Oh, this poor guy
 

I really feel bad for this dude. Dang!

http://s905.beta.photobucket.com/use...atcht.mp4.html

Thanks Bashan

Hi
:ugh:
Oh man that looked like it hurt
I pray hes alright
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

Ouch

Yeah he is a idiot for sure,after that one

Hi teddy
:no:
Is that nice? the poor guy has an accident and you call him an idiot
take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

well anyone riding where he was cant be to smart >D

Shizz!
That must've sucked like hell!

Seems like he fell on the boat, while the bike fell on some solid ground!
At least the bike didn't seem like it fell in the water.. So perhaps it can still be salvaged.

On youtube it tells you the full story the guy is like a tester for some magazine or show if i remember correctly

Hi
There appears to be enough room though i may be wrong, and to me it looks like he wasnt paying attention when he hit the stanchion which caused the accident
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

yeah, it seems he hit the pole with his side trunk; one reason why leather bags would have been a better choice.

We all make mistakes in judgement now and again. What are some dumb scooter blunders you have made. I'll go first

My pant leg got caught on the center stand and as I tried to put my left foot down it pull the scoot down, I twisted the throttle and I did a 180 right into my sons truck and cracked the front plastic. I was so glad no one was there to see that.

Hi
Couldnt agree with you more:tup:
I'll go second
I was reving my Puma on the center stand with out holding the brakes when she shot about 20 feet down the road and then slid on her side
We all do make errors in judgement at times
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

I had to dumb moment both in gravel, once i park my scoot in deep gravel on the side stand only to come back to it laying on the ground with a broke mirror and plastic, second i pulled into a drive pretty fast and it change from pavement to gravel and there was a lot of loose gravel about ten feet before i hit the brake and went sliding like on ice, scoot was un harmed but not my ankle

Hahahaha. I am laughing with you, not at you.

That must have been scary watching your little scoot shoot off like that. Hopefully, it didn't do too much damage.

Hope he wound up ok. Watched it a few times and cannot figure out what caused it...all I saw was a light brush with a pole..at prolly 2mph or so. He must have been a newbie scoot rider doing a commercial or something?.. Cause I know 99% of us would have fared much better.

His plastic saddlebag hit the concrete poll. You can see how it breaks off just before he goes over.

Hi
Laugh away my friend, im glad that episode has some positive outcomes and could put a smile on your face:tup::yay:
I posted the photos at the old scoot dawg in a thread i started when it happened over 2 years ago about feeling like an idiot
She only got a few scratches hardly of any notice, my wounded ego on the other hand took the full brunt of it:ugh:>:(
But we are only human are we not?
Take care and ride safely dear friend
Yours Hank

Oh, I know about the hurt ego. Lol. Yes, moments like we posted only remind us of how human we are.

I was installing some led light strips on my scooter.
The led light circuit was connected to 12V AC instead of DC, and I just thought the LEDS wheren't bright enough, so I tried revving the engine (hoping to increase the voltage on the LEDS).
Surely they got brighter, but also the bike, being a CVT, ran out on me.
Stupid me trying to stop the 300+LBS beast (250+cc's), bent one of my toes backwards as I put too much pressure on it, to stop the bike (was in my flip-flops); was blue for 1 week!
Lucky the bike did not go very far, as the front wheel hit the wall in front of it (about 6ft).

That's two run away scooters...and one 180 into a truck.

Looks like he hit the post with his left saddlebag and was distracted just long enough to go over the side...Ouch! (hope he's ok.)

lol i have a runaway for ya. went to lunch with my girl and when we came out battery was weak. so i hooked up my jump box to it and told my girl to start it while i held the rear brake on the left( it was on the side stand) she revved it up when she started it and it shot away from us and about 15 feet down into the ditch on its side. now normally i would be a little pissed about that but the look on her face had us both dying laughing about it

Oh man that really sucks!!

I know I have done stupid things many times the only ones coming to mind right now is 3-4 side stand pogos always heart stopping thankfully never painful I have OCD about sidestand position now...

I have one word for you....Kardashian.

He landed in the boat lol

I have to admit I laughed pretty hard when I saw it the first time but that really sucks for the guy cause his scooter has gotta be pretty much totaled. :no:

Its hard not to laugh. Man, that guy went from scooter riding to sky diving to sailing all in a split-second.

I do feel for the guy.

It's to bad he didn't hit the water probably wouldn't have hurt as much

That's really not a scooter but a full on road bike something like this:

http://www.dieselstation.com/img/Yam...R1300AE-04.jpg

Judging from the park benches and trash cans, he was in an area meant for people on foot and not motor bikes. What I can't figure out is why he was being filmed?

You must know your bikes...that really looks like it. (especially the saddlebags.)

Something to keep in mind next time we are tempted to ride on the sidewalk or squeeze through the traffic barriers into a pedestrian area. Should have gotten a ticket for that one riding a Sport Touring bike in a pedestrian area. Clipped the post hard enough to rip the hard case off of its mounts. Count our blessings that there wasn't anyone in the boat at the time.

I have had the bike runaway off the side stand as well.
Luckily my reflexes were working that day and I did not run it into the back of the garage.
Also once when the bike had been running just for a few seconds I tried to wiggle the header to see if it was loose.not loose just HOT!!!

You'll get the hang of it, fixing a scooter is as easy walking on a bearskin rug.....With the Bear still in it.