scary moment

zzr

ok we all have one as above:eek:

Random

Why not start by sharing yours?

zzr

WINTER 1984 honda vt 250fd driven home frost/ice on the road approaching the traffic lights rear steps out and corrects again not alot i know but it sure frightened the sh*t out of me:mad:

brendansmith

Frustrated in traffic, looked like we were getting moving, popped a wheelie but saw sudden brake lights, front wheel came down through the back wiondow of a fiesa.

zzr

smashing stuff i have a feeling that going to br hard to beat;)

seanybiker

there a corner out near me sisters house. A few years ago when I was on me bandit I forgot there was a corner. That wasnt fun. Had to buy new front end for bike. Heavy things when they on top of ya in a ditch

aidan13

16 yrs old, my father decides to teach me how to drive his new Virago 535 in anticipaation of me getting my own bike. In all of his wisdom he decides the best place to do this would be on a WET hurling pitch!!!!! On my third lap I put the throttle back as a grew in confidence. When I went to take the turn I pushed hard on the back brake. I went abount 20ft straight up in the air. By the time I landed the bike was still flipping it way towards to goal and ended up in the net. Me and the bike were mangled!!!

seanybiker

least ya scored

KamiKazi

On the last biker.ie meetup, going through a foresty patch of road, hilly enough and just coming up to a bend, back wheel locked up and the bike started going sideways :P

That was a bit hairy.

seanybiker

Used to ride bikes int he fields near me house, which are all fooking built on now, damn celtic tiger. Anywas I was used to flying along and just jumping on the breaks, wasnt really bothered about falling off in a field.
Seany goes off and buys his first road bike. A little Marauder 125. Went for a little short spin just to get used to it and because, well thats why I bought the fecking thing.
Starts to rain so the chap with me said come on and we go home. Neigh bother Ian off we go. Coming upto a little crappy roundybout near the entrance to my estate. Noticed that the ground be the roudybout was a bit wet. Ould dum dum hear forgets he is on a cruiser on the main road and not a kmx in a field and decides to do me little sideways skid stop. Bike decided it didnt want to do it and wobbled all over the road, had me right knee almost dragging along the ground with my left leg actually on the bike resting on the back rest, I almost high sided, luckily all it done was fecked me over ontot he other side of the bike. Up onto the roundabout with me screaming. I ended up crossing onto the wrong side of the road and ending up on the footpath. Me mate comes over to me with a pale face and asks am I ok. I ask him did anyone see me. He said yeah. I flew off down the road cos I felt like a numpty.

But yeah, thats wasnt much fun.

honeybadger

my scariest moment and it still haunts me to this day was when i under estimated a bend close to tramore on the way from the cork road to tramore years ago at nite here in wateford,i was stareing a jeeps headlights in the face in the middle of the bend and saying i was fooked till me passenger dropped the knee out and we sailed aaround the corner moto gp style,only for the passanger that nite we'd be still stuck to thats jeeps bumper,,,scary ****

weeder

brendansmith wrote: »

Frustrated in traffic, looked like we were getting moving, popped a wheelie but saw sudden brake lights, front wheel came down through the back wiondow of a fiesa.

you sir are a hero

SuperS54

3 notables come to mind;
1) Took a mates newly purchased ZXR750 for a spin, approaching pedestrian crossing on a wide stretch of road, filtered down the centre and gently pushed the rear brake, all hell breaks loos as I slither and fishtail wild towards the pedestrians crossing barely missing car mirrors with the tail of the bike, didn't think to let off and hit the front brake. Turns out I'd managed to brake right on a number plate which had fallen off something (truck presumably from the size). Not nice, didn't tell my mate either!
2) Again on a mates bike! CBR400RR, beautiful gullarm, class summer day, light traffic, pounding thorugh series of rounabouts approaching Dublin airport from Swords, BWM going all the way around in outside lane, flick onto rodunabout as he goes past, overtake and then give a handfull as I flick left to exit, bars vibrate wildly as the backend steps waaayyy out sliding the rear, had to stop for a smoke after that one...
3) Had just cut and welded a nice open stainless steel pipe onto a FZR250 and took it up the road for a spin, glorius sound at 17000rpm but way too load for regular road use. On the return trip barrelled into a familiar roundabout, use to grind hell out of the pegs on it as the rear shock was knackered, except this time there's a new connector plate on the exhaust which is lower than the pegs...digs well in, lifts the rear for what seemed like hours in slow motion, exit kerb approaching, whalloped rear off it which stops the slide and somehow sets me up nicely on the exit, pure luck. Went home, packed the exhaust and took a chunk out of the plate with the grinder!

seanybiker

had a few scary ones tonight. Coming back from johns park here in waterford. Every car I seen I thought it was the cops. Some mad stuff on tv3 now

mr chips

Couple of years ago on the (rear-engined) trike, before I got the weight distribution sorted out, was on a shallow left-hand bend on the main road which had been recently "repaired". Got bump steer from an awful dunt where there used to be a perfect surface in the tarmac - for a moment I was carrying straight on in the direction the rear wheels were pointed, instead of following the curve of the road, and just managed to avoid smacking full-tilt into the front of an oncoming Transit. If I hadn't instinctively hit the rear brakes instead of just the front, bringing the front wheel down straight away and regaining steering/front braking, I'd be toast.

