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So, the other day I was headed out on my daily run. Campus runs right next to a large 4 lane 45mph road. Some guy was coming out of campus onto the road. I thought, wow, that's a big bike, It looked like a GSX-R750. The guy gets a green light to turn left. Sputters out of first and kills it half way through the intersection. He had no idea what was going on. He pulled over to the side got it in neutral and tried again. I thought he was going to pull it right out from under him. I'm sure he took off alot faster than he thought he was going to. I laughed at first, and then I realized how scary the situation was.

Some people have no idea, and this is coming from a newbie, who at least has common sense.

i'm sure MANY of us have done that at least once...at least i know that i have done it.

letting the clutch out, thinking that your bike is in 1st gear when in fact it's in 2nd or third....

I have no doubt it's happened. But this guy obviously had some problems. He had no control of the bike at all.

celt wrote:letting the clutch out, thinking that your bike is in 1st gear when in fact it's in 2nd or third....

This happens to me all the time. I swear, I think I'm developing a complex about it. I'll be at a stop, and I'll check to see if I'm in first, then go into neutral just to be sure and back down again into first.

I hope I'll get better as the years pass, but I'm not too optimistic.

I'm sure that this has happened even to experienced bikers.

Nice to see you are proud of yourself for laughing at someones mistake. You are an a$$, congrats!

hahaha i was just remembering my most 'painful' stall:

right before i took the MSF, my father-in-law took me out for a couple rides. (he of course saw no need for the msf...ha!)

on the 2nd ride, he left me at this stop light. all of the sudden, i hear a roar behind me. i look in my mirror and it's a whole mess of bikers.

there had to be 20-30 bikers, all piled up behind me just as the light turned green.

so of COURSE just as they stopped behind me i stalled.

i was sweating bullets as i fumbled to get the bike started. i looked behind me and although they were all laughing at me, to their credit they waited until i got it started and took off before they passed me...

i thanked the biked gods that i was wearing a fullface helmet because i bet i was redder than a ducati....

it's even worse when it's the damn bike's fault and it makes you look like an idiot. i had that happen on a brand new royal star venture, took it out on it's shakedown ride and the sunuvabitch stalled out on a right turn from a stop light, right in front of a couple dozen cages, and it was touch and go for a split second whether or not it was going down. i got my foot down just in time and furiously cranked the starter, it would only run on choke back to the shop.

NightNurse wrote:I'm sure that this has happened even to experienced bikers.

Nice to see you are proud of yourself for laughing at someones mistake. You are an a$$, congrats!

The point of my story was not to make fun of this guy, it was to point out that he was way too unfamiliar with his bike to be riding it on such a busy road.

Drunner611 wrote:

NightNurse wrote:I'm sure that this has happened even to experienced bikers.

Nice to see you are proud of yourself for laughing at someones mistake. You are an a$$, congrats!

The point of my story was not to make fun of this guy, it was to point out that he was way too unfamiliar with his bike to be riding it on such a busy road.

I read it the way you had intended it, in observation of someone who looked to be completely clueless on a big bike. On a bike likethat, the rider shouldn't be clueless.

I don't think you were being an a s s, just discussing something you saw today.

NightNurse wrote:I'm sure that this has happened even to experienced bikers.

Yep, ahem.