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what was the the scariest experience that happened to you

for me it was when my hand fell asleep and i couldn't pull in the clutch doing 80Km/h comming up to a red light.

Circulation problem?

myself, when my clucth cable let go and I wasnt able to shift out of 2nd on the highway..... that sorta blew....

Hmm… it would have to be on my trip Himachal in December 2004. Here’s what happened:

We were into the third day of our four day long trip to Himachal, in the after noon I was leading the group and we came across a bridge on the right hand turn, took the turn at 60kmph only to find spilt diesel/petrol in the middle of the bridge. Before I knew it I was on the road sliding along my bike with one of my friend doing the same behind me, fortunately he didn’t crashed into me.

Got up with a sore knee, my friend was ok and so was his bike with only a cracked fairing; however it turned out the fall knocked out my bikes rear breaks! So there I was on my third trip in the hills, on the third day of the ride with bruised knee and no rear breaks. Since we were in remote parts of Himachal we couldn’t find a mechanic to fix the breaks, I started riding slowly behind the pack.

At about 7o’Clock in the evening we were passing through a forest, with the group several kms ahead I was trying my best to catch up on the single lane broken road with gravel filled turns. While riding through a straight section I decided to put my bikes headlight on high beam to see if there was something on the road, I did noticed something walking on the road, I decided to again put the bike on high beam and discovered it was a leopard!

This freaked me out and I decided to rip a little, but 100mtr later there was a turn in the road for which I had to lower my speed, with only the front break at my disposal I tried my best to slow down, but the turn was filled with gravel and my bikes front wheel locked causing my to crash face first. Thanks to the helmet I was wearing I wasn’t hurt except for my already bruised knee which got bruised again, with the knowledge that leopard was only 100mtr or so behind me I tried my best to get the bike off the ground asap and started riding. I had to ride for another half an hour to finally catch with the rest of the gang, during the half an hour long ride I only came across 1 jeep.

crashing your bike with a leopard less than 100m away definately qualifies as scary as hell. About the only thing I could think of that would be worse would be a tiger less than 100m away instead of a leopard.

or a lion!

or a liger!

And where can you FIND lions and tigers?

Lions & Tigers

CNF2002 wrote:And where can you FIND lions and tigers?

Lions & Tigers

Forget Norway.

I'm sure this isn't gonna be the worst thing i see but my second ride through city traffic I watched two cars get in a accident at a intersection. Luckily nobody was injured really bad but watching that jeep flip a couple car lengths away from me.

CNF2002 wrote:And where can you FIND lions and tigers?

Lions & Tigers

Weeble and Bob FTW!

Pie....