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Thought you guys might appreciate this:

http://www.msgroup.org/tip.aspx?num=077

    * 1 Putting your foot into a hole when stopping.

    * 2 Putting your foot down on something slippery when stopping.

    * 3 Locking the front wheel during overenthusiastic braking.

    * 4 Missing the driveway and sliding on the grass.

    * 5 Not putting the kickstand down when getting off.

    * 6 Make a turn from stop in gravel or sand at high throttle.

    * 7 Not putting a board ('foot')under the kickstand on asphalt on a hot day.

    * 8 Letting overenthusiastic people sit on your bike who have never been on a bike.

    * 9 Forgetting the bike's in gear when you jump on the kickstarter.

    * 10 Revving the engine, releasing clutch, and putting feet on pegs when the light turns green, but the bike's in neutral.

    * 11 Not putting your foot down when stopping at red light.

    * 12 Losing balance when putting it on the centerstand.

    * 13 Take an hour ride in 30 degree weather with no gloves, stop at a stop sign and pop the clutch when you start because you've lost feeling in your hands.

    * 14 Putting your foot down at a toll booth on the thick layer of grease that builds up when cars stop.

    * 15 Using too much power when you pull out of a greasy toll booth.

    * 16 Ignoring the sand that builds up in the spring at the side of the road (in places where roads are sanded and salted in winter.)

    * 17 Kicking your kickstand in a cool fashion and having it bounce back up instead of staying down.

    * 18 Getting off your bike while it is running and forgetting that is in gear.

    * 19 Trying to kick start your first bike over and over because you didn't realize that it was really out of fuel, and getting the goofy metal ring on the side of your boot caught in the kickstarter, causing you (and the bike) to go over on the right side.

    * 20 Starting your brand-new electric-start trail-bike, riding around an ornamental shrub on full left lock, throwing it to the right and accelerating to wheelie over the curb onto the street and _then_ discovering that you hadn't unlocked the steering-lock...

    * 21 On same bike, getting the dual-range lever caught inside your jeans as you come to a stop...

    * 22 Having your boot/jeans catch the gear-lever and putting your running bike into first gear whilst reaching for the side-stand (which is why I now automatically pull in the clutch whenever deploying or retracting the stand.)

    * 23 Having "green" racing linings which have much higher coefficient of friction on the slight rust that forms on the polished drum when you've not ridden for a few hours, and lose the front-end holding the brakes on against the throttle to wear off the rust.

    * 24 Having a three-cylinder two-stroke that's so smooth you think you're in second when you're actually in first, so you spin out when the undercarriage touches down in a tight corner passing a car and you think, "just a bit more throttle will help here..."

    * 25 Revving bike in impressive squidly fashion at red light, thinking it's in neutral; dropping clutch and standing in place while bike wheelies and backflips into intersection.

    * 26 Having your fat-ass brother (as a pillion) lean waaay over to the side to look at something on the ground while at a stop sign.

    * 27 Wife gets foot caught on saddlebag while getting on before you.

    * 28 Rebuild carbs and treat bike like it still needs full gas away from a stop.

    * 29 Bald tires, and a smatter of rain.

    * 30 Look at the sand at the edge of the exit ramp rather than through the turn.

    * 31 Neither you nor your dad watching while he's backing his car up to the woodpile to unload wood.

    * 32 Not putting the pin that holds the center stand all the way in and then trying to put the bike on the center stand.

    * 33 Trying to hold the bike upright before deploying the center stand only to find your knees are too weak from riding.

    * 34 Park behind friend's mom's minivan figuring "If anybody goes anywhere, they'll surely see it. 'specially since there'll be 5 of them getting into the van.

    * 35 After getting fuel at gas station and holding the bike level with your legs in order to fill it completely, jumping off forgetting that your legs were holding it upright not the kickstand.

    * 36 Entering a DR ("decreasing radius") turn too fast. This is especially dangerous when making a right turn where if you attempt to straighten up and brake, you'll plow into oncoming traffic.

    * 37 Trying to countersteer (or wheelie) your shaft driven bike? [Obviously the person who posted this doesn't have a clue.]

    * 38 Getting your boot/ shoelace caught on the gearshift. (I wear laceless boots now.)

