[dave w]

Originally posted by misterpink
the old chesnut is riding off in front of a bunch of girls - summer evening, wearing jeans and cool Dainese jacket...only to realise that the disc lock is still on, the bike stops, pitches forward and to oneside flinging you to the ground while still holding the handlebars in a vain attempt to save it - all at about 5mph..not cool. lucky it was my cagiva elefant so no major damage - just hurt pride

How about doing all of the above but NOT realising why it happened, shouting at your pillion ( Hells ) to help you pick the bike up... saying " Just get on the back and lets get out of here " ( which she duly does ) ..... and then doing the exact same bloody thing all over again, only pitching two people onto the floor and then FINALLY realising what the problem was !!!

My only saving grace was that the majority of the people sitting along the beach that balmy summers evening were foreign students and I was never likely to see them ever again !