Embarassing fall

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DRider

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Bah, I have some pretty bad luck. Was going to stop in at work today to drop off a note for one of the managers, and as I'm turning into the car park, the bike somehow lost traction and went out from under my feet. Note; I work at McDonalds. There were a few cars on drive-thru. One asked for the CCTV footage. The managers will see me falling of my face on CCTV. Bugger. I don't even know how I fell, I wasn't even going at a particularly low angle, the back wheel just went. Very strange. Busted up my knee and my left hand a bit, and my rear-left indicator is a bit bent, now covered in duct-tape.

Anybody else fancy sharing some random/unexpected/embarrassing accidents with their bikes so I don't feel like a retard? lol
 
I ride a big ol' honkin touring cruiser, several hundred pounds along with hard saddlebags and a big harley touring trunk. I completely forgot to put down the kickstand one day. Once it starts to lean over, it's gone, all there is to it. Luckily, she rested on the floorboard and I was able to muscle her back up. Felt pretty stupid!
 
Bike was on its rear paddock stand and I had the side stand up as I had run the engine and engaged first gear to try and spot a weird squeak. Anyhow when I had finished I hold the bike by its rear grab rails and flip the paddock stand up... usually I just now lean it over onto its side stand... DOH forgot to put it back down, I already started to lean it over when I realised what I had forgot to do.

So I'm at the rear of the bike its leaning over and I'm straining with all my might to stop it falling, somehow I managed to straighten it back up and put the stand down. But when I finally got it on it stand I turn around and my neighbour is clapping out the window at me...

Sigh
 
Popped to my local supermarket after work one day to get some "dinner" (Chocolate) and parked and got my phone out as I had heard it going off. As I just finished texting my friend I went to get off the bike not realizing that I had forgotten to put the side stand down and timber! The bike was on its side but thankfully I had fitted crash bobbins so nothing was damaged........except my pride.
 
I think most people have had an embarrassing fall, I've had one. Luckily it was in my garage so it was only me around but still embarrassing. When your bike weighs 800 lbs then it can be hard to keep it upright when it starts tipping at a standstill. No damage luckily.

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I have an awesome scar on my right shin that will forever display the stupidity I showed that random night I went to lean on the left side of my bike in my driveway. Don't even know how I actually got the scar, or how the bike hit my shin, because it was facing the opposite way, and the bike fell backwards.
 
Nothing can be as embarrassing as me falling off a bike while out on a lesson. Stopped at the test centre so one of the guys could swap radios. I got on the bike, started wondering when I'd be siting the Mod 1 test, went to kick up the stand and for some reason I didn't have my right foot down(?) and I went right over! Was actually quite sore, smashed a wing mirror, my pride and made an a**e of myself at the test centre with even turning on the bike hahaha!
 
1. Grabbed a handful trying to pull onto the highway from gravel - 360'd the bike and came down on my knee (kevlar). Not my bike, with my brother in law (who professionally stunts), HIS BIKE from their BIKE SHOP - broke a lever, scraped the can, third time on street bike and I was in way over my head. Let pride get me in too deep. Wanted to die.

2. Pulled into a steepish driveway to turn around, half way through the tight turn I lose momentum and I start to go backwards/sideways. Slowly, slowly, slowly am able to lay the bike down on the crash bobbins - radiator overflow comes loose and pisses hot water all over my pants. Gardener at the house just watches me. Battery was dead so I had to bump start it down the hill. Wanted to die.

You sir, are not alone.
 
Went to put my old GS500 up on the center stand when i parked it in the garage. I must have walked through a puddle in the drive or something and the bottom of my boot was wet. Half way up on the stand my foot slipped off, the bike quickly dropped and fell away from me so there was no way for me to save it :( Managed to bend a lever and it bend my my slip-on off the exhaust pipe! had to refit everything with sealant and buy a new brake lever. Pain in the ass :lol:

I was on my own, but as soon as it fell i had a quick check to the window to see if anybody saw, i was safe :P
 
How about this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUXuGzAdDDw[/youtube]

At least the tiny little woman lifted my bike up for me, though.

:?
 
Quite a few years ago I crashed my moped on a wet roundabout, uncannily one of my CBT instructors was driving by at the time and saw the whole thing. :oops:
 
The worst I've ever seen was on the Stratford-Upon-Avon waterfront, back when thousands of bikes and tourists descended on it every Sunday.

Someone had rocked up on a brand spanking new Ducati with all the bells and whistles. Hoards of Japanese tourists were taking photo's of the bike and a huge crowd gathered around as he made ready to ride off.

He gave it several beautiful handfulls of finest V-twin revs, and then slipped the clutch and sped forward in a thunderous roar...

... for about a foot, after which the disclock hit the caliper, and he very slowly and very expensively tipped sideways and lay down amongst thousands of pounds worth of shattered plastic.

:D
 
i have two i once drove into a hedge a twenty miles an hour no one saw so i got the bike back up and i once caught air over a humbback theres a reason i put that there though because when you do it you shit yourself
 
Took the bandit off the centre stand whilst standing uphill from it, you don't do that on a bike the weight of the Bandit, over she went!
 
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I swear, this place gives me bad luck. I started my bike earlier today outside work, and actually stupidly started thinking back to some of the posts here going "Gosh, how can you just drop your bike?" After bump starting, I roll the bike forward a bit, go to move it into a parking space, and then... oh no... it just starts going down on it's right side. I tried to stop it, but it was no use. It just lay softly onto the crash bars, and sadly got knocked off as I must've slipped the clutch while still in second gear, so I had to bump again. It really is quite easy to do that, I now well realise. haha
 
I reckon I've done ok in my year of riding so far :lol: I've had to lay my bike down on my drive as I tried turning around but it's on a steep slope and tried pulling away in neutral, luckily i realised before all balance was lost and smashed it into 1st. I've also got caught on the gear lever but i wasn't coming to a stop.
 
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