What was your best ride, worst ride?
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What was your best ride, worst ride?
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There's a classic scene in City Slickers where the question is asked. "What's your best moment.."
then..."What's you worst moment." This is a variation of that... What was your best bike ride? What was your worst bike ride? 
Worst bike ride was at Jindabyne Hayabusa meet, came off and spent 3 weeks in hospital. best ride from Tumut to Jindy in 1.5 hrs.
18-10-2014, 09:31pm
Best was Lake Leake Rd heading towards Campbelltown in Tassie. We stopped for lunch. I rang my daughter telling her 'that was THE best road I've ridden!
Worst was Lake Leake Rd heading away from Campbelltown. After lunch we went back the way we came. I came into a corner too hot, left the road, smacked a coupla trees. Fractured C6 & 7, T 9 - 11. They fused C5 - 7 & T7 - 12. 2 months later back on my K4 Gixxer 1000.
People are like turtles....... you don't move forward unless you stick your neck out!!
19-10-2014, 04:46pm
Best ride..pretty well any ride on a Busa.Tassie preferred
 Worst ride..the last one when I wrecked my Busa. 
Good and bad ride in one.
Jindabyne Snowy Hoot 2009. Ron Balls dropped his bike whilst getting a little too excited with Dirtbags around some corners, but kept riding anyway. Then we got a huge storm, I have never ridden in wetter weather, with lightning strikes literally 100's of metres away from us. Of course that didn't stop the leaders from still doing just under 200kph in a lot of places. Insane. Finally make it up there, find out I am in with Ray and his son Glenn. I only have one pair of boots and they are soaked have to get them off, so I ask if I can wear Rays boots to dinner. Glenn says sure. So off I go to dinner, mention it to Ray and if looks could kill. If only I knew about his guns back then I would never have attempted it!!!! :-) Anyway good few days, did the loop and survived. Time to head back home. I head off by myself. Going going going, thinking to myself it getting colder and seems like I am going up? No, can't be as I see the hydro pipes I saw coming in so must be going the right way, keep going going. f***, something is wrong now as I'm heading up a dirt track now! Keep going and finally admit I'm lost. Petrol is low, I'm cold, tired and lost. I stop and decide to go all the way back. Stop, carefully roll the bike back so I can do a u turn in this small dirt road. I didn't notice there was a corrugated bit and it was enough for me to lose balance. Almost in slow motion struggling to keep the bike up I have no choice but to gently rest it on the ground. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaark, my blue black pride and joy. Whole side is scratched. Finally get back down realising that yes, I HAVE gone back up the frikking mountain. A very sad ride home by myself swearing in my helmet, how could I have just done what I did. The end. (PS Don't get old as I am not sure if my dates are right above re Jindy, I'm sure someone will correct me.) 
20-10-2014, 08:47pm
My best ride, as always the very last one... Like today knocking off work seeing the sun and knowing I had a few hours before I it got to cold. Getting home, changing into riding gear and hearing those Yoshi's rumble.... What better way to loose the daily blues?
Worse ride... Well any that you don't make it home in the same condition you left! Whether bike, body or mental stability.
BATFINK (aka Tony)
 GOD gave us a mind to use......... Suzuki gives us a reason to loose it!!!! 
21-10-2014, 10:24am
(20-10-2014, 08:47pm)Batfink Wrote: Worse ride... Well any that you don't make it home in the same....... mental stability. That is a lot of bad days Tony  
"It is not a shame to not know, the shame is to not know and not to ask"
21-10-2014, 10:34am
(21-10-2014, 10:24am)Shifu Wrote:(20-10-2014, 08:47pm)Batfink Wrote: Worse ride... Well any that you don't make it home in the same....... mental stability. I didn;t get a name like Batty for no reason 
BATFINK (aka Tony)
GOD gave us a mind to use......... Suzuki gives us a reason to loose it!!!!
