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Your ultimate squid/pucker moment...

Z3n

Z3n

Squid.
Joined
Feb 3, 2005
Location
Oakland, CA
Moto(s)
help me prove my commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Alright, no judging, no harsh words here, what's the dumbest/most pucker/biggest squid moment you've ever had?

Mine is...Working out carb issues on a new engine, verifying that it'll pull through all 6 gears, i'm doing 155 down a deserted highway, decide that it's ok, go for the front brake, only to have it come back to the bar. :wow I have a lot of room left, so i look down at the front wheel, squeeze the brake and watch brake fluid shoot out of the bleeder screw. :laughing

I dragged the back brake until i could safely stop on the shoulder, then rode slowly home. :laughing

I still have no idea what caused the bleeder screws to get loose, considering that the bike had been in storage for the last 2 months after blowing the previous engine at the track.
 
I was a senior in HS riding back out to a party on my bike when this jackass heading out to the party decided that he was going to pass me in his hot car. Problem was that we were approaching a 30 mph curve in the road and he decided that he was going to use the other lane since he saw no cars were coming (it was dark), but the problem was that he couldn't hold his lane so he pushed me off my side onto the lawn (house in middle of turn) with big oak trees spaced about 10-12 feet apart at 45-50 (don't know the exact speed, didn't have time to look down) mph. Both wheels were sliding all the way through the turn with oak trees going past just feet away!

When I got to the party I was so pumped up with adrenaline that when I found him, I tossed him off the balcony into the bushes. He avoided me for the rest of the night.
 
About 10 yrs ago I was going up Hywy 1 with a friend and over cooked a decreasing radius right turn, went AROUND THE OUTSIDE of an oncomming car on the left hand sholder!! Toss them undies!!
 
I was a teenager and me and my best friend were riding on his 1973 Honda XL250, two-up. I was on the front, and were were talking about how f-ed up it would be to ride on the back with somebody who had never ridden a motorcycle before. So were making fun of this imaginary person, laughing, and Im like "yeah... the person would be like, 'what does this do." ......right then, i pulled in the front brake lever (because i was acting like that person who had never ridden before.) and we both flew over the handlebars into the dirt in a pile.

it was so stupid, we just :laughing for about 10 minutes, and he never let me forget it for about a year.

http://powersports.honda.com/Motorcycle_DCTM/Milestone/Images/MM_1972_XL250_cycle.jpg
 
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i lost balance on my brother-in-law's new r1 and it fell on it's left side. good thing he had the frame sliders installed. he just brought it home from the dealer. good thing we're family. i offerred to pay for it, but he was cool about it. used a black permanent pen to cover the damage.
 
Two ultimate pucker moments.

First, I was riding down this deserted road I've been down many, many times and there's this bridge with a big bump at the seam where it hits the road. I ususally slow way down, tho one time I decided to just bomb across it (prudent speed = 30mph, stupid speed = 50mph). I was rewarded with a wheel-hopping, lock to lock tank slapper. I kept it upright but nearly shat me leathers. Thankfully no one was looking. :laughing

Another time, I had just finished a major tune-up, painted the headers, etc., so I took the bike out to some deserted road to run it thru the gearz. At I pass 140mph, I realize I'm in the air... big time. Perfect landing. That was pretty fun, actually, just surprises the shit out of you when you don't expect it. A rise in the road that's nothing at 70mph can be a launching pad at double the speed.

I have a couple others, too. :teeth
 
It was 110 degrees during that heatwave two summers ago. I needed a ride home from work and I was wearing capri-type pants, not even a sweathshirt, and little slip on shoes..got a ride home on the back of my friend's Kawi. :blush
I cringe everytime I think of how undergeared I was now. I think that was the only time I will ever see my friend ride in a T-shirt. :laughing

:squid :squid
 
About a year ago on a decreasing radius right on Hwy 1 I took it too hot. Panic'd grabbed brake, went into left lane, then off the road about a foot down the "cliff" of ivey. I remember looking at the road to my right thinking okay there is where I am going to land (beeter than down the cliff to my left) and thank god I was fully leathered.

Put my right foot down on the edge of the road and somehow ended up back on the road and riding away. To this day I swear "somebody" just grabbed me and my bike and placed it back on the road. There is no other explaination for me not going down.

I pulled over and started beating myself in the head and swore off riding forever. That didn't last long and now I rail that corner almost once a week.
 
some years back i was ridng with a guy i never rode with before we were in half moon bay and he ran a stop sign out the far end of main street. I took off from the stop sign and accellerated to 80 as I was catching him he pulled right hit the brakes and whipped a uturn right in front of me. i caught him just behind his leg my bike went up and over flipping forward I stopped 258 ft from the point of impact according to the chp still on the bike. I can remember his eyes were huge looking out of my brand new bell star helmet he wanted to try about 2 miles before the crash. i broke an ankle fractured my skull and got a little rash severly damaged my manlly parts and ground part of my face off all in all very lucky to be alive. He had minor injuries because he had my helmet I was wearing full gear except for the helmet. oh yeah my passenger who was wearing my other helmet and full gear got a cut finger he was tossed off the bike at the point of impact. speaking of having to change underwear.
 
