View Full Version : anyone here NOT had an off ?
Gforceuk
23-10-04, 10:08 PM
just curious ... .hopefully i'll never have that experience...
so just wondered who has and who hasnt..
I knew a guy that hadn't been off in 26 years, then some daft women pulled out of her drive with out looking and lunched him over her car.... Doh!
Haircut
23-10-04, 10:15 PM
does placing it down on the floor (not so) gently at 0mph count?
twice #-o
just curious ... .hopefully i'll never have that experience...
so just wondered who has and who hasnt..It's a matter of fact that the more you do something like riding a bike,the better the chance of falling off.[ or pushed in my case] :cry:
I've been riding for 19 years. I had my first accident after about three months. High side. Fun NOT. Second accident about a year after that. And then accident free up until Jan 2003 where I have since had three accidents each one worse than the previous.
Hopefully I have now ended this trend because I think if there is another one then Mrs Ape will probably put a hammer to my knee caps to make sure I never get back on a bike again. :roll:
wigan650s
24-10-04, 07:29 AM
hmmmm lets see
lowside
lowside
over a car
spin on deisel
lowside
drop
drop
drop
drop
not bad for 2.5 years of riding :shock:
actually i think i need a safer hobby :oops:
Dicky Ticker
24-10-04, 08:17 AM
Go slower==be more attentive==treat everybody else as a moron==
watch the road surface ==and pray alot
Having tried the above I still got taken off on a roundabout but luckily
ended up on the grass verge :roll: :roll:
I don,t know the answer to that one chap,perhaps its down to luck
riding for 17 years..had some one run into back of me..but stayed on..so not 1 off yet :shock:
fraser01
24-10-04, 08:23 AM
your just tempting fate asking questions like these :lol:
I've dropped it stationary in back yard but thats all, never came off.
your just tempting fate asking questions like these :lol:
gotta agree..... :shock:
dropped it whilst at a standstill but otherwise....... :shock:
........then some daft women pulled out of her drive with out looking and lunched him over her car....
She knocked him off and then ate him? Sounds like my sort of a girl :lol:
Me? No offs/drops so far, but only 7 months into my biking career :lol:
Anonymous
24-10-04, 12:08 PM
only off was in a gravel car park. 2 days after passing my advanced test taking out an associate, how stupid did i feel. saying that managed to pick up the bike myself as the rest of the club were in the pub conversatory watching me, all 65 of them :oops: associate never did come back :lol: touching wood now :?
touching wood now :?
You just can't help yourself...... there's a smutty comment in every post. :shock:
I think if there is another one then the Mrs will go Ape
:lol:
Having an off is my big fear - not so much the injury or the cost, but the fact that my life will be made a misery if I do :cry:
the rest of the club were in the pub conversatory watching me
Had they drunk so much they couldn't spray their worms properly?
wyrdness
24-10-04, 01:47 PM
Me? No offs/drops so far, but only 7 months into my biking career :lol:
Jabba-the-Hutt Joined: 31 Oct 2003
So you were posting here for 5 months before you started riding? Did you join for the banter and then felt left out not having a bike, so decided to get one? Or am I missing something?
Jabba-the-Hutt Joined: 31 Oct 2003
So you were posting here for 5 months before you started riding? Did you join for the banter and then felt left out not having a bike, so decided to get one? Or am I missing something?
There's a bit missed out............
Passed bike test in May 2003 with every intention of buying an SV650S but a house move and then building works got in the way. I even went to the Bike Show last November to have another look, show my mates what I was planning, etc. not even a sit on a Z750 deflected me from the SV.
Decided then, on the advice of the good folks on here, to leave getting a bike until the spring..........Went to the dealers to order the SV650S and tried a Hornet just to make sure that I was doing the right thing bikewise and changed my mind after the test ride.
Drop (bad)
One more and I'm out or Mrs walks
Flamin_Squirrel
24-10-04, 06:30 PM
...Decided then, on the advice of the good folks on here, to leave getting a bike until the spring..........Went to the dealers to order the SV650S and tried a Hornet just to make sure that I was doing the right thing bikewise and changed my mind after the test ride.
So did you ever test ride the SV? :shock:
I've come off twice in my 6 months riding. Both front wheel slides :? First was braking too sharpy in the wet on greasy road, other was on gravel. Learnt from it, and otherwise not really had any other close calls so hopefully *touches wood* I'll be ok for now :?
...Decided then, on the advice of the good folks on here, to leave getting a bike until the spring..........Went to the dealers to order the SV650S and tried a Hornet just to make sure that I was doing the right thing bikewise and changed my mind after the test ride.
