Embarrassing moments-What's your WHOOPS

[NavyDiver]

Sold the baby CB125 to a nice chap who got his L plates a year ago but has never ridden. He turned up Friday to pick it up- Road weather alerts--- plus had me offering to bring it to him rather than his first ride being in traffic, high winds and pelting rain. He was too excited to be getting his first wheels and came to me. Rain and wind happily missed us. After showing him everything I suggested he try the laneway behind my place. Nervous Plus would be an understatment.

I rode him home on his bike[thumbsupbig]

He enjoyed a ride yesterday before texting me the bike could not be started today. Went for a visit after dinner. Asked him to put the key in and turn it on. Just prior to asking him to start it I turned the Kill Switch to allow the bike to start which it did[bigrolf]

When he said he was a little embarrassed I told him about my very nice BMW K100 RS which I allowed to fall on its side the first day on it when in North Sydney with a lot of people watching. Learning new bikes can be balance adjustment or a switch or two.

The very same K100 was at the front of dozens of sailors going home after work. Old South Head road right turn on to Sid Einfield Drive with a very wet and oil patch saw me sliding along beside my bike at 80kPH[bigwhistle]

Spit it out- What's your WHOOPS

[austastar]

Hi,
At 16yrs, learning to water ski. Hung on to the rope after falling off, failing to launch, and generally total lack of success.
Lost my togs in the rush of water, to the amusement of all on the boat.
Cheers.

[rick130]

So many to choose...[emoji848][emoji23]

There's a funny story that involves moi, a chilled glycol system and cold brewed coffee.

Cooma ex-servicemans club put in what I was told was an on tap cold brewed coffee system, it didn't work and they were desperate to get it going by that Friday night, so off we drive from Canberra.

Scott, the apprentice and I rebuilt the system, made a new python from scratch, pulled it through from the keg room to the bar and set it all up.
I started pulling coffees but it was sweet!!
Damn, must've mixed the glycol (chilled proplyene glycol) and coffee lines. (Glycol is very sweet)
Checked, double checked, kept pulling coffees and tasting/drinking.
It was late by this time, well after dark, and we'd been working all day.
I was sure everything was ok but the brew kept pulling through sweet.
I found and apologised to the club manager, told him I'd contaminated his coffee as it kept coming out of the tap sweet.
He just looked at me.
"How much have you drunk?"

They were espresso martinis! [emoji50]

I was nearly rolling drunk and didn't realise [emoji23]
Scott drove us home to Canberra. [emoji6]

[V8Ian]

Ran out of fuel on a Honda 4, opposite Webster's, Gympie Rd.. I pushed the bike up the hill to the cemetery, then side saddled past the Edinburgh Castle into the BP. As I went to alight, the bike fell onto the right side, leaving me sitting on the fallen bike. I had to retrieve and refuel in front of an audience as the next servo was Stafford Road. :angry:

[NavyDiver]

Hi,
At 16yrs, learning to water ski. Hung on to the rope after falling off, failing to launch, and generally total lack of success.
Lost my togs in the rush of water, to the amusement of all on the boat.
Cheers.

One of my only high dives was from Melb Olympics diving tower at Crewsick did that to me. All the boys standing on top would occasionally jump of. A young lady climbed up and dove off perfectly My 14 year old self thought that's not right so tried my first dive which was surprisingly good. surfaced smiling triumphantly at the crew that never did anything as stupid as that, to find some one point at the water a good way from me.

My shorts surfaced and were recoverable thankfully [bigwhistle]https://merriam-webster.com/assets/mw/images/article/art-wap-article-main/cu-diving-into-dove-1637@2x.jpg

[Tombie]

You lot…

We would drop the daks at the top of the board…
Wave to the nearby punters, then dive in [emoji41]

[Tins]

Nothing. Nada. None whatsoever....

[Tombie]

Nothing. Nada. None whatsoever....

[emoji41] exactly. Never be embarrassed [emoji41]

[Saitch]

I took a young lady, whom I was trying to impress, as you do, to the old Caboolture drive-in on my 650 Bonnie.
I decided that, by placing the bike on the centre stand, parallel to the screen, we could sit side by side on the seat.
About 10 minutes or so into the first movie, a bloke in a car pulled into the spot behind me. After he set up, he called out to us to 'Siddown in front'!
I quickly turned to remonstrate with him and unfortunately, overreached our COG, with bike and two persons hitting the deck.

To make matters worse, the offending bloke behind, stuck his head out the window and said 'Thank You'!
Luckily, said young lady found it amusing.

[V8Ian]

I took a young lady, whom I was trying to impress, as you do, to the old Caboolture drive-in on my 650 Bonnie.
I decided that, by placing the bike on the centre stand, parallel to the screen, we could sit side by side on the seat.
About 10 minutes or so into the first movie, a bloke in a car pulled into the spot behind me. After he set up, he called out to us to 'Siddown in front'!
I quickly turned to remonstrate with him and unfortunately, overreached our COG, with bike and two persons hitting the deck.

To make matters worse, the offending bloke behind, stuck his head out the window and said 'Thank You'!
Luckily, said young lady found it amusing.
Only you Steve, only you. [bigrolf]

[Rolly]

First car. HR Holden. First tune. I pulled the distributor out of the block walked inside and called my Uncle who was a mechanic,..."how do I set the timing" was my question to him. He answered, "well you need to turn the dizzy to advance or retard the ignition",.............................(Me)- Well I've pulled the dizzy out so I could o it over the phone ,...................(Him) Did you mark the exact spot so you can put it back correctly?,...........(Me) yeh,nah. (Him),............Well you're about to discover how to work out where TOPDC of cylinder 1 so you can set you the firing order correctly.................We still have a chuckle over that one!