Name your numbers guys and gals.
1,5 and 7 to me…
There are some quality moments from some top muppets documented there!
Have to admit to number 11 which made me feel like a total c*ck at the time and still does!!!
I’m pleased to say I’ve never dropped/binned/othered my bike 
guilty of 58 - enthusiasm beaten by slick new tyres and wet roads 
the disc lock dance and catching the gear with the jeans has given me a few moments but no spills thank god!
I’m working on it 
Opppppps number 64 for me!!! 
just number 5 for me but it was on grass and i held on to it all the way down!!!
Jeez, they need to add new entries for me…
DITTO!!!
Close but no cigar on:
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Putting your foot down on something slippery when stopping. (At petrol station, put my foot in a puddle of diesel, fell against the pump but the bike stood upright.)
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Your rider hops on before you are ready. (Yep, they all do that, bot hopping on and hopping off. No matter how many times I tell them to wait, they just do it. Bloody women, they never listen…)
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Discovering when you stop and try to put your foot down that the kickstart lever is up your pant leg. (Obviously, not the kickstart, as don’t have it, but the side stand. I had to have it removed as it was constantly getting in my way.)
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Trying to get a wasp or bee out of your jacket while sitting on the bike. (Yep, riding in Tuscany with my mom as a pillion, doing 70kmh in shirtsleeves. Got a wasp up my sleeve, so had to do an emergency stop, as I’m allergic to them. It still managed to sting me. I’m so venomous, though, that it died.
PMSL that last story is real funny Paivi!!
I got stung too (in Slovenia last year) but didn’t drop the bike.
hAHAHAH! Don’t worry Paivi your blood is OK girl, they all die after sting someone! lol
that would be ‘bees’ mate. wasps keep on rocking sticking their thing into more people
sounds a lot like a mate of mine in fact…
Nice, lol! I dropped a bike once in a pub car park, except nobody was around. I was side-on down a steepish slope, went to put my right foot down, and it slipped on gravel, down we went, small fairing scuff, but the worst of it was, the new (crappy) carbon-look lever I put on the bike that very evening, snapped off at the pivot!! I had to ride 35 miles home with no front brake, with the first three miles down some very dark country lanes! That was a real eye-opening experience, I can tell you! I learnt a LOT about stopping distances and careful planning.
Moto: Don’t stop on uneven surfaces, and don’t fit cheap tat to your bike.
Our base is situated next to Taplow railway station…
I had just returned on the Pan and had pulled into the base when a woman ran in “I’ve had my bag stolen from my car in the station car park!”
Turns out two oiks had snatched her bag as she was getting into her car.
brief description and off i went…
I rode down a long road and spotted the two thieves (minus the bag by now of course) as soon as i approached they were on thier toes and ran back towards the station…i spun the bike round and as i got to them they ran up the stairs that take you over the railway line bridge…
The railway line bridge that has only one exit
I sped round to the other side (the railway line goes underground at the crossover point)
I didn’t want to show myself so just hid behind a large bush when i heard the giveaway running steps…
I timed my run perfectly pulling in front of the steps…
too perfectly.
Two crims couldn’t stop in time and fell a*se over tit into the bike and me…
all of us went over as the 5:45 from London was off loading passengers and needless to say it was a strange sight…
and yes, i kept hold of them!
LOL! Brilliant story! Did you do them for criminal damage of the bike as well?
nahhh…
it’s accepted as ‘operational damage’!!!
just reminded me of a no.12 many years ago
theres another to add to the list - being rear ended by silver van man when stationary at some red lights - two broken elbows, one broken forearm, 9 screws and a plate later plus a knackered t595