ahhh sh1te

madrab

ahh crap
About to drive home from college tonight & was not in a great mood. ended up chatting to the lads about how crappy our course is being run when i go to drive off & i forget about the disc lock. CRUNCH!

Good point: i didnt drop the bike
Bad point: i ****ed the brake disc on the rhs & it now appears to be buckled....im in a great mood now

rant over for now

Thinkingaboutit

Comiserations, hope the repair is easy and inexpensive.

Parking the bike so it has to be reversed, and placing the disk lock over the hole/eye of the disk closest to the fork, so that the disk lock will not be spun and impact on the fork, and stop you moving, tying something to the bike as a reminder, are precautions against that. I suppose though, those things can be overlooked.

madrab

yeah, i had parked in the carpark so that i could just drive out easily enough & i wasnt in a great mood

cb750

I think we've all done things like that.
Pulling away with your disk lock on is one
Another is taking the first left turn and finding the side stand is still down :eek:
Letting the cluch out in a hurry to get in front of the BMW 320I and finding you're still in neutral
Trying to turn your fuel tap to reserve but finding it's already on reserve :mad:

These are things we do only once because no biker would be so stupid to ever make those mistakes twice

Patrick

Interceptor

Tough break madrab - I wrecked the speedo gear-wotsit on my RGV when it had 126 miles on it, I had just bought the disc lock and parked it outside the shop, came out and when I moved it, KRRRUUUNCCHH. £150 to Mr. Suzuki. Ouch.

I bought a second hand disc for my CBR from City Spares for €30 so at least you shouldn't be broke as a result. Yes, I know you should replace brake parts with new ones but this wasmy choice and I saved $$$

Nice list cb750 - yeah I'm guilty of all of the above and can add 'pulling out for fast overtaking manoeuvre, change from second to third, miss gear, hit rev limiter, balls up overtaking and miss window, fall back in behind again with humiliated expression to await next overtaking opportunity'

'cptr

sutty

madrab wrote:

ahh crap
About to drive home from college tonight & was not in a great mood. ended up chatting to the lads about how crappy our course is being run when i go to drive off & i forget about the disc lock. CRUNCH!

Good point: i didnt drop the bike
Bad point: i ****ed the brake disc on the rhs & it now appears to be buckled....im in a great mood now

rant over for now

Ouch Sorry to hear Mad my boy. I recken a nice trip down to Waterford and a Spin on a 999 would cheer you up rightly *cough*

Tehehe
Anyway. I done the same thing out side Halfords in Liffy Valley. Luckly I was taking of slowly to move out onto the road from the path. So no Damage. I also done the Old switching to reserve to find it already there... Luckly next to a Petrol station. I've also popped the cluch and wheelied out side of central bank while trying to get ahead of some tard who seen "Ducati" beside him in Traffic and wanted to see what his car could do... it wasn't much :rolleyes:

Garibaldi

D'oh! Same thing happened to me outside Mao's restaurant in Dun Laoghaire a few years ago. Right outside. At lunchtime. At least I got a nice round of applause after picking the bike back up (VFRs are bloody heavy).

In other news, I was overtaken by a guy on what looked like a yellow CB1 yesterday, going through Inchicore. I got stuck behind a van and missed the green light at the LUAS junction by the canal bridge, but the CB1 made it through. So, eventually the lights change and I head off up the road and, as I approach the next junction (at the Bluebell LUAS stop), I see a growing trail of plastic and metal bits on the ground and a few stopped cars. Yup, CB1-Man is on the ground, banged up, but conscious (didn't see any blood), and surrounded by a crowd of passers-by. An ambulance had already been called and, indeed, it passed me shortly afterwards, so I headed on home. If I hadn't got stuck behind that van, it could've been me. :eek:

madrab

lucky, what hit him/did he hit?

Steffano2002

Tough break Madrab... Luck break Garibaldi!

When it comes to disc locks, do you guys not have the springy cord to attach to your handlebar? It's very handy and you won't forget to take it off before taking off! (<-- feeling poetic today...)

Garibaldi

It really wasn't obvious what he hit/hit him. At a guess (judging by the point at which the trail of destruction started, and where he ended up - I really don't have much else to go on), I'd say he was filtering between the right turn lane, and the straight, and just got it wrong, hitting the side of a car and dumping himself on the road. The trail started too far back for it to have been cross-traffic that did it. Still, not having seen it actually happen, there were no vehicles stopped in "crash position", so to speak, it's impossible to say. It could just as easily have been someone pulling out of either lane that took him out.
He looked in pain alright, but nothing seemed life-threatening, so I hope he's ok.

Steffano2002

Poor guy... I really do hope he's ok. I also hope I never crash... *fingers crossed*

faceman

Sorry to hear that madrab. Ive done it many a time. i started using one of those cable thing that hook into your disc lock and your handlebars to remind you that u have the lock on. Its handy.