Your squid-liest moments

se7enmx
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se7enmx 4/5/2020 8:41am
4/5/2020 8:41am

1980 Searspoint National. Searspoint bomb holes could bite ya! I did save it FYI.
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Nairb#70 4/7/2020 8:31pm
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I don't know how the hell this happened.Dry
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t_baum88 4/7/2020 8:43pm
4/7/2020 8:43pm
Mechanical- Put my oil filter in backwards, drove 15 hours to canada and blew my bike up in 5 minutes. (T-dags dad and Kibby saved my life)


Riding- Crashing on the last lap of a moto at Loretta’s just riding around at 50% in 3rd and breaking my wrist. Squid.
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t_baum88 4/7/2020 8:54pm
4/7/2020 8:54pm


This is right up there though. Running second at Loretta’s, hit neutral (tranny hadn’t been polished recently enough) and luckily Bisecglia didn’t take my head off as he went by.
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wwdiii 4/8/2020 7:31pm
4/8/2020 7:31pm
cz2crf2wc wrote:
Pics = Proof [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/04/02/416188/s1200_ResizedImage_1410650229746.jpg[/img]
Pics = Proof

Pretty sure I had the same Mid Valley CZ sweatshirt.

Thanks, Billy
Shredder 8/7/2020 1:41pm
8/7/2020 1:41pm
Mugen racer wrote:
Hopefully this makes the cut. Back in the late 70s. Me and my racing buddies Paul and Jeff decided to go up to Broome Tioga in...
Hopefully this makes the cut. Back in the late 70s. Me and my racing buddies Paul and Jeff decided to go up to Broome Tioga in NY state to show em hows it’s done. The van is loaded up on Saturday. We leave really early Sunday morning. When we get there nobody is there. I mean nobody. Maybe we’re just really early. We decide to look at the track schedule paper that’s on the floor of the Dodge van. Are you kidding me, it’s last years schedule. Ok time to hammer down 81 south. We made it just in time to sign up at The Bethel track. The best of times really.
Being Jeff and Paul's brother this doesn't surprise me. Jeff and I were going to Clifford once and he headed out on RT 78 instead of on RT 80 to 380. Realized it by the time we were almost to Sleepy Hollow. Biggest bummer is that we had 2 other guys bikes who we were meeting up there! Barely made it for practice.
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Ken202 8/7/2020 3:51pm
8/7/2020 3:51pm
1978, before I had nice tools, common sense, and needed to straighten my RM80’s bent shifter. I couldn’t straighten it while mounted so I removed it. Put it on the driveway,... and slammed it with my hammer. I woke up a bit later, after it had bounced off the pavement and beaned me in the forehead!
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xrmark 8/7/2020 6:16pm
8/7/2020 6:16pm
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My kid's first race on his brand new KX 65. I was working the gate that day so I could help him. I was parked close...
My kid's first race on his brand new KX 65.
I was working the gate that day so I could help him.

I was parked close to the gate, but I was having to run back and forth to help him be ready on time.

His practice was coming up and I go to get his bike warmed up. Gas on, choke on, it's race ready, 2 kicks and it should run.

Nope, I'm kicking away at this thing, trying to orchestrate flaggers and EMTs over my headset, and it just won't fire....Brand freaking new.

A kid, probably about 12 parked next to us must have seen my panic, and said "Tale the exhaust plug out".

Holy hell, man! Granted, I couldn't hear well with the headset, but I did have over 30 experience at the time....

Nothing like getting the "What a dumbass" look from your 10 year old kid.
No shit this has happened to me more than a few times haha it always seems to be the little kid that points it out and makes you look like an idiot lol
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Bennett59 8/7/2020 11:03pm
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t_baum88 wrote:
Mechanical- Put my oil filter in backwards, drove 15 hours to canada and blew my bike up in 5 minutes. (T-dags dad and Kibby saved my...
Mechanical- Put my oil filter in backwards, drove 15 hours to canada and blew my bike up in 5 minutes. (T-dags dad and Kibby saved my life)


Riding- Crashing on the last lap of a moto at Loretta’s just riding around at 50% in 3rd and breaking my wrist. Squid.
My buddy and his dad did that at a race, sitting in staging fires up his bike made this super loud screech noise. They found oil filter in backwards didn’t even hurt it they flipped it around and ran it lol, bike got stolen not long after that though, recovered about year or 2 later also.
-I had a friend who said he felt like his bike was acting funny and wanted my dad to look at, he brings it over tells me to ride see what I think. I hop on it get going to about 3rd just locks up on me, come to find out he forgot he drained the oil in advance.
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Tenacious P 8/7/2020 11:51pm
8/7/2020 11:51pm
Spraying starting fluid in 5 times and changing spark plugs only to give up and ask my neighbor who switched on the petcock. I was 15.
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bvm111 8/8/2020 12:41am
8/8/2020 12:41am Edited Date/Time 8/8/2020 12:42am
on my last moto tonight i did a sweet boner air followed by an epic panic rev off the next table... i called it a night and rolled second gear back to the pits!

as the great kenny rogers said... you got know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away... know when to run!
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edge60 8/8/2020 2:40am
8/8/2020 2:40am
I was on 80's and 14 years old and was leading the second moto of the biggest regional race of the year after a bad start. In the last corner there was a crashed lapper and i saw the marshall flagging to late. I tipped over and fell down. Somehow i brain farted and thought it was cool to push my bike the 25 meters over the finish. To just getting passed on the line for second...... had i kick started it and rode it over the line i still would have one the moto. What was i thinking?! I won the first, but was second on the day... 26 years later i still get mad on myself if i think back.....
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mark_swart 8/8/2020 6:38am
8/8/2020 6:38am
A few years ago at Woodland MX (mud race) in Washington I came across the finish line , got sideways and completely ate crap. Of course this is also the part of the track where everyone stands to watch. The flagger just stood there looking at me, and I did the only thing I could do - got back up and took a bow to the crowd. Good times....

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