What I did today....

Doziemare.

(1) Neutral
(2) switch off lights,
(3) switch off engine
(4) side stand down
(5) lean bike over
(6) Forgot to do (4)....
(7) slow motion kicks in as bike goes down lot further than
expecting... too late....
(8) argghhh...
(9) lie of floor shouting **** words
(10) wife comes to rescue.

Rounded off a pretty piss poor day.

That's it

Aj
<B6>

 

Done this.


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You only do it once.

I've never forgotton to take the disk lock off, after having once done
£300 damage.

P.

 

Been there, done that.

Fortunately, some twat had considerately parked his Merc in the
motorcycle bay, so the 'Fant didn't go all the way before the right-hand
mirror caught on the Merc's bonnet.

 

<g> Class!

 

I once forgot to take a chain[1] and lock off the front wheel. Coming
out in the dark at night, I needed to bump the bike up a kerb to turn
it around. I couldn't understand why it wouldn't go up. I revved the
nuts off it and it finally jumped up the kerb and I could turn it
around. Mate hopped on the back. On the way home, 'something' flew past
my head at a vast rate of knots.

It was only the next day, on inspecting the bent spokes, that I
realised what had happened.

[1] wasn't much more than a pushbike chain in those days.

 

Years ago, I did a run with some mates up norf, so had been in the seat
for around 6-7 hours altogether. I stopped at a set of red lights
somewhere near Perth as my mate pulled up next to me. I forgot to put
my foot down, FFS, and fell over on my mate, who also went down.

How we laughed. Not. Bloody hurt it did. Amused the porridgewogs no
end.

 

*shrug*

You have a routine, you're doing stuff on autopilot, but something
interrupts you, you get the routine out of order... whoops.

 

NAHAY?

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TD
1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red)
2001 ZX-9R (red and black)
1999 M5 (neither black nor red)
Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica, Lardy tourer

 

I was about to claim to never have done it, but then I remembered Sedan
a couple of years ago.

 

I've done it twice since I've lived here: once on the Wing, once on
the 'bird.

Not as daft as getting my shoelace caught on the gear lever of the
TS185 though.

That *was* funny. According to the bloke in the car behind me.

 

Even better trick is to have the bike on a bike lift with the side stand
down. Then grab the bars and roll the fucker backwards off the ramp before
putting the side stand up.

The bike doesn't fall the "right" way where you can stop it, it tries to
drag you over the fucking lift as the side stand hits the ramp when the back
wheel rolls down the ramp. There's not a thing to stop it other than a wall,
another bike, the car or the wife.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Not so much "whoops" as "Whoosh" I reckon.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

I've done that. Very worrying.

 

Doziemare.

My best...

Bike was parked on side stand, an old GSX250 many years ago (c 1984):

(1) Use key in separate steering lock
(2) Use key in ignition
(3) Neutral
(4) Start engine
(5) Engage first
(6) Want to go left out of car park
(7) Loads of beans as I'm in a rush
(8) Merrily on my way

However, I'd forgotten (1), which mean that as I started off I simple kept
going left at a speed too quick for me to do much about anything, was
expecting to straighten up and therefore couldn't. Spectacularly fell over
with bike on top.

Fastest off I've ever had in terms of being off before I could react. No
slow motion, not thinking Oh Shit, simply on the floor before I knew what
hit me.

 

SD wibbled:

<ding!>

 

Oh it's a bundle of laughs. Particularly recommended at petrol stations.

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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
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Heard (probably on here) about the ex-outfit pilot that had, after n
years of outfit only use taken his sidecar off. At the first set of
lights....



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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

That would be a yes, then.

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116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2
Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk

 

Done it once. While touring. Much to the amusement of the other three
people I was touring with.

On the same tour I also parked my bike nose-down on the camber of the
road, forgot to put it back in gear and put it on the side-stand.

I got about 5 metres away before one of the guys shouted that my bike
was going over. I managed to get back to it before it hit the floor but
then had to wait about a minute before the rest could recover from
laughing to help me put it back upright..

Phil.