[No Worries]

It's not as bad as catching your shoelaces on the shifter when coming to a stop, but it was close. I was the first at a long stoplight. A couple Harleys pull up behind me. A police car pulls up to the left turning lane next to me. No one is in the right turning lane. I can see the yellow light for the cross traffic, and I tap it smartly down to first. The light turns green and I stall it. Holy Crap.

I hadn't stalled the bike in about a year. So holding the clutch in, I hit the start button. The bike starts up. So as not to stall it again, I twist the throttle. The revs jump up to like six grand and I start to feather the clutch. But the on-coming traffic who are turning left in front of me, see me not moving, so they decide to turn. So now I have to abort this lunging bike that's headed to the side of the turning car. Jeeze.

I really pride myself on being real smooth when I ride. This was just the opposite. It must have looked like I was on a bucking bronco. The other riders were probably laughing, and the cop must have thought I was drunk. I was just glad to get out of there.

 

[jeeps84]

Just one of those things. It happen to the best of us.

 

[Gas Man]

Yeah I can't say that's happened to me but that is a funny and interesting story... thanks for sharing!

Don't feel too bad it's a easy mistake...

 

[fatburg]

It's all good. Guy at work the other day was so proud of his new vtx. As I pulled up next to him at the stop light, he looked over smiled and reved his engine a little bit, light turned green...and yep, you guessed. stalled her out. The next light he wouldn't even pull up next to me or make eye contact.

It happens, we still love ya :hug: might laugh at ya, but still love ya. :dthumb:

 

[bumblebee]

Yeppers...I have done that more than once...I saw birdman do it a few days ago...and we laughed at him... :dthumb:

 

[Earlzach]

That sux but yeah! Been there.

My worst move is the let the clutch out start to lift leg and twist gas as smooth as one can, only to be in Nuetral and about throw a hip out holding her up "with the Shifter leg to boot" and cant get back under it to get to the other foot and pop it in gear. That hurts. :bonk: and I'm sure looks just as cool!!!!! NOT

 

[ne1469]

Im a newbie rider, it happens to me all the dam time :bonk: :disapp: ....but I've gotten alot better on not stalling out though.

the first weekend I got the bike, kept stalling at stops, at one stop I actually had to waive the car behind me to go on... :willy: luckily none have honked or :cursin: at me yet.

 

[bumblebee]

Im a newbie rider, it happens to me all the dam time :bonk: :disapp: ....but I've gotten alot better on not stalling out though.

the first weekend I got the bike, kept stalling at stops, at one stop I actually had to waive the car behind me to go on... :willy: luckily none have honked or :cursin: at me yet.

You need parking lot time...To this day you can still catch me in Publix or WalMart lot after closing practicing circles and figure 8's...get out and practice those slow speed drills you learned at MSF...I am still learning how to handle a MC...you would think after 30 years?... :scratch: ...But I keep practicing... :dthumb:

 

[ne1469]

You need parking lot time...To this day you can still catch me in Publix or WalMart lot after closing practicing circles and figure 8's...get out and practice those slow speed drills you learned at MSF...I am still learning how to handle a MC...you would think after 30 years?... :scratch: ...But I keep practicing... :dthumb:

Oh I do...the area I live in has lots of wide open parking spaces on weekends...Tech companies with large campuses...man on weekends their parking spaces are empty, Im talking about empty parkling lots the size of football fields....

when Im out practicing on their parking lots..the unlucky few who had to pull weekend shifts will usally stop by and watch as Im doing drills and chit chat about how they are also planning to get a bike..etc...

 

[ShanMan14]

Practice makes perfect. There is always more to learn! Don't sweat it, we all do things like this from time to time. :dthumb:

 

[twisty]

Just one of those things. It happen to the best of us.

Yeah I have my share of the bobbles.

 

[itgirl25]

when i was about 17, i got my first bike, a ninja 250. the very day i picked it up i rode it into town to taco bell (our local hangout). i was so proud as i casually pulled into a parking spot right in front of ALL my friends...and dropped the bike right in front of them! they had to pick it up for me. i had stopped without straightening the front wheel first, a mistake i will never make again. i thought i'd die of embarrassment! to this day my friends haven't let me live it down. they love to talk about it.

