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Grey Thumper wrote:I'm amazed no one has mentioned just getting off the bike after a ride and completely forgetting to kick down the side stand. I figured it would be pretty common. Guess I'm even more of a moron than I thought

Seen it done more than once, and to be truthful I have come very close myself. For some reason each time I've come close it's always been at a gas station

ceemes wrote:

Grey Thumper wrote:I'm amazed no one has mentioned just getting off the bike after a ride and completely forgetting to kick down the side stand. I figured it would be pretty common. Guess I'm even more of a moron than I thought

ah no, just braver then most of us for admitting it tho...

C'mon now ceemes, you can tell us ....

BuzZz wrote:When I was a young punk, I was riding home from kickboxing class with a friend in the same class. We came to a light in downtown and when I stopped, he pulled up beside me in the same lane. And fell right over because he 'forgot' to put his foot down. Luckily, he fell away from me, because I was laughing too hard to have caught him.

It definitely did not have anything to do with the lefthanded cigarette we smoked after the class....

Ha, that must have been quite a sight!

Call me daft, but until this post of yours I never made the connection between BuzZz and buzz. I always thought it was like a bike going by real fast as in "...requesting fly by ...hey Goose, it's time to buzz the tower, heehaw"

Grandpa started calling me Buzz when I was about 8-9 and spent my days blitzing the small town they lived in on my YZ-80. He said it sounded like a tincan full of pissed off bees, so from then on the whole town called me 'that dam buzz...'

Wasn't until years later that the other Buzz became accurate......

Flesher wrote:

ceemes wrote:

Grey Thumper wrote:I'm amazed no one has mentioned just getting off the bike after a ride and completely forgetting to kick down the side stand. I figured it would be pretty common. Guess I'm even more of a moron than I thought

ah no, just braver then most of us for admitting it tho...

C'mon now ceemes, you can tell us ....

Did it a couple of times as a courier, usually in a rush to make a drop or pick up. Hop off the bike, take a step or two and come to a grinding halt upon hearing the bike hit the ground.

We started a Friday morning coffee shop thing, you know, leave early go for a cuppa with your mates before going to work. We started naming them, like halfway cuppa, kickstart, you get the idea. I was asked to go to a new one we are starting and we needed a name. Duly, The goose and I arrive, me on the GS and The Goose on the Kymco scoot.

There is set up on the patch of lawn, a big Think Bike sign, which I thought would look good with a GS standing in front of it. No problem. I stand on the pegs, point the bike to the kerb and set up to pop the front wheel up,

promptly stall the bike, and well



the coffee shop is now known as..................


The Drop zone.


Not a scratch on the bike, bu cost me plenty for physio, trying to let down a GS gently plays hell with your hamstrings

sapaul wrote:We started a Friday morning coffee shop thing, you know, leave early go for a cuppa with your mates before going to work. We started naming them, like halfway cuppa, kickstart, you get the idea. I was asked to go to a new one we are starting and we needed a name. Duly, The goose and I arrive, me on the GS and The Goose on the Kymco scoot.

There is set up on the patch of lawn, a big Think Bike sign, which I thought would look good with a GS standing in front of it. No problem. I stand on the pegs, point the bike to the kerb and set up to pop the front wheel up,

promptly stall the bike, and well



the coffee shop is now known as..................


The Drop zone.


Not a scratch on the bike, bu cost me plenty for physio, trying to let down a GS gently plays hell with your hamstrings

Did my back a treat when I tried to stop me old CB750 from going over when the kick stand started sinking into soft tarmac. Lesson learned, bikes are easier to fix then a buggered back.

i've forgotten the kick stand a time or two, but i always make sure the bike is secure before i actually get off it. i'm way too paranoid about soft asphalt here in Tucson to dismount quickly so i realize what i forgot before i lean it too far over to lose it.

had a couple of years off from the CBR (all in london), and now in rural areas, different riding. took a back to biking day, and at the end of 8 hours riding put my foot in a puddle. puddle goes further down than i think.

drop. "poo poo".

One time when I was a teen this kid had an old CB350 that we were messing around and riding around in a parking lot of an apartment complex. I wasn't a very good rider(as it is evident from the story ) back then as I didn't own/ride a streetbike and didn't even have a license. So I end up popping a wheelie that goes almost vertical. I botch it and lose control right near a basement entrance with concrete stairs and a metal railing leading down to it. As luck would have it, me and the bike head straight for the concrete stairs. As I tumble down the stairs with the bike, me being considerate for other people's property( ), dumb and fearless, do everything I can to try to prevent any damage from happening to the bike. Miraculously I come out with only a few cuts and bruises and only a bent mirror on the bike.

My friend said to me that this is the first time he has ever seen anyone intentionally try to cushion a bike with their own body to try to prevent damaging the bike.