    * 39 Attempting to kick start a cantankerous '84 CR500, whilst standing on a picnic table bench, and she *kicks* back!

    * 40 Getting pissed off for dropping it in the first place, yanking it vigorously off the ground, only to have it drop to the _other_ side.

    * 41 Pulling out the swing arm stand, and forgetting to put the sidestand down first.

    * 42 Backing down an inclined driveway, turning to either side with a full tank of gas.

    * 43 Taking the bike off the centerstand and forgetting the sidestand.

    * 44 Riding on wet grass with street tires (Almost as bad as ice!!)

    * 45 Riding on wet asphalt with dirt tires (Almost as bad as ice!!)

    * 46 *Thinking* the kick stand was down when it wasn't.

    * 47 Kick stand slowly burying itself in hot asphalt.

    * 48 Kick stand slowly burying itself in soft ground.

    * 49 Backing up perpendicular to a steeply sloped driveway and attempting to put your foot down on the downhill side while on a large bike with a high seat. (By the time your foot reaches the ground the bike is so far off center balance you won't be able to hold it up.)

    * 50 Backing your bike down a plank, by yourself, from the bed of a pickup truck. Works great as long as you remember that once you start moving, stopping for any correction is out of the question. Get two people to stand on each side of you and the bike.

    * 51 Losing your balance when coming to a stop because of fatigue from a long trip. The wind and the buzz of the bike induces an unexpected case of vertigo. Stop often and rest.

    * 52 Riding beyond your limits while trying to keep up with someone who is probably riding beyond their own. Always a temptation. The best riders/racers understand and use discipline when riding.

    * 53 Not paying attention. Always strive to anticipate what could possibly go wrong and be planning what you're going to do when it happens, eventually it will - and you'll be ready, instead of surprised when you're much more likely to do something stupid and reactionary.

    * 54 Assuming that all wet roads are created equal. They are much more slippery when it first starts to rain - until the oil and dirt are washed away.

    * 55 Assuming that the condition of a blind corner is the same as it was the last time you rode it. Instead you find sticks, road kill, oil, rain wash, stones, pot holes, garbage, etc.

    * 56 Not understanding how to get set-up for a corner when pushing the limits. In most cases the bike could have made the corner but the rider decided it couldn't and while in a panic attempted to correct the situation with the brake. WRONG! MSF course will discuss this at length.

    * 57 Riding without all of the protective equipment because I forgot to bring it and after all it was just this one time. Turned out to be the wrong time! I forgot my MX boots and fell on a steeply banked corner and the foot peg attempted to drill into the back of my right calf. On crutches for 3 weeks with a deep bruise.

    * 58 Using a little too much power turning the first corner after you've put on new tires (with that nice slippery release compound on them).

    * 59 Being too short for the bike you're riding, and coming to a stop sign.

    * 60 Your rider hops on before you are ready.

    * 61 Pushing your bike into the garage and letting it get leaned just a little away from you, pulling you on top of it to the ground.

    * 62 Pulling off both fork caps while the bike is on its centerstand.

    * 64 Park pointing downhill, don't leave it in gear.

    * 65 Park with sidestand facing up hill, sidestand is too long.

    * 66 Allow friend to ride bike that has either no riding experience, or only tiny dirt bike riding experience (they will wheelie out of control, fly straight at the nearest object, or drop it attempting to stop suddenly.)

    * 67 Pulling into Dairy Queen and slipping on a spilt chocolate malt.

    * 68 Sitting on your bike on an inclined driveway talking to a very pretty girl, forgetting where in the hell your mind is and then noticing that it's already too close to the ground to stop.

    * 69 Change rear-end oil on a shaft drive bike, spill 90w on tire, don't clean it up and then make a really sharp turn out of the driveway. *Splat*

    * 70 Parking your bike so that it stands upright with the kickstand down and then having a slow leak in the rear tire which causes the kickstand to push the bike over.

    * 71 Running into a bus after a 120mph+ high speed chase where there is helicopter pursuit and you are being taped by 5 local news stations.

    * 72 Spending 3 hours washing and waxing your bike and then stepping back to admire it with some buddies and then watch it fall right off its side stand while it was warming up.

