Top 10 stupid things you’ve seen on a ride

[ChrisMember]

Ollies earlier post got me thinkin’ yeah I know it’s rare but it would be interesting to create a top 10 stupid things you’ve seen on a ride, post it here and I’ll keep a most popular list.

CHeers
Chris.

1. Tinys Highside at hillend
2. checking your fuel with a lit cigarrette.
3. Micks Shortcut through the grass
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4.Polishing your disc brakes with wd40
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[ChrisMember]

O.K I’ll start.

Tiny’s highside at Hill End!!

[FezMember]

I once saw a bloke check the fuel level in his tank with a lit smoke in his mouth.

[FezMember]

Some one giving the kids at puddles birthday ride a box of fire crackers and a lighter. Then when the kids couldn’t get the lighter to work (kid safe lighter of course) the same person showed the kids how to use it. I won’t tell you the name of the old bull in question but you have to think WTF.

[zebMember]

A bloke showed up for a ride wanting to double his girlfriend around …. He started the ride
with us but I dont know how and when he got back to the cars but we wernt to worried becasue we knew he had comapny !

[ChrisMember]

Uncle Fester wrote:

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Some one giving the kids at puddles birthday ride a box of fire crackers and a lighter. Then when the kids couldn’t get the lighter to work (kid safe lighter of course) the same person showed the kids how to use it. I won’t tell you the name of the old bull in question but you have to think WTF.

Ha Ha I would have to guess

1. Mick
2. Moose
3. Puddles

CLose?

[DeanMember]

Gili and I took this guy out on a KLX250 once,he talked himself up bigtime but when we saw him watching his throttle and clutch action when taking off we knew he was a Noob :laugh: We rode down this easy but steep drop off trail and waited on the Rd for him. All of a sudden he gets a rush of blood gives the green Demon a fist full of throttle and launches off the embankment :woohoo: unfortunatley he flat landed on his side :side: Dont know how he didnt hurt himself,bike was damaged enough for me to have to do a bit of Mcguyver. He never did come back out with us again :laugh: ( and no it wasnt Eagle :laugh: )

Ollie

[Scott SouthwellMember]

hahahaha. Still don’t know why Mick went through the grass.

[ChrisMember]

How did I forget that one, they are in no particular order at the moment but when everyones had their say I will order them correctly I reckon so far mick or tiny are number 1.

[GregMember]

Scotty wrote:

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hahahaha. Still don’t know why Mick went through the grass.

Got to back you on that one Scotty, I said in a thread here recently that that was one of the most stupid things I have seen on a ride why ride through the long grass of the track :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: at least he was OK

TB

[Scott SouthwellMember]

chris72a wrote:

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How did I forget that one, they are in no particular order at the moment but when everyones had their say I will order them correctly I reckon so far mick or tiny are number 1.

Funny thing is they happened on the same ride.

[Mick DMember]

What about when Moto laid his bike down at speed in the campground at the Pines in front of everyone at the first Xmas party and RiderX went to roost him, getting more traction than he bargained for and flipping his bike just missing that big mother of a tree. Dunno if it qualifies as stupid but geez it was funny. :laugh:

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Many moons ago a group of mates and I arranged to go camping out the river taking our dirtbikes along the dirtroads, easy firetrails and stock routes, problem was my Cr250 was in pieces, looking round my bike shed, seeing as the lads were taking Yz465s,490s and a couple of 500s, the RM125 was out, so i settled on my trick Cafe racer RZ350, 425cc big bore, flat slides, pods, adjustable ign, handmade pipes/silencers and clipons. Took a young mate as pillion who wanted to tag along. On the way out it was nice and steady followed the landrover ute carrying our gear and gentle on the throttle.

Two days later after a fair bit of partying and bench racing we set out for home, the red mist was in full swing by the time we hit the smooth gravel road section the big dirtbikes didn’t stand a chance, I thought I was King Kenny on the TZ750 Flattracker, fishtailing everywhere, corners sideways, speedo saw 190 a few times on straights, all up until an uphill positive camber hairpin… I gassed it on the apex and my pillion finally panicked and sat up… the ensuing highside was not pretty, he was unscathed, I was totally scathed and the bike was worse, one by one the other boys pulled up laughing their guts out at me.
Something about “dirtbikes for the dirt, roadbikes for the road idiot”.

That bike copped hell from me for a few years and always came back for more, wish i still owned it.

So I guess the funniest thing in hindsight was me on a full house cafe-racer on the backroads and firetrails on the upper reaches on the clarence river.

BC

[Dwayne OMember]

Ollie wrote:

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Gili and I took this guy out on a KLX250 once,he talked himself up bigtime but when we saw him watching his throttle and clutch action when taking off we knew he was a Noob :laugh: We rode down this easy but steep drop off trail and waited on the Rd for him. All of a sudden he gets a rush of blood gives the green Demon a fist full of throttle and launches off the embankment :woohoo: unfortunatley he flat landed on his side :side: Dont know how he didnt hurt himself,bike was damaged enough for me to have to do a bit of Mcguyver. He never did come back out with us again :laugh: ( and no it wasnt Eagle :laugh: )

Ollie

Glad you cleared that one up Ollie :laugh:
I remember you telling me about that poor bugger :blink: :dry: :unsure:

[Dwayne OMember]

micknmeld wrote:

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What about when Moto laid his bike down at speed in the campground at the Pines in front of everyone at the first Xmas party and RiderX went to roost him, getting more traction than he bargained for and flipping his bike just missing that big mother of a tree. Dunno if it qualifies as stupid but geez it was funny. :laugh:

Yes Mick,,,, I vote for this one too as it was my first ever outing with you blokes & it sticks in my mind :laugh: I did think at the time “what the F am I doing out here with these ratbags”
Now I is one of the said Ratbags :woohoo:

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