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| | | steve59 | | Set |  | | Reg. Date | : | 17/07/2012 | | Posts | : | 29 | | Location | : | carol stream, IL, United States |
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| | Posted : 13 Oct 2012 - 02:00 Post title : steve59 - SS nr 1 - Ladies & bike repair. | | | I'll start with my first bike wreck because of distraction. 81 or 82 I was living in houston tx riding my recently rebuilt 650 bonniville home from work. in those days it was common for auto makers to hide the gas cap behind the license plate. I'm doin 35-40 mph and notice a young woman at the pump bent over in her short shorts pumping gas . while my eyes were stuck on those lovely 1/4 moons " ");a light up the road turned red and I slammed the car in front of me. He must not have seen the girl 'cause he saw me comin & managed to move before I hit him limiting the damage to a couple bent downtubes. Anybody else?
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| | | mjgt | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/09/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,201 | | Location | : | North Somerset, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 13 Oct 2012 - 11:01 Post title : Re: Ladies & bike repair. (Re: steve59) | | | Reminds me of a time when I had just been given a fine for not having any exhausts fitted to my bike, just the down tubes on a BSA 650 is loud. So I had a set of bright shiney new reverse cone meggas fitted when I went into town with my mate on his CB500 four. As we went past a large shop window I slowed down and stopped as there was a pedestrian crossing and the lights were red but my mate did'nt see it, he was far too busy looking at his own reflection in the shop window and crashed straight into me, his disk slicing a grove in my new pipe and shunting me between two old ladies on the crossing. The bloke in the exhaust shop was surprised and happy to sell 3 pipes in 2 days.
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| | | daz | | Zeus | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/05/2009 | | Posts | : | 7,686 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 22 Oct 2012 - 15:58 Post title : Re: steve59 - SS nr 1 - Ladies & bike repair. (Re: steve59) | | | Oh boy do i have a story just like that one ! 1969, my first bike a honda 160 and i just got my restricted license. Friend on back, 2 hot young girls walking down the cross street as we pass. My friend yells something to them and i look over to see a sight that a teen can't possibly take his eyes off of till something does it for him, and that would be the fender of a parked car. The one my FEMUR struck, not the bike ! My friend wasn't hurt, but the bone in your thigh, that huge one called the femur broke clean in 1/2. 6 weeks in the hospital in traction and 6 more in a cast. That was my initiation to motorcycles. And just to make sure i paid a high enough price, god or fate or whatever decided the punishment wasn't enough and my dad died while i was in the hospital. NOT a good time for young daz. And i went on to enjoy motorcycles after that between random acts of foolishness that landed me in emergency rooms or just scratched up a number of times after that. Then it all stopped when I realized i wasn't immortal. Hard lessons, but they eventually took.
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| | | surfing72 | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 20/03/2012 | | Posts | : | 483 | | Location | : | Nth, New South Wales, Australia |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2012 - 23:35 Post title : Re: steve59 - SS nr 1 - Ladies & bike repair. (Re: steve59) | | | Great stories fellas. I to can relate. I was riding home from the gym on my 67 tiger at night around a tight corner dragging the exhaust the whole way on the ground thinking how cool the sparks looked when all of a sudden the exhaust pivoted the bike and I was on my arse on the road. Nothing hurt but my pride but the problem was that the bike was still going while lying on its side. It continued to do 360 degree revolutions preventing me from getting to it and hitting the kill switch. I kept running into it and then running away from it as it continued to spin in front of the traffic that had stopped no doubt laughing at me. Eventually the bike stalled and I picked it up and walked it to the road side. The vehicle behind me was being driven by a beautiful young lady who stopped and got out of her car. She approached me and said "oh my god I just seen you crash, are you OK"? THEN just when it couldn't get any worse my wife randomly drove past observing me parked on the side of the road chatting to some beautiful lady - well I had some explaining to do as you can imagine..............
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