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I had bought my dream bike, a second hand GPz750 in 1986. I really liked it. I even used to wash and polish it. Then suddenly after 3 years I decided I was going to buy a brand new one so I could look after it from scratch without another owner being involved. I found out they had stopped making them the year before, but tracked one down to Eddy Grimsteads in East Ham. Cash and a part ex were arranged and I turned up on the day to pick up my shiny new bike, identical in every way to the one before but with a different number plate. After all the paperwork and handing over my hard earned wedge, I was led out to the side street by one of the mechanics to where the bike was sitting on the centre stand. "I'll just run over the controls and everything with you", he said. "No need, my good man, for I am perfectly familiar with this bike, you may sod off back inside, for I am in need of no further assistance!" What I didn't know was that the side street had such a camber on it, both wheels were hard on the ground as well as the centre stand. If I pushed it, the whole thing was just sliding about on the tarmac making loud screechy noises, it wouldn't come off the stand. I had to traipse back into the shop to get the same mechanic out so he could stick his boot against the stand whilst I pushed forward at the same time. I was as red as the Kawasaki's paint scheme.

I'm sure that we've all had those, so spill the beans, own up to the times when your biking cool deserted you! My first "proper" bike was a Honda CD175, which was a great little bike to learn on and take the test, but after a year on it I was struggling to keep up with my mates, who had all moved up to bigger bikes. My solution to this was in the form of a Yamaha RD350B, which I picked up brand new on a Friday evening after work. My first run on it was sedate, as I was running it in, but I noticed a small oil leak from one of the cylinder heads, so I took it back to the dealers on Saturday morning. I parked on their front forecourt and went in to the shop and they told me to take it round to the workshop at the back. To get to the access road I had to ride up the main road a 100M and turn right. Being in the middle of a fairly busy shopping street, that was a slight challenge. I sat on the bike out the front waiting for a gap in the traffic to get out and do the short distance to the access road. I saw a gap and gave the bike a bit of throttle and dumped the clutch. I hadn't factored in that I was on a much quicker bike, so the RD stood on its back wheel and shot off across the road towards a queue at the bus stop opposite. The queue parted like the Red Sea. Fortunately my reactions were quick enough to shut the throttle and pull the clutch in before I reached them, slamming the front wheel back onto the tarmac. I managed to haul the bike round to stay on the road and wobbled the 100M to the access road, but I couldn't help but see the glares from the passengers in the queue that I had thrown into disarray! Fortunately they couldn't see my bright red face inside my lid! When I got the bike to the workshop one of the mechanics said "alright Evel, what's the problem with the bike?". I could have died!

All my high mileage bikes have been owned by just me, they look awful but the engines, suspension and brakes are usually in full working order.

Mine was when I came back to riding after my big accident in 2004 got myself a gleaming new kawasaki eliminator 125 cruiser, it was parked out the front of the dealers id just been handed the keys and swung my leg over, keys in ignition and fire it up pick it off the stand and literally dropped it on the right hand side .......so I righted it and sit on it again and take it off the side stand again and dropped it the other side

First story has several embarrassing moments, long story short: I once managed to get my Transalp stuck in the bottom of a rocky trail and on the edge of a drop. Phone went out, spent a very cold day waiting for help, the help got lost and couldn't find me so were panicking assuming I was dead. Eventually it got dark and we couldn't see to get the bike out so it was left overnight. Next day I forgot the bike key at home and only realized 50km into the recovery trip! We got the fire departiment to winch it out, and then people proceeded to push me out because it wouldn't start. A while later I realized the ignition switch was off! Second story, I'm taking my girlfriend on a trip to the Algarve on our new (to us) R1150GS, the trip was to be a prelude to a Morocco trip later in the year, we're feeling adventurous and confident, the ride down the Atlantic coast is pretty nice with cliffs next to the ocean and pretty views, to stop for one of those views as soon as we approach the first cliffside I ride out of the street and after the first 20 meters of dirt hit a soft dirt patch and wash out the front. Down we went after 20 meters of dirt. Went from confident to embarrassed quite quick

Just finished reading Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries. Goddamn they were rock stars. And a lot of it wasn't pretty. The book is supposedly about how bad it is to be a junkie, but it's also heartfelt homage to absolute craziness. Talk about living on the edge of life and death. Now I'm not saying you should try this at home, nor that you should try to be like Sixx (as you'd expect of a lifelong rockstar, he can be quite the dick as well) but there is something in there to be noted about living a creative life and falling on your absolute face at the bottom of the deepest hole, and getting back up again. Reminds me to be bold. On the other hand, just started reading Blondie's book and - like the live performance I saw - it's sending me to sleep.

