Most embarrasing biking moment.

[innominate]

Managed mine this Monday.



Rode to work.
Bit tired, sort of on autopilot so taking it easy.



Get to work & park up in the directors car-park (ahh the joys of bringing a bike to work) get off the bike & notice that the sidestand is not fully out.

Give said sidestand a good kick to get it into place.
unfortunatly kicked with my left foot towards the back of the bike sidestand go's back up.

Entire FJR1300 drops on my legs throwing me into an rather uncomfortable lying position on the ground with bike on top.


No damage to me or the bike.
pride took a bit of a dent though...




Someone beat that for bike stupidity...
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[Dischord]

missed gears, failed wheelies etc very embarassing to do infront of people, although yours does sound quite bad, just hope nobody saw you!
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[mattish]

Mine is either:

binning the bike right outside work, with work m8s watching, as I locked the front wheel @ 15mph in the rain

Or:

Back wheel kicking out in oil, keeping it upright! pulling over to side of road to calm down (scared me a tad) then dropping bike on my leg, twisting my ankle very badly, having forgotton bikes dont stay rubber down on their own

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[biggerjohn]

[RobB]

1) Going to park bike at work, turning sideways to slide it in parallel to the kerb. Rain plus overhanging trees equals horizontal bike. I was left standing upright as the bike slid from underneath me, and I slowly jog towards it. Saw one person in their car watching/laughing, so I kept my helmet on until I was out of sight.

2) Also, about a month ago, four of us had stopped for lunch, parking the bikes up next to each other. As we're leaving, there's a mother and a kid looking like they want to cross in front of us. "After you" we say, the mum says that "Daddy" has a bike, and the kid likes them.

So we wave/salute him while our bikes warm up again. Other three guys to my left leave, I go to follow. Kid waves me off, I clunk into first, engine stops. Sidestand down..... The kid looked mortified, like the bike had died and it was his fault. I smile, blush some more, and restart.

Tried to do a wheelie to make it up to him, but failed that too..... Only good thing being that the other 3 guys I was with have/had no idea I'd done it.
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[Type_Mo]

Throittle on fully to turn in gravil and ended up kissing the gravel
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[EDBANGER]

It was either dropping a 372lg Harley in front of a large group of Harley riders or pulling up next to an air pump at the garage due to a ridiculously flat tire, getting off the bike and whlist scratching my head trying to figure out said air pump, the bike behind me just toppled over whilst my back was turned!! Damn bike.

Oooo and hitting the horn instead of the indicators, that one always gets me!

[Keen]

[MikeyC]

Either when I dropped my NSR at a mini roundabout, simply lost my balance on some loose stones, no idea how

Or when i went through the dartford toll in rush hour, wasn't paying attention and went to the auto-toll queue.... had to hold up traffic, reverse the bike out and get into the queues where you have to manually pay a person

[EDBANGER]

I suppose having to have the missus push the Harley from the front so I could back out of a space up hill was pretty embarassing! I just couldn't do it with leg power alone!

[Dark]

It has to be my first attempt at a BIG rolling stoppee. Got the back wheel up at about 70mph ish and it all went well for a while, but i got so excited i forgot to release the front brake to bring the back wheel back down again before i stopped and ended up stationary with the rear wheel 3 foot off the deck.

The bike just toppled over sideways painfully slowly and i was helpless to stop it with no way of being able to get my feet on the floor. Once a ZX7R builds up some momentum theres no way to stop it falling, even if you manage to get your feet on the ground fairly quickly, and all that in front of about 20 mates!!
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[Gazdaman]

Laying on the seat with my feet on the bars in a field at Snetterton, when the centre stand digs in and I and bike fall over.

That was great, luckily no-one saw.

Gaz

[kenny]

oh no that sounds well embarsing would have been embarrassing aslwell if it wasnt your bike and you ment to boot the sidestand the wrong way

well when i had the scoota it was a speed fight peugot and it had a lock attached to the bike which came out of the rear end well i had that round a lamp post and forgot it was their and tried to set off with it still attached* full revs moved a inch foward them bang gets pulled back to where i was and realised oh shit wot a tit i looked done the same with the disc lock on the nsr too loads of times its coz i need a reminder to put on the disc lock reminder is my excuse.
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[riichy]

pushing bike pass my college when it ran out of petrol.
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[Mongrel]

Day after I passed my test, demonstrating how to do a u-turn on my mates gravelled drive, then slowing to a stop and falling on my nose...



.....lesson learned? Never ever pull the front brake on gravel

[houlsby]

my bike braking down, just genrally. worse was with a load of mates near helmsley, the worse one was yesturday, doing a huge overtake holding the middle finger at a load of cars that had pulled out on me, then running out of petrol!!! bouncing up and down the road! 1st time i binned my bike, i was doing a rash overtake in a 30, diddnt realise there was a car the other way, it was either the car or the floor, so i opted for the floor, with my textiles slitting in half in the middle and rolling up giving me gravel rash on my belly and holding my balls from the bike dropping on them and my leg when i hit the deck!!!!

[McGee]

Running out of petty in my ped and having to push it 2 miles to petty station and being asked by the cops if it was stolen

Also didnt make it in to work so it helped in a way
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[mistergixer]

I actually enjoyed this moment, but had to pass it off as embarrasing:
One of the senior directors at my work rides a Harley(typical 'weekend warrior'), brings it in to work on a friday during the summer. Anyway, as i was parking my bike he was looking at an oil leak coming from his bike. Between stopping the engine, and swinging my leg over the seat cowl(SRAD GSXR), the director decided to squat down right behind me.
The result? As i swung my leg off, he was right in the path of my foot, and got my heel in the small of his back, knocking him over.
I really wanted to laugh, but had to pretend to be apologetic.

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[dodger]

^^^^^

I can think of some people I would love to do that to!

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[Marcg868]

Thats a good un that mondeo about the nodding but doesnt it feel special the nods now, part of the exclusive club (well one foot in the VIP lounge if your on L plates and small bike like me )

Dont really have an embarassing moment, apart from overtaking a car only to have my engine stutter because id ran out of fuel straight after the overtake
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