Ever blow it while trying to show off?

[chaplain220]

So Im at the mall and this dude obviously wants to impress his girl, does an awesome jump over the barrier that separates the ticket lines at the movies, in front of at least a hundred folks, gets his foot caught in the barrier, pulls all the poles down on top of himself and lands in a twisted heap in front of everyone.  Anyone else ever really blow it while trying to show off? 

[Court Jester]

I haven't... knock on wood but a guy I used to work with tried to pull a stand up on the high way in front of the parking lot evansville, indiana used to their motorcycle safety class. they had a full class that day and they got to see him loop it. broke his shoulder, leg, some ribs, and sent his bike sliding under a pickup truck.

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

I was 19 years old, had a good job, bought a late model Trans Am that was really fast.

It was a holiday and my girlfreind and myself decided to meet some of her freinds at the local DQ for something to eat (she was 16 and deep down inside just wanted to show off the fact that her boyfreind had this awesome car). We get there and the DQ is closed so we sit and wait in the middle of the parking lot for her freinds to show up. When her freinds arrived we talked briefly and decide to go to another restraunt they had seen that was open. As I go to leave her freinds start egg'ing me on to do a burnout, since this was a huge parking lot with no one obviously around I thought it would be safe enough. I was positioned to go around the building (same as the drive-thru) and knew the lot went another 50' feet further back than the drive-thru so I was going to do a burn out and throw it into a drift and go around the back of the building swinging wide into the back lot and do a big horseshoe all the way to the lot on the other side of the building, so I did exactly that. I stomped on it, had smoke pouring off the tires as I went across the lot, threw it into a slide going around the back empty lot, and as I came around the other side of the building with the tires screaming and smoke pouring off them I came face to face with a County Cop sitting there in his Police car facing me!     

I stopped, and after the cloud of smoke disappeared that was completely hiding my vehicle the Officer came up to me and asked me what the Hell I was doing? He gave me a verbal scolding, checked my driving record (which had nothing on it), and came back and scolded me some more. End result: I didn't even get a written warning!  8)

Same parking lot years later and the DQ was having it's weekly 'Cruise Night' so the lot was filled with tons of really fast cars, since my brother is into 1/4 mile car racing (currently has a 9 second flat, non-tubbed, '68 Camaro) I knew alot of the people as well (many of these cars have over 1000 Hp with Nitrous - including my brothers) . One guy who had an 8 second Vega that was fully tube chassied and tubbed decided he would show off for the crowd and do his own burn out - even though he was in the same basic place I had been, he was facing the other way toward the street. So with ALOT of people watching he not only did a burnout, he did a spectacular Nitrous burnout there in the lot - that is....until he had a malfunction. Turns out he had been having issues with his Nitrous system linkage that was tied in with his throttle linkage and occasionally it would stick WIDE OPEN, of course this moment is when it decided to happen again. As he rolled across the lot spinning the tires it started to get traction so he let off the throttle except the linkage stuck wide open and he hooked up and shot right across the street (luckily not hitting any cars) and went right thru the landscaping in front of the (luckily closed) Lube Pro's and proceeded to smash right thru the building before he could kill the ignition on the car - the whole event happened in a few seconds. The Lube Pro's was closed for a while while it was rebuilt and the driver didn't get hurt too bad, but needless to say the Police were not seeing the humor in the situation and he got ticketed hard.

I still grin every time I go by that Lube Pro's! 

[n2racing6]

Laguna 1992-bedding brakes on Friday, on EBC endurance bike in the pits. Did big rear wheel handfull to impress onlookers--gravel--pankake- oops!! Reinforced lack of smarts.

[mikendzel]

I wasn't trying to show off, but my first race ever, (CCS in Sept 2000) I was feeling good about my first 5 laps, so I go for a big out-braking maneuver into turn 5 at Summit.  Pulled it off!!!!  Was feeling really good then so I tried to really carry my speed through the carousel.  smacked the case covers of my FZR 400 on the curbing, skipped into the gravel, and being embarassed, I tried to stand up before I actually slid to a stop.....

