dumbest thing you've done in the 2-wheel world?

[lksseven]

I thought it might be fun to have people share the dumbest or funniest thing that they've done (or will admit to) in regards to riding or working on motorcycles.   My contribution is, unfortunately, exceedingly current (see Puzzle on My JackPiner just below this post).   I also had a story I told this summer about making a fiberglass expansion chamber in 1971 for my 1970 Steeltanker, and having it blow a hole in the side, without my knowledge, and spew hot air against my lace up leather boot while I was riding hard and fast.  Once the heat built up in the boot, to where I felt it, I jumped off the bike in full flight and was flipping like a fish out of water trying to get that boot unlaced and off my foot.     I have a friend who was with me that day that still, a couple of times a year, starts snot-laughing about it.  

Anyone else brave enough to give the group a laugh or two?  I could use a little help wearing this big pointy hat :-)

Larry Seale
I choose to ride

[DKWRACER]

Larry, I luv humor. Just because your hat comes to a point, doesn't meen you're sharpe, case in point. My dear Bultaco buddy, Bultaco Bob, recently built a full-on Pursang, I was there the day of the inagural "firing" after twenty kicks, she finally lit, what remains that came out of the exhaust? Bittso pieces of red schemgmum.......in his haste, he forgot to remove the red shop rag from the TE, will never forget the inscription on his face...red, like the Irish within, and the deposits on the garage door, a moment to never be forgotten, itsa a true story. how's the chili?
Tom...

[cubfan1968]

OK Boys, here it goes. When I was 17 we had a farm, my brother and I built a motorcycle track around the pasture. The track took you through the pasture and past some of the out buildings. Well one day I was getting on my CR 250 pretty fast when a cow ran out from behind the chicken coop. Yepper I hit him. Got the bike turned sideways so I hit him broadside. The cow bellered and ran like a banshee. I must have suprised him pretty good cause he left me little presant to remember him by.   [B)][B)][B)][B)]

Yep, those were the good old days.

Rod Whitman
1972 6 Day (Rider)
1972 6 Day (Project)

[Bryson Williams]

4 years ago I built a killer 125 Husky.  Best of everything money could buy.  First thing I did was put the piston in backwards.  Caught that fairly quick.  Then I some how got the Mikuni slide in backwards.  Interestingly enough the bike ran but only on the very top end.  I won both motos. I was later commenting to my engine builder the problem.  

My friend Matt Waldron pulled the carb top and laughed for about 1/2 hour.  He then anounced my boo boo at the trophy presentation. I was pretty embarrassed.

Dirk

[DKWRACER]

Larry, while on the subject, would be very " enlightening" to hear from the likes of our LEADERS. Cumon boyz Dane, Paul, Doug....surely there are a few treasured laughs, that should be shared[8D]
Tom....

[hanksie]

If ya ever put duct tape over the breather holes of yer 74.5 Piner frame before washing,REMEMBER to remove forementioned tape before re-placing gas tank tank and going to a harescramble.  Bill

[lksseven]

Tom,

the chili is GREAT!  It's been down in the single digits the last two night, so the chili has been well placed.  Thank you so much!



Larry Seale
I choose to ride

[TGTech]

First off, you have to remember that the mind tends to block unpleasant experiences, so I can't remember much. HOWEVER, as long as I've been involved in motorcycling, I've probably done every stupid thing that everybody else has. Rags in the intake when the filter is out, paper towels in the exhaust when the pipe is off, forgetting to tighten the mag nut and have the flywheel come loose and the key shear.

And then there is the loop the bike out in front of all your buddies while trying to show everybody how good you can do a wheelie.

Dane

[firstturn]

I think Larry Perkins said it best when he said "the wrong things happened when he used to tell his Friends watch this".  All I will add to that is man did it hurt.[:0]

Ron Carbaugh

[lksseven]

Ron and Dane, that reminds me of a news item I saw a week or two ago ...

National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had
"covertly" funded a project with the U.S. automakers for the past 5 years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice recorders in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash.

They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Sh*t !"

Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Lousiana, Missouri and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were:"Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."

Larry Seale
I choose to ride

[Ron]

Hi Guys,
Here's my dumbest (boderline stupid) story.
First off this goes way back to the day when smoking cigarettes was a cool thing to do.
One evening a friend of mine and I were trying to get his Suzuki 250 X6 Hustler to run (wish I had that one).
After changing several old spark plugs with more old plugs and then kicking a million times each, it wouldn't start.
I sugggested making sure it had enough gas in the tank.
My Dad had a dimly lit garage back in those days so when I took off the gas cap, it was to dark to see down in the tank.
Quickly I reached into my pocket retrieving my trusty Zippo and promptly lit the tank on fire.
In shear panic we both turned and ran. At about 30ft we turned back to see the flame still burning.
We stood there watching it burn for a few seconds and then I thought "throw some dirt on it". Scrambling to grab hand fulls of dirt from a flower bed, we began throwing dirt on it and into the gas tank. No matter it kept burning.
Not knowing what else to do, I had another brilliant idea run for the garden hose! I ran to the side of the house and grabbed the hose. I turned on the hose and ran back around the front of the garage, turning the water hose on my friend who was standing there with his t-shirt off, smothering the the fire.
More proof cigarette smoking can kill you.
RonW

[Rain Man]

I've never ever did anything dumb or funny while riding dirt bikes or working on dirt bikes either.
 since 1973 !!

Raymond
 Down East Pentons

[nsujeff]

Hi Guys
 My dumbest or funniest motorcycle moment  depending on the perspective, rider or audience(buddies),was when I was 18 or 19 years old.
 I had just bought a few year old 1976 Honda MR 250 from Penton's here in Amherst, and was riding it in my dad's pasture.My brothers and I had a little figure eight track set up with the crossover at  the gate between the two fields. There was an old overgrown brush pile that groundhogs had basically made into a potentially perfect dirt pile for a jump.
 Riding the MR around the pasture to get the feel of it as my previous bike was an old street Honda 100cc I  converted into a "dirt"bike. My friends  had come over to see this "new" machine and waited for a turn to ride a 250! Their experience on a bike was limited to a Trail 90 or my 100.
 The moment of truth came to jump the old brushpile. I gathered speed ,much faster than the 100, and readied myself to show off some! .All of a sudden as I came to the top of the pile I was instantly ejected off the bike ,sailed through the into the the fence row!!(Complete with pricker bushes and an old 60s VW body for character)Of course I couldn't have went through the gate! The bike immediately followed me into all that mess on top of me. I got out from under the bike scratched and bloodied ,but otherwise intact , wondered what the heck happened.
 After my buddies came to see if I was OK ,we went up the trail to the top of the pile to see what went wrong . Well... I seemed to have overlooked the fact that the 250 was a much bigger bike than the 100 which meant that the handlebars would probably be WIDER!!!! DUH, should have trimmed all the spindly trees and brush growing on either side to compensate. Needless to say , my buddies did not want any thing to do with the bigger bike. I picked it up ,straightened up the fork to match the handlebars and rode the rest of the afternoon. I'm  just glad there weren't camcorders back then.

 The moral of this story even though I had ridden it a 100 times before is...[B)]
                "Know your trail before you show off!"

Jeffrey P. Borer

[bentrims]

So, Ikseven gets full credit for CARBON FIBER 20 years before its time. Did the Skunk Works team use you on the F-117 stealth fighter project?

[lksseven]

Bentrims,

Sadly, no.  I think my creativity evaded their radar
I think the primary contribution I made that day was to highlight the need for heat shielding pads on the inside of the pant legs [xx(]

Larry Seale
I choose to ride