Topic: Dropped my CB750

[calj737]

I was so busy scanning the road for slidey things I didn't even notice the cop on my ass today. I posted it under (and then the cop said,)

Did the cop run over a piece of black plastic debris too? Bet he picked it up, public servant and all that...

[trueblue]

The best dropping incident I have seen was not long after I got my car license. It was drizzling lightly and I was sitting at a red light behind a motorbike copper. Just as our light turned green a car shot across the intersection through the now red light. The copper hit the light and siren then laid the bike down in the middle of the intersection with everyone watching. The look on his face as he got up was priceless. He was uninjured except for his pride.

[Retro Rocket]

I was at a traffic light on my old K1 and a cop on a XS1100 pulled up beside me, he revved his bike up and looked at me so i gave mine a little rev, he did it again and nodded down the road, i couldn't believe it, he wanted a race, the lights changed and he gave it everything while i pulled away slowly, once he motored off over the hill i turned left and flogged the arse off mine, i was 17 and didn't have a license.... 

[MikeKato]

Anyone else feel like his threads are more enjoyable, more informative, and infinitely more revealing without him around to muck them up?

I read the news today oh boy
 About a lucky man who made the grade
 And though the news was rather sad
 Well I just had to laugh
 I saw the photograph
 He blew his mind out in a car
 He didn't notice that the lights had changed
 A crowd of people stood and stared
 They'd seen his face before
 Nobody was really sure
 If he was from the House of Lords
 
 

[vfourfreak]

I was at a traffic light on my old K1 and a cop on a XS1100 pulled up beside me, he revved his bike up and looked at me so i gave mine a little rev, he did it again and nodded down the road, i couldn't believe it, he wanted a race, the lights changed and he gave it everything while i pulled away slowly, once he motored off over the hill i turned left and flogged the arse off mine, i was 17 and didn't have a license.... 

Good one that !! Puts me in mind of the day in 1978 when I was trying to get my licence back (again). Jumped through all the hoops, and scored a result. As I'm leaving the house of licensetude, I met a copper who loved road racing, a real fan. He has his copper white CB750 outside, I'm there on a GS1000. He gave me the nod and a wink, we mounted our motorcycles and conducted a fake "chase" through central Dublin, full tilt, siren and lights. When it came time for him to go and do some real work, he gave me a wave  and off I went home for me tea. I had my licence, not so sure about the insurance though, that was "in the post".

Kev

[martin99]

Anyone else feel like his threads are more enjoyable, more informative, and infinitely more revealing without him around to muck them up?

I read the news today oh boy
 About a lucky man who made the grade
 And though the news was rather sad
 Well I just had to laugh
 I saw the photograph
 He blew his mind out in a car
 He didn't notice that the lights had changed
 A crowd of people stood and stared
 They'd seen his face before
 Nobody was really sure
 If he was from the House of Lords

What are you smoking?

At least you didn't finish with 'I'd love to turn you on'. That would've been weird

[nccb]

I was going to say, this is to deep for this thread.  Lets not traverse that road, it makes me feel weird. 

[Stev-o]

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

[fmctm1sw]

Anyone else feel like his threads are more enjoyable, more informative, and infinitely more revealing without him around to muck them up?

I read the news today oh boy
 About a lucky man who made the grade
 And though the news was rather sad
 Well I just had to laugh
 I saw the photograph
 He blew his mind out in a car
 He didn't notice that the lights had changed
 A crowd of people stood and stared
 They'd seen his face before
 Nobody was really sure
 If he was from the House of Lords

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

This thread has me thinking more along the lines of Maxwell's Silver Hammer...

[Tews19]

This is one of the most fascinating threads I've read since being a member here. WOW. The tiger comment is my favorite one.

[Stev-o]

Anyone else feel like his threads are more enjoyable, more informative, and infinitely more revealing without him around to muck them up?

I read the news today oh boy
 About a lucky man who made the grade
 And though the news was rather sad
 Well I just had to laugh
 I saw the photograph
 He blew his mind out in a car
 He didn't notice that the lights had changed
 A crowd of people stood and stared
 They'd seen his face before
 Nobody was really sure
 If he was from the House of Lords

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning around

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

This thread has me thinking more along the lines of Maxwell's Silver Hammer...

P.C. Thirty-One said "We caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh oh oh oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so oh oh oh
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind

Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head

[brooze72]

The thread that won't die, but very amusing.  Was that fenders on the video MRieck posted earlier?.

[Retro Rocket]

The thread that won't die, but very amusing.  Was that fenders on the video MRieck posted earlier?.

No, he didn't have his foot in his mouth...

[scottly]

Getting back to the topic, I dropped my FT500 a couple of months ago, but I was too embarrassed to admit it. I was merely checking the oil level, while kneeling on the right side of the bike. I pulled the bike up to vertical with my left hand on the seat, to get an accurate reading, when all of a sudden I realized I had pulled the bike over too far, and it fell over on me, with my left ankle pinched between the floor and the exhaust pipe. The full weight of the rear of the bike was focused on my ankle bone!. I was totally stuck, and in a bit of pain, when I remembered I had my cell phone handy. (sometimes when I'm in my shop, I set it aside to keep it safe from my accident-prone tendencies ) I called my neighbor/co-worker Clare, and asked if he could pop into the shop and lift a bike off me, and he was happy to oblige.
     

[70CB750]

  Scottly! 

Friend overseas ended under his Jawa with a trailer at the gas station and he had to ask a bystander to help him up since he was perfectly pinned down.

[simon#42]

you see scottly , i was right about those ditch pumps !

[faux fiddy]

wherever you go, ride safely.

Bump.

+1 on riding safely. 

[flatlander]

never mind pieces of black plastic.
yesterday i moved a toy pram off the street. it had been abandoned in the middle of the road, one has to wonder how it ended up there?

cars were trying to maneuver around it and had to stop while i was carrying it off but it didn't appear to any or the drivers that they could've just done the same thing...