I think I have finally stopped hitting the horn. I still forget about the turn signals though. I just had a rookie mistake about three weeks ago, I was accelerating from a stop and went to shift into second and hit neutral, twice in a row! My foot was holding the shifter from returning to its normal position and it wouldn't shift up. It was kinda embarrising since I was accelerating hard. Oh and I generally use the kickstand to kill the bike when I park it, that way I don't forget about it.

 

My problem was that I would forget about my blinker all the damn time and I would drive around for awhile with it on. I also left the kickstand down a few times.

 

+1 on the blinkers, but what about honking the horn when turning the blinkers off! also, riding w/ friends that have pipes on their bikes, and i didnt, i was stalling it alot.

 

#1. +1 for blinker, first to neutral while acceling fast, kickstand at busy gas station, stalling in front of a crowd looking at you and leaving on the turn signal.

#2. After 50 miles on bike and backing out of garage and not knowing how to properly back it out; i was standing to the left side walking it out and the weight got a little to much the right side and over it went into some metal shelfs breaking the mirrow and scratching cowl.

#3. Pulling into a parking space facing down hill without being able to move forward and sideways due to cars being on all sides. It was a semi-busy night at Advanced Auto parts. Took about 10 minutes to back out and got a nice workout.


Not too bad for riding for a little less than a year!! haha and im sure more to come.

Lumberman

 

Yea i have heard of this, in the MSF course they suggest taking a crushed pop/beer can with you and throw it down under your kickstand.

+1 on hitting the horn when trying to cancel blinkers
+1 on something getting your attention after starting your bike and getting ready to take off forgetting the kickstand is down and killing it

Dunno if anyone had said this one yet or not, Forgetting your already in sixth and trying to kick up another gear?[8D]

 

the stupidest thing i can think of is when i let one of my friends try out my bike... and him being as new to riding as i was turn it off leaving it in 3rd gear.... i spent a total of 15 mins outside his house tryin to figure out what was wrong with my bike.. lol

 

+1 on the kickstand kill it.

 

i always forget to turn my blinker off. at the MSF class i went to they said to use a coaster for the kickstand and the asphalt. they even gave us one.

right after i bought my bike(first bike) i rode it around my apartments for about 30 minutes to get a hang of things. i kept dumping the clutch and killing it. i went out of the complex onto a small road and stopped at the stop sign, i went to turn right and dumped the clutch again and over she went. there was nothing i could do. luckily no one was around to see. hehe i now dont have a problem with the clutch.

parked it on a hill once and you can guess what happened.

 

I've done the turn signal and shifting up from 6th things, but the most potentially embarrassing one was having trouble getting the bike started, it finally fires up, I go about two blocks, and it sputters to a stop. I can't get it to start up again, and I'm about to call my buddies to come help, when it dawns on me that moving the fuel petcock from off to on might be a good idea. I'm actually surprised that I'm the first person to mention this - maybe I'm even more of a newbie than I thought!

BTW yes, this is my first post, and I'm really glad that I've found the site.

 

ive rode with the petcock turned off a couple times on the cb750, all of them were hilarious to everyone but me, haha. the horn, geez, that little bastard is so easy to tap when you're using the blinker. most of the time i look for the friendliest looking person around and wave at them, so it looks like i meant to honk, lol