Time to change the underpants.

[ThunderGuts]

I'm fortunate (so far!) that I've not had any serious near misses, the worst was a rural B-road somewhere in the north-west Yorkshire Dales. My mate and I were on a weekend tour, I was only 9 months into my riding. It was late in the day, we were both getting pretty tired, the intercom batteries had died. My mate is a much more competent rider and was riding a much much sportier bike (his S1000XR vs my Street Twin). He was leading and a left hand turn, a bit blind, I went into a bit hot trying to keep up with him. It then tightened up mid-turn, but I didn't have the experience to deal with this properly and rather than lean the bike in even more (I was already leaning about as far as I'd ever leant at this stage!) I pulled the anchors. The bike had ABS and it was dry, so no loss of traction, but of course the bike stood up and I ploughed straight onto the other side of the road, only just managing to recover it before the hedge. Thank f*ck there wasn't any oncoming traffic or else I'd have been toast.

Several lessons learnt that day; don't enter a blind bend fast (especially when you don't know it), don't brake when cornering (or at least only the slightest feathering of the rear brake) and don't ever try and keep up with a faster rider and in doing so push the envelope of your own ability.
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[BanditsHigh]

Early morning (just after 6am) on the M74, winter so dark and also pissing down ... doing around 90 in the outside lane ........ then the bars went to full left lock

The brain just went ...... ooooooooooh fuck ..... a few seconds passed and then the bars went straight again ... needless to say, I slowed down!!

Lesson learnt, going fast in the rain and hitting standing water will make you aquaplane ... to this day I still can't believe I didn't come off.

All the best ... Barry

[BRUN]

[chickenstrip]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Yep, when it happened to me I got thrown about 8' into the air and then sliding down the road at 50 mph.
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Sprint ST 1050

[chickenstrip]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

Had a couple of cars pull out from T-junctions (after looking me right in the eyes) that I've not had time to brake for, literally just had to pin it and swerve around them. Last one missed me by what seems like millimeters. Both times BMW drivers acting like they own Seat Leons

Had a right old tank-slapper on the 929 coming onto the motorway after I pinned it on the slip road, just a few seconds but when doing <the speed limit> and joining a motorway isn't the best time for it.

Had a good "Nitro Nori" moment this week coming off a roundabout as well, got on the power and the back end came loose (only doing about 40) but managed to stay on the power and got it back into line again. Must have looked like a right hooligan during rush hour traffic
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[ThunderGuts]

I suspect the tankslapping is possibly aggravated by the load distribution on the wheels too; I've heard of reports where luggage has caused it at speeds where the unladen bike is fine. I suspect this is more to do with aerodynamics than the dead weight itself, but it's still effectively the weight on the wheels changing (presumably the front of the bike unloading?).
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[c_dug]

I don't know if I've had too many to pick one, or not had one bad enough to stand out from the crowd
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I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.

[Nobby the Bastard]

My slapper was induced by coming off a cowshit covered road that was causing me to lose grip from both tyres. I must have hit the clear grippy section of road a bit crossed up because that's when all hell suddenly broke loose.
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Sprint ST 1050

[chickenstrip]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Weisse Schlange]

Right hander flat out on a supermoto, leaning that far over that a transit came round the other way and I ducked under his wing mirror.

2 coffees after that one.
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[stinkwheel]

[chickenstrip]

In a real lock-to-lock job, you don't get any choice - you can't do anything other than let go of the bars if you don't want to break your hands.
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

[fw750x]

40 odd years ago on the Back of a mates Suzuki GT 185. It was the summer time , My mate and another of my mates got GT 185,s . The nearest Off license was about 2 miles away and you where lucky if the on the hour bus would turn up. So i asked my mate would he take me down and bring me back again to get the carry out. No problem jump on so away we go down to the off license with no worries at all. I come out with the carry outs in a Big haversack and climb on board. We are heading back down the 30 mph Speed limit road at 30 mph when an RD 400 Go,s hammering past us , Que my mate down two gears and opens up the Bike flat out to catch the RD 400 , We are now doing about 60 mph and Catching the RD . He see,s us closing in and opens it up with a huge Blast of 2 stroke smoke and takes off again with us in pursuit. Now the road we are on is in a built up area has a Slight Kink in the road that go,s to the right . The mate did not see the Kink in the road and Hits the Kerb were a driveway is and we took off about 5 feet in the air and flew about 25 feet before we landed on 2 wheels with my feet planted into the ground so that we would not fall off . When we stopped my mate took off his helmet he was Pure white and had the shakes and was sweating bucket loads he could not speak for about 5 minutes . I rode the bike back home with him on the Back that took the speed out of him he never did that again , He sold the bike around 2 months later and bought a Mark 2 Escort. I have never went on the Back of anyone since then i would walk or get the bus .

[Nobby the Bastard]

Yep, according to the witnesses who were driving in the opposite direction they came round a corner to see my bike sans rider barrelling down the road and then I fell out the sky into their headlight beam (it was dark) and bounced a couple of times before I finally slid to a halt.

Yes, that smarted a bit. I had pains in places that I didn't even realise existed for a couple of weeks and almost ended up with gangrene in my knee because the hospital didn't clean it properly or give me antibiotics.
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Sprint ST 1050

[hellkat]

Nobby the peg-leg is a difficult image to scrape from one's mind.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Nobby the tripod.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Sprint ST 1050

[grr666]

[hellkat]

I'm not off!


... I'm ripe.
Like a brie.
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[bhinso]

I was out on my first bike (KMX125) late at night (about 1am) in Sleaford. Crossroads with Green lights so progressed, whereupon a car with no lights on shot across me (having gone through a red light) at estimated 70mph. Missed me by inches, and the yoofs didn't stop.

[Shaft]

[ThunderGuts]