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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1130164085 Message started by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 07:28:05 |
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Title: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 07:28:05 Mine's easy - I pull into work after a really nice run a few weeks ago. Fall leaves are already scattered on the pavement...it's dry and cool but not too cool. Each and every corner flew by quickly and masterfully. The Savage was sounding beautiful and I was just so in tune with her I was approaching some sort of ZEN thing...i stand beside the girl after I'm done, rubbing her tank appreciatively. "Man," I thought, "That's why I ride! How cool was that ruN!" I take off my backpack and hang it on the handlebars, then light my smoke and step back a couple of paces to view my lovely machine...That's when I smell food cooking!! "Hey!" I'm thinking, "the kitchen is doing grilled cheese today! Right on!" I finish my cigarette and then go to get my pack off the bike. It, of course, it is welded to the exhaust where it has been sitting ever since I hung it from the handlebars. The grilled cheese I smelled was my cheese sandwich I had packed for lunch. I still ride with the same backpack with a gaping six inch hole in it to remind me of my folly! Ain't that just life, though, eh? Just when you feel you have the world by the gonads it jumps up and kicks you right between the legs!! Anybody else got one?? |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by SavagePielk on 10/24/05 at 08:21:09 I was standing at a trafficlight some weeks ago and this girl, who just had her drivinglicense, killed her car and couldn't get it started. So I park my Savage on the side of the road, and while I walk towards the car to help the girl I hear my Savage topple over behind me :-[ :-[ |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by Ed_L. on 10/24/05 at 08:35:46 Fell over at a gas pump once, forgot to put down the kick stand and was trying to unlock the gas cap. Went right into the pump head first, glad I had a helmet on. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by RadarORiley on 10/24/05 at 08:58:23 Being "Vertically Challenged", my most embarrassing moments come when I put my feet down and there's no bottom. This used to happen all the time but I finally learned to look before I stop and avoid stopping on Crowned pavement or too close to bar ditches. Now it just happens when there are a lot of people watching. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by Reelthing on 10/24/05 at 09:01:36 Trying to answer the dang cell phone with the helment on - seem to keep doing that. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by mornhm on 10/24/05 at 09:04:18 I couldn't think of one until Reelthing mentioned the cell phone. Once, I called my wife and then realized I had already put my helmet on and had to hold it up and yell for her to hang on while I took my helmet off. Stupid=embarrassing for me. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by RadarORiley on 10/24/05 at 09:21:11 That made me think of another, rode Saturday with #2 daughter, went to Eat, to the bike shop and then stopped at a shopping mall so she could check out something. While in there, I found some jeans I couldn't live without. Got out to the bike and realized I didn't have any place to carry them, saddlebags full of stuff and leftover lunch. Felt like a real dummie, glad I only bought one pair. She stuffed our combined shopping into one of her saddlebags, I now have permanently pleated jeans. Will either have to forgo the doggie bags or the shopping. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by babbalou on 10/24/05 at 14:13:09 Had a few badly timed & loud backfires before the rejet. Once in a bad part of town at night & under an overpass. (loud echo) POW!! Brake lights flashing everywhere. I thought someone might "return fire". I wanted to get out of there FAST but the traffic light just turned red & I sat there getting a few stares. I looked around like "What was that? Wasn't me!" Maybe I should have yelled out "Excuse me!" ;D Probably every Savage owner has been there at least once. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 14:13:43 I hear ya. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by mpescatori on 10/24/05 at 14:19:54 Had just bought my Savage, was 100 miles into my 500 ride back home, a case of severe Monkey A$$ seriously suggesting I pull over at a gas station with the evergreen alibi 'fill'er up and don't spill any', look cool, Charles Bronson moustache and mirror finish RayBan driving spectacles, thick leather gloves and old, worn out black boots. Bike is matt black front to end, Barabbas if I ever saw one. A true killer. A lady with two teenage daughters locks all the doors and winds up the windows in her Volvo SW. I finish stretching my legs, pay the gas, nod him g'day, smirk real mean at the lady in the Volvo, and... . . . bike won't start :o. Dead. :-[ Barabbas wants to stay in Jail ??? So I do some arms stretches, arch my back, groan, paddlefoot my way to a shady area, sit nonchalantly and try to figure out what's wrong with the bike, still looking ... half cool. :-/ A few minutes later, bike still dead, I've finished my repertoire, haven't got a clue what the h3ll's wrong with her. Bu99er, methinks, what now? . . . Than my eyes wander by sheer chance on that red switch, just above the 'start' button, the one I flicked sooo cool to kill the engine when my Monkey A$$ was giving me schizoid visions of feather pillows ... >:( So I flicked the switch, pulled the clutch, pressed the button, blipped the throttle and... . . . almost fell over tripping the bike on its sidestand ;D ;D ;D (no sidestand servo switch in Europe!) So, howzat? A N D it's all true... :o Maurizio |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by sluggo on 10/24/05 at 14:35:07 babbalou wrote:
