Whats the most dumb/embarrassing thing you've done?

[fireguy44]

hcw3's post got me thinking, what is the most dumb/embarrassing thing you've ever done on your sm? I'll start.....

I had just gotten my bike, maybe 100-200 miles on it, was over at a girls house. My dad was always telling me to make sure I lock the bars. So I locked the bars when I parked it. Went to leave couple hours later. Got on the bike, started her, gave her some throttle, went to turn right..... only problem, when you lock the bars they are turned left. So as I went to turn right the bars didnt turn and over the bars I went. No real damage, couple scratches to the bike, my arm took the brunt of it. But I felt like the biggest dumb ass ever.

[Gino]

I once was putting air in my rear tire and touched my forehead to the exhaust......ouch.....and leaves a nice mark...........

[beavisblack]

I once was putting air in my rear tire and touched my forehead to the exhaust......ouch.....and leaves a nice mark...........

hahahahhaa!!!!
i've done that one too!!!!

[fireguy44]

Done the leg many times, never the forehead, that sucks.

[Sweeney]

Done the leg many times, never the forehead, that sucks.

me too. on my yamaha blaster i had a paul turner exhaust which stuck out on the left alot, and as i was leaning into a corner apparently i thought it would be a good idea to let me knee rest against the really hot pipe i made sure that i wore my riding pants from there on out

left a good sized scare on my knee that i still rock today

[DaviMac424]

Was screwing around like a squid on a dual sport ride with some older guys I'd just met (they were all on KLRs and taking long boring roads so I naturally got bored and started fucking around) and ruined the entire ride. I was doing a sit down wheelie in 4th on my DR-Z with the bars turned full lock to the right so I could look under the left side (I'm short). The bike sputtered for a split second, bringing the front end down still at full lock at what they told me was 55mph. I got tossed around like a ragdoll, highsided, tumbled down the road, ended up on my back in a ditch, then sat up only to watch the guy on the KLR behind me hit my bike (while it was sliding down the road), go over the bars, and total his then brand new KLR with 1000 miles on it. I still thank god to this day that he was completely uninjured and a totally cool guy. I had to clean up bike parts out of the road, borrow a friend's KTM to ride home, get my truck and trailer, then drive the guy with the KLR an hour home. I ended up paying the deductible on his bike because I felt terrible about the whole thing and blamed myself. That was the day that I gave up street riding and I have been track only ever since.

[fireguy44]

Man, that was pretty lucky you didnt hurt him, nor yourself. Stuff like that makes a lot of people turn to the tracks. Thats what happened with my uncle.

[Drew]

The weekend after getting my 625 SMC home after buying it, I decided to take it for the inaugural ride (I had test-ridden it, but now it was in my name). I'm letting it warm up, idling in my driveway. I bend down to check the choke on the carb, and I tapped the shifter on the way down. The thing was idling a tad high, and the kickstand switch was bypassed (unbeknownst to me at the time). The beast lunged forwards just enough to lift up the kickstand and stall out.

I frickin dropped my bike with putting nary a mile on it in my name My neighbor (who is a seasoned bike veteran) saw the whole thing. The worst part was, the natural reaction was to stick a leg out to try and try to keep it upright, which made me sore and walk funny for the next week.

[Goosedog]

I don't think there's enough bandwidth here to mention them all but the worst seem to always be when someone pulls out a camera and I commence to showing off.

The most recent one I remember is when RedPhoenix, member here and quite the hottie, (hotties present being another reason to do something dumb) came from Oklahoma to ride the WNC twisties so I took her and a friend for a ride.

We pulled over near HotSprings to take pics of senery and ourselves when I suggested we get some wheelie shots. So now it's my turn (remember there's a hot girl and a camera out now, and in fact she's the one holding it) I set up to do my wheelie aimed straight at her where she's standing beside her bike in the gravel just off the side of the road. I execute a rather nice wheelie but hold it for too long and set it back down in the gravel cuz I went past the edge of the pavement. Seeing how close I was to her I instinctly locked down on both brakes, lowsided the 610 and slid right into her and her tard, another Husky and knocking us all down.

No bodily harm but I scratched up both bikes and no matter how understanding she seemed to be I felt like a complete tool the rest of the day. Actually now that I think of it, she's pretty much ignored me ever since...oh well, it was a good wheelie at least.

