I've done some pretty stupid things on a bike and other motorized toys.

    -Ride on a Radio Flyer sled, laying down head first, pulled by a snowmobile at 60mph.
    -Ride a dirt bike on a frozen pond.
    -Ride a dirt bike full speed into a full grown corn field.
    -Get hit in the forehead by tree branch and knocked off a bike (I was wearing a helmet).
    -Use a nail as a cotter pin to hold a wheel on a go-cart.
    -Super Glue leather patches in place of front brake pads on a dirt bike....it worked very well!
    -Ride as a passenger standing up on the back of a go-cart.
    -Take a jet-ski through the surf into the open ocean my first time riding one.
    -Put moonshine in a mini bike because we ran out of gas.
    -Ride as a passenger in my brand new Dodge Daytona Turbo at 130mph in the rain because my friend was less drunk than I was.
    -Let my friend drive home from a bar (his car this time). He was behind the wheel working the gas and brake (all but passed out), I was steering from the passenger seat.
    -DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE. Looking back I'm thankful nobody got hurt because if this stupidity. I'm ashamed to say we did stuff like this....young and dumb. I've smartened up since those days.

    Lets hear some of your stupid shift.

Oh man, great list 

Well full speed through a corn field I havent tried, but hay paddock (field) - yes - and dont.  If you love your chain and sprockets.. slightly green hay can destroy a rear sprocket in about 10 minutes if it gets picked up and cuts in between the sprocket and hub.

what else, used to use a little 80cc 2 smoker with road tyres in nice long grass paddocks. that was fun doing drifts...

Probably some other stuff that shouldnt really be published online since it involves 

I have accomplished a few things on that list.

I have faced death myself on more than a few occasions.  To this day one stands out: taking a very sharp curve at 80mph.  To this day I have no idea how those Michelin TRX tires stuck.  Even my buddy in the car said that in a flash he accepted death.  How the car did not skid...or roll is a mystery only sweet Jesus can answer.

I thank the engineers at Michelin for making a tire that sticks like a race slick.

I should say that facing cancer (both of us) at the same time was also a brush with death we both dodged.  Talk about the odds of being diagnosed only 2 weeks apart, then both being told we got lucky.  Of course I am a ticking time-bomb, but no fear, I'll make sure the web site is funded for years to come.

Swapped batteries so we had a fresh one to work on Garilla's bike and forgot to connect the voltage regulator in Phenix. It ran 29 minutes before the battery went dead. Neighbor rescued me with a fresh one from the Bike Cave. I wasn't far away but couldn't bump start him.

MONEY LAUNDERING!

(Watch that phrase raise a red flag with the MAN)

Garilla paid me for a chain guard and some parts then I washed my adidas jeans (yes - there ARE adidas jeans!) with the money in the pocket. It came out nice and clean - smells fresh as a hill top meadow on a sunny day after a summer rain.

Quote from: pliskin on May 24, 2013, 07:58:31 PM
    I've done some pretty stupid things on a bike and other motorized toys.

    -Ride on a Radio Flyer sled, laying down head first, pulled by a snowmobile at 60mph.
    -Ride a dirt bike on a frozen pond.
    -Ride a dirt bike full speed into a full grown corn field.
    -Get hit in the forehead by tree branch and knocked off a bike (I was wearing a helmet).
    -Use a nail as a cotter pin to hold a wheel on a go-cart.
    -Super Glue leather patches in place of front brake pads on a dirt bike....it worked very well!
    -Ride as a passenger standing up on the back of a go-cart.
    -Take a jet-ski through the surf into the open ocean my first time riding one.
    -Put moonshine in a mini bike because we ran out of gas.
    -Ride as a passenger in my brand new Dodge Daytona Turbo at 130mph in the rain because my friend was less drunk than I was.
    -Let my friend drive home from a bar (his car this time). He was behind the wheel working the gas and brake (all but passed out), I was steering from the passenger seat.
    -DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE. Looking back I'm thankful nobody got hurt because if this stupidity. I'm ashamed to say we did stuff like this....young and dumb. I've smartened up since those days.

    Lets hear some of your stupid shift.

actually used everclear to get my first gs to start. it worked quite well. ( 190 proof pretty much PGA pure grain alcohol.)

I have seen two instances of that going wrong.. so very wrong..

1st time was out in the sticks somewhere with a mate of mine who was clearing scrub using an old Bren gun carrier (UC) - one of these things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Carrier

Took the air cleaner off, He poured some Ether straight onto the carb - hit the go button.. unfortunately the UC can start in gear with clutch not required - net result was carrier tearing off into the scrub - flattend it all, hilarious to watch.

2nd time was at a Fuels storage / trucking outfit.  Watching one of the guys trying to start an old MK II Ford Cortina (paddock basher with no roof).  same trick, pouring something strong into the carb directly - watched the carb throw back and a sheet of flame ended up out the top of the carb, hit the bonnet and everyone stood back for a little while waiting for it to go out.  Car still worked, but needed some new HT leads after that...

When I was 14, I took a bicycle off a ramp in the street at full-stride (21-speed mountain bike). Flew up in the air, landed on my head.

Cracked my skull, blew my eardrums out (from the pressure of my head hitting the ground), and ground my nose down. It was pretty intense and I've got an enormous scar on the back of my head from it.

First and last time I ever did anything without a helmet. I'll -never- ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Ever.

Quote from: Kijona on May 28, 2013, 12:00:22 PM
When I was 14, I took a bicycle off a ramp in the street at full-stride (21-speed mountain bike). Flew up in the air, landed on my head.

Cracked my skull, blew my eardrums out (from the pressure of my head hitting the ground), and ground my nose down. It was pretty intense and I've got an enormous scar on the back of my head from it.

