The Dumbest Thing's done when riding
1st of all I wish I had a picture of what I saw yesterday. It was a you've got to see it to believe it type of moments. Now I've see n my share of people doing stupid things while riding but, yesterday took the cake. I live in Florida and it likes to rain a lot out here. Yesterday was no exception, on my way out I see a guy on a Kawasaki ZX-14 riding toward me. He got his head at an angle (which I did not find odd right away until he passes by and I see he's on a cell phone.) The man is shifting gears and talking on the phone, mind you it's raining out there, he has no helmet and just chatting away. There is already risks involved when riding but this guy won the idiots award for me. Tell me what the dumbest thing you've seen or done while riding.
hey, here ya go... ive been riding for a long time, and about 6 years ago i was workin at a kustom hotrod/ bike shop. we had a little pollini pocketbike that we would scoot around town on.. it would hit about 60 mph if ya had the balls to do it!
so its the day after my birthday, my buddy comes over to my house and we are talkin about the pocket bike, he says "pocketbikes are for kids, those things are a joke!!"
so we head down to the shop.... nobody is there, so i open it up, and pull the bike out, get it started up and notice its running really fast, and revin like crazy... i forgot that one of my buddys filled it up with some race gas.
i tell my buddy to hop on, and hes already scared, he says the famous words "you go first, then ill take it for a spin"
shit.... alright.... ive rode it a million times! i take off down the street, turn around about 3 blocks from the shop, get onto the sidewalk and start ridin wheelies, and then i gun it!!!! i hit about 40 mph ( i was passin all the cars on the street thats 30mph) i get the wobbles, so i stick my foot out for balance, the tip of my chuck taylor fuckin hit a bump in the concrete! so i do a superman move in the air for about 10 feet, notice im about to land on my head, so i turn to the side and tuck.....,................
landed on my shoulder.
shattered my collarbone, punctured a lung, filled the back of my head and back with gravel... i got back on and rode into the shop cus i was in shock, my friend is crackin up, then he turns really pale and says that there is somethin wrong with my arm, so i laugh, and i say yea, theres friggin rocks imbedded in my tattoos, and then i go to pick one out, and i can move my arm.... oh fuck, then i can breathe... oh shit..... then my friend wont call 911, because he thinks that my arm is just dislocated.
eventually i make it to the er... and they are treating me like a motorcycle accident victim... "SIR!! WHAT WAS SIZE WAS THE MOTORCYCLE YOU WERE RIDING??" umm... it was a 50cc.. "A 750 CC? no..... a 50cc..." UM, WE JUST GAVE HIM SOME PAIN RELIEVERS, HE MIGHT BE DELIRIOUS" no.... it was a 50cc.... a pocketbike..... eventually they beleived me, and then all the "cool" doctors were talkin to me about bikes....
thats my story, hope ya like it!!!!!
~CHOPPER RICH!
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Major turn off when guys don't wear helmets.
No guys, you don't look "cool" without a helmet; you look stupid!!!
It also bothers me when new kids think they're indomitable and all they want to do is race and do wheelies.
Who knows how many kids I've seen wreck in the past year alone! If you don't got the experience, if you haven't had a bad wreck yet, don't do it!
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I tell ya, I just hate it when guys on any motorcycle... chopper, harley or sport bike... have to make it obvious that they are trying so very very hard to look cool. So they aren't paying any attention to the road or traffic, cause they are too intent on watching to see if anyone is looking at them! I watched a guy on a bagger emergency brake to keep him from running into the back of a pickup, cause he wasn't looking forward! And I really hate it when beginners try to look cool by doing the swervy thing in the lane.
They don't realize just how easy it would be to lose control on one slick spot!
QUIT BEING A JACKASS! lol... my advice to these people.
=)
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"Not thinking clearly early one cold morning........I got off my bike and attempted to kick the kick stand like it was a bicycle (like when you were little)........It immediately tipped over......In front of amazed friends.....who were looking at me like......are you friggin serious?.......You did NOT just do that!!!..............Yep I did!!.........and it was promptly followed up with the HORSES ASS AWARD at the next HOG meeting!.......I have no excuse......Or explanation!"
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I have done a LOT of stupid things on a bike, for instance when I was riding from Medford Oregon to Bend Oregon and I fell asleep on the bike and woke up to a Semi Truck honking his horn behind me.
But probably the most stupid thing I have ever done started when I thought I could walk across a magnesium fire pit bare footed on the Oregon Coast. Well long story short, went to the hospital and had all the sand scrubbed from my feet with a wire brush. Next morning I was out riding the dirt bike in the sand with my feet bandaged up like a mummy. By about noon time I was back in the hospital getting the bottom of my feet scrubbed again! Needless to say I could not walk for about 3 weeks after that.
Cheers!
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I can honestly say I have now seen it all! Lat week while I was driving in my car, i saw a guy TEXTING on the highway at about 75mph!!! I stayed close to him for a second and sure enough, he was really texting!! It was crazy!! I wonder how long it will be before he go;s down doing that crazy crap!! I tell you some squids still amaze me! To top if off, he has a "paper plate" on the bike, so he was either a new rider, or just got a new bike.
Way to break it in!!
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Holy crap! That's a high speed death just waiting to happen.
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About 30 years ago I was riden to town, beautiful day, wind blown threw my hair, no helmet, felt a gentle mist in my face, looked up not a cloud in the sky, pass the truck in front of me, it was a cattle truck !
