Funny / Silly things only another motorcyclist would understand.

[Michael0124]

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"Hmm, what should I look at/play with" while sitting in a traffic jam.
Today, in a line of cages waiting for a very long train to roll by, decided to have a smoke while still wearing my full face helmet.

I did that once, I was amused that the guy behind me was pointing, shaking his head and obviously saying wtf, but then my helmet smelled like an ashtray and I was no longer amused.

 

[shanekingsley]

Parking the bike in a sketchy part of downtown and using a disc lock on the front rotor. Come back to your bike around 2am and there's a bunch of sketchy people looking at my bike and me getting geared up. Get on the bike and rev my obnoxious Kerker exhaust a little and ride off into the night. Except I didn't take the disc lock off and only go about 12" before dropping the bike, breaking my front brake lever, scratching the fairings and damaging one of my front rotors.

 

[BigEvilDoer]

How about the shock/exhilaration of your first knee drag?

 

[Lightcycle]

How about the shock/exhilaration of your first knee drag?

First knee-down, first wheelie, first endo, first Superman seat grab...

You know, tickin' off all the basics!

 

[Wingboy]

How about the shock/exhilaration of your first knee drag?

And trying so hard to do it, that a little 50 year old BSA does a Linda Ronstadt outside of you.

 

[Baggsy]

The adrenaline rush of riding downtown Lakeshore Boulevard at two a.m.

 

[thwak]

Gloves are on and your bike key is in your pant pocket.

Don't you just love that keyless ride?

 

[Lightcycle]

Don't you just love that keyless ride?

Yeah, it's pretty sweet. But sometimes it can bite you in the butt.

I was switching out the seat on my bike and I almost rode off with the key still in the seat release lock because the bike started up okay. If I had sat on the seat, I would have broken the keyblade off the housing with my phat azz for sure.

Also, getting so used to just walking away from the bike that I have to remember which bike is keyless and which is old-school-keyed...

 

[Maniac]

Loosing a contact lens while riding.

Carry a spare ones with you or you will be like me siting at some random parking lot an hour away from home and wait for someone to bring them to you. Happened to me like 5 minutes ago ?

 

[Baggsy]

Loosing a contact lens while riding.

Carry a spare ones with you or you will be like me siting at some random parking lot an hour away from home and wait for someone to bring them to you. Happened to me like 5 minutes ago ?

Make sure it didn't float up in behind. Little brother had that happen. It was painful when he found it.

 

[Maniac]

Make sure it didn't float up in behind. Little brother had that happen. It was painful when he found it.

I saw how it flew out of the helmet in slow mo lol

 

[Relax]

For those with classics - running out of gas because you left the petcock on "RES" after filling up.

 

[Lightcycle]

For those with classics - running out of gas because you left the petcock on "RES" after filling up.

Oh man, the first time I hit reserve was on the 401 with cars all around me at speed. Only had my license and bike for less than a month.

Bike starts sputtering and it takes me a few seconds to clue in what was happening. Then many many many more seconds fumbling around trying to find the petcock and then trying to remember which way to turn it to RES, all the while the bike threatening to cut out on me.

After that experience, I could find that fuel tap in my sleep.

 

[bigpoppa]

Cancel your signal after a turn and then 5 kms later you look down and your indicator light is still flashing.

let me guess, the KTM?

 

[Lightcycle]

let me guess, the KTM?

No, I haven't done that in a while. I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive about hitting that cancel switch every couple of minutes (even if I haven't turned in a while) when I'm riding

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