What was your most embarassing racing/riding moment?

SL91
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9/1/2011 3:43pm
nytsmaC wrote:
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in...
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in 4th, I came up short by about 5-10ft and shit my pants upon impact. Fortunately I was able to ride straight over to the washroom facility and nobody was the wiser!
Outsider wrote:
I LOL'd
I used to get the nervous shits something awful before a race Sad
EastFlorida
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9/1/2011 3:45pm
nytsmaC wrote:
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in...
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in 4th, I came up short by about 5-10ft and shit my pants upon impact. Fortunately I was able to ride straight over to the washroom facility and nobody was the wiser!
Outsider wrote:
I LOL'd
SL91 wrote:
I used to get the nervous shits something awful before a race Sad
I never got the shits, but I always felt like throwing up just before the gate dropped!
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9/1/2011 3:53pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 3:54pm
nytsmaC wrote:
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in...
A couple of months ago I took an extremely rough line for a big double out of a corner that I'm having trouble clearing tapped in 4th, I came up short by about 5-10ft and shit my pants upon impact. Fortunately I was able to ride straight over to the washroom facility and nobody was the wiser!
LOL!

i pissed myself at about mile 95 of a 100 mile desert race, couldn't hold it any longer... i promptly ran out of gas at mile 98 and had to wait 2 hours for the sweeping crew to get to me. i sat in 80 degree weather after pissing my pants for 2 hours. had i known i was less than a mile from the pits i would have walked my happy ass back.. also i wouldn't have just let it go and pissed my pants
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9/1/2011 4:19pm
I'd like to get some stories from GuyB, OC, DC and some SX/MX/AX pros too! You KNOW those guys have stories that would put us on the floor! They read this stuff and we KNOW you want to reply....

Come on guys, share your dirty secrets! PLEASE Evil

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9/1/2011 5:19pm
I had a mental block approaching a 3rd gear tapped tabletop on my 125 in my junior days... Forgot to get my ass of the seat and standing...

Never supermanned all the way to the landing ramp before or since or in a place where so many people were watching... BRUTAL!
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9/1/2011 5:28pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 6:58pm
'82 Am. Nat's...rainin' like a Mutha...I thought the White Flag was the Checkers...you guessed it!

I Flip-Turned that thing in the "Chute" Sooooo fast and got back on that track!
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9/1/2011 5:41pm
My first bike was a ttr 230 in 2008. First day I decided to get on it and race my roommate on the gokart. He didnt know I was racing him and he took a 90 degree turn in front of me and I hit the gokart and went flying. A few months later I was working on my wheelie skills and ended up clipping the parked gokart. Broke my pinky. After all of the stupid things I've done on the bike, that is the only bone I've ever broken.
9/1/2011 5:41pm
My first mx race was at the Fargo Dome in North Dakota in front of a full house. It was also the first time riding a my 250 2 stroke on dirt, as this was a winter race. After somehow making it through practice, I lined up for the first moto or qualifier or whatever it was. When I hit the whoop section I whiskey throttled and looped out. My machine and I then slid on the pavement bordering the track until coming to a stop at a monster truck. The machine hit the truck's front differential (scraping the truck up a bit in the process) and I hit a tire. The moster truck guy said it didn't matter about the truck so I remounted and continued the race. During the following lap or two I broke my axle and that was all she wrote. I didn't bother to fix the axle for the next race even though I was offered a spare. By the way, this was on a quad. I then raced quads for 8 years before switching to bikes. Har, the bike guys look down on quads, but fellow wheelers think it's cool. Laughing
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9/1/2011 5:43pm
It's an old story here by now. As a kid I was lucky enough to grab the first ever CR125 Elsie in North Texas. Picked it up on Thursday, raced on Sunday. First ever race in 125 class up from 100s. I was so freaking cocky (the bike was so damn GOOD). Really had little seat time on it. Needless to say, there were a lot of eyes on me and the new Honda and I was a typical little bastard soaking it all up, chest all puffed out, trolling for chicks. Full gate for the first moto.