[jsm610]

My favourites or most embaressing that spring to mind are going out at night 2 years ago to wait for the AA (to fix his bike with knackered battery etc.) to arrive as he was stuck on a nasty slip road on the A3 (local almost motorway road). On the way back i decided to pop a nice wheelie past a bus stop only to loop it when my clutch cable (already knackering out) making the change from 2nd to 3rd a bit too over-enthusiastic. So i ended up sliding down the road with the bike stuck on my right leg ripping apart my foot, trainers socks and leg. My riding buddy managed to just swerve around me luckily being able to stay upright. He drove straight over to hear me laughing or atleast thats what he thought but i was screaming like a little girl coz my foot was stuck and kinda mangled. With a little help i got the bike off me and hobbled to the side of the road. My trainers (DC's) had been ripped in half and my sock was more of a rag covered in blood. I ended up luckily getting a lift (for free) from a black cab to the local hospital which after 4 hours waiting about told me the only actual damge apart from bruising and scratches/scars was a broken toe. Which to my friend who had carried me into the hospital "Bodyguard" style seemed pathetic and ribbing comenced from 4 in the morning onwards. 2 months off work in a spaceboot due to the twisting and bone etc meant it was a costly reminder to cover the back brake!!

The second stupid moment that springs to mind has to be not long after i had started riding and upon exiting a roundabout i hit a berm" of sorts in the middle of the road which made me lose the back end of my aprilia 125 scooter which had rubbish tiny tyres to start with. I ended up highsiding infront of a line of traffic queing for the roundabout of about 30-40 cars. To make it a really embaressing crash i had a moment of stupidity when at the speed of 25-30 mph i decided to jump up and run it off instead of ruining my gear only to realise i couldn't run that fast only to do another forward roll and skid further. Atleast 5 drivers laughed out loud before asking if i was ok as i had got straight up. Looking back on it i wish i had been caught on film. It must have looked hilarious but at th time the replacement £80 handlebars were not so funny.

Happy riding, good kit will make these stories happy, bad kit will make these painful. The first story was the last time i went out without wearing full bike boots!

[simonthomas13]

mine wasn't as funny as the others...but still embarrasing.

i was riding my new dr125sm down a busy road through a town full of people, i was with 2 other mates just 'admiring' the girls :P .

we spotted these 2 lovely looking lasses, and they saw us looking, and waved, me been a douchebag, fully turned arouund on my bike as we went passed them, and waved back. i then spun back around, only 2 find that there was a bus that had stopd infrnt of me! i managed 2 avoid a full on crash into the back of it (or so i thought) i turned to the right of it, and cliped the left side of my handlebars on the rear of the bus.

i was flipd over the handle bars and slid down the road. not only did the 2 girls see, so did everyone who was shopping in the town...and the people on the bus!

i quickly got up and realised ther was no damage 2 the bus, picked up my bike and went! i dont think ive ever accelorated so hard in my life!

i was so embarrased!

but lesson learned! oh and...i blame the girls :P

simon

[Deadend]

first time i ever rode a motorcycle :


I was 16, stoned and my friend ( real tall thick headed brute ) tells me : yeah man, go ahead and ride my 250 ( 2smoker - some 1980s suzuki, i dont even remember the model )

so i sit on it, and i ask "so how does this work?"

him "Just give it throttle and let go of the clutch"

me: "ok cool np"

/twist of the wrist

I am like mid release of clutch ( like just totally released, no easing ) and I hear him say, "Not that much gas"

BRRRRRAAAAAAPPPP

Next thing i know im looking @ the sky then a moment later theres a hot dirtbike on top of me leaking fuel from a carb overflow line

Did I mention the 4 other friends and 6 chicks that were there watching? Yeah. Classy


Ended up buying him a new rear fender from that - but i wouldn't go back and change it for anything, that was the day i knew what i had to do......... ( 2wheels !!! )

[laohu69]

You didn't specify on or off of a bike.... My most embarrassing was off of a bike. When I was much younger I used to be a back to nature hippie living in Northern CA (Humboldt County). We were at the nude beach on a river across from a little hippie owned convenience store. We ran out of beer (we'll assume that was all we were imbibing ). Me and my buddy walked over to get some more. It wasn't until the guy rung it up and we went to pay for it that we realized that both of us had neglected to put on any clothes and we had no money with us. No wonder some of the people were giving us funny looks.
Of course this wasn't too weird for Humboldt County in the 1970's & '80's.