    * 73 Pushing it over.

    * 74 Covering it with a windsail (aka canvas cover) and letting the wind push it over.

    * 75 Unbolting too many components from the back so that the bike falls off the jack.

    * 76 Having an internally rusted CX500 center stand come apart whilst putting the bike onto it.

    * 77 Discovering when you stop and try to put your foot down that the kickstart lever is up your pant leg.

    * 78 Letting your wife drive the bike and having her stall it on an inclined driveway while in a 45 degree angle to the incline.

    * 79 Entering a banked freeway onramp with a stoplight at the end, and realizing a little too late that the downside is just a _little_ steeper than you thought.

    * 80 Whacking the throttle open on the highway when you think there's no cop around then slowing to normal speed again only to realize that a trooper has been trying to catch up with you for two miles and he's pissed so he decides to run you off the road because he thinks you were trying to run away from him, even though you explain to him that if you were trying to run that he wouldn't have caught you then getting out of any ticket because *@!!$#, uh I mean cop, felt bad even though he never said "I'm sorry" . . . .but I'm not bitter.

    * 81 While pushing your bike in an attempt to start it by compression, jumping on side-saddle with excessive vigor.

    * 82 Successfully compression starting your bike while running along side, only to find out that you'd held a BIT too much throttle!

    * 83 Deploying the centre-stand without noticing that the ground falls away on the other side.

    * 84 Taking the wife on a ride on your brand new, first bike in 20+ years and making a slow, tight, turn on gravel.

    * 85 Riding in stilettos and getting stuck on the footrest.

    * 86 Swinging your legs too enthusiastically over the bike with tight trousers on and kicking it over.

    * 87 Dismounting while trying not to wet yourself (cold weather..tuh!)

    * 88 Riding short distances side-saddle fashion.

    * 89 Pulling off with a blood alcohol level exceeding the stated limit.

    * 90 Reaching down to pick up your gloves/keys/glasses.

    * 91 Paying too much attention to the tiltometer on your valkarie.

    * 92 Dropping your dirtbike on the side of a steep hill covered in pine humus, then while getting it righted go over the down side because it's too far of an angle to get a foot down.

    * 93 Trying to ride away on the side of a steep hill covered in pine humus which is slipperier than sand.

    * 94 Bopping down the freshly-oiled farm lane to see the neighbor kid with my brother on the back, cautiously toeing the rear brake, feeling the rear wheel slide as we headed straight for the barn, grabbing a panicky handful of front brake, doing a slow highside despite dabbing mightily, sliding right up to the barn door prone on the well-oiled bike with my brother on top of the pile, and hearing the neighbor say "Didn't that thing used to be orange?"

    * 95 kill the bike while leaned over trying to make a slow, sharp turn in a parking lot.

    * 96 Forgetting to remove the disc lock and taking off from the curb with haste...Tends to break the front caliper, too.

    * 97 Falling asleep.

    * 98 Getting help from a neighbor in pushing your 750 up a steep ramp into a moving truck. Though he might assure you that he used to ride a motorcycle, it turns out it was a 125 in Bombay. He gets 2/3 of the way up the ramp, looks panicked, and his knees buckle. Crunch.

    * 99 Looking at the pretty curb to your left on a right-hand bank.

    * 100 Trying to get a wasp or bee out of your jacket while sitting on the bike.

    * 101 Trying to start out in a quick turn (leaning in anticipation of giving it throttle) and stalling it out because the engine hasn't warmed yet - it's a nice, slow drop...

    * 102 Forgetting to put in oil after an oil change. Starting 'er up, and wondering why the low oil pressure dummy light doesn't turn off.

    * 103 After a brake job, forgetting to pump the lever/pedal a few times, and taking off, wondering why there's no brakes as you're coming up on the intersection.

    * 104 Having a mechanical gate close on you as you're trying to ride through.

    * 105 Hitting that patch of sand which has washed across the road on a blind bend.

    * 106 Absentmindedly putting the bike on the kick stand and walking away before you check to see if the driveway is level.

    * 107 Applying your usual amount of throttle but with a passenger behind you ... "cool ... look at that plane".

    * 108 Pushing your bike into a crowded garage, letting it get leaned just a little away from you, pulling you on top of it into your vintage MG.

