Best & Worst of Biking

[boyscout]

What about telling everyone your top 5 best (and to almost keep balance - top 3 worst biking memories)? I'll kick off (and I'll use chronological order...)

Best:
1. 1983 - Touring the Falkland Islands post-war on a TS185 and Can-Am 250.
2. Any Bol D'Or in the early 1990's.
3. First track day at Assen in 1993.
4. 1999 - Son surviving bike bike crash - you know who! (re-worded I could've put this in Worst?)
5. 2000 -Crossing Alps on T595 with a 'blade and an 851; 160mph run down into Italy.

Worst:
1. 1976/77 - nine months in hospital after collision with Vauhall Cresta.
2. 1993 - Blowing up my one year old GSX750 after Assen track day and Bol D'Or !!!
3. 1995 - Losing a good mate in a head-on during a ride-out.


Come on, lets hear yours!

[CBR_LOVER]

Well.....Here goes!!!
Best.

1.Doing Motocross for 2 years
2.Making the transition from trail bikes to road bikes(which i never thought i would do!!!!)
3.Beating a RMX250 on my KDX125!!!!
4.Finally sticking to the decision of buying a CBR!!
5.And enjoying riding it!!

...and worst.

1.Seizing my rd350 at 70mph on a duel carridgeway.....
2.Hitting a transit van on my old mtx80 and fracturing my ankle
3.Running out of petrol on my GPZ500s

Cheers CBR_LOVER

[trickdup]

Best - Two weeks biking in France twice last year (May and August) and the run down to Switzerland.

Worst - Being pulled on 2nd April by an unmarked who chased me from Deep lane to Saltash bridge. Clocked at 125mph on the SV. Ticketed as 98mph 3pp and £60.
Matty who was my partner in Crime that day getting killed in July on his SV. RIP Mathew.

[Jon B]

Best moments: -
Getting up porlock hill on a moped.
Getting a new top speed of 59MPH down snowdon hill with the wind behind me.
Buying my new bike last monday

Worst moments: -
Snapped thottle cable in the middle of taunton
Nearly falling off.

[Jak]

Best 5 ....
sunny day, an hour or two to spare .......
ditto
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Worst 3 .....
the funeral of two bike mates (brothers) killed by a french drunk driver
seeing the space where my bike should have been whilst touring holland - and the trip back riding pillion on a 400 SuperDream!
sitting in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic on Putney Bridge (that's in London ) in rush hour traffic with a GSXR400 that refused to stay running

[age]

best

first big bike cbr600
thruxton track day
le mans 2001 two up 130 mph mile after mile
le mans 2001 bath in hotel after two nights in camp site
buying gsxr750 wt instead of Christmas shopping
buying my first Ducati 916


worst

buying yamahahaha thunder cat
geting 3 points 73 in a 60
5 weeks later 6 points 101.3 in a 70
getting high sided at 4am off a cbr600
going into the side of a escort van on gsxr 750
getting knocked off cbr600 by unisured t**t on a 50cc bike

[BOSS]

1 Buying my first biggy cb 900
2 Getting my knee down
3 Both sides
4 Touring France
5 Knowing a brill bunch of bikers, being a biker.


1 Losing a mate to a volvo. (See my pic album) RIP Ivan
2 Losing the front end and going over the hedge. (Bloody Funny)
Landing on the back of a Clio, (me not the bike) after doing the worst stoppie in the world. Not concentrating on traffic but looking at Ladies, OOOPs

[jason]

1. Any day when the suns out the roads are dry and there are like minded people around and no police or ambulances are involved.
2. Winning the South West AMCA Junior Motocross championship in the first year I took up racing MX'ers.
3. Summer Trips to thruxton Brands etc to see WSB or BSB - always a laugh.
4. first ever GSXR - start of long term addiction to Gixxers.
5. Getting to see the IOM TT.

worst

1. banned for a year for wreckless driving/speeding at 19.
2.Clipping the grass verge on the old road down by the holland inn at over 70mph and all the suffering and hospital time that went with it.
3. Anything to do with police.
4. Rideouts I have been on where people have chucked their bikes down the road and badly injured themselves.
5. The times I spent commuting in the cold and wet before I realised that cars where the best tools for that job.