So did you ever test ride the SV? :shock:
Yep - test rode a SV650S and the Hornet same day, same dealer.
Nothing wrong with the SV at all - lovely bike in fact - but I decided that I preferred the Hornet's more upright riding position when compared to that of the SV650S. For where I do most of my riding, i.e in town and twisty back-roads/B-roads it made a lot of sense.
Simple choice in the end - nearly new Hornet or new naked K3. I liked the Hornet's engine/power delivery (I found it an easier bike to ride/control and low speed) and, tbh, I preferred the looks of the old-shape naked SV (other way round for the faired version :wink: ).
Horses for courses and, for me, it was a relatively easy decision in the end.
As I said - nowt wrong with the SV at all - and both are great bikes which should be on anyone's short-list if they want a middle-weight budget bike.
...Decided then, on the advice of the good folks on here, to leave getting a bike until the spring..........Went to the dealers to order the SV650S and tried a Hornet just to make sure that I was doing the right thing bikewise and changed my mind after the test ride.
So did you ever test ride the SV? :shock:
Yep - test rode a SV650S and the Hornet same day, same dealer.
Nothing wrong with the SV at all - lovely bike in fact - but I decided that I preferred the Hornet's more upright riding position when compared to that of the SV650S. For where I do most of my riding, i.e in town and twisty back-roads/B-roads it made a lot of sense.
Er, I take it that no one told you about the better version of the SV than the SVS then. Nakid ofcourse :lol:
Simple choice in the end - nearly new Hornet or new naked K3. I liked the Hornet's engine/power delivery (I found it an easier bike to ride/control and low speed) and, tbh, I preferred the looks of the old-shape naked SV (other way round for the faired version :wink: ).
Horses for courses and, for me, it was a relatively easy decision in the end.
As I said - nowt wrong with the SV at all - and both are great bikes which should be on anyone's short-list if they want a middle-weight budget bike.
Anonymous
24-10-04, 08:28 PM
touching wood now :?
You just can't help yourself...... there's a smutty comment in every post. :shock:
lol only certain dirty buggars pick up on them tho and surprisingly its always you :lol:
I,ve had a front wheel slide type of off too. It was on gravel just after I got the bike. Feel a bit better knowing that it's not just me :wink:
northwind
25-10-04, 12:05 AM
I just did the same last week in grand style at 60, but trackday crashes don't count! I hope...
Moriarty
25-10-04, 08:42 AM
Not had an off yet. I've dropped it once, but caught it on the way down and had a bit of a scratch down my leg as evidence, but nothing more than that so far.
Had a few hairy moments though and am likely to have a few more...
Had a few hairy moments though and am likely to have a few more...
Over to you Cronos........................ :lol:
Over to you Cronos........................ :lol:
Looks like I'm getting predicatable in my old age!!! :shock:
Off three times, very early in biking "career" all my own fault. None serious though.
Wiltshire7
25-10-04, 11:01 AM
check this one then.....
i bought my bike on friday afternoon, and wrote it off the next day:( one broken bike and one broken collar bone.
my ego has yet to recover.
mysteryjimbo
25-10-04, 11:55 AM
check this one then.....
i bought my bike on friday afternoon, and wrote it off the next day:( one broken bike and one broken collar bone.
my ego has yet to recover.
ha!! :lol:
I can recommend some scooters.....
mysteryjimbo
25-10-04, 12:00 PM
Drop twice, off twice.
2 drops and 1 off within the first 12 months.
Everyone does it, its the motorcycling law.
Everyone has a bag full bag of luck and an empty one of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before the luck runs out! :roll: :lol:
Cloggsy
25-10-04, 12:27 PM
I haven't fallen off <yet>
Hope this isn't tempting fate :roll:
Hope this isn't tempting fate :roll:
Think it might be..... :roll:
2 offs, both low speed, both front end, 1st one entirely unforced error in the wet at low speed a few months after passing, 2nd one taught me to look out for traffic islands with a bit more care :(
Was following a mate, he went round a car, so did I, he popped in in front of it.... and revealed the traffic island in front of me. I managed to scrub off all but a few miles an hour on the wet surface but decided not to ram it head on and put the bike on it's side (Presumably thinking hitting the sump would be better :shock: ) Few scuffs and a broken footpeg plate. Valuable lesson learned, crash free since 8)
Just one drop no offs yet.
over 6 years riding, 2 drops at standstill in the early days and my nasty off in June, no others yet, *Touch Wood*
Cloggsy
26-10-04, 02:01 AM
touching wood now :?
