Author Topic: dumb riding maneuvers (Read 1678 times)

gregwaits · « **on:** February 25, 2007, 11:23:44 AM »

I was talking shop with a friend of mine the other day. He is an ex bike rider; he had a GS1000 back when we were in college (1980). That bike could flat out scoot!

He got to reminiscing and he told me about an old riding buddy of his who drove a Honda CBX1000. One day he showed up with bandaged fingers on his left hand. So my friend asked him how he hurt himself.

It seems that he was real drunk one night and while driving decided to check the chain tension on his bike! It's a wonder hs even has fingers on that hand after that.

aptech77 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2007, 12:14:44 PM »

WTF?

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Uncle Ernie · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2007, 12:29:07 PM »

That sure beats me trying to do a wheelie on a BMW R26 !

Dawdlin Dog · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2007, 01:46:08 PM »

I remember riding along in the pouring rain and noticing blue sparks flying around the plug cap of no1 cylinder. I reached down to make sure the cap was on properly with a sopping wet glove. Nearly learned to touch my left elbow with my left hand

(Turned out after a dry inspection that the cap was cracked)

ElCheapo · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2007, 01:48:59 PM »

Stupid knows no limits.

Gordon · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2007, 01:53:19 PM »

Quote from: gregwaits on February 25, 2007, 11:23:44 AM

It seems that he was real drunk one night and while driving decided to check the chain tension on his bike! It's a wonder hs even has fingers on that hand after that.

Had a friend back in Austin that did the exact same thing on his bicycle. The tip of his middle finger got caught and went around the sprocket under the chain and tore right off!

And yes, this was a grown man.

cb350twin · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2007, 03:14:52 PM »

Quote

Had a friend back in Austin that did the exact same thing on his bicycle. The tip of his middle finger got caught and went around the sprocket under the chain and tore right off! And yes, this was a grown man.

*cough cough*

I was lucky though. I got by with just a numb finger for a month.

Rocking-M · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2007, 04:21:04 PM »

better a numby than a nubby. lol

I once tried to stand up on the seat of my bicycle and ride with no hands.
I didn't make it to far. This was a long time ago and I was a kid. lol

HITMAN · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2007, 05:30:51 PM »

My dad taught me how to ride a bicycle sitting on the handle bars facing back while pedaling, thought it might be easier on a minibike since I wouldn't have to pedal... Needless to say it ended bad, at a high rate of speed.

The voices in my head tell me I'm making better decisions these days.

Rushoid · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2007, 08:34:33 AM »

Shortly after getting my first 10-speed bicycle I was riding along, playing with the shift levers. I was looking down, fascinated at how the mechanisms worked, when BAM! Rode right into the back of a parked car.

One of the shifter levers was still in the horiz. position and I had a bruise from it - about 1/4" from my right nut.

toycollector10 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2007, 02:56:31 AM »

Down here in N.Z. due to the high cost of petrol everyone is buying step through Chinese scooters. It's like we are becoming a third world nation (which we are). So I'm driving home from the city centre and I get undertaken by some k-nob on a motorised mountain bike thing...he races ahead of me then undertakes a car stopped at a pedestrian crossing. While I sitting there all amazed at this some other k-nob on a step through also undertakes me and does the same thing. He is wearing jandals (thongs for the feet), shorts, singlet, no gloves. Then I get half way home and another couple of k-nobs pass me except the pillion has no helmet. I call them Organ Donors. Hopefully someone will benefit from this madness.

CerBeR · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2007, 02:17:46 PM »

it's not a rare thing to see such examples on litre class sportsmissiles here in Lithuania.

sandcast2356 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2007, 02:37:59 PM »

Once at about 3:00 AM I was fiddling with my carbs trying to get rid of a bog at initial acceleration. It was going away. i would turn the throttle quickly and it would bog down so i would release it and accelerate through it. Well after about 3 hours of tinkering I got sick of it. I took it for one last run and hit the gas full tilt. It bogged, I was so pissed I just left it cranked in hopes of killing it. A second later I found myself going about 30 mph. with my front tire about a foot off the ground and my handle bars turned sharply to the right. In a split-second I straightened the bars and let off the gas. I don't know how saved that one but I did. Then I changed my shorts

KCs76Cafe · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2007, 05:16:44 PM »

This isnt a riding maneuver but Dawdling Dawgs post reminded me of an episode when I was building my Cafe. Had fouled a plug out....but didnt realize it. Thought I had shorted a coil or something.

Now picture this.......me straddling the bike with no seat or tank on it, the #4 plug OUT and on the cylinder head and then I hit the starter button to see if its getting spark

Yep.......it was getting spark

heffay · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2007, 06:12:33 PM »

i was about 10 i'd say... my dad got me a bmx bike for my b'day. although, true bmx'ers only have a rear hand brake this one had a front hand brake as well. (this was back in the day when bmx was in the process of invention)... it was a sweet little black and gold huffy and let me tell you, the first scratches i put on that bike were almost instantaneous.

i wanted to show dad how well i could use this new front brake thingy that i'd never experienced

that marked my entry into the "over the bars club"

techy5025 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2007, 09:58:35 PM »

That story about the blue ring around the spark plug reminded me of a college
roommate who decided....while suitably intoxicated....that he could kill a lawnmower
engine by peeing on the spark plug...one of the old style that was open wire.

Funniest thing I ever saw!

Jim

ieism · « **Reply #16 on:** March 05, 2007, 10:30:07 AM »

I drove away on my Guzzi with the steeringlock still on. Drove straight into a curb and dropped it. $:-\$

heffay · « **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2007, 10:47:53 AM »

ieism... did you really drive "straight"?

Chris Schneiter · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2007, 02:37:02 PM »

I had a friend who lost the ends of his fingers in the back sprocket of his Minibike...chain came off, he put it back on with the engine running and his other hand on the throttle!

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2007, 02:39:30 PM »

Ouch!

74cb750 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 05, 2007, 03:11:30 PM »

I have never done anything that stupid.....
that I will admit to

well, being forced off the road onto a high sidewalk,
with a passenger on the back, forced to wheelie 200' knowing the
right side was a 40 foot drop into the river....I guess stupid was involved
on my part as I never got the guys plate number. Turns out the driver was
my girlfriends Dad, the mayor.

Just goes to show you, there is a good reason why politicians should have chaffeurs.

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Author Topic: dumb riding maneuvers (Read 1678 times)

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