 

[jeeps84]

when i was about 17, i got my first bike, a ninja 250. the very day i picked it up i rode it into town to taco bell (our local hangout). i was so proud as i casually pulled into a parking spot right in front of ALL my friends...and dropped the bike right in front of them! they had to pick it up for me. i had stopped without straightening the front wheel first, a mistake i will never make again. i thought i'd die of embarrassment! to this day my friends haven't let me live it down. they love to talk about it.

That's not near as bad as a seasoned rider stopping on a pull off at some local twisties to chat. He pulled up next to us pointing down hill. Stopped the bike, put down the kick stand, got off and the bike rolled forward and fell. He left it in neutral. :dupe:

 

[ne1469]

That's not near as bad as a seasoned rider stopping on a pull off at some local twisties to chat. He pulled up next to us pointing down hill. Stopped the bike, put down the kick stand, got off and the bike rolled forward and fell. He left it in neutral. :dupe:

:lol:

 

[DLIT]

You should have seen me test drive a Cobalt SS the other day. First stick I drove in like three years, proly more. That ish was buckin all over the place. I think i stalled it like three times while the dealer guy was just looking at me. i hit the rev limiter like evrytime in every gear because I'm so use to the bikes clutch and all that. i looked like one of those stupids fuks ay drivers ed or something. not a bad little car though. had it goin 120 and still had some pull. for 20K it's a good ass deal.

 

[R1up0n1]

I feel dumb pulling up to a stop light, and where my tranny doesn't want to go into Neutral at idle, I have to rev up to 4k then shift into neutral, everyone's looking over at me like I don't know what I'm doing.

Another almost embarrasing moment for me is at Carlisle Bike fest. I pulled under the 2WT/TWF tent, I was in the grass and I was going to position the bike a little better so I didn't put the kickstand down, I just hopped off the bike ready to just move forward and backward. As I got off the bike I almost dropped the bike, it went about 1/2 way down, but I somehow got the strength to lift it back up. I put the kick stand down and left it. :lol: Todd from 2WT says, "uhhh all most!" :lol:

 

[Homer4598]

When I was younger, I remember my father riding up the driveway, turn onto the walkway to the front door, stop the bike, then just fall over. He forgot to put his foot down. At least he was laughing about it.

 

[DLIT]

I feel dumb pulling up to a stop light, and where my tranny doesn't want to go into Neutral at idle, I have to rev up to 4k then shift into neutral, everyone's looking over at me like I don't know what I'm doing.

Another almost embarrasing moment for me is at Carlisle Bike fest. I pulled under the 2WT/TWF tent, I was in the grass and I was going to position the bike a little better so I didn't put the kickstand down, I just hopped off the bike ready to just move forward and backward. As I got off the bike I almost dropped the bike, it went about 1/2 way down, but I somehow got the strength to lift it back up. I put the kick stand down and left it. :lol: Todd from 2WT says, "uhhh all most!" :lol:

Shiit i half dropped my bike like three or four times already. The dumbest thing was dropping it in my garage. Luckily the plactics were off and nothing at all got scraped. I yelled FUK so friggin loud I scared my roomate inside.

 

[R1up0n1]

Shiit i half dropped my bike like three or four times already. The dumbest thing was dropping it in my garage. Luckily the plactics were off and nothing at all got scraped. I yelled FUK so friggin loud I scared my roomate inside.

LMMFAO!!!!!!! I have dropped mine a few times, cracked my plastics, and dented my gas tank. I had new plastics and a new gas tank within a week. The frame sliders do an amazing job, but when you drop the bike on a concrete wall that sits up 2 ft high, the frame sliders don't work for that kind of drop. This is the reason I have a custom paint job on the bike too. I have a scratch on my bike now, you can't see it very well, but I am getting a new custom paint job this year. I can't have this. :lol:

 

[bumblebee]

That's not near as bad as a seasoned rider stopping on a pull off at some local twisties to chat. He pulled up next to us pointing down hill. Stopped the bike, put down the kick stand, got off and the bike rolled forward and fell. He left it in neutral. :dupe:

Well at least the wind didn't knock it over...eh King :whore: ?