Am I the only dumb a$$ to do this???
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I've had a few mishaps in the MX world... but about a week after I got my '05 600RR I had the most embarassing thing in the world happen. I was turning around in my driveway, paying attention to the pine needles and such, when a pinecone falls and lands right in front of my tire. At almost no speed, I suddenly end up with the bike on my leg. I reached for my cell phone, called the neighbor, and had him stand the bike up. Not a scratch, except for my pride.
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Yeah that sounds like a good idea. I just didn't want to get any scratches on the bike... so I sacrificed my pride instead... I can repair that with greater ease and less cost than the bike...
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hahah... mine isnt that bad but still funny either way, here in Orange County we have this canyon run that runs up chapman into the hills n' stuff. its a really nice/fun ride and theres a ton of bikes up there on the weekends. anyways, about a few miles down this road theres a bar called cooks corner and theres always A TON of bikes there to hang out and have a drink if you want. anyways, myself and 7 of my buddies went up there one day, and i go to put my kickstand down and i didnt put it down all the way. i get off my bike to have it fall over and it also takes out my buddies bike... there must have been like 20+ people that were standing around and everyone turns around to check out what happend. hahah. i didn't want to take my helmet off so people wouldnt know who i was, so i just got my bike back up and took off after saying sorry to my buddy
. hahah that sucked.
. hahah that sucked.
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I see all of these stories of frame sliders saving the day....Do they actually protect your plastics? Cause i can't visualize how that little thing can hit first before your mirrors plastics pegs etc.?
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I see all of these stories of frame sliders saving the day....Do they actually protect your plastics? Cause i can't visualize how that little thing can hit first before your mirrors plastics pegs etc.?
I see all of these stories of frame sliders saving the day....Do they actually protect your plastics? Cause i can't visualize how that little thing can hit first before your mirrors plastics pegs etc.?
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I'll share mine and give this thread a bump[8D]
I had just put some take-offs on and one night I decided to go for a ride. It was pretty cold, about 40 deg. and I made the first right turn at the bottom of my street, started to roll the throttle on and it swapped ends on me, spun about two full revolutions on its rt frame slider.
Bruised my ego pretty well. Damage was scratched fairing, upper, signal, broken mirror, and scratched my 1-day-old Jardine slip-on.
I'll even thrown down a pic:
I had just put some take-offs on and one night I decided to go for a ride. It was pretty cold, about 40 deg. and I made the first right turn at the bottom of my street, started to roll the throttle on and it swapped ends on me, spun about two full revolutions on its rt frame slider.
Bruised my ego pretty well. Damage was scratched fairing, upper, signal, broken mirror, and scratched my 1-day-old Jardine slip-on.
I'll even thrown down a pic:
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Well there goes nothing…
I was turning around in my yard so I could go for a nice little ride. My glove got snagged on the wirer form my mp3 player, I looked down to unhook it and my house JUMPED out in front of me. And you know as well as I do that when you are traveling at the whaping speed of 3.5 mph $h!t just flashes by and you don’t have time to react! So the house helped me realize that it was not a good day for a ride after all. So I picked the bike up and put the cover back on and want inside, by the time I got back inside my loving wife had already called one of my friends and was calling a second… she was laughing so hard she has crying. The best part of it all is that it was on grass and my bike had no damage cool right? Wrong!!! I broke two pieces of siding and an outside outlet, my wife made me take the money out of my bank account to pay for the house. [sm=boohoo.gif]
I was turning around in my yard so I could go for a nice little ride. My glove got snagged on the wirer form my mp3 player, I looked down to unhook it and my house JUMPED out in front of me. And you know as well as I do that when you are traveling at the whaping speed of 3.5 mph $h!t just flashes by and you don’t have time to react! So the house helped me realize that it was not a good day for a ride after all. So I picked the bike up and put the cover back on and want inside, by the time I got back inside my loving wife had already called one of my friends and was calling a second… she was laughing so hard she has crying. The best part of it all is that it was on grass and my bike had no damage cool right? Wrong!!! I broke two pieces of siding and an outside outlet, my wife made me take the money out of my bank account to pay for the house. [sm=boohoo.gif]
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Well there goes nothing…
I was turning around in my yard so I could go for a nice little ride. My glove got snagged on the wirer form my mp3 player, I looked down to unhook it and my house JUMPED out in front of me. And you know as well as I do that when you are traveling at the whaping speed of 3.5 mph $h!t just flashes by and you don’t have time to react! So the house helped me realize that it was not a good day for a ride after all. So I picked the bike up and put the cover back on and want inside, by the time I got back inside my loving wife had already called one of my friends and was calling a second… she was laughing so hard she has crying. The best part of it all is that it was on grass and my bike had no damage cool right? Wrong!!! I broke two pieces of siding and an outside outlet, my wife made me take the money out of my bank account to pay for the house. [sm=boohoo.gif]
Well there goes nothing…
I was turning around in my yard so I could go for a nice little ride. My glove got snagged on the wirer form my mp3 player, I looked down to unhook it and my house JUMPED out in front of me. And you know as well as I do that when you are traveling at the whaping speed of 3.5 mph $h!t just flashes by and you don’t have time to react! So the house helped me realize that it was not a good day for a ride after all. So I picked the bike up and put the cover back on and want inside, by the time I got back inside my loving wife had already called one of my friends and was calling a second… she was laughing so hard she has crying. The best part of it all is that it was on grass and my bike had no damage cool right? Wrong!!! I broke two pieces of siding and an outside outlet, my wife made me take the money out of my bank account to pay for the house. [sm=boohoo.gif]
Nice! That's funny!!! Sorry about the damage. Maybe that was a good omen not to ride. Someone up above may have just saved your behind from God knows what... a Semi or something! (Just look at it this way anyway, it won't seem as bad then!
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this is the dumbest thing ive ever done with my bike.. plz tell me if you guys have done the same just say yes ill feel better....well im doing my second oil change and i drane the oil replace the oil filter... i walked away to get a drink come back and i started to poor the oil in. 3 quarts later i check my oil window thing and nothin.. its empty..........
i looked at my oil pan and shruged. i forgot to put in the oil screw... its like holding a twenty dollar bill and throwing it in the trash..
i looked at my oil pan and shruged. i forgot to put in the oil screw... its like holding a twenty dollar bill and throwing it in the trash..