You just can't help yourself...... there's a smutty comment in every post. :shock:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
2nd day of riding, small spill at 15mph around a sunny&wet roundabout. Only hurt pocket & pride.
Quite annoying because I don't know what went wrong..bike just disappeared from under me. Just comes down to experience I suppose, of which I have nowt.
benHallowes
28-10-04, 04:27 PM
dropped the SV whilst walking it backwards down a sloped driveway :oops:
lost the front of the R6 on cold tyres at about 65mph going round brooklands bend (silverstone) :shock: > grip, grip, grip - sliiiiiiiiiiide... <
So far, end of my second season and no major offs. :D
Dropped some while stationary, nudged forward twice in traffic, one on, one off by 'the driver who looked but didn't see'.
johnlowe
28-10-04, 09:01 PM
Nothing for many years.
I started with an NSU Quickly moped. As I was underage at the time I had to content myself with riding around a disused army camp and a bit of improvised moto-cross in a corner of the garden behind the garage where my dad couldn't see me!
The moped died before I was old enough to get a licence and I ended up with a Lambretta Li150. I was forever falling off the thing. Probably four or five times in total. This resulted in nothing beyond a few cuts and bruises. There was no damage to the bike that I couldn't fix myself.
Subsequent to that I have had a Honda C50, a Suzuki GS125, a Bonneville 750, a 500 Speed Twin, a Guzzi V50, and a SV650S without major mishap.
I did drop the Speed Twin when turning sharply in a car park. I lost the back wheel on loose gravel without sustaining any damage. I also dropped the SV on the day I collected it. This time I lost the front wheel during a full-lock turn in a car park on a slimy surface. Again there was no damage to man or machine.
ended up with a Lambretta Li150.
:lol: :lol: :lol: I used to have an Li 125 that we stripped down to bare knuckles and rode that for about a year, until we rode it into the ground.
Ahhh those were the days :lol: :lol:
timwilky
29-10-04, 07:46 AM
ended up with a Lambretta Li150.
:lol: :lol: :lol: I used to have an Li 125 that we stripped down to bare knuckles and rode that for about a year, until we rode it into the ground.
Ahhh those were the days :lol: :lol:
I am amazed that anyone would admit to owning Lambrettas Vestpas etc. I did have one, model unknown for about an hour. I stole it for use in scooter wrecking contest. 5 scooters, 5 sledge hammers ,5 p155ed up blokes and 10 minutes .winner is the one with the smallest biggest piece.
Most fun though was when we hacksawed half way through this prats frame (the same one whose scooter I stole for the wrecking contest). He gets on, revs it, throughs a finger in our direction and sets off down the road. first bump and the front end collapses under him. we couldn't stop laughing for a week :lol:
Gforceuk
29-10-04, 08:08 AM
well lets hope no one steals your bike and does the same to you..eh :roll:
alison_w
29-10-04, 08:16 AM
I've had one off - on my bike test! Needless to say, I didn't pass - but at least I failed in style!
Also one drop, trying to walk the bike in a u-turn to prove it wouldn't make the turn... it didn't :oops:
timwilky
29-10-04, 08:22 AM
well lets hope no one steals your bike and does the same to you..eh :roll:
1) we are going back nearly 30 years ago
2) The Lambretta I wrecked belong to a convicted burglar and drug dealer. One of the houses he had burgled belonged to my parents.
3) Although he eventually did serve time 6 months in borstal he learnt nothing and died of an overdose 3 years later so no loss
4) I think the general opion within the village at the time when he lost his scooter was one of thanks as:
he had nicked it himself
it was untaxed
uninsured and he had no license
Why do you think I was never done for wrecking his scooter I was doing my neighbourhood a favor
winner is the one with the smallest biggest piece.
You are talking about a piece of the scooter, aren't you :wink:
Gforceuk
29-10-04, 04:03 PM
well lets hope no one steals your bike and does the same to you..eh :roll:
1) we are going back nearly 30 years ago
2) The Lambretta I wrecked belong to a convicted burglar and drug dealer. One of the houses he had burgled belonged to my parents.
3) Although he eventually did serve time 6 months in borstal he learnt nothing and died of an overdose 3 years later so no loss
4) I think the general opion within the village at the time when he lost his scooter was one of thanks as:
he had nicked it himself
it was untaxed
uninsured and he had no license
Why do you think I was never done for wrecking his scooter I was doing my neighbourhood a favor
lmao.. fair enough. soap box folded up and placed in bag. ;)
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