True story
Fred / HRE
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I got my first bike in 2004. It was a Suzuki GSXR 600. I was like every other lil punk on a croutch rocket, always reving, doin stunts, etc.... Well one night as I was ridin through a huge parking lot with alot of friends just shootin some tape trying to make a lil movie. Well with every good bike show there are always a good OOPS!!!! section. Long story short, I was the OOPS!!!! section. I came through the lot doin a wheelie and when I landed that I jumped to a tank stand, after that I did a endo and was payin attention to the camera, not where I was goin. When I looked forward I ran straight into a guard rail doin all of bout 20 mph, It totaled my bike, threw me over the rail like I was a slinky, bruised some ribs and got a lil scrapped up. My bike since then has seen a complete over haul. I rebuilt it and then quickly sold it. It is still kicking. One day I'll get me another bike.
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WHEN I FIST LEARNED 2 RIDE..ABOUT 18 YRS AGO, I HAD STARTED ONN A LITTLE HONDA, BUT IT WAS STILL BIG 4 ME! I HAS LIVED IIN COLORADO AT THE TIME & IT WOULD SNOW A LITTLE IN THE MORNINGS & THEY WOULD PUT SAND DOWN EVERYWHERE ON THE SRTEETS, BUT THE SNOW WOULD ALWAYS MELT BUT NOON & IT WOULD BE A NICE DAY 4 RIDING!
WELL ME & MY HUSBAND & SOME FRINENDS WENT RIDING (ALL EXPIERENCED RIDERS)! AND I TOOK A LEFT TURN A LITTLE 2 SLOW AND LAID DOWN MY BKIE!!! MY HUSBAND TOLD "ME IF U LAY IT DOWN , U GOTTA PICK IT UP"! NOTHING WAS HUT BUT MY PRIDE! I TRIED TO PICK UP MY BIKE & IT WAS REALLY HEAVY! FIANALLY ON ABOUT THE THIRD TRY, I WAS SOOOO MAD I PICKED IT UP AND THREW IT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE! AND THERE IT LAY! CARS WERE GOING BY LOOKING & HONKING AT ME...LIKE YAEH...THAT GIRL CAN REALLY RIDE THAT BIKE!
FIANALLT I PICKED HER UP! IVE BEEN RIDING EVER SINCE...KEEPING IT ON 2 WHEELS!
ALL MY LOVE TO ALL THE RIDERS OUT THERE!
BE SAFE AND HAPPY RIDING!
SWEET MELISSA! (^>^)
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there are some messed up stories luckily mine doesn't take the cake!
i have NEVER had a BAD wreck on a dirt bike but i had some good ones that layed me down for a week sore as hell all in my ribs and every where else ONE THING TO REMEMBER as YOU GET OLDER, what once would be a scrape turns out to be a month to recover...
o.k. so my dumb ass wreck.......
i live in Vegas and have been riding since i was about 8, this happened when i was about 22 i am NOW 28...... and we used to ride off of Hollywood (where carey hart would ride) it is now houses anywho...my cousin Pat just got out the pin, and there are bout 6 of us riding a trail towards the lake...we come to a part where it was one bike at a time cause it was soooo narrow and a cliff about 150 ft down to the left...my cuz tells me ladies 1st but i didn't trust him so i said naw you first well i wait for him to go over this and seen he made it so i felt it was safe for me to take my turn now..WRONG i get going (and keep in mind as we clear all this it leads into a canyon about 3 feet in width) i am almost over and this idiot STOPS to look back at me, as i am coming i have my hand in the air telling him "MOVE" and he stay's so i had TWO choices..hit him or try to go around him with the lil space i had...well i tried to go around him as i did, there was a hole so now i am in "OH SHIT" mode and hit my throttle to try and pull outta this 3 ft hole, I MADE IT THROUGH! BUT....i wrecked into the mountain and slid down about 7 ft and the bike landed on me, i managed to get the bike off my body then it landed on my leg and pinned it...the next day my leg was sooo swollen, nothing broken but damn was i ever so sore!!!
i guess you ain't riding unless your wrecking in "some cases" -lol
Brandy
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Ummm lets see the hole way i ride is dumb.......but i would say the dumbest thing i ever did .............i was at a stunt show here in downtown indianapolis and my bike was low on gas. Instead of puting more gas in when my light started flashing i just kept goin. I went for a spreader " a wheelie sit-n on the tank" and just when i got by the crowd i rocked it back to slow it down, the fuel sloshed back and the bike shut off. I slamed back down so hard it bucked me over the front and i went pavement surfing again.... yeah dont do that
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Well most people would say riding a bike is dumb!!! But here's my dumb story.... a few years back I owned a CBR600 F3. Man i thought i was rossi or somebody!! You couldnt tell me a thing!!! Me and my buddy were out on Halloween just rippin up the streets. You know typical bone head shit. Wheelies, rollin burnouts you name it. We jumped on the expressway for a quick jaunt to the city (Chicago) and back. On the way home i decided to pin it. just open her up and let her eat. Zig zagging through cars, riding between them the whole nine yards. We come up to the toll booth and i notice that my buddy is nodding his head to look behind me. of course i have no mirrors on the bike cuz it adds 20 extra ponies and gives you 30 mph on the top end so i crane around and low and behold its the fuzz. Well my friend pays his toll and takes off. i pay mine and take and immediatly get lit up like a christmas tree. "Do you know how fast your were going?" He asks, "Because i have been behind your for the last 4 miles?" No I reply and get shown the gun. 152 in a 55 mph. Ouch!!!! We long story short it took me 3 years and $6000 dollars to get my license back.
Shit i could have bought a new bike with that!!! take it from me WATCH YOUR SPEED!! THERE IS A TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING!!
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