Your stupidest way of destroying bike gear

[Werny]

Anyone ever totally ruined any of their gear in a completely dumb way, not involving falling off your bike?

Hopefully I'll win this one, I'd hate to think someone's done anything dumber than this:

When I was 17 or 18 and still lived at my parents house, I'd come home after an night out really drunk, and somehow made it to bed. In the early hours I woke, desperate for a piss, but didn't think I'd get to the bathroom so I pissed out the bedroom window.

Woke in the morning and vaguely recalled it, but I thought that couldn't have happened, the windows have a really intricate safety catch thing I could hardly open when sober, went to check anyway and put my hand on the windowsill, which was still wet and stinking of piss, as was the net curtain and, sadly, my helmet which I kept on the windowsill.

Luckily almost none has spilled onto the carpet as the helmet lining had soaked up almost all my urine.

So, has anyone else done dumb things?

[GrumpyGuts]

Falling off.
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[Teflon-Mike]

Bolted a pair of Nonfango paniers to my bike.
Put Scott Kevlar jacket in panier.
Went for a ride.

Tip: If you have Super-trap end cans..... take note that the exhaust gasses come out the EDGE not the end!

Opened box at the other end.... big hole where the hot exhaust had been venting straight on it..... lots of molten plastic that used to be an expensive jacket!
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[Islander]

An old ex of mine left my favourite Buffa jacket in front of a gas fire - completely ruined it.

[johnsmith222]

My dug pissed in my helmet once.

I was so convinced that my mum has spilled some sort of hairdressing stuff on it because of the strong smell of ammonia.

It took a day of wearing it before I realised what had happened. I kept wearing that helmet for another year without washing it as the smell went away.

I crashed it and retired it to the bin.

[Jonathan A]

sort of relevant...

My friend set up a phone charger under the seat of his GS 500, it worked fine for a couple of weeks...until one day when I was following him on a trip to Skegness, I saw £500 worth of smartphone fall from his bike and smash into little pieces!

he was gutted

[DreadHead]

My brother put his leathers in the loft over winter. When he came back to them he found that squirrels had been in and chewed them up for nest material. He was less than pleased, they were virtually brand new.
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[_matt]

Caught my first leather jacket on a barbed wire fence when stopped for a smoke in a layby, ripped a huge gash all down 1 arm
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[Suntan Sid]

[TheSmiler]

Burnt a whole in my normal jeans can't get any more of them as well. Jeans that I use for riding when I cant be bothered to change into rst jeans, also when I was using trainers for a few days (class this as gear as I was using it on the bike) the sole completely rubbed away.
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[CaNsA]

[Speed]

I nearly ruined a pair of Frank Thomas leathers the other night when i had the shits... Made it JUST in time

[ruck bodgers2]

ate lotts of amazonian mushrooms and then a box of small ones called philosiphers stones in amsterdam . it was cold and i had my bike gloves with me . after chewing a piece of steak whilst laughing at a cow skin lampshade for 50 minutes and realising i had forgotten how to swallow i wondered off . lost my friends and ended up in a strange place about 60 miles from where i should of been . managed to find my way back the next day . my only regret was i had lost my bike gloves i had grown fond of over time . then my mate walks through the door smashed out of his face holding up my gloves with all the fingers cut off them . and proclaimed . i dont know where jon is but have his hands !!!!!!!!!!!
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throw it up the wall

[nowhere.elysium]

Not mine, but it seemed appropriate to this thread.
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[Boxing]

[mentalboy]

Miscounted the number of steps and fell off the bottom step just before entering the house late at night (Pitch dark).
My one month old Shoei xr1000 broke my fall as it was hanging off my wrist, somewhat irritating!!!
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[andyscooter]

not gear but ruined a bike cover putting it on the bike just after getting home


hot exhaust+ plastic cover =
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[J.M.]

I spilt petrol all over a plastic bike cover without realising for a couple of days. I left it outside for the great British rain to clean it up for a lazy old me.

I hadn't used it since then. (3-4months?)

I went to put it on my bike yesterday and upon unfolding it, the plastic where the petrol had been was really stiff and just cracked. I carried on and got it on the bike. Anywhere that the petrol had been was screwed... the cover touched the mirror, the mirror went through the cover, etc.

Can't really use that cover again!

Anyone have a cover they wish to donate?
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[Nick 50]

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[J.M.]