Stupid things to do on a motorcycle !

[Bob Kelly III]

I think of all the stupid things I have done on a motorcycle 2 come to mind....
1) putting Floorboards on my Honda 1100cc shadow that didn't fold up....
took a corner at 50mph and wound up in the ditch facing the other way and the bike in front of a pine tree ! the floor board touched ! and I was sliding on the pavement in a nanosecond !
2) riding my motorcycle to my Girl friends place 20 miles away in a snow storm..... i made it there and back in one piece but it was touch and go the entire way both coming and going !

I'm sure you've done stupid things on a bike, like trying to carry a cord of wood on your motorcycle or something so share your stupidity with the rest of us so we won't do the same thing ! LOL
.....
Bob.......

 

[mrtwowheel]

Nope, it's been an hour, can't think of anything.

Scott

 

[Bob Kelly III]

Ohhh come on ! surely you can think of something like not adjusting your chain tension and then finding out WHY it's so very important to do so ! LOL
.... Anything !
Bob....

 

[mrtwowheel]

Ohhh come on ! surely you can think of something like not adjusting your chain tension and then finding out WHY it's so very important to do so ! LOL
.... Anything !
Bob....

Nope......... Once I thought I made a wrong turn, but I was wrong.

 

[xjwmx]

Doing a hill climb totally forgetting you have a 100 lb pack on the back, but then remembering it and crashing on the road down.

 

[jonesey]

Still on chains, adjusting the chain and forgetting the back brake. Wondering why this effin bike has got no power today. The penny only dropped when smoke was billowing off the back hub. Tell me You aint never don it..

 

[gggGary]

Not checking brakes for wear every weekend when I started road racing the CB900F. Front pads went to metal on turn 5 at Grattan racetrack. I highsided at about 80 MPH, my back hasn't been the same since, that was 35 years and a surgery ago.

 

[MaxPete]

Not checking brakes for wear every weekend when I started road racing the CB900F. Front pads went to metal on turn 5 at Grattan racetrack. I highsided at about 80 MPH, my back hasn't been the same.

OUCH!!

 

[PureXaos]

The first time I ride an actual motorcycle (other than an 80cc dirt bike) my dad made me drive him home (he was drunk). I was zealous to have the chance to prove my ability but my dad didn't take great care of his bike (never inspected,
never had maintenance). So we're crossing down a secondary highway and it starts to rain, then it starts to REALLY rain. Which is typically not that bad but in this particular instance the rear tire was bald. The ass end was going all over the place and I was literally scared for my life. But pride got the best of me and I thought, well if it's that bad dad would tell me to pull over. Got him home, realized he was passed out. First time riding a motorcycle on a road and first time riding with a passenger.

 

[Bob Kelly III]

I'm riding my big 1100cc Honda shadow down the hill from Shingle town to Redding ca. doing about 70mph on a 2 lane road
just cruising ..... clipping it off, going faster than I should have been... I round a corner and see a deer standing on the white line.... its a good long straight stretch and no traffic so I didn't back off the throttle .... that was really stupid ! because as I got closer I noticed about 6 more deer to the right and about 4 more to the left I shut her down and grab the binders but I'm still doing over 60 when I slip behind the deer on the white line.
About then is when the rest of the herd decided to bound across the road... I ducked just as a big buck jumped over me....and a Doe almost falls on her face right in front of me, trying to stop her run across the road.... if she hadn't I'ed have hit her. 2 more were on her flanks and she would have lead them right into me.... one deer would be bad enough at 60mph but 3 ???? aurgh ! but I got lucky and didn't even touch a single one.
about 100ft down the road I looked back to see the deer that was standing in the middle of the road had fallen and was getting up and slipping trying to get traction to run.... and at least 8 deer bounding across the road.......
when ever I see deer in the road now, I back off the throttle FIRST thing..... it's not the deer you see that is the biggest danger it's the ones You DON'T SEE !
.....
Bob......

