20 Idiots on motorcycles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5G6FPcGXps#ws)
And the lesson learned is?: have several strong spotters ready when loading a bike onto a trailer, box van, pickup truck etc -anything involving a ramp. As was evident on this compilation, I actually watched a buddy total a BMW when it fell off a ramp and landed upside down. Not pretty.
Better yet, ride it, don't trailer it, but that's not always possible I guess.
Dan
I may laugh and point, but I don't call anyone who simply looses their balance and can't keep several hundred pounds of metal upright.
That's the only way my FJ has touched the pavement so far, in the drive way, engine off, trying to move it, got too far over and I couldn't compensate in time, gentle crunch.
The one with the two bikes trying to pass on a twisty road and going off the side, well, that's just another example of trying to look cool by riding beyond one's ability.
Ouch and Oh, shit !!! Life is a learning experience that's for sure. There are a few tricks to running a bike up a ramp. I use to load a BMW RT 100 all the time up in a 3/4 ton truck.
1. Make sure the ramp can't move..... and you will not high center. Wider the ramp the better and alum. ramps suck.
2. have a good feel for your brakes
3. get enough speed before you hit the ramp
4. don't look down or to the side, focus on where you want your front wheel to end up (back of the pickup bed)
5. get on the front brakes as soon as you get level ( a timing thing)
6. feet down and ready to stabilize.
That's the best I can explain what worked for me. The hardest part is number 4. got to have confidence and don't look down.
7. oh, and if you have had a few drinks then find your best friend to do it for you :). The same one you have hold your plug wire while you crank it over to see if you have a spark...
In all honesty my first attempt at that stunt was with a dirt bike at a very young age and it didn't turn out to well. Took me another 20 years before I jumped on that horse again. Now at 65 I think life is to short to spend it with broken bones and casts. I am in to "risk managment" big time.
Quote from: movenon on November 05, 2012, 05:06:47 PM
Ouch and Oh, shit !!! Life is a learning experience that's for sure. There are a few tricks to running a bike up a ramp. I use to load a BMW RT 100 all the time up in a 3/4 ton truck.
1. Make sure the ramp can't move..... and you will not high center. Wider the ramp the better and alum. ramps suck.
2. have a good feel for your brakes
3. get enough speed before you hit the ramp
4. don't look down or to the side, focus on where you want your front wheel to end up (back of the pickup bed)
5. get on the front brakes as soon as you get level ( a timing thing)
6. feet down and ready to stabilize.
That's the best I can explain what worked for me. The hardest part is number 4. got to have confidence and don't look down.
7. oh, and if you have had a few drinks then find your best friend to do it for you :). The same one you have hold your plug wire while you crank it over to see if you have a spark...
In all honesty my first attempt at that stunt was with a dirt bike at a very young age and it didn't turn out to well. Took me another 20 years before I jumped on that horse again. Now at 65 I think life is to short to spend it with broken bones and casts. I am in to "risk managment" big time.
+1. But the biggest and common trap is the angle of ramp to the trailer or ute. Average ramp length on average trailer height means nearly all street bikes` belly pan and frame bottom out.
Even when backing them off a trailer in my shed I jack up the ramp at pavement end, then reverse bike onto ramp, (Spare hands both sides) then lower ramp back to the ground (with my trolley jack) and then completing the roll off.
Notice any thing in common with all these riders other than a demonstrated lack of riding skill?
Quote from: movenon on November 05, 2012, 05:06:47 PM
I use to load a BMW RT 100 all the time up in a 3/4 ton truck.
Funny, that is the exact same bike I watched go over the edge of the ramp and land upside down. As I said it totled the bike. We took a junket down to southern Virginia for a long weekend. He offered to drag his flat bed trailer down with our 3 bikes on it. Loading the bikes going down, I asked him to spot me. He begrudgingly did so with a "you're such a pansy" attitutude about him as he did it. Although he did not ask for it, and seemingly did not want it, I spotted him as he loaded his and all went without incident.
We arrived in VA and rode nearly a thousand miles in 2.5 days - good stuff. When it was time to go home, he walked out to his trailer dropped the ramp, walked over to his bike, started it up, and rode it 3/4 of the way up the ramp and stalled it! The ramp was narrow enough that he could not get good footing, and over the bike went. I looked up just it time to see it hit the gound 180 degrees from how it was supposed to. That was the last time that bike ran. It seemed like every piece of fairing on the bike was damaged.
It was sad, but we all learned the 'be sure to use a couple of spotters -especially if they are more than willing and fifty feet away' lesson that day...
Dan
Like the lack of safety gear?
No brains, no pain.
Arnie
or that they are all on Harleys ?
Quote from: oldktmdude on November 06, 2012, 02:08:54 AM
Quote from: Antonn3 on November 06, 2012, 01:47:01 AM
or that they are all on Harleys ?
Correct answer.
Arnie gets second prize after checking with the judging panel.
the guy trying to do a burnout , that one was funny.
Quote from: Mark Olson on November 07, 2012, 06:54:57 PM
the guy trying to do a burnout , that one was funny.
My favorite... still nothing even with spilled beer! Then it looks like his clutch went out?!
Quote from: Dads_FJ on November 07, 2012, 07:39:51 PM
Quote from: Mark Olson on November 07, 2012, 06:54:57 PM
the guy trying to do a burnout , that one was funny.
My favorite... still nothing even with spilled beer! Then it looks like his clutch went out?!
I'm not sure what that lounge suite on wheels was, but did it have ABS?, cos it didn't seem to be able to spin the rear wheel with the front brake applied, and when he eased up on the front brake, all it did was drive forward.......yeah had be laughing too!
Harvy
?...and youtube just ate 3 hours of my life.
Yep, just two wheeled "someone please look at me" phalus symbols. Though I do feel sorry for the loading accidents (sorta). That can be genuinely frightening if your stuck doing it solo.
:good2: theres the one thats not on there!!! ( i was laughing at this till i remembered my own stoopiduty) flat battery? push the fj to running speed.... swing right leg in the air with a graceful little leap.... left ankle rolls... slip.... SH*T.... BANG!!!!! yup.... left hand cases and mirror and fairings and a lesson in foul language at 5 am.
sigh
i fixed the mirror btw