Author Topic: Stupidest Thing You've Ever Done With Your Bandit?!? (Read 8778 times)

Sven · « **Reply #15 on:** April 28, 2006, 02:50:33 PM »

Quote from: "mike"

Entered the parking garage at work, tried to follow a car through so I woudn't have to stop and dig around for my card. Damn gate came down and whacked me in the helmetin front of the morning crowd, sme of my coworers saw it and gave me shit that day for it.

I had a similar situation, but I don't call it a stupid thing because I didn't think it was my fault. On my very first two-wheel commute to work a few years ago (and it was Ride-to-work day!), I was leaving work. The parking arm raised for me, which I didn't expect, and started moving forward, but the arm came right back down and hit me in the helmet and knocked me off the bike. The parking amr board broke on my hard head, the bike lost a mirror, blinker, lever, etc.

I ended up with a lower back pain, and the doc visit and PT was covered by worker's comp because it occurred on Federal property, but the bike damage was NOT allowed as a personal property claim, even though it occurred due to negligence by the guards (who are supposed to WATCH for departing vehicles and manually open the arm for motorcycles). I appealed the claim a couple times, but got no where. Explain to me how they can be liable for ME but not my PROPERTY when both were damaged by the same incident?

I'm sure more people would have played the injury for as much time/money as they could, but I finished the PT and some home stuff, and got back to normal (or as normal as I get) and ordered the parts to fix the bike out of my own pocket. (It wasn't enough to cover the deductible on the insurance, and I didn't want a clain my first year of ownership.)

jbrough7 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 29, 2006, 07:33:10 AM »

Holy Crap! Now I have something else to worry about!

Tough luck, sven.

Jim

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #17 on:** April 29, 2006, 07:46:30 AM »

Quote from: Sven

Quote from: "mike"
... Explain to me how they can be liable for ME but not my PROPERTY when both were damaged by the same incident?...

The government sux in so many different ways.

Daytona · « **Reply #18 on:** April 29, 2006, 09:38:03 AM »

Quote from: "Sven"

Quote from: "mike"
... Explain to me how they can be liable for ME but not my PROPERTY when both were damaged by the same incident?...

The government sux in so many different ways.

Sux! I can't imagine even getting that, from my employer if I were on my bike!

Silverstreak · « **Reply #19 on:** April 29, 2006, 11:19:03 AM »

OK, so I changed my oil this one time, and like I dint do up the oil plug tight enough, and like a few days later I was doin a buck and a quarter in the left lane on the Parkway and "poop" the damned thing fell out.

That was stupid and scary all in one.

Daytona · « **Reply #20 on:** April 29, 2006, 03:03:13 PM »

Quote from: "Silverstreak"

OK, so I changed my oil this one time, and like I dint do up the oil plug tight enough, and like a few days later I was doin a buck and a quarter in the left lane on the Parkway and "poop" the damned thing fell out.

That was stupid and scary all in one.

Scary is an understatement!! Hope it turned out better than stripping it. How about more info? did it skid? How did you handle it, to not wipe out?

Silverstreak · « **Reply #21 on:** April 29, 2006, 05:23:57 PM »

It took me several minutes to figure out what was going on. At first the rear ed kind of broke loose. It was just a slight wobble so it made me thing I was getting a flat. Then I gave it a little gas and the revs shot up, so I thought my clutch was slipping. Finally the smell of oil and more slipping and my life flashing before my eyes told me something was very wrong. I kept it upright , pulled over and shut it down.

smooth operator · « **Reply #22 on:** April 29, 2006, 07:22:12 PM »

The stupidest thing I ever did was to let someone drive it. He wrecked it and couldn't pay for it. So I tore it all down and put it back together on another frame. And I know better!

jbrough7 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 29, 2006, 07:44:10 PM »

Smooth: My nephew has a beautiful vfr 750 (1987?) with low miles and he wanted to sell it. Gets some new fairings and has it painted and it looks absolutely brand new. His brother-in-law asks to take it out and my nephew lets him! The stoner brother-in-law ALMOST crashes at the end of the drive and then DOES crash down at the end of the street at a stop sign.

Now he has to fix everything if he wants to sell it and the doorknob relative has no money!

