My riding buddy back in the day had slid the kickstarter up his pant leg. Stopped at a stop sign and 'crash'. Laugh In tricycle style. He jumped up and said, "Hope nobody saw that." It was 3:00a.m. so nobody (but me) did.
I was on the final leg of a 17,000 mile journey. Heavily leaden bike. Stuff bungeed (sp?) on everywhere. Stopped for gas. Had to stand on the peg to swing my leg over the crap on my seat. Somehow the sidestand wasn't 'locked in'. Just down enough to hold the bike. As I swung my right foot over the seat the momentum moved the bike forward and, with both my feet off the ground, I crashed into the gas pump. Snapped my handlebar mount fairing in half.
Last day of the trip
