The most embarrassed I've been on a bike

[DrSnoosnoo]

Got to Squire's last night to meet a mate on his new Bandit he'd bought. blah blah blah he threw me the keys and said, take it for a run down the road. I was like yeah that sounds good, never ridden a bandit before lets see how gutless it is compared to the Z.

Rolled it out of the parking space right in front of the cafe and switched her on. JESUS! loudest exhaust starts rumbling and because he's blinged it up and it's bright blue everyone looks. Pull the clutch in get first and then find the throttle is the lightest thing in the world! Revving the nuts off it just to get a feel making a total racket! Then I go to find the bite of the clutch ....

nowhere , nowhere... there it is, my hands must be tiny because it was sat right at my fingertips with the levers adjusted so it was as close to the bars as they could be, couldn't get the thing going. So I was bunnyhopping down the carpark to the exit and then up the road .... FML

Got back and everyone was staring when I got back, people asking what was up with the bike. I had to tell them it was me with my tiny hands. Felt a total tool, another one of my mates was there without me knowing, saw him later and told him my awful story and he was in disbelief, he said he wanted to take the keys off me and never let me ride again.

What I did find is:
Bandit 600s are bloody slow gutless things and need revs to get them anywhere
the upright sitting makes it a piece of piss to do u turns and cornering feels brilliant.
I don't like those stupid Aftermarket levers my mate had on his bandit ....

Cool srotyr rob
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Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R

[Knightsy]

Obligatory:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5162/5218019233_69f1dc8d14.jpg
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[wizzzard]

To be fair there's usually very little excitement at squires past the odd classic pootling in so you probably livened up the night a little
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[Drake]

y u no obligitory wheelie under the bridge?
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was: derbi senda, aprilia sx125, nsr250 mc16, cagiva mito, cb600 hornet now: mk1 bandit, KR1S, landrover series 3 light weight 2.5 petrol, 5speed box

[DrSnoosnoo]

Possibly livened it up, made a girl scream in fear because i revved the nut off.

As for wheelie, fuck that I'd fall off
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I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
Did have: '95 ZZR600 '83 CG125 '97 ZZR1100 '15 Hypermotard 821 SP Do Have: '10 ZX10R

[Kierran]

yeh i found it the sameon the hirey needing a handful of revs before it even considers moving.
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[Davie J]

Guy I used to work with crashed on his CBT.

Blamed his wee girly hands for slipping on the clutch. Hit the roof wall and bent the forks on the bike.

The place he was doing has a CTB circuit on the roof of their building. Always thought that was a bit dodgy
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Marauder 125 K3 (Murdered by a Megane), Varadero 125 V7 (sold), Varadero Thou (Sold), CB500S (Sold).

[noobRider]

20 years ago, and I still cringe.

My now wife and I were doing volunteer work in Malawi, in southern Africa, and she just had her dirt bike delivered (about nine months after she did the bike training in the UK). We got on for the start of a touring holiday through the country and drove for a couple of hours or so to the next town. My wife is driving, I'm pillion, which is getting us a lot of attention anyway as we pull up in front of the supermarket, where there are loads of local people. She pulls to a halt and finds she can't move and can't get the kick stand down and we just fall over sideways into the dirt road. I can still hear the laughter.
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[waffles]

Two words for you, "kill switch".

Someone's messed with my bike, OMG it won't start, its broken forever, I am stranded with no hope of rescue.... Oh. *flips switch*. Its fine now

Or when I was still on my 125 and accidentally stalled it, thinking I was saving time by pulling in the clutch then using the same hand to hit the starter button but instead mashing my fist against the horn. I didn't know I had hit the horn and was fully prepared to start giving the finger to the wanker behind me for honking, when I turned around there was nobody there.

Feel better at all snoosnoo?
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Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
Past rides Yamaha XT125X, Triumph TT600, Honda XR250
Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[Commuter_Tim]

[illuminateTHE...]

Outside college, preparing to lean the bike at an acute angle to impress my mates, but instead of finding 2nd gear i got stuck in neutral i only noticed when i rolled onto the throttle.
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[J.M.]

[nathan k]

Just discovered the art of wheeling, two days later and thinking I was the dogs bollocks at it I passed through a village high street and saw my mates...Tried to wheelie and somehow ended up running with the bike at 90 degrees.

[sidewinder]

Done the usual thing of singing to my self whilst riding along but forgot to shut up at a zebra crossing with young mums about to cross. got a few smiles though

[_mjs_]

My most embarrassing thing I ever did was this time I pulled up at a pub out in the countryside where they allowed camping... I stopped the bike, jumped off and went to put the bike on the centre stand...unfortunately the 15 stone of camping gear and beer loaded on the bike caused the little pedal thing you step on to poke straight through the sole of the worn out boots I was wearing and get stuck there, leaving me wobbling about on one leg holding up the bike and struggling to free myself for a good five minutes... in the end I had to get a swiss army knife out from my camping gear and cut the bottom of my boot off
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Previous Bikes: 2006 Honda XR125L > 2003 Yamaha DT125R > 1996 Honda CB500
Current bikes: 1997 Kawasaki ZZR 600 E5 > 2006 Honda Varadero XL125V

[Drax]

Arriving (last) at my sisters funeral at the crematorium. Gettin off the bike in a rush & not putting the sidestand down properly &.......over she goes!

[Moxey]

[_Iain_]

Short levers are gay.

Also, a b6 engine doesn't do bugger all under 5k, and doesn't really get going till 7ish.
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[Pigeon]

TS50X - I'm 16 and a riding god already. It's snowing heavily, but I have a trails bike right. Off to the pub. Into the pub car park, squeeze the brakes, slide straight through the double doors of the pub in a cloud of rich running blue 2 stroke smoke.
I tried to be cool, and over the ding shout "I'll have a pint of Carling Black Label please mate"
Except due to embarrasment and the lid, I just sound retarded and it comes out like "meh meh, nehmenh, mmmmm, mehmeh, ay"

[noobRider]

[Andy_Pagin]

Dropping the bike doing a u-turn in a packed co-op car park was fairly embarrassing.
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[andys675]

running in a street triple and being passed on the A38M into birmingham by a YZFR125.......doing about 80mph
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[Danablos]

Where I used to work my boss whos also a biker asked me if i could move my 125 and i dropped it infront of him smashing the mirror.. cringed hard
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[AlanC]

I think it was my second time out on the R6: I wasn't used to the clutch, gear shift or just how easily it'd spin up.

I was turning left on a roundabout and there was a long stream of Harleys going the other way - the local chapter of Satan's Slaves were having a ride out. I made the turn, changed up, got back on the throttle and VROOOM oh shit as I hit neutral and the whole gang looked round at me...

[mentalboy]

Bah, noob.

Just wait until you do something really embarassing that involves scratching paintwork!
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