[toaster]

imagine being at a huge "king of the track" bike event and stalling the bike after the burnout. and on top of that, rolling back just enough to redlight on your first run. enough said.

[raymoto17]

Several years ago I was riding son's YX250F practice bike while he broke in new bike. Never really rode off-road or raced as a kid, been off street bike for nearly thirty years. So here is 50 something guy learning to MX.

I had just cleared little double jump and was all pumped. As I exited the track to the parking area, Danny who ran the track yelled out "looking good".

They had just spread a layer of crushed gravel really thick on the pit area to keep the dust down. As I took my hand off the bars to wave to Danny I also tried to turn towards our truck while looking at him, as I was going about 5mph. The front tire plowed in the 4-5 inches of fresh gravel and since I was relaxed and not paying attention it went full lock and I fell to my right in an instant.

Everyone in the tower and along the pits started laughing! I couldn't react fast enough and landed on my elbow with bike on my leg. The elbow stung like a SOB but I jumped up laughing and tried to save as much face as possible. Tried riding later but it hurt to much. Loaded bikes, drove home while wife and son slept, went to unload bikes and finally realized something was really wrong. Arm not only hurt, after 2 hr. ride home it wouldn't move.

4 beers and some hydrocodone later I still couldn't fall asleep. Next morning I found out I had a buckle fracture of my right elbow with some chips also knocked off.

I was now famous among friends as the the dude who wrecked himself in the parking lot 50 feet from his truck. And it didn't end there. Two weeks later with my arm still healing we went back to this track. Ran into Danny and he asked how we were and said I should check out the new safety improvements. At the track exit as you enter pits they had taken a yellow pedestrian crossing the street sign and mounted it turned sideways so it looked like the figure was slipping and falling down on his back. He said it was to warn others exiting the track to not pull a Ray! Sign was there for about 3 months.

[fireguy44]

These are some good stories here guys. I dont know if any of them top walking into a store nude. lol. And I live in Redding (Northern California) so I know all about the Humboldt lifestyle lol.

[Sweeney]

so lahu are these nude beaches full of hot naked chicks or is that just "the dream" or is it actually just a sausage fest (ie eurotrip)

[nitronaf]

my bike has stock a 5mm front disc
when installing my aftermarket 320mm x 6mm disc and using it with the stock caliper i neglected to consider that brand new stock pads + caliper + 1mm fatter disc = friction
so here i am finished the conversion on my WR450 anxious to ride it
jump on
slap a helmet on and some MX gloves the rest full squid
im roaring around my block thinking this is better than sex then i decide hey theres speed humps at the local super market! im gonna go jump them!!!
i come to a speed hump at the supermarket car park and all of a sudden the bike throws me over the bars
i get up thinking wtf happened and OW
realising school just finished so all the mums and kiddies are goin to the supermarket to buy some food or watever.
i hate how everyone just looked at me and didnt even help
so embarassing


After inspecting the bike
Disc overheated from the friction expanded and the front wheel locked
worst thing of all after the disc eventually cooled down and the front wheel could move the brakes were still really stiff so i had to push my tard home all road rashed and with a dragging front wheel.

im red faced just thinkin about it sigh

[laohu69]

so lahu are these nude beaches full of hot naked chicks or is that just "the dream" or is it actually just a sausage fest (ie eurotrip)

Hot is in the eye of the beholder. Bear in mind that these are / were hippie girls, i.e. no shaving, etc.
What used to really piss us off was during tourist season when they would find out that a nude beach was around (there were several all over the county) and they would show up (dressed of course) to gawk at the girls. We would always ask them to leave.
I came around a corner in Richardson Grove hotfooting it on my spanking new Yamaha Seca to find an RV stopped in the middle of the road blocking me and I was going too fast to stop so I had to swing over into the oncoming lane and hope there was no traffic, luckily there wasn't. Turned out the RV was full of 4 "old men" (well old to me at the time, they were my current age) who were looking through binoculars at the nude beach. I screamed, ranted and raved at them threatening to castrate them until they left.
I never really did make a good peace loving back to nature hippie......