    * 109 Popping a wheelie while showing off for a girl, almost looping it, slamming on the rear brake to compensate, and passing out from the bollocking several yards later.

    * 110 Assuming the puddle of liquid behind the convenience store was water when it was actually used motor oil.

    * 111 Starting bike while habitually squeezing clutch lever, standing to the left of the bike, remembering too late that the bike is in gear. Realize too late that the choke gives the bike enough power to drag you 30' across the parking lot in first gear.

    * 112 On your third ride with your first ever bike. Stop at a red light. When the light turns green, you have to start uphill, and turn right at the same time. Somehow that overwhelmed me.

    * 113 Parking on a bit of an incline (slopes down right to left), having your left foot slip a little when getting back on the bike, and slowly losing your balance.

    * 114 Let your buddy ride it. And if you are really stupid let him ride it again.

    * 115 Turning onto a busy street and in the middle of the turn you suddenly remember that this street has trolley tracks.

    * 116 Put armor all on your tires to make them look nice and pretty and then ride on the white safety lane line as you take a HARD right turn at 35mph.

    * 117 Throw a party and get together with a random girl on your bike in the garage while extremely drunk.

    * 118 Pull into parking and failed to ensure proper extension of the sidestand then with near perfect execution of the Laugh-in scene where the bike topples over onto your leg, and you're going down, pinned beneath.

    * 119 Stop for gas, carefully shut off ignition and take key out (to unlock tank), carefully remove helmet and set it over mirror, carefully remove gloves and place on instruments, open jacket, step off bike ... forgetting to put sidestand down.

    * 120 With bike off, try to make walking U-turn in driveway. Bike doesn't have necessary turning radius, front wheel leaves pavement and goes into soft dirt.

    * 121 The setting: Bikes at inside end of driveway, on centerstands, facing away from front of driveway. Backing cage into driveway ... slowly ... at about the right point, stop ... note that cover on bike #1 is moving slightly ... notice bike #1 ever-so-slowly roll forward off its centerstand, then sideways into bike #2. Bike #2 stands there and takes it without falling ... but there's no way to get it to lift #1.

    * 122 Tweaking the front brake at a light as you JUST come to a stop with the forks turned to either side at ALL on a top-heavy bike.

    * 123 Jump an old dirt bike over your parents' fence (use a ramp to get enough height). Realize on the way down that you *don't* know how to land. (I believe this was caused by "Adolescent Invincibility Syndrome".)

    * 124 Test-ride an Electra Glide Sport (OK, these days it would have to be a Road King) around the old, cracked pavement in Brisbane near the Cow Palace.

    * 125 Have a BMW with the sidestand linked to the clutch lever, so that pulling in the clutch retracts the stand.

    * 126 Put the bike back together after waiting months since the last crash for a part to arrive, and don't install fuel filters. Gas tank rust clogs carburetor float needles, overflow tubes lube rear tire, brake to avoid manhole cover in curve, the waited-for part is broken.

    * 127 Park next to some %$#@ on a Triumph who leaves his disc lock on, and return to find your XV1100 with a few dents and a little note saying 'Sorry' in the brake lever. (I left my phone number too...)

    * 128 While riding home the day after getting your shiny new bike turn onto a dirt road and discover that they are in the process of combing the road and your front tire is now sliding through four inches of loose wet sand (Did I mention it was raining). While picking up your bike be sure to grind plenty of sand into the tank.

Hey, thanks Ms. I.  This is a great list!  i recognize me doing a bunch of these.

My fav:

85 Riding in stilettos and getting stuck on the footrest.

 [roll]  Yeah, this one happens to me all the time . . . lol  [laugh]

Pictures!!! [cheeky]

-Guilty as charged...  [roll]

-Actually is was my start button, not a kick starter...

-Lesson learned; NEVER trust the little green light!!!  Great list btw!!   [laugh]

I can add....doing a slow speed stop whilst turning hard and using the front brake instead of the rear....I've done this in the garage, full right lock, tap the front and the thing just folds in on itself...then did it again on the weekend on gravel!

I've got strong legs so I save it but my stupidity in constantly using the front brake annoys me a bit...another thing to learn!

