| Author | Message | ||
     Gjmcmanus |
Saw this on the way home from work.. (wish I had a video camera). Make the story short. I was sitting in traffic at a stoplight and a typical squid rode up. Dressed in the official uniform (short, tennis shoes, and helmet). Impressed with his new fart can exhaust (sounded like a pissed off briggs and stratton). The light turned green and he rode under the underpass, bouncing the RPM off the rev limiter. Showing off for the girls in the car next to him. The light turned green, he dumped the clutch and the bike dumped him straight on his squid butt. The bike took off, 12 o'clocked and fell on his precious exhaust and started pinwheeling. Until the tip switch finally shut the bike off.. He was not hurt (except his pride) and his bike was trashed (including his exhaust). One less squid on the road, and another example of why insurance prices are high. I am sure he called his insurance agent and told them he was run off the road or something like that. | ||
| Buell12hundo |
thats a funny story  theres a lot of those here in NJ | ||
| Odinbueller |
WAY too many here in NJ. So many kids in over their heads, no wonder NJ has the worst insurance rates. | ||
| Wardog3187 |
He was actually wearing a helmet?  | ||
| Gjmcmanus |
Yeah, believe it or not... Missouri is mandatory helmet law...  It was too funny, everyone that was sitting at the light missed the light watching this asshat. If the curb wasn't there it would have pinwheeled itself into dust. The impact with the curb must have finally triggered the tip-over switch. It is a naked sportbike now (at least on one side now)...  | ||
| Cataract2 |
I take it the girls were laughing their collective asses off to right? | ||
| Akbuell |
Gj,you are much too kind. I probably would have called 911 to report an motorcycle accident, then told the police what had happened when they got there. Not only an accident report, but probably a nice careless driving ticket, and let the squid try and explain that to his agent. | ||
| Gjmcmanus |
There was too much traffic at the intersection, plus I was laughing too hard at the squid turtling. I am sure the police were there fairly quick, since the city hall is only 3 blocks away. The Maryland Heights officers are very quick to write tickets (any of the Saint Louis people on here can attest to that). | ||
| Unibear12r |
I haven't had my  moment this week so I'll give up on an old Kodak moment on myself... Back in the days of flares and bell bottom jeans and all bikes had kickstarters I pulled up beside a convertable full of beautiful girls. Looked over and gave them a big smile and rapped the bike a bit and TRIED to get my right foot off the peg and to the ground as the bike slowly leaned to the right at the stop. Seems the wind flipped my flared jeans up and over the kickstarter. Imagine my look a split second later as I did a very slow, laugh-inesk, dead stop flop to the ground right beside them. I can still vividly picture them all leaning over the side of the car looking down at me then giggling and waving as they drove off. Not even a scratch on me or the bike, except for my pride of course.  |