Which one of the two is the most stupid??

Nobody is ever riding my bike but me! That's enough stupid people, anyway, right there!

Jim

Desolation Angel · « **Reply #24 on:** April 29, 2006, 10:14:36 PM »

Quote from: "smooth operator"

The stupidest thing I ever did was to let someone drive it. He wrecked it and couldn't pay for it. So I tore it all down and put it back together on another frame. And I know better!

Oh, man, I forgot about doing that! Brand new '78 GS750E. Move into an apartment with my best friend. He says, "Can I borrow your bike"? I say, "Wouldn't you rather take my car?" He says, "No, man. I haven't ridden a bike in months". Now, here comes the stupid part...

I said, "OK, here's the keys. Don't wreck it!"

He wrecked it. Almost lost his foot, too. Was touch and go for a couple of months.

Wrecked it good, too. Messed it up bad. For the next couple of years, though, I had this cool unremoveable blood stain running all down the right side engine fins. Impossible to remove. Blood is tough.

My friend didn't pay for it. Couldn't. Incapicitated for months. His insurance refused to cover the bike, either. They said if he'd been in my car, yes, but on a my bike, no. Bastages! And I was too young and dumb, and really poor, to sue them!

It was this one. I sure miss that bike.

F^ck Farmers Ins. Co.!!!

speedytriple · « **Reply #25 on:** April 30, 2006, 12:08:09 AM »

lets see, the dumbest thing i did on my bandit was to ride like a mad man after if rained in mid october. then not slow on a road i never had ridden. then stuff it in a tight s turn with a blind hill. smashed into a guard rail at about 60 or so. and long story short my bandit is no more, broke the frame. bent forks and a whole lot of other broken plastic metal and glass. roamr was there and saw the bike he even did a holeshot into the u haul truck we used to cart it home, seeing as how the clutch lever was broke and the shifter and foot peg were ripped off. the bike was stuck in 3rd i think he launched it up the ramp and into the truck. miss that bike.

mike

B6mick · « **Reply #26 on:** April 30, 2006, 12:30:46 AM »

No brainer here, I gave it to the minister of war, after she finally got rid of that heap of crap CBR600.
Now she wants to paint the bandit pink

jeepskate99 · « **Reply #27 on:** April 30, 2006, 07:22:59 AM »

131 in a 30. Enough said.

afm956 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 30, 2006, 12:41:40 PM »

The time I was riding back and forth through some twisties, stopping a lot to tweak the fork preload with a screwdriver I had in the tankbag. I'd ride, pull over, adjust the forks while sitting on the bike, ride repeat.

After 15 minutes of that I pulled over, tweaked the forks again, and decided to get off and stretch my legs. Leaned the bike over onto the sidestand, only to realize too late the sidestand was not down...but the bike soon was.

Soro · « **Reply #29 on:** May 13, 2006, 02:13:53 PM »

I've got two good ones, neither on my Bandit though.

1. Stopped at a gas station on my 1985 Ninja 600 (long time ago) to fill up. Pulled up to the pump and put my left boot down right into some kind of invisible slippery stuff. All my weight was on this foot and so the bike and I go over. My left leg is pinned under the bike and I'm squirming around trying to get it out from under the hot cylinder head. No one (and there were three customers plus the gas station attendant) came over to help me. What ever happened to love thy neighbor?

2. I used to live near this High School (I was going to college at the time) and on the way to my morning class the students would be all hanging out in the parking lot. So I got in the habit of doing stupid stuff on my GSX-R to "impress" these little people (wheelies, high rate of speed, a lot of revs, etc). This one day I turn on to the road, see the kiddies and hit the gas way to hard while still leaned over a bit too much to right. The bike stands up quickly and sort of throws me up and over. I land on the tank and seat (I'm still holding on with a death grip) and I’m sort of doing this lying superman diagonally across my bike with both feet flailing. Still on the gas, the bike bucks again the other way and somehow I get my right leg back over the seat and onto the peg. At this point, I'm able to control the bike somewhat and I just keep riding away. I stopped around the corner (out of everyone’s view) and promptly threw up inside my helmet before I could get it off. This is something you NEVER want to do if you can avoid it. Thank you sir may I have another.