 

[Bob Kelly III]

Jonesey: Oh Yah...! Been there done that ! too.....LOL makes ya feel rather dumb don't it ! ? .... HAHHAHAH!
One day I'm trying to adjust my chain on my Honda dog 90cc ( old push rod type) the wheel is as far back as it will go and I have about 3" of play in the chain.... so I needed the special links they make for chain repair ( this is before I knew how to repair a chain without them)
so I decided to hop on the bike and go get the kinks , about 20 miles away..... I get about half way there, the chain comes off wraps it's self around the hub and sprocket locks up the rear wheel Kills the engine and there I am sliding down the road with a surprised look on my face
I didn't dump it.... just slid to a stop near the side of the road......
it took a good hour and every tool in my arsenal to get that chain free and back on there and it was still bent....
I continued on, got my links and repaired it in their parking lot ! ....adjusted the rear brake and headed for home.
the Mechanic came out and took a look and said "Man you need to replace both sprockets and the chain on that thing".... I said "Yah I know...but I ain't got the money for that".... and he wanders off...... you do what ya gott'a do !
about a year later and probably 1000 miles later I replaced the sprocket and chain...... it just kept turning so I kept riding ! LOL
.....ahhhh to be young and dumb again ! HAHAHHA!
.....
Bob.......

 

[fredintoon]

..... it's not the deer you see that is the biggest danger it's the ones You DON'T SEE !
Bob......

Hi Bob,
first car we'd ever bought new, had mebbe 2,000 miles on it.
Wife sez "There's a deer about to jump out of the ditch."
" Yes and there's more than one of the bastards!"
WHAM!
"No, not the three deer 100 yards up the road in your ditch, the one that was just ahead of us in mine."
The deer got up and ran off into the bush.
Our new car had a $1,000 dent in it's right front fender.

 

[Paul Sutton]

I once was riding in 4th gear only to discover that when I changed up I was already in 5th. Now that was scary!!!! Changed my trousers twice that day.

 

[fredintoon]

I once was riding in 4th gear only to discover that when I changed up I was already in 5th. Now that was scary!!!! Changed my trousers twice that day.

Hi Paul,
not knowing what gear I'm in don't bother me none, it's an easy thing to check, eh?
My trouser-changer would be not knowing what town I'm in.

 

[FLEA]

first bike a ajs500 single (back in the day when they were cheap) , wouldnt start so a mate offered to tow me to the bike shop with his ute , TIED the rope to the front end and off we went 2 other mates in the front of the ute and another in the back .. they got talking in the front and forgot all about me into 2nd / 3rd gear and doing 60mph . bloke in the back pissing himself laughing , went down a hill , rope dipped and went under the front mud guard , bottem of hill sped up and naturally picked the whole front end up tossing me , did the superman stance ,arms out sliding down the rd watching the bike being dragged on its side , tough bike fk all damage considering .. me broken hand, stuffed knee and a lot of skin scraped off , left the bike there for 2 days while sorting myself ,out went back, no bike .. local bike shop had picked it up to part out..they were really embaressed when I found out and turned up to claim it (luckily someone had spotted it and got in touch)... 2 good things I learnt... NEVER TIE the rope and NEVER leave a bike on the side of the rd after a accident..... opps 3rd thing 17yr olds are young and stupid

 

[Mailman]

Ok, first let me just state the following were all done before I turned 19 years old, I was young, dumb, and invincible.
And I would no way have done any of these things after gaining a few brain cells.

I have ridden a motorcycle more than once wearing NOTHING but a pair of skimpy gym shorts ( it was the 70's)
Long hair flying in the wind, barefoot and all. Because I wanted to get a tan.

I have tied a water skiing rope on to my luggage rack and pulled my buddies on a skateboard while we slolam skiied parking blocks at the local shopping center.

