I am going to try that technique as well.

 

my newb moment cost me a little

i took the bike out of the dealers lot, and went down the road and had to make a right hand turn. well its all good until i mix up the clutch with the front break ON the turn, the whole bike just slides from underneath me and im on the ground, nothing bad wasnt going too fast about 20mph maybe 25mph. now i have a cracked upper fairing and thats about it. the stupidest thing i have done yet.
the blinker and horn pisses me off a lot, happens on a regular basis when i wear my gloves.

 

I would say +1 on just about all the minor infractions. Fortunately for me, my hometown is small enough if I do honk my horn I probably really do know somebody in waving distance.lol. Anybody every put their kickstand down in some loose gravel. A restaraunt near my house I used to work at has real loose gravel for a parking lot. I ride in one night to visit them and didn't quite get the kickstand down all the way. The gravel decided to correct my mistake my quickly pushing it back up into the stow position, me to the ground, along with the bike. THANKFULLY nobody saw because I never would have lived it down. When I first got the bike I currently have I rode all the way back to my buddies house (a 20 minute ride) with the blinker on. Best part is they were behind me and just let me ride with it on. Its also kind of funny to see somebody new to riding try to wave for the first time at low speeds. They don't know wether to **** or go blind when that hand comes off the bars and the bike starts doing funky things. I've definitely had a lot of close calls too. Riding to my buddies house while I was on leave from the sandbox, it was a nice cold misty night and I didn't let the tires get as warm as I should have for the weather. Going around a curve on some newer asphalt the moisture had gather and bike just started to slide into the curve. I grabbed 2nd, kept her low, and attempted to ride out of it. Luckily for me somebody upstairs didn't want to see me in a bike wreck that night cause I shoulda been in that ditch. Thank The Man, for dumb luck.

 

The first night I got my bike I had to ride it home for about two hours to my house. My buddy drove me up there in a company truck and after we got on the freeway toward home. I took off and made some distance between the two of us. I checked the gas before I left and figured I had enough to get home. Well I didnt and i had to pull over on I-5 in norther cali. at night no less, I didnt know what position my reserve tank switch was. Turns out I was trying to start the bike while the petcock was in the off position, I proceded to do this untill the battery died, so finally my buddy in the truck notices me on the side of the interstate and pulles over because he thought I dumped it. The two of us loaded it into the back of the truck by LIFTING it, he pulled the front in while I put my index and middle fingers on each chain tensioning bolts on the end of each side of the swing arm, we didnt happen to have a ramp with us, and we get home safely. Then I look in the manual later and figure out what position the reserve is......I still forget what it is though....I think its straight forward. That was new though, other than that I usually end up riding with my blinker on for a few blocks each ride, and I always cruise on the freeway and try to hit that mysterious "7" gear. I hope someone got a laugh out of that.....my buddy sure did.

 

quotes may not work properly but the sentence says....Taking a crushed pop/beer can with you...

Hahhahahhahaha "yes kids, if you'll notice a good crushed beer can will do good for keeping your kickstand from sinking while you slam down a few more beers before you hop back on your bike and run it into a tree...here let me show you some videos"

lol


anywhoot: +1 blinker (i have stand light) +1 on trying to find a 7th gear and/or a 0 gear---hit a parked car before, whoops---slid into a burger king on oil once---hmm that wraps up what i'm going to share for now

 

so i left the petcock off when i was coming back to lunch from work.....you know what happens next. however, i killed my battery tried to start it again, and yeah.....that really sucked![sm=boosign.gif]

 

Once when working about 1.5hrs from work I was heading home on the 500r and it was raining so hard the rain was falling nearly horizontal. Anywhoot I am fine with that so I'm still doin 60-70 up a hill and the bike starts lagging on me so I kick it to reserve and realize I should have just around 35-40 miles left....well no! I go about 22miles and damn if that thing didn't stop running
About 20miles to my exit I am sitting the the pouring rain waiting 2 hours for a buddy of mine to find me and bring gas. I was soooo wet by the time I got home (this is in dress clothes, mind you)
Ok that's all....work time

 

rolling burnout having had the bike 2 days (first one 00 929) 2nd gear pinned out i decide i could just sit down an let go of the brake lever ... bad idea now i limp

 

Well two days after getting my bike home I went home at lunch to go practice riding it. I did fine around the neighborhood and I was going to park it and it stalled on the driveway and I wasn't ready for it so I dropped it and it broke the right mirror and scratched the fairing a little nothing to bad but pissed me off. The horn thing i do all the time. The last time I went ridding with some friends I accidently honked and they pulled over and aske what was wrong. I felt stupid. Oh well looks like i"m not the only one on the horn thing.

 

Ok, horn thing often, blinker thing at least once every ride, but my most embarrassing moment was the day after I got the bike, my buds wanted to check it out. So I roll to their place and their all out working on his truck in the driveway so I decide to go into stealth mode and hit the kill switch as I roll into the driveway. Well, after everyone "oohs" and "ahhhs" for about 15 minutes, I'm about to head out with them all standing there ready to hear it fire up. Nothing. Kick the stand up... nothing. After about 3 minutes of cranking, my bud says "kill switch?". I say a few choice words and thank God above I opten for the tinted shield as she fired up and I took off, leaving their laughing asses cracking up. Still haven't lived it down... and BTW, I don't use the kill switch anymore...EVER!!!