Stupidest thing you did on a bike.

[McGrude]

In light of the "Biggest break you've received from a cop?" thread, what's the stupidest thing you've done on a bike and haven't been stopped?

Ok, here's mine...

I was 20, and bought a Honda CB350 twin for $75 that needed valve seals and burned oil like it was going out of style. Anyway one day I wanted to take it to work. I hadn't transferred the registration yet and it had expired tags. I put the plate from my other bike (with current tags) on it and rode it to work.

After my shift I asked the graveyard shift dude to buy me a six pack. He headed across the street to the Nut House in Palo Alto and got it for me. Well I consumed the whole thing in about an hour just hanging out at work talking, and then headed home.

I was fucked up and should never have gotten on the bike. I was doing 70 down Oregon Expressway before I had to make my left at Middlefield road. As I was sitting there waiting for the left turn green light I realized how fucking stupid what I am doing was and stayed the speed limit the rest of the way home.

Damn I really should have been taught a lesson, but I suppose I taught it to myself. Alcohol + motorcycles = bad idea.

 

[Karbon]

hit a suburban

 

[CuriousMike]

I went really, really, really, really fast on my ex-Hayabusa on the street.

 

[adamsix]

Hit an asian driver while she failed to yield. That was back 02

 

[Jack the Smack]

Went 135mph on the 280 with a passenger on the back, in a turn, between two cars. She didn't know how fast we were going cause she closed her eyes when she saw the gauge hit 100.

 

[SuperMike]

:loco Xanax and Ambien.

 

[pB0t]

Tried to ride with the cable lock still on...luckily no serious damage.

 

[chrism650]

Broke my collarbone on turn 6 at infineon.... hit the brakes when i coulda made it, hit the grass, hit a sewer cover and flipped over my bike and landed on my shoulder causing my collarbone to break

2nd trackday.... took me out last dec 7th...

cant wait till march!!! whooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[clutchslip]

In high school, I slid across a neighbor's lawn and under their bushes. I passed out until the next morning. I was on a dirt bike. I was drunk.

I tried to jump a cement wash on another race/dirt bike. I didn't make it. It wasn't even close. Me and Evil have something in common, I guess. Oh, two things - see drinking, above.
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[Hearts]

So far, doing a wheelie without intending to.

At an intersection when the light turned green, I guess I "dropped the clutch" (is that the phrase?) and my front end went up about 6 inches. Luckily, it went back down, and I got to drive off like nothing happened.

My boyfriend was in his truck behind me and later asked, "What happened back there?" >_<

 

[Junico]

Wheelied over the entire hump of the San Mateo Bridge. Wheelied the full span of the Carquinez Bridge.


... did it once. never again. young and stupid.

 

[Mick-e]

I was on a family outing in Italy. We had rented a series of villas in the Tuscan country side. I had a KTM enduro rental bike. After a big family dinner, and an evening of playing beer pong with the college kids I decided it was a good idea to ride my bike on the dirt roads on the farm we where staying at. After riding really slowing (because at least I knew I was loaded) I got to the end of the dirt road overlooking a big valley, and forgot to put my foot down. OK so I fell over. Each time I tried to stand the bike up I knocked it over the other side. After dropping the bike three or four times I finally got it upright with the kickstand down. I decided I needed to take a break so I sat down in a nearby tractor that was used to harvest hay, and promptly passed out. I woke to the sun shining on my face, and rode back to the villa. Can you say freaked out family when I came riding up in my nice clothes with blood stains on them (cut my hand when I fell over the first time)
Yeah that was pretty dumb.
But how many people can say they passed out in a tractor on a farm in Tuscany, after riding their dirtbike to get to it.

 

[Gunzen]

In 1987-8? I raced a guy with a 1987 GSXR-750 while I was on my 1986 FZ750 down capitol expressway between eastridge and ocala, ran a light had the tach and speedo buried, said 145 but I doubt it , most likey 130-5,...oh, and that was before helmet law and i didnt have one on.

and He got the jump on me, and my midrange was better and he quit early (smart).

 

[07chuck]

It has to be one with the woman.....

 

[Blacknblue]

I rode my dirt modded 125 cc Suzuki street twin without my prescription glasses and pulled out in front of a car in the desert. Hit the side of the car which was going fast but still my stupid fault.

I don't count the times I rode intoxicated before I quit drinking because that falls in the "Insane" category., or maybe "Insanely Stupid." An accident prompted me to go into CDRP at Kaiser Hospital on a voluntary basis. Looks like I'm back to plain old stupid.:laughing

(CDRP=Chemical Dependency Recovery Program)

 

[codger]

left motorcycle parking at my high school on the rear wheel while on the rear wheel discovered i had neglected to unlock the forks! this ended badly.

same school different bike rode yamaha trail bike with unmuffled expansion chamber down bottom floor hallway during class. got away clean due to my dark tinted shield.

i got a million of them!

 

[Cereal KLR]

Alcohol+ Kawasaki 500 triple (ported by Jack`s Go shop in San Bruno):thumbup = real stupid idea. Made it home with no memory of tearing the bottom off my chucka boots (hey it was the seventies).

 

[jstabeemer]

Oh boy.. When you have ridden for 30 years you do lots of stupid stuff. Back when I was about 22. We got drunk and I rode my motorcycle home. It wasn't far. I sped down the street and a cop was on the other side. There was a median so he had to back up first. I just split and got to my house and garaged the bike. He was chasing me as my friends told me.
I also too my 92 zx11 down 280 with the speedo at 170 in my jeans and tennis shoes. On the same bike I was next to a Dodge Viper doing 130 and I kicked it down two gears and sped up to 150 in no time, again on 280. I was speeding way to much on that bike and sold it and picked up a Ducati 900SS. I used to take the ZX11 to Sears for 1/4 mile racing and the best time I got from a Dunlop 205 on the rear and basically just a 4 into 1 and jet kit was a 10.79 @ 130 mph. Almost stock. Ok so I had fun on that bike and lived to tell about it. :ride

 

[vectrexer]

Got stopped for riding with and expired permit years and years ago. Luckily a friend came by cab and rode the bike home for me so it didn't go to the yard.

What and idiot I was.

 

[moriya]

Hit 130ish on a straight stretch of highway 1 NB around point reyes station just after I got my bike. Not all that crazy considering my sight distance, but still pretty stupid.