i do it intentionally for effect. 8) |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by sluggo on 10/24/05 at 14:51:31 mine happened on my gn 400 a precurser to the savage line. i was leaving a friends house, she had a day care center there. all the kids were watching i took off, next thing i know i'm waking up in the house across the street's front yard. from what i'm told i hit some sand right after i shifted went down and skidded across the street into the neighbors front lawn. they said i was out about two minutes. i picked myself up, calmed all the kids down, they were freaking, and gingerly drove away. but that didn't stop me from screwing up. after i got thumper i was doing burnouts in some loose sand in front of my farm, when it hooked up i did my "high ho silver away" impression. front wheel came up i threw the bike away and watched as it skidded on the rear fender for about 75 feet then fell over and rolled twice. i had already removed signals. it ended up with a broken right front peg, a baseball sized dent in the tank. and a banged up knee.. lucky for me no one saw it. funny part is a friend drove up just after it happened, it was the woman's husband from the first incident. so now i'm just waiting for my next "screw up" it's bound to happen. i have been working on standing on the rear pegs and removing hands from wheel ala indian larry. the difference is i wear protective gear when i'm doing it.. knee pads elbow pads, full face helmet, and a motorcross style chest protector. when i get it down, i'll take some video for show and tell. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 14:55:11 Sluggo - how friggin' old are you? You had me laughin' till I cried! |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by sluggo on 10/24/05 at 15:28:02 jbrough7 wrote:
i'm 49 going on 21. i grow old, i refuse to grow up. most of my friends at this point are in the mid 20's, great way to stay young. it was wierd the first time i went to a party with one of them. people looked at me and thought "who's the old guy". i then procceded to roll this giant joint out of some really big papers they had. blew em all away. i then did "eight minutes" for them. my fate was sealed, i get invited to lots of parties now. when young people meet me i'm generally the first adult that is not an authority figure, and they really dig that. i then use the opportunity to let them know they should try to see their own parents as humans not just mom and dad. the most difficult part is the hotties, i've been happily married for 23 years now and would never cheat on my wife. 49 going on 21, it's a good thing.. btw. kids just were not in the cards. my only life's regret. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 16:41:32 Good on ya, mate! I'm 45 and I'm a teacher (but don't hold that against me!) and we always have hip-hop on in the class and I start to groove to some of it and the students think I'm totally wacko. Then I come to work on a bike come hell or high water and they just don't know what to make of me. Age really is a state of mind, and or psychedelic drugs, isn't it? |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/24/05 at 16:48:50 Another one: I bought some icon motorcycle jeans and I really liked them. But then I started to think, "Hey! I can make these suckers out of a couple pairs of my old jeans!" So I get going with scissors and needle and thread and cut up an old crappy pair and put double knees and a.s.s. on a pair of jeans that wasn't in such bad shape! Thought they looked really good and my stitching was really neat (for a guy - a masculine one at that!). Had them on when my son and I were heading out the door together and he says, (Looking incredulous here), "Dad! What the hell are you wearing?" "Why, son - these are my latest invention - instead of giving icon all my hard earned dough, I have sewn-----" "Dad! (now looking grumpy) You look like you belong in the sally ann! You can't wear those jeans if we're going out together!" Upshot of it was, I had to change if I wanted to spend time with the ol' chip off the ol' block. The jeans have been relegated to the back of the closet, on the floor. At least the cats like them. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by WD on 10/24/05 at 21:18:03 I wheelied it and blew out the fork seals within a minute of starting it. Wasn't even out of the dealer's parking lot. -WD |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by PerrydaSavage on 10/25/05 at 00:31:27 :-[Well ... the story I wrote about dumping my Savage and puttin' out my back at the same time over in the "Feel Good Savage Story" topic actually belongs over here ... how embarassing :-[ |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/25/05 at 02:53:35 I was talking to a salesman at the local stealership and noticed a lot of road rash on his arm. asked if he was doing 100 km. / hr. when it happened...he said, no, he and the others were just putting all their (brand new)bikes outside in front of the store and he dropped one on a bit of gravel! Never lost his job but I bet it was close. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by mew7789 on 10/25/05 at 10:03:30 Parked at a cafe and went in. After our meal the wife and I returned to the bike just as a church van was unloading a bunch of kids in the spot next to us. The wild eyed little tots were sayin stuf like "cool, Nice bike,Is it a harley"(argghh on that last one). anyway, I stick the key in and turn the switch on, swing my leg over and sit down. Jerk the bike off the side stand with way to much force and lay it right down on it's right side. I had forgotten that I had locked the fork. The cool drained away rather quickly as I urged the wife through a clinched teeth smile to just grab it anywhere and help me pick it up. I don't use that Fork lock anymore. |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by Kropatchek on 10/26/05 at 02:19:34 Made a wooden block to stand the bike almost straight up so I could easily check the oil level. Normaly I put the bike on the sidestand, move the block with my foot, go to the other side of the bike, bent down on my knees and check the oil-level. This time while sitting on the bike I shoved the wooden block under the sidestand and dismounted on the LH side. Whilst I did this I pushed the bike to the right and lost it. Broke the brakelever and bent the forward controls bracket. Will neeeeeeever do this again Greetz Kropatchek :-[ |
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Title: Re: Your most embarrassing moment on da SAVAGE? Post by jbrough7 on 10/26/05 at 02:38:43 Maybe not embarrassing but real stupid! Tried to get my savage on my trailer for the first time but i didn't know enough to hook the trailer up to the suv. Had my daughter stand on the tongue while i drive it up. the undercarriage on the bike scrapes going up onto the actual trailer off the ramp and my daughter gets scared and jumps off. the front of the trailer goes straight up and i go straight right with the bike...daughter runs in the house cuz she's terrified of my reaction and i pick myself and bike up...one scratch/ small dent in the front fender but oh so stupid!! >:( |
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