Moments that make you look like a imbecile [2012]

[Hyaon]

Today I'm in slow moving traffic, just about to go past the petrol station and notice someone in opposite direction waiting to turn into the station. I'm one of those karma believers, so I like to give way rather than hog an extra 2 metres of road and block people off.

I stop and give my 'yeah, go ahead mate' jedi wave of the hand,
simultaneously hitting the kill switch on the right handle bar.

Sigh.

Your turn.
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Mod2 Passed 30/03/2011!
CBF125>GSF650 Bandit K8>B-King 2008+R1 2002

[Knightsy]

False neutral when I'm trying to accelerate...
ALWAYS happens when you need it (like pulling out from a cock in 4x4)
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09' Versys 650 | 07' FJR1300A

[Hyaon]

[thepuma]

The first time I'd ever taken my bike to put petrol in I was there AGES!

Not only of the palava taking helmet off then gloves so I can find my credit card in my jacket. But mainly the fact that I just couldn't get the bloody petrol to go in the tank. Soon as I squeezed the nozzle...'click'....and again 'click...click'...Had to squeeze it gently to get any petrol in and it felt like it took 5 minutes getting £7 worth of bloody petrol in!

Since realised its best to hold the nozzle slightly out and at an angle!
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YBR125 (SOLD) - CBR250R(SOLD) - CBR650F(SOLD) Current - Street Triple
765 RS

[billytwomirro...]

When i had my enfield hitting the rev limiter.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

New helmet, out for a ride, used built in sun visor, everything goes blurry.

Had the advertising plastic still on it.

[swampy]

[Andy_Pagin]

After stopping to get petrol on the way home from picking up my new (used) Fazer, spending ten minutes trying to start it, then remembering it's got an immobiliser.
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They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa, hey-hey,
the men in white coats are coming to take me away.
Yamaha Vity -> YBR125 -> FZS600 Fazer -> FZ1-S Fazer

[Turks]

I was at a set of traffic lights a few months ago, saw a group of kids with their mother on the other side of the lights. One of the boys started waving, I gave it about 10 seconds thought, but the kid was still furiously waving and jumping. I raised my hand and gave the cheesiest wave possible right at the moment the father (presumably) walked past next to me waving and smiling at the kid.

I also went to the local biker shops in my new leathers with the labels still attached and flapping about in the wind.
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CBF250 '04 - Written Off
CBF250 '07 - Previous
ZX6R '08 - Current

[Banger]

Couple of years back I pulled into the forecourt of a bike shop in Tonbridge on my previous R1. Zorst was roaring and the bike steaming from a good hoon there and I was dressed lid to boots in my then matching power ranger gear . . . .

No, thats not the worst of it . . I wish.

Pulled up, flicked side stand down and went to get off bike.

Yeah, you know, the fooking stand wasn't down and me and my bike took a trip to the concrete.

Damage was minimal due to me selflessly sticking lots of my ample body between the bike and the floor.

The icing on the cake though was the 2 young lads sat, cleaning bike parts for a bit of pocket money that saw the whole thin !

They both managed to stifle the hysteria untill I came out of the shop and told them they were doing better than I would have done in their position. . . . . I have not been laughed at that hard by anyone in my life . . while still dressed anyway.
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You only get one lap of lifes track . . . . so make it a fast one !
Yamaha . . Keyboards to biking nirvana.

[hedgehugger]

Riding home on my new-to-me bike and it dies about a mile from home.
Panic, omg, wtf moment. Phoning home, then it dawns on me.....
reserve!
Had forgotten what you need to do without fuel-injection!

[Llama-Farmer]

A few weeks ago test riding my friends bike that I'm buying. It's been months since I had ridden anything due to a bad elbow injury, so I was "getting back into it" anyway, but on a completely new bike.

His pegs and levers are all in the wrong position for me, so I kept going to change from 2nd to 3rd and would end up staying in 2nd, letting the clutch back out (as my left hand is only a semi-conscious operation) and lurching like a fool. Got used to it after a while, but didn't half make me look silly especially if I was giving it a bit of beans.

Also the side stand needs greasing and feels in a weird place, and the key is really fiddly to open the fuel cap, so pulling up in the petrol station it was about a minute before I got off the bike then another minute before I managed to open the cap.

[Rogerborg]

[Knightsy]