My Chuckle Of The Day
 

I was gone over the weekend and asked my son to take the hawk out and give it some exercise. He's used to riding the Buell XB9R, which we sold last week.

He called me up after he got back home. "Dad, this superhawk has a lot of power!". Seems he whacked the throttle a bit too hard and brought the front end up.

:rotf:

My first question was "you didn't wreck, did you?".

The second was "have you changed your pants yet?"

:crackup:

I ride a newer XB12R firebolt awhile back and that thing had stupid power. Still trying to convince my buddy to let me take his ZX-14 out for a spin.

:evillaugh:

That's a great story... and yet another reason to be careful with who we let ride our Superhawks (your son excepted).

I had a :banghead: this weekend...

Took the radiator cap off mid ride- and yes... I knew radiators 101: the system gets pressurized when hot- but for some reason wasn't thinking and got a nice fountain of boiling coolant in the face. Have a nice burn mark on my cheekbone!

In the end it was a nice chuckle. I shouldn't let myself ride when I make decisions like that.

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i done that once to a car and believe me i only did it once. if i had to guess what napalm was like i would have to compare it to getting hot coolant on your skin.. it is hot as all He-double hockey sticks. lol and it is near impossible to get off the skin.

What on earth were you thinking? :eek:

Man, I don't know. But I have this nice "idiot" brand on my face that I have to keep explaining to people ;)

It's like telling someone that you jumped down a stairwell.

To be fair, I was tinkering with the coolant and needed to relieve the pressure. I didn't just look at it and go "Hey! Look! A cap! I think that I'll take it off... maybe there's a piece of candy underneath"

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I don't think there's another activity in which you can "learn from other's mistakes" quite like motorcycling.

are you sure there wasn't any candy? might want to recheck lmao