Well, I pull a giant holeshot and the bike died in the first turn. Yep. Forgot to turn on the gas.

Still passed 25 or so and finished 3rd in the moto. Made it back to my pit with a little more humility than when I'd left.

That or the time I got sucked off the same elsie and drug through the whoops on my ass when I stuck my foot in the spokes of a Zook.
9/1/2011 5:44pm
disbanded wrote:
I got 2nd once.
lol

Me too, but it was changed to a first after the protest.
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9/1/2011 5:49pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 5:54pm
I was winning my first 250 C class race when I was 16 and crossed the finish and proceeded to ride another whole lap at race pace after the race was over. They said everyone was laughing the whole time, lol. That one, and my second race ever I won the beginner class and endoed my brains out over the finish line jump when I crossed the checkers.
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9/1/2011 5:56pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 8:57pm
Ummm...

I did this to my first bike...



It was brand new when I got it. And no, I don't ride freestyle.

(Now, I know it's a "nice" bike, but come on... I polished the fucking swing arm, WTF? ...I assure you I wasn't racing the vegas SX either)


As for while riding...there's so many they all kinda blend together.
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9/1/2011 6:06pm
School boy race at Glen Helen. I was so anxious to get to the line. I finally get there and wait for the race to start. Right before we got the ok to fire up our bikes I realized I had forgot to put my Boots on. Didn't have time to get them and rode the moto in Vans.
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9/1/2011 6:31pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 6:34pm
It was one of the last mx races of 1990 here in michigan at morelands mx park around holloween and several michigan pro's were there for last race like DeHoop,Bowen etc. and I got a good start in 250B class and was in 2nd place and they had just put in a new very large double jump along the woods after the start area and if you came up short it wasn't too bad,so I went for it and barely made it but my 89 cr250 didnt really feel right after that and on the next lap when I landed it and came up a little short my frame broke in half under the tank and my bike was a chopper...So i stopped and the 1st people I see are Todd Dehoop and John Grewe right there just laughing at my bike...felt very weird pushing that pos back to truck....a little welding,grinding,painting later and had my new 1991 a month later.....everybody who was there remembers that honda that broke in two...LolTongue
9/1/2011 6:38pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 6:41pm
lostboy819 wrote:
Pulled off on the white flag while leading.Blush
I hate it when that happens! Dizzy

That and taking off on the start and having your gas off....

Or looping it out on the start....
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9/1/2011 6:42pm
lostboy819 wrote:
Pulled off on the white flag while leading.Blush
I hate it when that happens! Dizzy

That and taking off on the start and having your gas off....

Or looping it out on the start....
I took out about 30 riders once in holeshot that went bad...very bad...
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9/1/2011 6:53pm Edited Date/Time 9/1/2011 6:55pm
At Castaic Lake when racing 80s I missed the checkered flag and road two more laps all by myself. It was a small track so eventually I noticed nobody was on the track and saw people watching the race pointing/laughing... so I road straight back to pit embarrassed.

The same year at the same location they used to run a GP/long race around the lake and I was leading (in 80 novice) on the last lap and missed one of the final turns while looking at the pit board my Dad was holding out. Part of the track was on sidewalks in the park next to the lake. I ended up near the entrance of the lake by the highway before I realized I went the wrong way and my Dad was on the ground laughing at me by the time I got back.

But definitely the most embarrassing, was me wearing SMP baggy pants and jersey during some races when I was on 80s. I have pictures that make me cringe.
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9/1/2011 7:00pm
This stuff is so funny! How we can put ourselves out there to admit our silliest mistakes? This is benchracing at it's finest... In each story, I can see myself in each situation...
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9/1/2011 7:01pm
At the Mini-O's one year I actually pulled the holeshot in the Grand Prix event on the last day. Was leading the first lap ahead of Windham, Reynard, and some other really, really fast guys. When we got to the woods section, I missed the turn into the woods and then turned in where you were supposed to exit the woods. I rode the woods section backwards almost hitting whoever was leading at the time head on about 1/2 way through!
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9/1/2011 7:08pm
Riding practice at elsinore on the 80 track. i pulled off and was riding along side the track and there was a a pretty big ditch about a foot in a half across and about 3 ft deep... I didnt notice it until the last second and tried to wheelie over it, but my front end never came up and my nose just dove into the hole and i flipped over the bars...(i get back to the pits and my mom just looks at me and starts laughing her ass off..and told me she saw the whole thing.. she still doesn't let me live that one down to this day)
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9/1/2011 7:17pm
Ok, years ago at a SX fairgrounds race, you know big covered bleachers and everyone lining the fence.
My family came to watch so I wanted win, (they never came to the track)

