raining its january and i am delivering papers flying down a hill with rain stinging my face with this god damn mudguard rattling away so though i would give it a kick like i do....and put my foot straight through the spokes behind the forks which fired me over the bars i landed on my face both lips busted with a heavy bag of papers in the middle of my back, i dragged the lot into someones front garden, including the bike with one fork leg bent the wrong way left them there and went home...surprisingly they didnt say anything to me the next day .
and my motorbike one.......probably had my 125 licence about 2 weeks thought i would go and find a few nice windy lanes....found some, so i am giving it some on the old LC i go flying around a sweepy right hander, which turns into a much tighter right hander....nowerdays i would tweek the bars and lean into it......then i did what every fledling biker would do SLAM MY BRAKES ON so i go straight accross the road onto a gravel driveway of a massive posh house with electric gates and huge bolders lining the driveway, i skid all the way accross the drive hit one of the bolders head on, it flips me through a full somersault landing on my back in some bushes. i picked myself up and was surprised to find all limbs still attatched and working but no bike, i looked around for a bit thinking maybe i was knocjked out and someone has knicked it (obviously a bit dazed thank the lord for Shoei) i look a bit closer at the bushes..bit closer..bit closer and the bike is about 10meters furthur on than i was, i dragged it out and thought apart from the coolant pooring out looks ok, then i notice the smashed dash, and the forks are the bentest (good word) that still to this day i have seen, and the massive ding in the wheel. i learnt the dynamics of cornering after this incident.....funny though _________________ MC21SP - Roth-tax
CBR400 - track
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had a couple on the old fizzy.used to live in the forest when i was a lad. i was riding past the maternity hospital in lyndhurst, and decided to take a short cut through the woods. i could have used the track but i shot up the grass bank next to it for a laugh. it was pitch black 10o/c at night and i had forgotteh the three foot drop at the top of the bank. i ended up in the track with the bike on top of me, revving its nuts off in gear with the chain and rear sprocket nibbling at my flairs woke the hospital up
also did the big wheelie throught a neighbours hedge. left me sitting in the road, and the bike in the middle of his lawn. good job he was out, and no one saw it.
This didn't happen to me but it happened to my 28 while my older brother took it out which is suppose to be a more experience rider and also used to own a 28. He got his new dainese jacket and thought it looked nicer with my bike then it did with his gsxr600 and thought he might wear it and take the 28 to his mates place to show it off where they were drinking. One of his clown friends decided to spew next to my bike and when my brother took off reved it abit to much and the back slid out over the vomit and guess what? it went smack bang on to the right side. Front fairing cracked, some nice scratches on the side, pegs, silencer. Gets home comes to my room and says "I stacked your bike man" and i just laughed and told him to give me back the card. He goes "nah i'm serious man and takes out a piece from the front fairing from his back and showed me. It was kind of fair though cause i stacked his car and stuffed up the suspension. He ended up paying for it to get fixed and the respray....
Thats not all... we both went for a ride at the local twisties on a sunday afternoon, went up and down then stopped to the side for a smoke and he wanted to have a go on the 28. So i let him and yeah, one of the most stupidest thing i've ever seen him do. Hopes on and when he went to put his right leg on the floor (i'm guessing his used to the higher fatter gsxr on his tippy toes) his ankle kinda twisted and i see my bike slowly leaning towards the floor, again i thought he was joking and the 28 ended up lying on his right side. Luckily this time it was only a lil minor scratch. _________________ can i ride your NSR ?
ive rememberd two more,i didnt happen to me but i was was there to see them,first i was with a group of mates when i was 16(about 5) sitting on our 50's waiting behind a car that was waiting at a level crossing,the barriers were down,as the train came througt we all started to rev the nuts out of our bikes anticipating the barrier coming up(we were 16) just as my mate Tim had his step-through at max rev the barrier moved,for some reason he banged it in gear ,the front wheel ended up on the bootlid of the car in front with him sat on his topbox.
Me and some mates were stood in the motorbike park at collage admiring our tzr's/rd's 125's and taking the pi$$ out off the mate who had a Vespa,he was sat on it, with the center stand down, back wheel on the floor,he had both feet on the floor,chin on the clocks reving the nutts out of it when someone grabbed hold of the left handlebar crip ,twisted it forward(this puts a vespa in 1st gear), the vespa took off in to a wheelie with my mate running behind it still holding the bars it continued for about 6ft until it hit a honda vision in the side knocking it over a taking out another 4 mopeds,so there it was, a line of 5 mopeds on their sides with a vespa sat on top of them,we legged it
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