Things you really shouldn't do on a bike

[Jimmy5]

Attempt a power wheelie when the road is less than 100% dry as the resultant 20ft rolling burnout and subsequent minor tank slapper can be cause for alarm especially when its a courtesy bike with a £500 excess.

I'd like to think it was talent and bike handling skills that kept me upright but I doubt it.

So anybody else got any stories of stupidity they somehow got away with???

[RabD]

Playing chicken against an oncoming car on a humpback bridge comes to mind. Not my brightest move

[Stu R]

riding with a backpack full to bursting with work clothes knowing it has suspect zips and arriving home with only 2 pairs of jeans in it, not the 4 days worth of clothes you had including the lining for your dainese jacket....

[Hooli]

hooning off from the lights without noticing the gravel on the road, resulting sideways action probably looked good but the skidmarks in my boxers were bigger than those on the road

[Fire99]

Possibly the most common one of all...

Jump on bike, Start Engine, Pull Away, End up with bike on top of you...

Who forgot to take the Disc-Lock off???????

[agent006]

Starting, grabbing an armful and wheelying off up the road, landing the front and realising the disklock is still on.

[Mad Dave]

agent006 said:

Starting, grabbing an armful and wheelying off up the road, landing the front and realising the disklock is still on.

Surely it's nigh on impossible to lift the front without first moving forward enough to rotate the wheel sufficiently to notice the disklock?!

[agent006]

No idea, anocdote from an associate of a friend. I guess at your least furtunate you've got almost a full turn.

[Stu R]

experiment with tyre grip when worn through to the cords and beyond

[HertsBiker]

Mad Dave said:

agent006 said:

Starting, grabbing an armful and wheelying off up the road, landing the front and realising the disklock is still on.

Surely it's nigh on impossible to lift the front without first moving forward enough to rotate the wheel sufficiently to notice the disklock?!

I can beleive this is possible. Stood my Div600 vertical from stationary once. Horrible, no forward motion whatsoever. Disk lock could have been in front of fork, and able to revolve 3/4 of a turn. Ouch !

[YZF600R]

HertsBiker said:

Mad Dave said:

agent006 said:

Starting, grabbing an armful and wheelying off up the road, landing the front and realising the disklock is still on.

Surely it's nigh on impossible to lift the front without first moving forward enough to rotate the wheel sufficiently to notice the disklock?!

I can beleive this is possible. Stood my Div600 vertical from stationary once. Horrible, no forward motion whatsoever. Disk lock could have been in front of fork, and able to revolve 3/4 of a turn. Ouch !

How did you manage this? You must have been *really* giving it a fistful?

[Fire99]

Saying that, years ago my mate tried a slightly 'GP' launch from the lights on his FZR only to find he was still in Neutral.. Only, in a moment of over-enthusiasm, to bang it into 1st at about 9k without the clutch..

Bike literally stood up on its back wheel (fortunately without going over backwards) only to come crashing back down again... All infront of about 20 people waiting to cross the road... Smashing!!
I nearly fell off just from laughing so much.

[EvoBarry]

Dumping the clutch from the lights on your de-restricted DT125R, forgetting you had a mate on the back.

He kicked me in the armpits.

[rpguk]

Fire99 said:

Possibly the most common one of all...

Jump on bike, Start Engine, Pull Away, End up with bike on top of you...

Who forgot to take the Disc-Lock off???????

:nodshead: Done it twice (only landed on my arse once though )

Edited by rpguk on Sunday 10th August 12:12

[y2blade]

RabD said:

Playing chicken against an oncoming car on a humpback bridge comes to mind. Not my brightest move

unless going fast enugh to clear anything oncoming

[bimsb6]

popping a wheelie at speed across junction 12 on the m1 with a traffic car sitting on the northbound exit ramp (not visible to me ) . DOH !







no points no fine just a dancing display from one of the coppers once they caught up with me a mile later

[Chilli]

I'm lovig these!!!

Too many to mention for me, but once sitting behind a caravan with baited breath.......and it's clear....in secod I wind it up, hit about 14k revs and went for the smooth gear change.....straight into FIRST!!! Well, hadn't been riding long ad just forgot!

[R5GTTgaz]

Pulled out in front of two lads on off roaders (Suzuki DRs) hoisted a huge mono down my village high street then planted the front down and and parked up with a friend.

Seconds later the keys were taken out of the ignition and I was nicked.

Damn stealthy cops.

[Flat6]

forget you've just had new tyres fitted..

..until it's too late. One moment pulling out of a right hand t-junction, next moment lying in the road looking at the sky wondering what happened

[cyberface]

Decide to take your girlfriend pillion on your brand new Monster 600 (hardly any rear seat) after 3 days riding on a bike with gears since your DAS (a 3 day intensive with no former 2-wheel experience), for a 50 mile trip through South London.... then decide to overtake a bus full of bare-chested builders. Then spot there's a bloody traffic island in the road and you need to get past the bus sharpish... forget totally about clutch control and just dump it... wheelie past the bus with the GF screaming and holding on for dear life.... how the fk I managed to control that (a wheelie and a left turn to avoid the island, no less) with no experience I still don't know.

I've been a complete pussy on a motorbike since that incident! I drive hard, and am fast on track, but bikes... ever since that unexpected wheelie - I'm still getting my confidence back. Methinks I need some more training....