I get a poor start on a quick 5 lap race and get hung up behind a wide rider thats holding me up. I decide I'm going through in this next corner. Well it was at the end of the longest straight and I got in MUCH hotter than expected and he was trying to cut it in tight. Well I absoloutely nailed this big guy. I hit him so hard I actually felt bad about it. So in the next corner I ran high on the berm and pointed to the inside as to say "sorry, you can pass me back " . I guess he was thinking different. He punted me clean off the track. I was so pissed. I ran him down and passed him. When I gapped him a bit I came around a 180 degree next to the fence. I was coming outta the corner one handed giving him the finger and screaming to the top of my lungs "COME GET YOU SOME BITCH"!

A couple of turns later the last double before the finish I come short and nose high, the front came down so hard it seperated my shoulder. I was running one armed trying to get around the last corner but I crashed in great fashion over the berm. The big guy stops and starts cussing wanting to fight me right there. I remember telling him "I'm already hurt go fuck yourself" I begin my walk of shame off the track and realize everyone is watching the dumbass who just got redneck at the MX track.
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9/1/2011 7:18pm
Back in 90s, at Budds, when the barn was behind you at the gate, muddy as heck, an expert points race, every
top local guy is on the line, they're staggering us with the A class, I go and rip a practice start, power shift into 3rd
and the bike just jumps out from under me, flips sideways, pulling me face first into the mud for maybe 10 yards.
All I could do was take a bow. Heard about it for a month.
9/1/2011 7:20pm
I was at Greenville getting ready for my first race in the A class. There was a tabletop-single out of a corner that you could double. There was also this really hot chick that was standing right beside it watching, who I hoped, was her "brother". I had always made the double before but this time I planned to throw a big whip her way so I switched my line at the last second. Of course, the line had a braking bump right in the middle of it that I didn't see. The front end dove straight down and I proceeded to do my best running man in mid air. To make matters worse, the bike landed straight across my shoulders and I couldn't move. The "hot chick" had to come get the bike off of me. Needless to say, I didn't get her number.
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9/1/2011 7:26pm
Didnt listin at riders meeting in 1991 at midway in indiana they said turn left off start !!! not me i went straight the announcer called me Rodney wrongway for bout a year
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9/1/2011 7:37pm
start of a big 3 day weekend of racing when it was really something to race three days in a row. don't remember why but our race was red flagged shortly after the start. where they had us cut back across the track you had to ride back "up" the start. I decided to show off a little and pulled a wheelie catching gears as I rode back towards the start gate, a few bike lentghs before I got ready to sit the front end back down I clipped something with the rear wheel and bike went flying out from underneath me and I pretty much face plated in the ground.

