Here's an other one. I was riding up my street a couple of weeks ago at about fourty mph on my Hd with forward controls and a large dog trotted out from behind a parked car about ten/fifteen feet in frront of me. I had to hold my speed in case I had to try to motocross over him and swung left. He kept comming and I hit him square in the head with the controls. He was laying prone on the pavement with blood comming out of his mouth as I got off the bike. I was talking to a neighbor with my back to the dog thinking I had killed him and feeling pretty shixxy about it when the neighbor said there he goes. You should have seen tht dog hauling azz up the road. The story ends well as I contacted the owner and other than being lethargic for a few days and sporting a big knot on his head he was ok.

 

A first ride of the year on my son's VFR did it to me. No excuse, each spring there's sand and gravel on every street in the city. At the first stop light I got on the brakes and locked up the front wheel. No idea why I didn't go down, except the thought of my son's reaction if I brought the bike back scratched gave me extra reason to stay right side up.

 

Some hectic stories in here!

Ring flutter for me was riding my dear departed APrilia RS125 along an icy road in the freezing cold through the mountains - ice is bad enough, and worse on a motorbike... but a two stroke GP rep? Might've only had 33hp but it all came in like a lightswitch ahahaha... good times!

- boingk

 

You got to love that 2 stoke power band, I enjoyed mine a little too much once, this is what my RZ500 looked like after a tree jumped out in front of me.

 

You've gotta watch out for them trees. They'll do **** like that and they are very unforgiving.

 

aye as a younger lad the RD350LC was my idea of motorized insanity
flick of a switch was right !

 

Fess up time, this is what happened to me after locking up the front wheel on my dirt bike up the bush new years eve, yes I had been drinking and no I was not wearing a helmet...

 

Ouch, that made me wince and I'm on the other side of the Tasman.

Lessons we can learn from Jarvid (and thank you for undertaking this experiment for us Jarvid)

1) Try at all costs not to lock up the front wheel on a chook chaser.

2) If you can't resist locking up the front wheel, it's probably a good idea to have a helmet on.

3) It's probably never a good idea to drag out your chook chaser on New Years eve when you've had a few.

But, thanks for the experiment Jarvid, I am sure we're all wiser people because of the research you have undertaken on our behalf.