[Bikerbird]

Haven't been biking long but so far:
Best -

Actually realising that i loved riding on the 1st day of my DAS.
Passing my test 1st time.
Hearing my bike start up after having the engine out and serviced, phew!
Getting let off for speeding, illegal can and illegal visor
1st time i went over 100mph on my bike

Worst -

Coming off when pillion on someones bike, breaking nose, ankle and lots of gravel rash.
Dropping my bike in front of lots of people at the Red Lion
Thinking i was going to crash when a mate pulled out in front of me, when i was overtaking,then pulled back in leaving me nowhere to go. Was a think thin moment

[furry]

Best
1: Taking over my Dad's garage (and house) to mod all my bikes
2: Buying the TL, and then doing 160mph + on it
3: Going on a Triumph Daytona, made me realise how better they are than any Jap bike I'd ever been on, a real riders machine, 100% bike all round!
4: Doing A Vertical Front stoppie at Chelt, then falling off the bike (How could something so right go so so wrong??? LOL)
5: Watching Craig bin his bike in front of me (I know thats cruel but it's funny as fook looking back on it LMAO)

Worst
1: Sliding 40m or so up the road when crashed my 125, scars on my knee
2: Then getting hit by a car 2 weeks later, and for the cheeky c**t to say it was my fault, took 2 yrs though legal system to prove otherwise!!! b*****d!!!
3: Binning the gs500e in Calne on way to work, wasn't even my fault, rolled like 10 times into the kerb, ouch

[Dave]

Well I haven't even been riding for 2 years yet.

So....
Buying my GSXR before I passed my DAS..
Passing my DAS
Walking from the DAS (After passing) to Bridge to pick up my bike
Riding my bike
Buying the SWB website


&

Having a RS125 that takes me 45 minutes to get home when I could of walked in 30. (I know what you mean there Jak
Having a nail in my back tyre with 281 miles on the clocks
Having a chain split at 120mph on the Motorway
Riding from Plymouth to Exeter in Severe weather (Pitch black, torencail rain & high wind), couldn't see s**t so I was following a van at 50mph all the way

[clunk]

Best..

Buying my first bike Yamaha FS1E-DX
Passing my bike test back in the day when it was easy
Buying my SV
Going on rideouts with you guys
And most importantly, having a wife who loves bikes and encouraged me to get back into it 3 years ago.

Worst..
Getting knocked off my XJ600 many years ago
Crashing a borrowed Suzuki B120 into the back of another mates new GSX250 Only damage was to my jacobs.
Riding to work in the cold/wet.
Hearing about people killed in bike accidents.

[DynaMight]

Best:
Getting a NC30 to realise it handled so much better than my old RS125 did
Keeping up with 2 GSXR1000's between Exeter and Cullompton on said NC30 (Didnt do to well on the straights but had the feckers on the twisties )
Riding home through 2 miles of black ice and not crashing, Never again!
Riding for the first time after breaking my legs and it all clicking after 5mins
Dry Summers day

Worst:
Watching a mates Mito sieze up at 90MPH in my mirrors after a very fast ride from Taunton to Cully
Making a silly mistake on roads I didnt know and going into the hedge
Crashing my GSXR750 and breaking my leg/hand
My RS125 siezing up at 70MPH but somehow managed not to crash (I didnt even think about pulling the clutch in!)
90% of Car drivers.... (I think the other 10% of bike riders too )

[Grumpy Git]

Best (in no particular order) :

1 Getting on a bike for the first time after years of being Kids Taxi
2 Pi$$ing off dispatch riders in Exeter on THE first Aprilia 125 which could do a ton. most stable bike I've ever ridden even got my knee down with that
3 instructing others (on the old 2 part test) and watching the first twinkle of bikelove in their eyes.
4 Just riding for the hell of it
5 taking an engine /complete bike appart and putting it back together again

worst :

1 demolishing a stone wall with my head when I was 17 after losing it on spilt diesel on adverse camber
2 both me and the bike being picked up and dumped on the verge by galeforce winds outside Culdrose (still need a dictionary)
3 losing a friend to a cardriver that pulled out in front of him
4 recovering bikes from accidents/fatalities for the police
5 being without a bike

[boyscout]

I'm really enjoying reading the responses to this thread (first one I've started, I think, so thanks... would've felt cr@p if no-one had posted!). Reading through, the same themes are cropping up... just wanted to say ... enjoy your riding and ride safe!