Super list...funny and true.  I should make it a point to read this list about once a month.

BTW...where is staring at a girl walking by in a bikini and accidentally driving up on the sidewalk?  I have seen that happen (to a friend on a scooter in Aruba)

also a particularly embarrassing one...

    watching a girl walking along the sidewalk, not seeing the van slowing to turn in and having to lay it down to avoid hitting the van... whose driver helpfully said 'yeah, i saw that too'

  * 2 Putting your foot down on something slippery when stopping

That's mine. I am very careful about checking the ground when I stop now. [moto]

Their seems to be a trend of bikinis and kickstands... Freud would analyze that as... nothing more than a monster owner! ;D

Dude, Freud with have a field day with your gif.  [thumbsup]

Roy, you're not one to talk mate - I don't understand ANY of your signature - or your avatar!

You back on the road yet?

Amen on #38.  Try it in the opposing lane, passing a car with oncoming traffic.  That is the day I became first aquainted with my rev limiter.  SCARRRRRY!  Laceless boots for President!

Nice list.

never though of number 10... Pretty smart and by smart I mean the SMRT variety. [clap]

wish I had this one on video (but VERY glad it wasn't me!)....

Wheelie and wave to show off to girls in bikinis...straight into a state trooper. Fall off with front wheel still on trunk of cruiser.

I did #5 in a gas station the second day after I got my one S4Rs-how embarassing and had I not had on the proper protection I think it would have crushed my leg. As it was my left calf and ankle swelled up for months.A :-[ll it did to the bike was broke the clutch lever at the detent. :-[

  * 40 Getting pissed off for dropping it in the first place, yanking it vigorously off the ground, only to have it drop to the _other_ side.

True story :-X

I did a burn out accidentally leaving a tollbooth because of this. Wonder if the tollbooth person thought I was being an A hole  ???

*129 pulling out of a parking lot from a Ducati Meet Up and stalling the bike in a slow turn and falling over  [thumbsup]

Thanks for the laugh, it's all so painfully true and it helps redress the ballance for the times when I was the only one not laughing.

130 Pull up outside the bar, dab the front brake only to find it's on a flattened beer can and do the dreaded slow motion staggering splits in front of all your mates.

131 Your helpful nephew polishes your seat with silicon dashboard spray. You jump on the bike, shoot straight off the other side, jump up angrily, trip and take the bike with you.

132: riding down pigs during a hunt, and have a startled (& very angry) kangaroo leap up into the lap of the rider, & pummel him for the 15 seconds he was able to remain upright ;D

(obviously NOT on a ducati).

Ill add one that probably wasnt mentioned (no I didnt read all 128)

Parking your bike on a slightly off cambered road to check on your buddy that just wrecked in front of you and while you pick up HIS bike, your bike tosses itself into the guardrail/gravel due to a freak gust of wind  [bang]

So where's "Own a Ducati with an automatic retracting kickstand?"  I've test-ridden a couple, and just KNOW that'd bite me in the butt sooner rather than later.  [laugh]

#101, "Trying to start out in a quick turn (leaning in anticipation of giving it throttle) and stalling it out because the engine hasn't warmed yet - it's a nice, slow drop..." is pretty much a word for word description of my first DOH! on the Monster.

    * 4 Missing the driveway and sliding on the grass.
slightly amended to taking off down the driveway, seeing a car coming down the street at the last second and swerving into the wet grass....same result



    * 5 Not putting the kickstand down when getting off.
my dad did this a couple of years back.... while sitting on a bike in a dealership


i'll also add having the side stand on your 30 year old honda rust off leaving you with a bike on it's side and a fairly large hold in the frame where it was once attached

133 - Trying to put your bike on a pitbull rearstand with too much vigor and watch it go past center and fall the opposite way.  [clap]

Standing over a bike in the dealership and simply spacing out...

Happened to the 4 year old girl I take care of over the weekend. Her little brain just freaked out that there was a bike just her size.  [laugh]

wow, thats a list. It would be cool to find the 2 second footage of each one and make a compilation for youtube

134- missing the bottom step coming out of the attic and knocking your 1 week old bike over. then drop enough bad words to make a druken sailor start crying.  who do i know that could be so clumsy? Hmmmmm.... oh yeah my da#! self!

