Wild Hogs!

[PapaYolk]

Stopped at a pullout in the Franklin Mountains above Ft Bliss on my new '74 XL350 with my right leg down. Ahead, coming up through a sweeping turn I see two girls in a convertible and as they near I reflexively suck in my gut and set high in the saddle, straitening my right leg in the process, tipping left. I, being Mr. Cool, go to slowly slide my foot off the left peg and my boot lugs catch on the cleats and over I go right as they pass.

[Pansy]

I've told this story before but since most of you are n00bs hope you'll enjoy it.

Remember The Great American Race? The antique cars that travel across country...
I was asked to put together a motorcycle escort for the Race when it came into Peoria. I put out the word but you never know how many bikes will show up.
I was flying high because of the great turnout, every make & model was represented. It was an awesome event.

The vehicle assigned to me was a huge OLD semi. He followed me into the downtown river front parking lot and I hopped off the 500 Magna.
Totally forgot to put down the kickstand in my excitement.
The old girl had a quick nap before I yanked her back upright fast.
Hoped it was so crowded that none of the 10K folks there had even noticed...

Figured I'd gotten away clean until the Semi driver comes over and says "Interesting dismount. You do that often?"

[MiamiMotorcyclist]

Originally Posted by Go Irish75

Is there a better bike knocking over scene than Pee Wee in Pee Wee's Big Adventure? All others are 2nd place.

Maybe not but Cletus Snow running over the bikes after the fight scene in Smokey and the Bandit has to be a close second.

[pdxmotorhead]

Scooting down a logging road and saw a great view ,, stopped to take a pic, boot lace caught on foot peg and flopped over on my right side. Landed in about 10 inches of water. Unfortunately when I tried to get up my right arm wasn't working,
shoulder started hurting like hell. Crap. Bike was about a week old and the beginning of the riding season....

Luckily was riding with my brother he went and got my truck came back and got me, loaded the bike.

I stopped at home and took a shower cause I thought they would strap me up or something.

Changed into shorts and a t-shirt flip flops cause it was too much trouble to do much else.

Got to the hospital and did the usual paperwork. While I sat there noticed there were two other guys
who looked stove up in a similar fashion holding their arms. Nurse comes out to talk to each of us
and check paperwork. First guy is wearing FOX cycle gear and the Nurse is being a total B****.
She tells him where to go and starts on the next guy with "I suppose you were riding a motorcycle
too! and proceeds to drone about danger etc etc"
He says heck no I went over the handlebars of my mountain bike trying to dodge an idiot in a car...
She immediately gets a wheel chair and pushes him down the hall to the exam room. So when she
gets to me,,, Hell yea I was on my bicycle...


Cheers
Dave

[Corky1]

You have to be a Harley rider to imagine this.

LAPD Motor Cop roll call at headquarters.

About 40 cop bikes all lined up, nosed up against a concrete wall.

I pulled in and parked against the wall. Got off and went into roll call.

Roll call was over, I went out to get on my bike and was going to back out.

I started to get on my bike, and just as my ass hits the seat my kickstand breaks.

Over goes my bike to the right and hits the bike to the right side of mine.

You guessed it!!!! All the bikes to the right of mine went down like dominos!!!

Thats one thing I never lived down.

Corky

[go gonzo]

Originally Posted by Corky1

You have to be a Harley rider to imagine this.

Corky

I imagined it just fine.

[Wingfixer]

Originally Posted by go gonzo

I imagined it just fine.

+1! Corky owes me a keyboard!

[marine_mike]

The following drops are all excused due to the fact that I'm an MC newb. Won my bike on ebay and drove down to OH to go get it. It wouldn't kick start and neither of us knew why. I tried the old jump-n-kick start.....and proceeded to fall to the right. It felt like the fall took long enough to read a book and eat a sandwich. Turns out the bike's petcock was in the RES position.....

Second time was a few days later. I have a 10x10 shed for my 250 and my girlfriend's 250 side by side. Well I was backing my bike out while my ass was being compressed between the door opening and the bike. Well...the bike started tipping to the right with me going over it. I promptly put my hand out to brace myself on the sliding door (which wasn't fully open) End result........... I look like I'm doing the breast stroke on top of my fallen over bike. I looked up to see my girlfriend laughing so hard on her bike and searching every pocket for her camera. Thanks hun.

[TortillaJesus]

I did the Beartooth Hwy and Chief Joseph Hwy into Cody WY in one afternoon and by the time we rolled into Cody it was 90 degrees. I was assed up and miserable and just wanted to get the hell of the bike.

We pulled into a K-Mart parking lot that had a Burger King in the corner, drive-thru line is packed with spectators mind you, and I was so excited to be getting off the bike, I stood straight up on both pegs in order to do the fully loaded KLR kinetic dismount.....

I forgot to put the kick stand down.

Helmet and gear went rolling across the parking lot, bystander's tears of laughter were shed.

[ChristianRider]

I was riding through an abandoned parking lot of a burnt down mall.
It was one of those places people parked their cars when they were trying to sell them, lots of tar snakes and pot holes. It had finished raining about 20min prior, I also had brand new tires on my DL1000'06..

My little brother was way behind me so I decided to do some big circles around the parking lot and when he was within about 50yrds to catching-up I hit a patch of oil and my bike did a 360 degree rotation on the center axis (between the tires) and then the tires gripped and almost threw me off the side of the bike into a light-pole.

I came to a stop and make sure I was still alive, my lil'bro rolls up and says: Hey, how'd you do that ?

[rbomb]

Originally Posted by flyinfuzz

Kick starter up the leg of my bellbottoms Damn I'm Old

Done that too, remember it like is was yesterday .I can't say I remember what i did this morning, or where I put my keys, or much of anything that has happened .....uhhh what was I talkin' 'bout ? damn I old too. I feel your pain, but I think I got a pill for that!

[akrider]

Ok think Daytona Bike Week. A1A four lanes full of Harleys. Stopped at a stop light with a bus to my left. As I put my foot down my pants leg caught the foot peg. As luck would have it I was close enough to the bus to put my arm out and stop the bike from going down. I hung by a thread until I got my foot loose and back on the ground. Oh did I mention I was on a BMW GS surrounded by Harleys. I'm sure they all wanted the Beemer puke to go down.

[anmut]

I dropped my first bike once (Honda VLX 600) when I first got it riding past a fair. Came to a stop sign, was thinking about how cool all the people at the fair thought I was on my bike, forgot to put my feet down (did I mention I just got it?!) and put it on it's side. Talk about some embarrassing sh*t.

[AdventureRN]

Dropped my BMWG650GS last week in the driveway. I got psyched out by the neighbor's pit bull mix that was growling and barking at me from my own driveway. Next thing I knew I was on the ground wondering what happened. The next time that dog comes over and I am in my gear and am going to tackle him. Visualize this... a 5'4" female in full neon riding gear and helmet rolling down a driveway strangling a pit bull Oh well, at least I was able to pick it up and there wasn't any damage. And no body saw me so I can deny that it ever happened!

[Bobblehead]

I did the pant-leg thing fooling around offroad on a Honda ST90. The idea was to put my right foot down in a sharp right turn and hit the throttle to pivot the bike. Well, things were going great until my right pant-leg got caught on kick-starter, so when I hit the throttle, all it did was throw me down on my right side, hard. Of course, the only rock for about twenty feet was right where my elbow landed. I consider myself lucky, because it was only a glancing blow, and because I wasn't wearing a helmet at the time and it easily could have been my head.

Lesson learned.