Last week I had some guys doing my drive at the front. I was busy cleaning the garage out and wheeled it out to the side of the house. Next thing I see from my kitchen window is someone taking photos from the garage. I went outside and got the usual "that's a lovely bike" followed up with " I took a couple of pictures with him on it....." Would you ever in your life jump in a clients Porsche or any other car for that matter and take a picture of it? I've seen people doing this with their kids on the street, lifting them up and letting them rub their sticky mitts on it and kicking the side. I'd let my niece do this a few years ago and she scratched the tail with her shoe on the way over. Never again!
Just like when a friend or family member who had a motorcycle 20+ years ago asks to take your bike for a quick spin, adding “I won’t go fast”.
Staying at a hotel near Pamplona ages ago. There was a wedding reception on. Came out to find loads of guests trying my bike for size (CBR954RR). They all seemed suprised when I shouted at them and moved the bike to somewhere else...
Same thing happened to me in snowdonia a couple of years ago, stopped in a layby for a break, took a stroll over to the lakeside keeping my bike in view, big Audi pulls up and a family get out to stretch there legs, driver stands by the bike having a few photo's taken, i am pretty chilled about it then he proceeds to try to sit on the bike,i shout over as i am walking back as he has the bike off the sidestand, he seemed pretty miffed that i was not happy, i then strolled over to his car opened the door, he stopped me getting in, it must of then dawned on him as he went into apologetic mode, lucky no harm done , its always nice to get positive comments about your bike but every now and then people do step over the line.
Years ago I was working in a restaurant which I used to ride my Vespa to work. Look out one day & saw an elderly guy trying to move it (with the stirring lock on) to make room so he could park his car - went mental at him & all I got back was ...don’t worry I had one of these when I was young ! No harm done really but bang out of order I thought.
Years ago one of my mates had a Buell Cyclone ( no accounting for tastes!! ) anyhow, we’d just had a good hoon down this road and parked up at a local spot for a coffee. Same sort of thing, a thick numpty type comes over and starts gushing about this Harley engine in the Buell and how good it sounded, then he says “cor...look at the size of those exhaust pipes” ...... And proceeds to grab the nice big fat headers with both hands, ..dozy Fekker just about burnt his fingerprints off Then started jumping all around the car park screaming and waving his hands about!!! Jeez how we laughed That’s the other thing when you tell people’s kids not to touch the bike, they think you are being Arsey, but they seem to forget that it’s basically a stinking hot internal combustion engine on wheels, would they lift the car bonnet when they have just stopped and let the kids play with the car engine??? Talk about Darwin awards
Drives me mad when you see some kid, or grown up, fiddling with the switchgear, twisting the throttle and letting it go, hammering the carb needles etc.. Don't know how many times I've gone to start the bike and some sod has left the kill switch, that I never use for anything, in the OFF position.... Like SimmyTT, I try and make them understand that it is like me being caught sitting in their car fiddling with all the buttons.... then they seem to get it!
Happened to me some years ago, came out of the office to find a very worried truck driver sitting on my 916 Biposto, the steering lock was on and he had lifted it up enough for the stand to flip up. Once rescued, he was a right cocky twat about it. A few weeks later I was most pleased to hear that he had filled his gixer up with diesel!
I couldn’t say no to a hen on Brighton seafront last year. She scuffed my seat cowl but it buffed out!
This thread leads to my invention. .. that i have.... err....invented.... Can't go into details but it prevents this shit. . Seen it many times. Had some guy talk to me about my 748 one day and as I was putting my lid on he swung a leg over it.. I caught his leg before it hit the seat and threw him on the ground. . He couldn't understand my anger as he owns bikes and thought we should be mates... unfuckenbelievable.