I had been into Fowler's in Bristol get some parts, I came back out to my KTM 950 and there were loads of people in the car park. I rode off and dropped it straightaway as I forgot to take the lock off the front wheel . There was much sniggering and plenty of this ................

I was once barked at and then snapped at by the littlest cutest dog ever created whilst sitting at a standstill on my DR350. It made me jump so much I dropped the bike in front of all my riding companions who didn't let me forget it for a few years.

Id have casually stood just by the door to watch you trying to manhandle the bike before realising you needed some help then disappear round the back to take the bike off its center stand without you noticing and fuck off back inside sniggering like fuck

Ah-hem !! Outside the bar in La Brigue

Vespa SS180 (with bald tyres) Autumn 71 going into a downhill roundabout in Swansea......in the wet. So I binned it going in! Got back on and then binned it again exiting the roundabout. Both incidents in front of a bus stop full of people! Not my best day really! I no longer fall off Vespas......as @Mawsley has taken over that gig!

Woa, he is NOT well preserved. Nikki Sixx is doing better, apparently giving up your heroin addiction helps? Even Keith Richards is looking old these days...

David Lee Roth looks like he's paying the price for his lifestyle now..... And he's younger than me!

I didn’t come with a warranty , no returns I’m afraid .

I'll be sticking with my ZRXs

Oh oh, I did that too in the 1150 exiting a street parking outside a hotel in Rabat, only drop in Morocco and also only time I used the damned thing! Falling down I was thinkinh “funny, I don’t remember seing a sidewalk in front of the tire!”

Another owner being involved would increase the resale value though Yen!

In years to come people will find it incredulous that the British public voted for that buffoon to be prime minister

Everyone is younger than you though you old cunt

Hmmm

Nothing has ever happened to me like that honest

I can see this being a really cool bike to own. I wonder about protecting those exhaust manifolds though, I hope there's some valve cover protection solution that stops that being the first point of contact on a slow speed drop.

Peppa Pig is relevant though Dave!

One for Pete, rucky expwawer!

Im thinking a busa is on the cards for my replacement

I'll be changing the Honda soon I think. I like the look of the new Triumph Tiger 660, but also the Trident 660. The Trident is a bit different and is lighter than the Tiger, so..........

You would love it if it was Chinese.

I'll never sell my current GS. Having said that, there might be space in the garage in a medium term future for another bike. Something with a little more flare like a MVAgusta or a Ducati? Another GS, or an RT for a perfect cross europe tour, or maybe a naked sportier bike? Who knows?

The only times I started the bike, put it into gear and the engine cut out because the side stand was still down was at bike meets with an audience watching! I never did that at any other time. You could see them thinking "twat!".

Mandi did that to her xs250.

People knew what they were voting for Bob! Though you have to wonder what the rest of the world thinks when the PM has to declare that the UK isn’t corrupt, and Downing Street then has to declare that the PM is OK!

Old glass eyes could explode when coming into a hot room for outside in winter. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/11/23/david-carpenter-ocularist-x/

…and selling to the ginger.

He went over to France and fell over! Maybe he's got the bike weight problem already but doesn't want to admit it!

Ahhh the beauty of satnav as I used to say to you before then, it doesn't stop you venturing it does the opposite allowing you to follow your nose until you're totally lost then switch it on and get back easily You'll have to go back there now

looks like a standard one... rs turbo or cosworth , even xr3i be worth a few quid

@Tango.......can you get a message to Stu and tell him I'm sending his Troll back cos it's not fit for purpose!

There was a French comedian (Coluche) who asked the question " If a Frenchman is driving a mercedes, that's classy. If a German is deiving a citroen what's that, nostalgia?..." german tourist in a mercedes stopped by the police in paris for some minor traffic misdemeanor, Policeman says " you've not been to Paris before have you sir?" German tourist replies " Ja, Ja, Ja, bot ze last time I vos here, I vos driving tracked vehicle..." I'll get my coat...

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a scene from your wank bank ?

There's nothing cool about a trip in a breakdown truck Pedro!

Good to look at.