Edit- I wasn't embarrassed as much about walking in the store nude as I was forgetting the money. Humboldt in the '70's & '80's was a different place from anywhere I've ever been. I lived 5 miles back at the end of a dirt road, China Creek, way out in the middle of nowhere and 1/2 mile further past me up the hill was a guy named Dale. I lived there for 3 years and I never saw Dale wear any clothes. Someone told me that he kept a pair of pants & t-shirt rolled up in a plastic bag at the head of the road for when he went into town. He communed with nature and ran everywhere. I once saw him 20 miles away running down the road, nude of course.

[PROJECT-X]

Once sat down on the battery box of a crane (several industrail batteries connected together)at work to get off a foot that I had just had surgery on. Ok at forst but then the top of the box oilcanned with my weight and touched the battery terminal and so arching occurred burnning through the box, and my pants basically arc welding my left butt cheek.

Pretty painful, could smell the flesh burning. All the other guys though it was real funny, something about they didn't know a human could move that fast.

[PROJECT-X]

Was sailing a Nacra 18square( fast hobie like sailboat) in an approaching storm 25-35 knots hanging out on the trapezius line when a big gust hit and the trapezius line broke. Being dragged through the water holding on to the rope w/ one hand, the broken rudder stick was in my other, the hand slipped down to the end when I had tied a big knot, when I hit it I still held on but it ripped my bicep. OUCH!

Couldn't let go cause I would have probably drowned or been beaten to death on some rocks, and would have lost the boat. Of course I still had to get to the boat and sail it back with one arm. Naturally this was a big race with hundreds of people watching from the beach but embassasment was the last of my worries.

[Uponone274]

i was going to visit my ex-girlfriend at 2 in the morning on my drz. she lives about an hour away and my bike had a real bad battery and it wouldnt hold charge. I was heading back home at about 4am trying to make it home before my parents woke up and my bike ran out of gas going down the highway and my bike ran out of gas. I didnt have my liscense at the time so I was praying a cop wouldnt drive by. I was running the bike down the side of the highway (scared as hell) trying to pop start it and get it to a gas station, i was 1 mile away from the closest exit. After a miracle i almost dropped the bike and dumped the clutch by accident and it somehow started and made it to the gas station. IT was a long night

[huskySmr510]

Bike was brand new... had just jetted and hacked the pipe shorter. So the Husky had a nice bark to it. was leaving work and a friend of mine ran by slapped the back of my lid playing around. I commenced to Chase him around the paved.. but gravel infested parking lot... him on foot. Me on the beast. he cut right.. so did I but had to slow down. Grabbed a handful of front brake and washed out. I had been reving the throttle and doing the basic goon riding. so everyone in the area watched me... eat it... Quickly picked her up, dusted her off and fled like the girl I was...

[motomike88]

stalling the bike at the stoplight and trying to start it back up but realizing you hitting the horn button not the start button ya i felt like a jackass and there was cop right next to me. he was looking at me like your a dumbass.

[huskySmr510]

been there before... Or when you go to disable the turn signal and honk instead...

[MaddMaxxNYC]

I've definitely got too many to list but here's one...

My first time, first day at Bike Week and I'm riding a friend's '93 VMax... rear tire is going bald in the middle. It's my first time on a bike over 650cc's and as I leave from the parking lot after breakfast, I open it up in earnest for the first time and wring out the throttle like I'm riding a 50cc dirt bike. Of course the back wheel slides back and forth, finally catches and practically rips my arms out of the sockets. Some guy on a Harley pulls up next to me and tells me I ride like an asshole. Anyway, I felt like a total dick and learned to respect that V4 beast for the rest of the weekend.

I bought Mr. Max about 3 weeks after that.

[fireguy44]

I did the horn thing once. Someone pushed the bike kill switch in when I had it parked so I jumped on the bike to leave a party (right after I got it). I turn the key on and hit the horn button on accident. Made me jump like a pansy. Sad thing was is that I thought something was wrong with my bike. I hit it again and by now everyone is looking at me. Finally find the right button and shit.... it wont start. Now I start to panic. Hit it again.... nothing. Start looking over the bike and realize someone pushed the engine kill button in.