Leaving from work today, Friday traffic on a naval base (the largest naval base in the world) with tons of traffic around me, a fire truck passes us going in the opposite direction and traffic comes to a sudden stop. That’s not really my mistake yet. I have a habit of balancing as long as I can when stopping before putting a foot down. When I went to move my foot, it was stuck. My pants leg was over the heel guard and held me in place long enough to fall over. Talk about embarrassing moments. Lucky for me, I installed a set of vortex frame sliders a few weeks back and they did the trick. All I got was a scuff on the bottom of the puck. I had to turn the key off and back on to reset the safety so I could start it back up. So I’ve shared my “to date most embarrassing moment”… what’s yours?

 

I came close to doing that myself (shoelace stuck) but was able to rip my foot off the peg at the last moment.

 

It was very cold in Michigan and I was very proud of my newly purchased snowmobile gloves to keep my hands warm. When I left work I was excited to try out these gloves for the first time (I wore normal gloves during the daytime ride into work), so I don my gloves and noticed they were very thick in the palms and I could barely feel the throttle and controls..."no problem," I think, "its just going to take a minute to get use to." I start the bike and get ready to leave the parking structure and see this beautiful female Wayne County Police officer with a kickin' booty talking on her cell phone, so I'm totally distracted...and can't feel the controls. I start my turn and notice a car out of my peripheral vision and attempted to pull the clutch in and brake, but I couldn't feel the controls very well and the clutch slipped out, the bike jolted forward, the throttle got yanked to full and the bike spun around letting out a full throttle scream VAHHHHROOOMMMMM, then hit the ground. I was embarrassed because this happened right behind this beautiful officer, but she didn't even turn around and look!?!?!? After my Aaron Yates temper tantrum I lifted the bike and gingerly rode home with my new, warm gloves.

I see this officer regularly and asked her if she noticed any loud motorcycles falling behind her and she laughed and said "I didn't hear a thing...when I'm off duty and leaving work I don't hear a thing."

 

*****....

AHHHHHHHHHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH ROFL-MFAO!!!!

Sorry, i thought I was the only one to do that... to make it worse, im wearing the pants I did that with RIGHT NOW, and my buddy also got that gay **** on tape... ... I was rolling out of my semi steep driveway, and went to turn out of it. My pant leg got caught on the heal guard while i was turning and I couldnt get it off... I went down as slow as a turtle puts his head out... ON TAPE... to make it worse, I was having my sliders installed the next day so I put myself under my bike cause I didnt want it to get scratched... long story shorter. I sprained my ankle.

But it was quite funny. also to watch it over and over again with all your firneds laughing cause you look retarded laying it down slower than slow... lol

 

This is great, keep the stories coming. It's nice that we can laugh at our own mistakes like this. All the way home after this happen today, running errands and such.... I keep lifting my foot off to peg to see if I'm stuck, even while I was running 80 on I64. I’m kind of paranoid now. It was nice to see how much the frame slider protected. I assumed if I ever did drop it, I'd have to replace the mirror and/or turn signal. I was amazed as I was picking the bike up with NO DAMAGE AT ALL. Just a little scare on the slider puck (and my ego). I feel what you're saying OneWheelinRR, I would have loved to my fall on tape. It was slow motion, seemed like I was falling for ever and what ever signals my brain was sending to my leg just weren't working.

 

lol haha...

No kiddin.

 

gas station. trying to reach for the reciept... jumped off real quick cuz i couldn't reach it...leaned my bike against my leg to reach a little farther...pushed on the bike with my upper thigh. When i realized it was going over and basically couldn't hold it. I sorta slowly laid my bike down ...only it was too fast to stop. a guy behind me just started laughing. i jumped over it and picked it up and took off...neadless to say i just left the reciept.
Although, i have gotten my pants stuck. luckly it's never happened when i am stoppin.

 

The shoe lace or pant leg caught on the peg routine is the funniest though because your so helpless, I've seen it happen to a few people and it's a real knee slapper!!!

 

On my first bike my front-end slid out from underneath me when coming to a panic stop near the Las Vegas strip during rush hour. The bike fell over on its side and busted the side engine cover and started leaking oil. As if falling off in the middle of rush hour traffic wasn't bad enough, as I tried to pick up the bike, I ended up slipping from the oil and dropping the bike 2 - 3 more times.

 

j dub???^^

that u? lol