downing bikes / plain & fancy nklr

[guymanbro@excite.com]

Anybody else who gets individual e-mails been getting messages out of order and sometimes up to 10 hours after the original posting? I have. dat brooklyn bum

[e. rhoads]

> Anybody else who gets individual e-mails been getting messages out of > order and sometimes up to 10 hours after the original posting? > > I have. > > dat brooklyn bum > >>>>>>>

I've been noticing that too...... eric

[e. rhoads]

>>>> This is from "128 ways to drop your bike" I'll put up more later.

Compiled from the rec.motorcycles newsgroup by Scott Harpster 1 Putting your foot into a hole when stopping. 2 Putting your foot down on something slippery when stopping. 3 Locking the front wheel during overenthusiastic braking. 4 Missing the driveway and sliding on the grass. 5 Not putting the kickstand down when getting off. 6 Make a turn from stop in gravel or sand at high throttle. 7 Not putting a board ('foot')under the kickstand on asphalt on a hot day. 8 Letting overenthusiastic people sit on your bike who have never been on a bike. 9 Forgetting the bike's in gear when you jump on the kickstarter. 10 Revving the engine, releasing clutch, and putting feet on pegs when the light turns green, but the bike's in neutral. 11 Not putting your foot down when stopping at red light. 12 Losing balance when putting it on the centerstand. 13 Take an hour ride in 30 degree weather with no gloves, stop at a stop sign and pop the clutch when you start because you've lost feeling in your hands. 14 Putting your foot down at a toll booth on the thick layer of grease that builds up when cars stop. 15 Using too much power when you pull out of a greasy toll booth. 16 Ignoring the sand that builds up in the spring at the side of the road (in places where roads are sanded and salted in winter.) 17 Kicking your kickstand in a cool fashion and having it bounce back up instead of staying down. 18 Getting off your bike while it is running and forgetting that is in gear. 19 Trying to kick start your first bike over and over because you didn't realize that it was really out of fuel, and getting the goofy metal ring on the side of your boot caught in the kickstarter, causing you (and the bike) to go over on the right side. 20 Starting your brand-new electric-start trail-bike, riding around an ornamental shrub on full left lock, throwing it to the right and accelerating to wheelie over the curb onto the street and _then_ discovering that you hadn't unlocked the steering-lock... 21 On same bike, getting the dual-range lever caught inside your jeans as you come to a stop... 22 Having your boot/jeans catch the gear-lever and putting your running bike into first gear whilst reaching for the side-stand (which is why I now automatically pull in the clutch whenever deploying or retracting the stand.) 23 Having "green" racing linings which have much higher coefficient of friction on the slight rust that forms on the polished drum when you've not ridden for a few hours, and lose the front-end holding the brakes on against the throttle to wear off the rust. 24 Having a three-cylinder two-stroke that's so smooth you think you're in second when you're actually in first, so you spin out when the undercarriage touches down in a tight corner passing a car and you think, "just a bit more throttle will help here..." 25 Revving bike in impressive squidly fashion at red light, thinking it's in neutral; dropping clutch and standing in place while bike wheelies and backflips into intersection.