scariest motorcycling moments.......

skrall said:

Probably biggest crap my pants though I was gonna die moment, was when I was riding doing maybe 90 through a fast twisty stretch in the middle of the night no road lighting or catseyes, aproaching a bend and flicked my hi beam on to see how deep the corner was, as I did the all the lights went out:eek2 leaving me in the pitch black doing 90, knowing theres a bend coming up, and fumbling around with the lights whilst trying to take off as much speed as posible. luckily the lights came back and the corner wasn't too bad. One of the biggest brown pants moments without actually coming off.
Was a dodgy relay on my triumph.

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Ooooh yesss, been there done that. Boxhill, late at night, add some rain, a trashed ninja and a broken arm! Twisty roads at night are one thing, but when your lights are pointing one way and your wheels somewhere else, there's gonna be just one outcome! Didn't ride for two years after that, and still cack myself in the wet.:eatcorn

Bar the 200 odd kilo's an hour, just looks like a normal ride home from work :dougto me!

glad I'm not the only one with a target on the back of me lid. lol
apart from crashes that were my fault, I have had two chains snap (one at 60mph)
Front caliper seals on my kwak failed=no front brakes(glad it wos in town)
and the retaining pin on my brembo radial clutch went awol last year at over the ton(that was scary). Also been hit from behind at the traffic lights by a dozy old bird(she was doing thirty, car on top of bike after 6 metre skid,(rigid harris rearsets saved my leg) I had brakes on so it even popped the fork seals) wrote the bike off, so I got the mille...and proceeded to rideoff the front tyre whilst getting some enthusiastic knee down action, that really hurt, I had a huge haemangioma at the top of my femur, could not walk at all for a week. Took a while to have the balls to knee down again and a grands damage to the carbon and Ti akra can.(the bungs saved forks, swingarm and BST wheels (TF)
All in all I bounce fairly well thanks fcuk and I'm getting good a sueing people. Amonth befor our motogp trip to Barcelona, this nob pulled out of a petrol station across into my front rt side, I thought bugger this I'm holding on, amazingly the bike did a complete 360(with me hanging on) I landed upside down wedged against his car, it looked like I was riding upside down lol, TF there was no damage to CF tank and BSt's tho CF front fairing and rear CF hump were feked. Still waiting for the last bit of the payout then its off to Africa on safari, ha ha.
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Phoeno said:

Bar the 200 odd kilo's an hour, just looks like a normal ride home from work :dougto me!

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Thats freekin' amazing...and insane! Imagine being able to do that on purpose!? if you could afford new rubber every week