I would die laughing.  Chipo?  You have homework!

135 - Using a frontstand without a rearstand.

Lesson learned...

What happened?

Starting your bike to warm it up, neutral light on (bike in IZ_ neutral), with spring loaded kickstand.

Trying to put pitbull stand on bike by yourself and watching bike fall to the right, and hitting the next bike which hit the next bike which hit the next bike which fell all the way over.

 :'(

OK, I'll Play too:

How 'bout
#129.  Noob, on Ninja 250, following S/O on Triumph thru BUSY HD Dealership, round bend, hubbi "disappears", know he turned? right. Too close to curb on right, suddenly see where he "went"-saw HUGE hill downwards to immediate stop sign and said "SCREW THIS"-so jump off to walk down, let bike slide by itself?  Well, not really, but kinda freaked, overwhelmed to see hill and tight right, braked TOO HARD w/front while at tippy top on lean downward and, bars flung outta hands, bike went down on right, on CONCRETE curb. Owie. lol   

#130.  Lookin KEWL in Key West on Speed Triple.  Been parked for while, time to move bikes, in hurry, so get all momentum up to push Speed Triple forward, FAST, but forgot steering lock was still on.

pulling into a gas station with about 20 folks in our group....

I'm cool just turn the key off and roll into a parking spot....... one problem..

The steering locked....

Did a cute step off and lay it down....

Jeeezzz...

#131) Pull onto sidewalk in front of your house, put foot down on grass strip between sidewalk and road, only to realize that your @#$&* neighbor let little Fifi do her business right there., scramble madly trying to A) not lose the bike, and B) not fall in little Fifi's excretions.

Thankfully this was not me

Pulled up at a set of lights and I notice on the opposite side of the road an old Harley rolling up to the lights,
He was first in his lane, he pulls up and proceeds to topple over.

I drove into the Intersection (made sure it was clear) and quickly parked nearby and ran over, by the time I got there the people in cars nearby had already gotten out to help him.

He is still on the ground, Laughing his ass off, WTF?!?

He said he rode up and just simply forgot to put his feet down when he stopped!!

While he picks himself up about 4 of us lift his bike up and wheel it off the road, he gives it a quick look over, nothing broken (handle bars are a bit bent) He jumps on his bike and rumbles off down the road grinning like a loon  ;D

All I can say is, I hope I can see the funny side should I ever drop my bike.  :)

Damn you #104 (Stupid gate arm!)  [bang]

Dano

did anyone actually catch this one?

 * 37 Trying to countersteer (or wheelie) your shaft driven bike?

why cant you countersteer or wheelie a shaft driven bike????

#133) (?)
At the gas station to fill up your bike for the first time.. decide that you are just a little bit too far from the pump. Push the bike forward and be sure to start the pushing motion when the bike is still leaning some -and let the side stand be pushed back a bit by the friction against the ground..  Put the bike at the side stand again and feel the horror when the stand folds back and the bike drops  [bang]

Well I knew sooner or later I would have one for this thread... [bang]

#134

   I was getting ready to head up to Portland for the summer and I need to trailer the bike.  Last time I used an enclosed trailer from u-haul, but this time I decided to use the trailer I have for my snowmobile instead.  It's just a 4'x8' tilting harbor freight trailer. 
   Get the bike up on there and start to figure out how I'm going to strap it down.  Currently the bike it just sitting on the kick stand. Anybody see it coming yet?  I jump up to attach the first tie down and all of a sudden everything starts moving.  I start sliding backwards.  Why?  Because I was so nervous loading the bike and so concerned about it on the trailer that I FORGOT TO PUT THE PINS BACK IN so it wouldn't tilt!  [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang]  Normally if that happens with my sled it's no biggie.