the crash bent the clucth side of the bars up about three inches, I asked for 2 minutes and surpisingly they gave it to me, I hauled ass back to my pits to find a good friend whom was quite the big guy getting ready for his moto, he grabs the bike leans it over and puts all his weight on the bars and damn near straightens them out perfect. I haul ass back grab the holeshot and don't look back and win the moto. still never lived down the crash tho lol.
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9/1/2011 8:25pm
It was at one of the bigger meetings we would get in our area it was what was called a 'night motocross' or 'stadium motocross' anyway everyone was there plus a few hotties in the pits plus my brand new girlfriend,
so i gets through scrutineering (machinery) and i'm on the left side pushing my bike with my helmet on the right handlebar and I think I know what'll be super cool i'll run along and jump on side saddle (legs to the left) and coast in to my pit calm as a coma and no doubt make my new missus swoon... well it was goin good until when I jumped on my foot hit the gear lever and put it in gear which stopped all momentum and of course i fell onto right side and jammed my helmet into the ground with the full weight of me cause I couldn't get off in time and cracked the front and scratched the shit out of the back
and of course everyone i didn't want to see it, did....
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9/1/2011 8:28pm
Showing off, for chicks, family, the crowd is asking for trouble! We've all done it!Laughing
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9/1/2011 8:51pm
It's an old story here by now. As a kid I was lucky enough to grab the first ever CR125 Elsie in North Texas. Picked it...
It's an old story here by now. As a kid I was lucky enough to grab the first ever CR125 Elsie in North Texas. Picked it up on Thursday, raced on Sunday. First ever race in 125 class up from 100s. I was so freaking cocky (the bike was so damn GOOD). Really had little seat time on it. Needless to say, there were a lot of eyes on me and the new Honda and I was a typical little bastard soaking it all up, chest all puffed out, trolling for chicks. Full gate for the first moto.

Well, I pull a giant holeshot and the bike died in the first turn. Yep. Forgot to turn on the gas.

Still passed 25 or so and finished 3rd in the moto. Made it back to my pit with a little more humility than when I'd left.

That or the time I got sucked off the same elsie and drug through the whoops on my ass when I stuck my foot in the spokes of a Zook.
The first cross country race my folks came to see I got a top 5 or so start. 2nd corner my foot went into the spokes of a "Zook". He just dive bombed the corner, no chance in hell he was going to make it.
my foot wedged between the spokes and the swingarm, and they had to remove the wheel to get me out.

Needless to say, the old man wasn't too impressed with his first race since it lasted about 15 seconds.

Embarrassing? probably when I thought I farted in my new white JTs about 10 miles into a 50 miler. Not only was it a disgusting mess, I had diaper rash from hell.
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9/1/2011 8:55pm
Tbteam wrote:
In 1983 I worked at the Bailey MX School. On my first day there when classes were in session, GB asked me to ride his bike...
In 1983 I worked at the Bailey MX School. On my first day there when classes were in session, GB asked me to ride his bike back to the cycle barn. I took off across an open field with no helmet on, saw a foot high log in the tall grass that I tried to wheelie over, but it was on an angle and I swapped/endo'd/nearly killed myself.

Bent the subframe on his CR250, bent the bars, scratched the plastics.

Guess who was in charge of all the bike maintenance? Guess who repaired Gary's bike, even though he had a concussion, out of sheer embarrassment?
Mark,
I can relate to your story. Back in 1974Ii was racing a high school motocross race at OCIR in Orange County, California trying to qualify for the state finals at the LA Colosseum (sp?) anyway my Dad talked Dan of DG Performance into letting me ride one of their team bikes in the qualifier. I pulled the holeshot and proceed to do the biggest high side ever in the sweeper leading to the first turn. Ruined the bike, smashed tank, bent bars, snapped off shift shaft and a big concussion. Feeling like crap, had to go back to the shop with him and work all night to fix the bike because Danny Laporte was riding it the next day at Saddleback in a national....Man did I feel like a fool...
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9/1/2011 9:26pm
My first race moving up to the 125 class from 80's way back in the day.

Things were going great. I got about 5th place off the start and started moving up lap by lap. My mom was at the side of the track by the scoring tower holding out her fingers to show me what place I was in. Every lap I came around I had moved up a position and she was getting more and more excited. The lap I took the lead I saw my buddy's dad was grabbing my mom by the scruff of the neck because she was so excited she was damn near falling over the fence.

I wound up with a pretty decent size lead by the end of the race and figured I'd celebrate as I crossed the line with a victory wheelie. Coming out of a tight corner with a bunch of acceleration bumps and I clutch the front end up.... and right over it goes. I was trying to hold onto the bars and save it until the end, which only managed to put me off balance. I went face first right into a puddle and the bike went over backwards in front of me. Ripped the back fender right off the damn bike. I'm not sure what was more embarrassing. The victory loop out or riding the second moto without a rear fender.

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