I used to work in a fleet garage that had roll up doors on both sides of the building. I was always running late for work so I used to ride my motorcycle right into the building and right up to the time clock, grab my time card, clock in while sitting on my bike, then hit the gas and ride straight through the garage and go park my bike. The boss didn't have a sense of humor and squashed that.

Hey man it was the 70's.

 

[azman857]

Goodness...I started riding in what...1979?...in England, of all places....with a '74 Ural with sidecar! .....What's nuts is I never rode my first bike. A Honda CB77. Some PO had bored out the cylinders to take CB350 pistons. Bought it for $35 in boxes. Put it together in my dorm room. I later got a roommate and he wasn't crazy about the smell. Got it running after final assembly in the parking lot. Never got to ride it because I had to ship out and go to England. RAF lakenheath. That was crazy!

 

[fredintoon]

first bike a ajs500 single (back in the day when they were cheap) , wouldnt start so a mate offered to tow me to the bike shop with his ute , TIED the rope to the front end and off we went 2 other mates in the front of the ute and another in the back .. they got talking in the front and forgot all about me into 2nd / 3rd gear and doing 60mph . bloke in the back pissing himself laughing , went down a hill , rope dipped and went under the front mud guard , bottem of hill sped up and naturally picked the whole front end up tossing me , did the superman stance ,arms out sliding down the rd watching the bike being dragged on its side , tough bike fk all damage considering .. me broken hand, stuffed knee and a lot of skin scraped off , left the bike there for 2 days while sorting myself ,out went back, no bike .. local bike shop had picked it up to part out..they were really embaressed when I found out and turned up to claim it (luckily someone had spotted it and got in touch)... 2 good things I learnt... NEVER TIE the rope and NEVER leave a bike on the side of the rd after a accident..... opps 3rd thing 17yr olds are young and stupid

Hi FLEA,
these days I am old and dumb but back when I was young and stupid I did work out a towing methodology.
Take a turn of the tow rope around the middle of the bars and hold the end of it gripped between
your left glove and the left bar grip so you can let go the end to cast yourself adrift at need.
It's up to you to keep the rope tight with light brake application.
Mind you it was in that same year that one morning my Cyclemaster would quit after running a hundred yards
so I'd de-clutch, pedal it for a 1/4-mile, drop the clutch to run another hundred yards before it quit again and repeat.
I got the thing almost all the way to work before I remembered to turn the gas tap all the way on.

 

[FLEA]

Hi FLEA,
these days I am old and dumb but back when I was young and stupid I did work out a towing methodology.
Take a turn of the tow rope around the middle of the bars and hold the end of it gripped between
your left glove and the left bar grip so you can let go the end to cast yourself adrift at need.
It's up to you to keep the rope tight with light brake application.
Mind you it was in that same year that one morning my Cyclemaster would quit after running a hundred yards
so I'd de-clutch, pedal it for a 1/4-mile, drop the clutch to run another hundred yards before it quit again and repeat.
I got the thing almost all the way to work before I remembered to turn the gas tap all the way on.

yep , few times got towed since did it the same way as you... good to be able to let go ...see I wasn't so dumb after all .. did learn something BUT didn't stop me from doing other stupid things (which can be a story for another time )... shit how did we all make it to young /old farts age

 

[fredintoon]

- - - . shit how did we all make it to young /old farts age

Hi FLEA,
we made it through our 'teens because when teenagers fall off their bikes they bounce right back up from the road, pick up their bikes and ride on.
Us old farts just lie there and groan as they wait for the EMTs to lift them into the ambulance
Except for my 70+ year old buddy Orv.
Orv was front man on a group ride when a deer wrapped itself around his bike, wrecking the bike's front end and breaking Orv's left shin bone.
Orv kept the bike upright and supported it with his right leg until the group caught up with him and did the 911 thing.
Orv is walking just fine again these days and his bike is all fixed up but when the bike's engine gets really hot it still smells like a BBQ.