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Post by map on Mar 14, 2017 18:32:21 GMT -5
The title say's it all. What's the dumbest action you've done on your scooter? Could be something awesome that you came unscathed from or something that causes a accident. Either way, let's hear your story.
For me, I went to catch a Frisbee someone through at me while driving. Bumped the handlebars and the scooter tilted. Thankfully I was able to put my foot down on the ground so I just stood there as the scooter slid across the road. Think I was going 20mph.
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phatmanxxl
Scoot Enthusiast
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Location: Missoura
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Post by phatmanxxl on Mar 14, 2017 18:53:39 GMT -5
I set the valve lash with the cam upside down, rode around pissed off because the bike was so slow.
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Post by 'O'Verse on Mar 14, 2017 22:01:56 GMT -5
Wheelied right into the next door neighbors garage. Minimal damage of coarse.  |
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Post by FrankenMech on Mar 15, 2017 0:27:29 GMT -5
I rode one....
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Post by just1artist on Mar 15, 2017 7:17:59 GMT -5
77... Lmao 😂
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Post by SandStorm on Mar 15, 2017 7:24:46 GMT -5
Falling from her and let her fall while... Stopped near a stepwalk to let people pass xD
I stopped her with a wide angle, too wide to keep it stable. Got a wind gust and you guess what came next, lol
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Post by stepthrutuner on Mar 15, 2017 8:31:39 GMT -5
Drinking whisky then operating my scoot at 40 mph on a gravel road I was unfamiliar with. I topped a hill and there was a huge crater in the road. I was launched off and landed mostly on my butt but had several other bruses and abrasions. At least the pain had already been taken care of. A couple of days later my butt looked like two eggplants side by side. |
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Post by SandStorm on Mar 15, 2017 9:52:47 GMT -5
So fast on gravel? Insaaaaane xD
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Post by Lucass2T on Mar 15, 2017 10:21:01 GMT -5
Drunken driving and at that moment being totally oblivious for all the dangers on the road.
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Post by 90GTVert on Mar 15, 2017 10:32:36 GMT -5
There are so many it's hard to choose. Could be trying to take a 90 degree turn without slowing down from a 40-50MPH cruise speed and then low siding it and sliding into the curb of the median (sprained foot, road rash, bruises)? Perhaps riding with just part of a header on a 70cc 2T for giggles and taunting the town cop that was off duty (who didn't do anything , but I was punished with 2 days of partial hearing loss/ringing in 1 ear). Maybe something like not putting gear oil in the gearbox and ruining a lot of parts? Maybe taking it through the automatic car wash? How about testing for vibrations and forgetting that I needed a clutch bell on the clutch and getting to see clutch springs stretch 2 inches?
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Post by stepthrutuner on Mar 15, 2017 16:44:32 GMT -5
I was punished with 2 days of partial hearing loss/ringing in 1 ear). /quote] The painting contractor I used to work for said he was deaf in one ear from a stroker passing him when he used to race dirt bikes. |
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Post by stepthrutuner on Mar 15, 2017 16:55:14 GMT -5
Drunken driving and at that moment being totally oblivious for all the dangers on the road. You haven't lived until you've driven a rally prepped Datsun 510 down an 8 foot wide gravel road at 100 mph. Ask my older brother. He was with me. EDIT: Did I mention I had installed a turbocharger on it? |
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Post by ThomasTPFL on Mar 15, 2017 17:05:38 GMT -5
You haven't lived until you've driven a rally prepped Datsun 510 down an 8 foot wide gravel road at 100 mph. Ask my older brother. He was with me. EDIT: Did I mention I had installed a turbocharger on it? I grew up with all the back roads being red clay. Hitting 100 mph on them is easy. If it's dry you can go almost as fast as on pavement, just with easier to control slides. I almost flipped my GT6 (maybe the TR6?) one night coming home from Atlanta when I learned the hard way that they had paved one of my favorite roads without warning me. Going into a four wheel drift at speed on clay then suddenly finding asphalt is a pants changer. |
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Post by ThomasTPFL on Mar 15, 2017 17:06:15 GMT -5
Drunken driving and at that moment being totally oblivious for all the dangers on the road. Yeah, alcohol, and other intoxicants. |
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Post by 90GTVert on Mar 15, 2017 18:54:59 GMT -5
You haven't lived until you've driven a rally prepped Datsun 510 down an 8 foot wide gravel road at 100 mph. Ask my older brother. He was with me. EDIT: Did I mention I had installed a turbocharger on it? Didn't it end up upside down, or was that something or someone else? It's been so long since (I think) you told a tale of being wrong side up that I'm not even sure it was on this forum. May have been in the dawg days. |
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