Whats the most embarassing thing you've done on a bike?
Ill start us off. Picture the scene, young lad on an old scrambler. Engine revving, facing out of a parking space in a pub car park. Gloves on and hey, whats this i see? Some young birds at the facing bus stop. MMMM...Right then , rev it hard, snick into gear and bang that throttle open while letting out the clutch - lets really make some noise and show them birds just how sexy I really am!

Picture this then if you will. Same as above but with ...lurches out of parking space making lots of lovely noise then does very impressive semi circle at high speed before hitting low wall and being ejaculated into rose bushes .

Damn the days when steering locks were on the forks and not the ignition barrel!

I'd had my SV two weeks, reversing out of a parking space with the engine running on full choke , chatting to my mates, I knocked the bike into gear with my leg. Unfortunately I did not have my hands on the bars at the time, so it ran out from under me and then fell over! indicator punched through the fairing and nearly knocked over 3 other bikes!!!!

Ouch!

Skidded to a stop in front of a couple of female friends as a yoof, then heard the gentle hiss of the puncture in the rear tyre.

A bloke came firing past on his CB125 twin (the unrestricted model), I nearly sh!t my pants cos he was only a couple of inches away and he waggled his two fingers in my direction. So I gave chase. After almost catching up, we had to go our seperate ways but I still managed to get close enough to return the compliment with the fingers as a turned on a left hand bend. Only, I kept turning too far and hit the kerb.

I managed to stay on though but only after padding along the kerb with butt cheeks firmly clenched.

Right, back in my younger dafter days i once thought it would be really cool to pull a wicked skid in front of a bus queue of people, so armed with a gs550 I stomped on the back brake whilst doing about 20mph, the bike slid ok, sideways, falling on me.

so there i am laid in the road surrounded by broken mirrors bits of metal and laid in an ever expanding puddle of petrol, trapped, couldn't get up and feeling like a complete twonk, which in fact is just what i was.

eventually a guy comes over and lifts the bike off me and says are you ok m8? what happened? looks like your back brake locked up there.

to which i replied, yes it did, and limped off sheepishly.


Or there was the time i tried to pull my first (and last) wheelie on the x7
so thinks i get it in the powerband and yank the bars.
The wheel came up ok so much so i nearly cartwheeled the fecker,
So slams the throttle shut and the wheel drops like a stone only i've not got the forks straight so when i finally hit the road it goes into a huge tank slapper that finally bucks me off into a muddy puddle at the roadside.
broken clutch lever, smashed headlight, effed indicators.

cupid stunts you can keep em.

when i was serving my time, i had a fizzy, the boss sent me out to get some bits, as i came out of the garage the back wheel went into a drain gutter, just the right size for a bike wheel! tryed to turn and.....crash! as usual everyone and his dog saw it

KH250, i stopped at a shop, did some shopping, got on the bike, kick starts it... a KH has the longest kickstart lever in the world it snaps back and shoots up my trouser leg!, i dunno if it has happened to anyone but for some crazy reason, you mind makes you want to put that foot down and..... crash!

i did the same wheelie thing as Ima but i was two up, luckily we stayed on, but i'm still reminded of it

a mate of mine did proddie racing on a RD400, it had to be the nastiest bike in the world, his fav past time was going to the local 6th form and wheelie for the girls, and one day he flipped it! he never went backl lol
nothing to do with the thread but the guy on the RD bought a z500 in 1980 and still has it, i saw him a while ago, it was like slipping into a time warp! he has the same, bike,lid,jacket, trousers, shoes, and rides the same.... in top gear in 3 seconds and trungles around at 30mph to save fuel
he's the only guy i know who has sed the "you're an ambulance" line, he hit a car head on, and his girl friend ended up on top of the car, she managed to knock one of her front teeth out so she was bleeding, she sed "call me an ambulance!" so he did! funny enough she still married him! they where both ok btw

theres loads more, like a multiple pile up of a cb900, cbx1000, gsx1100 on a bend, gpz6000 turning a yugo over,,,,, i'll save em for my book

Nothing remotely has ever happened like that to me on my bike, let me say... however, in my youth I had an old ford escort as my day-to-day runabout and a Rover V8 (P6) as my pride and joy.

On winter morning (as usual) the fecking escort wouldn't start. So, plugs in the oven for 5 minutes then try again... and again... finally it goes and then I look over my shoulder to reverse out. Bugger, re-demister not working today either.

So, brain of Britain here thinks... let's open the door in a tantrum, spin the back wheels and rocket of the drive...






















thereby cunningly stuffing aforementioned open door directly into the front wing of my lovely Rover bending both that and my door so I had to drive to work holding the thing closed

I went to visit my hubby at work, had a quick cuppa and jumped on the zed, went to pull away and the bike started to wobble a bit as i was on a slight slope. I went to put my foot down to steady myself and the bottom of my cordura's got caught on the foot peg and i couldn't get my foot down. The bike falls over whilst at a stand still, pinning me under it and if that's not all, i was wearing a back pack and couldn't get up, i looked like a tranded tortoise Won't be doing that again in a hurry