First and last time I ever did anything without a helmet. I'll -never- ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Ever.

I'd say you should count yourself lucky you are able to ride a motorcycle at all.

Quote from: jdoorn14 on May 28, 2013, 01:23:50 PM

Quote from: Kijona on May 28, 2013, 12:00:22 PM
When I was 14, I took a bicycle off a ramp in the street at full-stride (21-speed mountain bike). Flew up in the air, landed on my head.

Cracked my skull, blew my eardrums out (from the pressure of my head hitting the ground), and ground my nose down. It was pretty intense and I've got an enormous scar on the back of my head from it.

First and last time I ever did anything without a helmet. I'll -never- ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Ever.

I'd say you should count yourself lucky you are able to ride a motorcycle at all.

Yup.

1. Braking in the middle of sharp turns.
2. Severely overfilling the oil reservoir (luckily my engine failed before my burning hot oil-soaked bike caught fire)
3. Incompletely engaging the center stand on uneven ground, causing the bike to fall over and trap me beneath it.
4. Forgetting that tires need air.
5. Trying to ride the bike through spaces physically smaller than it.
6. Riding directly into a curb.
7. Riding on the Jersey Turnpike.
8. Neglecting the well-being of my chain.
9. Failing to accelerate sufficiently before merging on the freeway.
10. Braking hard in the rain.

Quote from: ralph13 on May 30, 2013, 05:13:13 PM
3. Incompletely engaging the center stand on uneven ground, causing the bike to fall over and trap me beneath it.

Nothing worse than trying to pick up a bike that has you pinned to the ground.. was it a GS? or something larger? my GS has pinned me once when it slipped off the sidestand in soft ground - even worse was it broke a mirror

Quote from: Kiwingenuity on May 30, 2013, 07:17:25 PM

Quote from: ralph13 on May 30, 2013, 05:13:13 PM
3. Incompletely engaging the center stand on uneven ground, causing the bike to fall over and trap me beneath it.

Nothing worse than trying to pick up a bike that has you pinned to the ground.. was it a GS? or something larger? my GS has pinned me once when it slipped off the sidestand in soft ground - even worse was it broke a mirror

It was a GS. Don't worry, I broke mirrors that way too. And clutch levers, and brake levers.

I dropped my GS at least five times via center stand fails on my part; several times on concrete. Eventually I needed my frame straightened, after a fall of considerable force bent it.

Quote from: Kijona on May 28, 2013, 12:00:22 PM
When I was 14, I took a bicycle off a ramp in the street at full-stride (21-speed mountain bike). Flew up in the air, landed on my head.

Cracked my skull, blew my eardrums out (from the pressure of my head hitting the ground), and ground my nose down. It was pretty intense and I've got an enormous scar on the back of my head from it.

First and last time I ever did anything without a helmet. I'll -never- ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Ever.

Yea that's dumb but I can relate. I was 31 when I got my first Mt Bike. When I was a kid I did BMX/Freestyle all the time...until I got my drivers license. 15 years later I get on a my new mountain bike and find a trail with some jumps some kids put in. Without thinking I hit a jump and while in the air I knew I would not make the landing. I woke up on the ground with the worst pain in my ass I've ever had. Broken tailbone. Could not sit for a month. I would have kicked my own ass if it did not hurt so much.

1. riding barefoot,....
2. racing to beat a train when the crossguards couldve killed me,....
3. getting the most beautiful woman in the world (for me) to ride with me then realizing after we left that my front tire was almost flat but pretending like everything was cool so she wouldn't think I was a moron  ,...
4.getting an unknown bike running and taking it out for a quick spin then finding later the triple wasn't bolted up tightly- oops,.....
5.lane splitting too fast in Houston traffic,...hmm I'm sure there's more, wait we need a gif here to honor pliskin

Quote from: Kiwingenuity on May 27, 2013, 02:39:42 PM
I have seen two instances of that going wrong.. so very wrong..

1st time was out in the sticks somewhere with a mate of mine who was clearing scrub using an old Bren gun carrier (UC) - one of these things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Carrier

Took the air cleaner off, He poured some Ether straight onto the carb - hit the go button.. unfortunately the UC can start in gear with clutch not required - net result was carrier tearing off into the scrub - flattend it all, hilarious to watch.

2nd time was at a Fuels storage / trucking outfit.  Watching one of the guys trying to start an old MK II Ford Cortina (paddock basher with no roof).  same trick, pouring something strong into the carb directly - watched the carb throw back and a sheet of flame ended up out the top of the carb, hit the bonnet and everyone stood back for a little while waiting for it to go out.  Car still worked, but needed some new HT leads after that...

She did backfire but it wasnt rideable at that point. ( bought bike may 2003 joined here in june same year. ) bought the everclear to celebrate purchase. i KNEW i had to pull carbs. but it was a great buy at 600 i took it as is where is.

Here is a really stupid one I forgot about.
I jumped off a 5ft high wall on a pogo stick. Needless to say I didn't make that landing either. Wound up in the hospital with an ankle so swollen they had to cut my high-top Nike off.

Oh, and on a $5 dollar bet I ate and goldfish I won at a carnival. Then I drank the bag of water to wash it down. I had to chew it up and before I swallowed it.   

probably the scariest thing was doing 135mph on a yamaha banshee with a gsxr 750 motor in it, rolled my first car after 25 hours, almost wrecked a zx6-r because the rear end was lowered and the front wasnt. split my head open twice jumping bicycles off of hay bale and plywood ramps. i think thats about it, decent little list for only being 20

One of the dumbest things I ever did was a little thing I like to call urban bobsledding. Ended with me meeting the asphalt at about 35mph, grinding enough skin off my elbow to reveal bone, and leaving scars all over my back and my arm.

... well .. there was this blonde once!!  ...