Cuddlesworth

Came round a corner too fast, knee scraping off the ground(first time I did it!), looking at a little grass lip, ditch and a bunch of trees thinking to myself this is going to hurt. Bike left the tarmac, hit the tiny half foot high sloping grass verge and went around the corner even more sideways. I think its the first time in my life I would have **** myself if there was anything there.

dubtom

I have loads.The first was when I bought my first bike from Jack Nolan to go couriering.Paid for it,he wheels it outside and says off you go. It hadn't occured to me until then that I didn't know how,I'd never ridden a bike before.:pac:That was an eventful ride home.I had many scary moments my first winter on the road,especially in the rain,every time a car pulled out in front of me I hit the breaks and went down.My nerves were shattered. Never had a really bad one though.Went through a windscreen once inches from the drivers face,just got a bruised knee.Lucky I suppose.

zzr

WENT THROUGH THE WINDSCREEN? why didnt you use the door like everyone else:p

trad

Early ninetys I was a traffic cop, prisoner escort from the courts to Newlands Cross. Went N4. Leapfrogging from tail end charlie came up to the M50 roundabout, bike wasn't my normal mount, something approaching a ton, tried braking down for the off ramp, running out of road, laid her over to take the bend way too fast, had to straighten her up to dump some more speed, realised I'd totally overcooked it and knew I wasn't going to make it started to look for somewhere to step off before I was thrown off. Had one last go at getting around the bend back wheel stepped out to the right, hit the kerb bike landed perfectly lined up for the M50 on ramp, business as usual.

Other job a buddy of mine was on VIP to the airport in the days when the M1 only went into the airport, into the bend at a rate of knots, buddy is banked over on the bend, the limousine driver takes a fatal heart attack and starts bouncing of the armco all the way round the bend flat out until the front seat passenger could regain control.

zzr

gees man no offence but i wouldnt like you escorting me, thanks ill get the bus

DonkeyRhubarb

Driving up Tonlegee road at about 70kph, nothing too extreme. Flock of seagulls at the side of the road, big ba$tards! The lot of them decide to take off as I approach. What went through my head was 'if I hit one, at least it will hit the helmet and bounce off', but what actually happened was:

One hit me in the chest, BANG, got startled and fell onto my lap. Bear in mind my hands were up holding the handles, so the seagull was on my lap, couldnt get off as my arms were blocking it. Nice bright green ninja with a seagull on it, so people started to look.

I slowed to 30, amazed that I'm still on the bike, and start throwing my right arm outwards trying to get the big bird off me. After a few seconds, he falls off the side, flaps on the ground a bit and takes back off. Then the pain in my chest became apparent...

Later on I told the GF that a seagull hit me and I nearly crashed. To which she replied, 'oh was the seagull alright?'. Women.

KamiKazi

DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »

Driving up Tonlegee road at about 70kph, nothing too extreme. Flock of seagulls at the side of the road, big ba$tards! The lot of them decide to take off as I approach. What went through my head was 'if I hit one, at least it will hit the helmet and bounce off', but what actually happened was:

One hit me in the chest, BANG, got startled and fell onto my lap. Bear in mind my hands were up holding the handles, so the seagull was on my lap, couldnt get off as my arms were blocking it. Nice bright green ninja with a seagull on it, so people started to look.

I slowed to 30, amazed that I'm still on the bike, and start throwing my right arm outwards trying to get the big bird off me. After a few seconds, he falls off the side, flaps on the ground a bit and takes back off. The the pain in my chest became apparent...

Later on I told the GF that a seagull hit me and I nearly crashed. To which she replied, 'oh was the seagull alright?'. Women.

:D

Stainless_Steel

DonkeyRhubarb wrote: »

Driving up Tonlegee road at about 70kph, nothing too extreme. Flock of seagulls at the side of the road, big ba$tards! The lot of them decide to take off as I approach. What went through my head was 'if I hit one, at least it will hit the helmet and bounce off', but what actually happened was:

One hit me in the chest, BANG, got startled and fell onto my lap. Bear in mind my hands were up holding the handles, so the seagull was on my lap, couldnt get off as my arms were blocking it. Nice bright green ninja with a seagull on it, so people started to look.

I slowed to 30, amazed that I'm still on the bike, and start throwing my right arm outwards trying to get the big bird off me. After a few seconds, he falls off the side, flaps on the ground a bit and takes back off. Then the pain in my chest became apparent...

Later on I told the GF that a seagull hit me and I nearly crashed. To which she replied, 'oh was the seagull alright?'. Women.

Haha thats a good one. Had a seagull poop on my tank once...hate them ever since

trad

zzr wrote: »

gees man no offence but i wouldnt like you escorting me, thanks ill get the bus

Youthful exuberance, would be far more sedate now.