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alan:
Don't worry Stewart it's all down hill from here! :lol: :lol: :lol:
serafin:
You ever have one of those days when life flashes before your eyes? The weather is one of those crisp clear days not a cloud in the sky no wind just perfect for a ride. Took the man bike out for a run. I?m having one hell of a good time out here in the desert north of Las Vegas. Fast roads, sand washes, a few whoops, hills and lots of rocks you get the picture. I?m cruising along in 4th gear on a rutted desert road in the middle of nowhere. The road is getting a little narrow and eventually ends up a single track trail. The trail ends up kind of like a kiddy roller coaster small hill after small hill followed by a bigger hill then another small hill and a bigger hill just high enough that you cant see over the top. I?m cruising in 3rd getting a little air after cresting each hill while getting a feel for the terrain this goes on for about 5 smaller hills and then the big hill as I crested it and became airborne yep life all of a sudden life flashed before my eyes. I?m grabbing a hand full of front brake a foot full of rear brake and oh s**t is going thru my mind. As soon as the bike hits the ground skidding the front wheel skids and falls off a 3 foot cliff into a sand wash below. You know how sometimes life goes into slow motion well this is what was going thru my mind. Oh s**t, don?t hit that rock! As the front end comes down it misses the big rock, I?m thinking man was I lucky! By this time I?m doing one of those infamous flying W?s you know where your hands are on the handlebars but the rest of your body is flying along in the air out of control. By this time I?m thinking this is really going to hurt. I hope the bike wont land on me. I hope I don?t break any bones. I hope that screwdriver in my fanny pack doesn?t stab me in the back. I hope I survive this. When the rear tire hits the ground it starts doing the side to side dance you know when the rear end tries to pass the front end on the left side and then tries to pass again on the right side. By now I?m stretched out hanging on like a BMX rider doing a superman seat grab but in my case it was a superman throttle grab. Visions of my family cross my mind my mother, sister, girlfriend, aunts, uncles, cousins. I?m hanging on with only my right hand the engine is racing the rear wheel hits the ground and bounces straight up the seat hits me in the ass and knocks me right straight into the tank, visions of grade school, high school and college and all the crazy s**t we did when we were younger. At this point I?m hanging on like a bull rider feet forward parallel to the forks and my left hand waving in the air. Some how when the rear wheel hits the ground and hooks up my feet land on the pegs and my left hand lands on the left grip. As I get back in control and coast to a stop it all hits you. You shout in the air yea yea yea. You pulled it off and you cheated disaster. I took it easy on the way back loaded up the bike and went home. The only damage a slight bend in the front rim. Didn?t ride the beast for 2 months. Serafin
KX500freak:
hahaha that are funny storys off riding
my story,s not that long ,more snapshot like
i,ve been jumping and by landing i got off track ,
straight in to a waterchannel .
with the water up the axles i kept luckely my bike alive.
so i didn,t had to start it with unbalance and splashing in the water.
and i drove right out
also an nearly death sensation,
it was stupid racing through an industrial zone at fridayafternoon.......
and so i drove me kx 500 sumo at full throttle till...... :-o
i came across a car wanting to turn off thereby crossing me,
i saw him stopping ,doubting,pull up a little,stop again,slightly turned in ,stopped again
i didn,t steer or brake rough ,only concentrating on the car,s movement.s
that,s how i could keep control off the kx,
and race right past him passing it on a foot distance or so at 60 mph .
i never will be so stupid again i hope
ow and i saw no livecycle going on in me mind ,so it wasn,t bad enough :roll: :?
to go on i had some wheelie experiences ,
but the one standing right next to a perfectly vertical parked kx 5oo
desperately seeking for balance since i,m surrounded by spectators,
and i dont want to fall with that green m...f..ker coming down too...
butt i held the clutch so it didn,t stall an di could land carefully pffff
saved my ego again...
then an other one
when i bought my second kx 500 ,
the supermoto ,but not in the fine condition he,s now..
the dude selling it took off for the last spin before loading up the hauler
i didn,t gave permit for that since it was registered on my name a half hour ago
he took it out of his backyard while i was making hauler ready.
and he drove away turned and wheelied to me ,
when he landed the frontwheel slipped and he came down HARD :x :x :x
his face hit the ground like a pumpkin smashed on the ground.. :oops:
the bike slided through the street with him half on it .
and there,s the neighbours car too standing at side off road,
well he smacked in too the side off the car hard
costing him his trousers hands cut open headwound
jacket teared ,EGO smashed in to pieces
i was mad and said i want a piece of the money back,
he did so and i think he was very lucky afterall ,
he didn,t have his crashhat on.. :|
next on is more a ooops moment at he gate ,it dropped for everyone
but i was sleaping and stood against the comin,gate with the fr.wheel :x :x
that,s where my ego is really hurt :-( :cry:
but hey this year was better :lol:
i did go off on me green rocket as well :evil:
hope you like guys like the story,s
grtz menno
BDI:
This is not exactly a riding story but this one time at band camp, just kidding this one time when I was about 15 I was sitting in my front yard when I hear a two stroke with no muffler pop to life and rev clear to the moon and stay there. I could tell it was few blocks away by the sound of it. My parents lived where two streets intersected and from my front yard I could see clear down constitution st to the end. I could hear this thing getting louder and louder so I could tell it was moving then all of a sudden three blocks down on constitution I see this bike cross the street with no rider, the bike had to be going 50 mph. In my neighborhood all the curbs were rounded, this bike hit the curb and flew atleast 10 feet into the air it did a front flip and crashed onto these peoples roof. It hit right on the edge and went flipping strait up and landed back in the middle of the front yard. Everything went silent at this point and I'm just standing their in shock of what I just saw when a group of kids go running across the street chaseing after the bike. Very few times in my life have I ever laughed so hard as that day. Adam Brimhall was trying to push start this old 250 air cooled piece of crap that he had, It was in third gear when it started and the throttle was stuck wide open.
k5abuser:
well with the last story i remember pull starting a rm 465 . yes a real one lol . any way i was riding it while CHUCK was pulling me with a four wheeler . ( i worked with him at a kawa dealer ship)any way i was trying everything i could with it in 3rd gear and it hit a couple of times after 6 blocks we turn around and chuck climb's on it ( now chucks just 5'6" ) well i start pulling him about 20 mph and chuck tries a few things and nods to go faster so 30 mph then 35 . chucks got it in 4th at about 40mph and he has the wick lit wide open . at this speed i am looking forward and i HEAR IT booom . as i look to my right i see chuck doing a wheele 10:30 looking at me with the biggest eyes you have ever seen . i am on the gas grabing gears thinking ( is the ins. paid . do we have ins. should i just keep going and leave chuck there while i get him help .hes going to need it at the end of the fourty foot rope ) weve done this before . word to the wise 40 feet is better than 8 . thats another story . well at about 38.5 feet the 465 locks up . solid. i go sliding past chuck and know i have begun to laugh and chucks eyes are bigger as he thinks i am going to take the bike out from under him . HE CAN'T LET THE BIKE GO . after a few mins chuck climbs back off and pushs the bike 3 blocks to the shop . customer gets bike a little rope burn but still locked up .
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