not too many squid moments expect riding in a tshirt and jeans during the summer 2 yrs ago when it was well over 100. and racing my cousin on his r1 on 101....i hit a little dip and scared me shitless...looked down and saw 155. needless to say thats when i started doing trackdays
 
codger said:
some years back i was ridng with a guy i never rode with before we were in half moon bay and he ran a stop sign out the far end of main street. I took off from the stop sign and accellerated to 80 as I was catching him he pulled right hit the brakes and whipped a uturn right in front of me. i caught him just behind his leg my bike went up and over flipping forward I stopped 258 ft from the point of impact according to the chp still on the bike. I can remember his eyes were huge looking out of my brand new bell star helmet he wanted to try about 2 miles before the crash. i broke an ankle fractured my skull and got a little rash severly damaged my manlly parts and ground part of my face off all in all very lucky to be alive. He had minor injuries because he had my helmet I was wearing full gear except for the helmet. oh yeah my passenger who was wearing my other helmet and full gear got a cut finger he was tossed off the bike at the point of impact. speaking of having to change underwear.
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:wow, nothing personal, but can i use this story as a justification for my anti-helmet law position. :laughing
 
Seeing a BARF post that I thought momentarily had some socially redeeming value.
 
Not including crashing my 250 when I was t3h nub, because it was more just inexperience than being squidly...

I've had a few close calls passing cars over DYs in turns. One guy tried to run me off by also crossing the DY (right hander, 1 south of Big Sur), once I nearly ran into the side of a car (left hander headed up 9 before the bridge), and once I split between cars in a turn on the DY (left hander, downhill on 84 to Woodside). These were all in group rides last year while I was trying to "keep up" with other squidly folk.

I don't do that shit anymore. I just hang behind cars until there's a long straight and then pass.
 
I had just started riding and was heading east on Pescadero Road when I came up behind a slow moving 2 ton flat bed truck. He slowed even further and without thinking of why he might be slowing, I flicked out to the left and started to pass. Just as I get about even with his rear bumper, he makes a turn to the left to go into a driveway. In a flicker of a second I realize my mistake and think, this is going to hurt and I'm going to die. Fortunately, my years of bicycling reflexes kick in and I make the correct emergency inputs at the bar and I swerve radically to the left with him. And fortunately, he sees me at the last second and hits his brakes, and fortunately, I have just enough time and space to flick it back to the right to avoid going into the large ditch at the left of the road. Whew!! Time to change my shorts. I never did that again.
 
Oh the bike i was splitting lanes in santa cruz, being quite cautious. Then my buddy yelled from behind me, hurry up F*cker! So i goosed the throttle, just as i entered a crosswalk, two pedestian stepped out from the truck next to me, i locked up my front brake for a split second, hit my junk on the tank and almost dropped it. ouch.

Driving down a city street, My attention was diverted to some ding dongs doing a chinese fire drill, once i looked forward again, all traffic was stopped about 50 feet infront of me ( I was traveling at about 40 mph). I hit the brakes once in my little VW bug, yeah that didn't help. One peak over my right shoulder, no car. I swerved harder than I have ever swerved in my life, and missed the back bumper of this truck by about 4 feet. Oh Crap!
 
101SB just before 280, I was lanesharing, everything was going fine, suddenly this cager drifts over the botts dots as I am probaby 2 feet away. I got on the front brakes, almost felt the rear wheel losing traction, the cager moved back over to the left, as I pulled up next to the car, the driver is on the cell phone and looks at me while talking on the phone and waves to me. She was totally oblivious to what just happened. It happened so quick, it was almost surreal, like it never happened. Had to stop lane sharing for a few minutes to get it together.
 
Priest Grade in the sierra's coming back from Yosemite.

Too hot into a very tight right hand turn, stood it up and stopped with my front tire in teh gravel pointing straight out to an unguarded very long drop straight down about 15 feet further. Luckily no car either.
 
ST Guy said:
I had just started riding and was heading east on Pescadero Road when I came up behind a slow moving 2 ton flat bed truck. He slowed even further and without thinking of why he might be slowing, I flicked out to the left and started to pass. Just as I get about even with his rear bumper, he makes a turn to the left to go into a driveway. In a flicker of a second I realize my mistake and think, this is going to hurt and I'm going to die. Fortunately, my years of bicycling reflexes kick in and I make the correct emergency inputs at the bar and I swerve radically to the left with him. And fortunately, he sees me at the last second and hits his brakes, and fortunately, I have just enough time and space to flick it back to the right to avoid going into the large ditch at the left of the road. Whew!! Time to change my shorts. I never did that again.
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Same thing happened to me.. LONG time ago.. I was riding at a high rate of speed(100+mph) on my Yamaha virago 535 in southern Ga backroads..

A tractor trailer was pulling left out onto the hwy; the guy I was with made it past him, his bike was faster.. I didn't have the distance.. I adjusted speed and rode into and out of that ditch behind that truck at around 100mph.. Talk about lucky..
 
Peeing in my leathers while @ Laguna. Couldn't get the thing off in time after waiting so long in line. Nevertheless...i bought new pants that day.
 
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