21-10-2014, 11:35am
(20-10-2014, 05:22pm)DjPete Wrote: Good and bad ride in one. Ah Pete i didnt mind but they were a size 13
that's what it frikkin was. And I thought I got pissed that night, it was just your bigfoot bloody boots tripping me over.
:-) u tell a good story captainrob. rotfl I have another bad ride unfortunately for me and fortunately for you bastards laughing out there. About 8 yrs ago big ride with Giddyup, rev and the gang. Just going to the meeting place on the fwy I got booked for numberplate covered by rego label (Never done it since lol!) Great start to the ride. Mental speeds all day. Poor ol Pete just managing to keep up. I tell u it was quick. Anyway day almost over and the bastards are still going for it even on the way home, this was near Christmas Hills area. I was knakkered from the concentration needed for that ride plus I had a really late night as well. Anyway I am attempting to make some gain to catch up and before I know it a tight corner with dirt each side comes up and I miss it. Straight into a farm front yard, blue black busa goes into the grass and I just miss a big fence pole. f***, not happy. Lady comes out and looked after me, let me use phone etc. Bike is ridable but a lot of scratches and broken clutch lever. Damn so I decide I'm gunna ride the bugger home with no clucth. Get a push start whachk it is gear and irt works, manage to ride 50k home having to keep reminding myself no clutch no clutch no clutch. Have to prejudge every bloody traffic light before I get there so I don't have to stop. nearly an hr later I am almost home and a complete wreck. I get to the last traffic light before home and I remember it' a red light camera. Just as I get to intersection the bastard changed and I go through red light. Shit! Sweated for 2 months waiting for that fine to come, it never did. I kept the clutch lever as evidence if it went to court to argue my case lol I still have that lever somewhere too... ![[Image: 95MjzFs.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/95MjzFs.jpg) found it! 
Took my KX500 out for a squirt again after spending 6 weeks with my arm in a sling after falling off and dislocating my shoulder. Was so happy to be back on the bike I celebrated with a 4th gear wheelie on a long straight, then clicked it into top and, in slow motion, my world turned upside down and I flipped it doing over 100 kmh. My mate was on his brand new XR650 with a speedo and said he was doing about 110 when I passed him on my back wheel.
Landed fair and square on my arse and burst both Glutimus maximus ( buttocks ) which swelled so big I could'nt walk or put trousers on for a week. Even the doctor and a couple of the nurses asked me I they could take pics as they hadn't seen two buttocks so swollen and so bruised they were black all over. I think it was a bit of joke for them but , I couldn't quite see the funny side . Phoned my boss on Monday morning, the day I was meant to come back to work after my last crash, and told him I'd had another prang and need a few more days off, thankfully he had a good sense of humour. Still got a KX500 but don't get out on it much these days.
21-10-2014, 03:34pm
Raphel, come on we need to see those pics lol.
Maniac, wheelie at 100 after a prang...as you do of course. 
My tale is nowhere near as funny as captainrobs, but no less embarassing.
I was the manager of a large car dealership here in Adelaide. I had just bought a very tidy example of a 900SS Ducati that I couldn't wait to show off too all the other employees. On a Monday morning, I left for work a couple of minutes later than normal to ensure I would arrive to work with a full audience, and they were expecting me as I'd been raving about my new bike. Inside a large shed where our parts were stored was a glass fronted office where the phone sales area was, staffed by 4-5 people, and several others hanging around. I've accelerated into the shed with the sound of the V twin thumping away beautifully, and this is when I discovered that Ducati's don't have particularly good turning circles, and this combined with a lovely smooth concrete floor, there was something inevitable about to happen. I had a massive shit fit when I realized we were going down, and the only option to me was to lay her down as gently as I possibly could, and in the same motion leap over the bike, conduct what for all money must of appeared to be a perfectly choreographed forward roll, and then standing to my feet in the one motion, I bowed to the crowd to a raucous round of applause. One quick thinking employee in the glass office then stood up holding a note book, and when he turned the pad around to show me, it had the number "10" written on it, which reflected my score for the aforementioned manoeuvre...GOLD. Still reminded of this one to this day................bastards. |
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