    Everything happened in slow motion to.  I'm trying to keep the bike from falling as I'm sliding down.  The bike wasn't straight on the trailer and it pitches away from me.  I'm trying to keep it from falling, but it's going to happen.  Mind you the trailer is another foot+ off the ground.  All I can think about is how smashed up my Termis where going to be as it crashes to the ground.
     Now my bike is almost upside down on the ground. I was almost too scared to look.  But I had no choice.  Smashed stock mirror (boo hoo right) that was going to be replaced anyway. Scratched bar end. My Speedymoto clutch cover to most of the damage from the side of the trailer and saved the tank from any damage.  It still only has a few scratches.  And the Termis you ask?  Some how they are fine. One of the rivets got a bit scuffed up, but no damage to the carbon.
   I have no idea how I didn't do some serious damage to the poor girl.  Needless to say I had about a dozen tie downs holding her on the trailer and we made the 750 mile trip fine. I don't think I'll ever forget about the pins ever again.

 Now I just need to unload her.  :-\

I went to pick up my bike from friends place to put her up on U-Haul trailer and take to mechanic tommorrow.

I take the front bike stand off. 

I take the back bike stand off.

Bang... falls but the ladder by the wall kind of broke the fall and speedy moto frame slider came to the rescue.  Money well spent.

Reason? I forgot to put the bike stand   .

and I have just been thinking about ordering the axle frame slider and swing arm.

No visible damage.  CRG mirrors survived with no damage.  I see nothing so far.   

Safely on U-Haul.  Hope no mishaps the next 60 miles tommorrow.

Once again everyone - becareful !

I once saw a guy at a rest stop check his Harley in the back of a uhaul. It looked like he use 40 straps, but the 1/2" drywall screws used to fasten the anchors to the truck body pulled out. Was the oddest display of anger and sadness I have ever seen in my life...

#135 - Come to a stop sign at the end of a side road that intersects with the main road halfway up a hill. Decide to put foot on downhill slope instead of uphill slope. Hijinks ensue.

I've done:
Having some jackass start backing out of parking spot in the gas station and when you grab the brake you put only one foot down and that foot lands in a puddle of oil and quickly gets out form under you.  >:(

I've seen:
Having your kick stand down but getting off of the wrong side of your bike.  [roll]

sac

i would like to add to # 100..
getting a bee in your helmet while moving.
bad..

also, can i add: having one of the kickstand bolts go missing during a ride..and you dont notice until you climb off the bike and the stand folds under.

and cant help but comment on _all_ the "forgot to put the kickstand down...
i NEVER turn my bike off with the key. using the kickstand kill switch is the best way to insure against this. i would much rather risk a dead battery than watch my bike fall over.

I actually had to do that the other day to avoid dropping my bike.  I parked at a gas station and there was a very slight slope down to the right, enough to make the bike less stable on the kickstand.   I can't touch both feet down simultaneously (even toes) so my shifting my weight to the left to try to dismount that way made the bike feel like it wanted to go over to the right.  When I shifted to the right and dismounted on that side, it pushed the weight more onto the sidestand.

Trying to work on the bike. Removing the stock rearsets only to realize that one of the bolts is attached to the kickstand. luckily my leg broke the bikes fall

* 2 Putting your foot down on something slippery when stopping.

Happened to me last week. A newspaper flew from the back of some guys truck and stuck to my leg. I tried to shake it off and thought that I had succeeded. At the next light I put my foot down to find that it merely moved to my foot. I almost dropped the bike while sliding across the pavement. Not a fun feeling.

* 4 Missing the driveway and sliding on the grass.

Happened to me yesterday, well sort of. I pulled over for a fire truck to pass. When he passed I tried to pull back on the road only to have the bike tire spin. Almost dropped it, not fun either. And it turned out that as soon as the fire truck passed around the corner he turned his damn lights and siren off. Seems like he didn't want to wait in traffic. What an a hole.

Part 1: Drink an excessive amount of beer
Part 2: Sit down on bike to go home
Part 3: Raise the kickstand
Part 4: Fall over

In that particular example it might have been for the best. ;)

Remember the whole "plane on a treadmill" fiasco?

Well, years ago on the rec.ba.motorcycles usenet forum there was a similar debate on why you couldn't wheelie or countersteer a shaft drive bike.

And thanks for bringing up that painful memory  :'(

Also, in memory of that fateful debate, I will ban kill the first person who claims you can't wheelie or countersteer a shaft drive bike.


*(usenet was what dinosaurs used to post messages to each other in the early days of the internet)

No friggen way can you wheelie a shaft driven bike.

Bring it.... [evil]