Post by wotavidone on Dec 24, 2006 5:12:07 GMT -5
Well,
The one where I broke my leg, and very nearly my neck as well, has been detailed elsewhere.
Come to think of it, most of my accidents happened on my little hotted up suzi.
It was great for doing nice little 40 mph bandstands on the beach, which is where I had one that coulda been serious but was quite funny. So the spectators said.
I was cruising along on the back wheel at 40 mph or so when the seat fell off. Shortly after, I fell off.
The lessons learned?
1) Always do up your seat bolts real tight.
2) Beach sand is an amazingly effective abrasive. 30 years later I can still find the scars if I look for them.
The other pearler happened to my suzi while someone else was riding it. The situation, a MID-AIR! collision when two bikes jumped the same hill from opposite directions.
Lesson learned - 1) never lend your bike to anyone 2) brakes do not work in the air, no matter how hard you stand on them. It was bloody funny watching them prod the brake pedals and squeeze the handles, all to no avail.
All good war stories here please. Preferrably funny ones.
Arrests too.
If you come up with some good ones, maybe I'll give you the full story of the day Bear got arrested at 7:00 am, by a shotgun waving copper wearing his seargent's jacket over his pyjamas with the little elephants on them.
Mick
The one where I broke my leg, and very nearly my neck as well, has been detailed elsewhere.
Come to think of it, most of my accidents happened on my little hotted up suzi.
It was great for doing nice little 40 mph bandstands on the beach, which is where I had one that coulda been serious but was quite funny. So the spectators said.
I was cruising along on the back wheel at 40 mph or so when the seat fell off. Shortly after, I fell off.
The lessons learned?
1) Always do up your seat bolts real tight.
2) Beach sand is an amazingly effective abrasive. 30 years later I can still find the scars if I look for them.
The other pearler happened to my suzi while someone else was riding it. The situation, a MID-AIR! collision when two bikes jumped the same hill from opposite directions.
Lesson learned - 1) never lend your bike to anyone 2) brakes do not work in the air, no matter how hard you stand on them. It was bloody funny watching them prod the brake pedals and squeeze the handles, all to no avail.
All good war stories here please. Preferrably funny ones.
Arrests too.
If you come up with some good ones, maybe I'll give you the full story of the day Bear got arrested at 7:00 am, by a shotgun waving copper wearing his seargent's jacket over his pyjamas with the little elephants on them.
Mick
