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Old 12-12-07, 02:42 PM   #1
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Default Your daftest low speed crash?

I'll start the ball rolling.

1978, aged 16 and showing off my lovely gold Yamaha FS1E to all the gorgeous schoolgirls coming out of Bedford High School. Traffic lights ahead turned to red and I went to stop, tried to put my feet down and found my training shoe laces were caught on both the gear lever and brake pedal. Naturally I fell off right in front of the bunch of 6th formers I was trying hard to impress.

Fast forward 15 years and me and my then girlfriend are chatting about our youthful expolits, when she mentions some kn0bhead falling off a gold Fizzy right in front of her outside the school when his laces got caught in the levers. Did I tell her I was that kn0bhead? Like hell I did....I told a mate the story and the sod did it for me when we were all p1ssed one night, and she's never let me live it down
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Old 12-12-07, 02:51 PM   #2
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Pulled up outside a trendy bar in Manchester one hot sunny evening. Everyone was sitting in the beer garden swilling away.... I stand the bike up, kick the stand down, rock the bike to its side ....and on its side it went It fell the wrong way (if there was ever such a thing) on the slope so was a bugger to pick up. Luckily it was just my GT125 but it provided endless entertainment for the drinkers
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Old 12-12-07, 03:37 PM   #3
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One late winters evening i pulled my RS125 into the garage for some petrol. Of course being a two stroke the battery was carp, so having ridden with my lights on there was no juice to crank it up.

Being alone i started paddling 'frog-leg' style and just before it fired, i pulled my hamstring. This meant i couldn't get my foot on the peg and in agony i accidentally pinned the throttle. The bike went cartwheeling through a chainlink fence....and that was the end of RS125 number two.

Fortunately there were only a few motorists around as it was late, but i'm sure BP have the CCTV footage.
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Old 12-12-07, 03:41 PM   #4
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Double post.....'error' my ass...stupid forum.
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Old 12-12-07, 04:02 PM   #5
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AE07 - not really a crash, but I get bonus points for stupidity...

pulls up for petrol just before the rideout, puts legs down, puts sidestand (almost) down, gets off the sv... then the bike falls ontop of me, and half of you lot come to my rescue, lol, (cheers guys)

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Old 12-12-07, 07:52 PM   #6
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Default Re: Your daftest low speed crash?

Pulled in to the pits at Brands on a track day. The garage was right in front of the advanced group queuing to go out. Pulled up, got off the bike and watch is roll on its side - the session had been so good I was feeling chuffed and forgot I didn't have a team of mechanics waiting for me to take my bike in and should have put the stand down before jumping off . 105 people thought it was very funny. The bloke who helped me up with the bike said it most of rolled off the stand on the slope to the garage, erm, yeah, I'll accept that!
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Old 12-12-07, 07:57 PM   #7
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rear ended my exes zx9 at a roundabout, day after passing my test, sv won that one.
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Old 12-12-07, 07:59 PM   #8
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Hmm there have been a few for me, stupidest was just after i fitted a new chain and sprocket kit to the SV. Unfortunately I rerouted the side stand cut off switch wires and the result was me getting to the end of my road, the bike cutting out as the chain ripped through the wires and the bike and me went over. I didn't even try to put my feet down
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Old 12-12-07, 09:03 PM   #9
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Idly rolling my bike back and forward with the engine off. I realised I'd run over my left foot with the back wheel as it very slowly started to lean over to that side. With no way to save myself I ended up hitting the deck with the bike lying on me.
What a nudger.
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Old 12-12-07, 09:15 PM   #10
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Checking the oil level in the SV whilst down in the bat cave in Belgium before my first big Euro Trip. I leant the bike over for a bit of a look at the sight galss (whilst astride), forgot about the extra weight from the loaded panniers and over she flopped with me aboard. Dragging myself out from the undamaged bike was tricky and I felt a fool, but luckily there was no one to witness the error of my ways, apart from you lot.
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