My feet dug in hard and I flipped right to the feet of the corner worker.  Being stupid, cause now I was really embarassed, I asked him for a score for the dismount.  His reply was "2, and stand on the other side of the wall."

I crushed my brake reservior, among other things, in the get off, so I was done for the weekend.  My girlfriend-at-the-time showed up from Easton, MD (2.5 hours away) just in time to see the crash truck unloading me.  I got the bike fixed, and went back to Summit 2 weeks later, unloaded the bike, registered to race, went to go through tech, and realized that I forgot my keys at home. 

Didn't make it to another race for 7 years, until this past Sept, when I went to Summit with Chaplain 220 and the rest of the boys from B&E Motorsports.

[bill999s]

I was showing it off one day...oh wait, this threads about something else. never mind.

[dylanfan53]

To impress my high school girlfriend I jumped a week old '71 beetle 3'-4' in the air over an embankment that I used to jump every day with my streetbike.  Turns out VWs don't jump as well as bikes do.  Well, they launch pretty well if you're going really fast...but they just don't land as well.  I was airborne in slow motion thinking "Oops, maybe this was a mistake".
Bottomed out, wrecked some shock mounts and broke a couple windows as I recall.  It also cracked the engine case when it bottomed out and wacked some rock or asphalt on the landing.  Called my Dad to let him know that I "hit a railroad grade a little too hard" and there was oil coming out of the bottom of the engine.  He weren't happy. Took me all summer to pay off the repairs.

[weggieman]

Oh, let me count the times...........

[benprobst]

I can wheelie a bicycle, like REALLY wheelie a bicycle, stand it on the rear wheel and disapear into the distance kind of wheelie. Well I was at the big kahuna one year with my dad and a friend of ours. All I did was ride my bicycle around all weekend, I was on top of my wheelie game. Seeing that Road Atlanta is all hills, it means endless balance wheelies. Needless to say I had quiet the following. Also needless to say, I made an ass of myself.    There is a big hill in the infield, one of the primary hills to get from the back straight down to 10/11/12. Well im heading back to T5 from T10, so I decide to wheelie the whole way past the crowd I knew was going to be there. I stand it up and run up the huge hill people cheering the whole way, then decide to go ahead put in a little effort, do something really difficult and badass, wheelie all the way DOWN the hill. Brilliant, i know. Im on the brakes, my pace and balance are good, but ive got a set of race pads in the rear brake arms, they are thin and quickly overheat, so I have to start using pedal power to keep the nose in the air, 3/4 of the way down the hill I get a little too much weight going backwards and flip over, no big deal normally, I will just run it out. Well this time it was a big deal, as I was going 30 miles an hour and down a steep hill. I hit the ground running, I think I might actually make it, NOPE. Just as my legs start to give I try to throw the bicycle forward in a last ditch effort for a proper tuck and roll, sacrificing my collarbone for my face and neck. As I release the bike it promptly stops, turns sideways right in front of me and goes to fall over torward me. All 6'5 200 pounds of my gigantic 16 year old ass firmly plants my chest on the seat and ----- fooooooommmmm  --- catapaults me over the bicycle. I land flat on my back and roll/slide into the ditch on the side of the road. It was my official introduction to high siding at Road Atlanta. The best part, of course, is that I roll to a stop in front of 100 drunk assholes partying. You can fill in the rest here, lol. I did manage to wheelie the last 500 yards to the pits, but only because I had to, as the 650 dollar front wheel on the bike was so trashed I had no hopes of riding it anywhere, and was too damn sore to walk it. At least I went out in style 

[spyderchick]

Oh, let me count the times...........

You're a Mr. Potato Head winner, 'nuff said!

[Team-G]

Only while making home made porn....

[weggieman]

You're right Alexa. I've been officially rewarded(?) for my stupidity.......
But alas, I'm among good friends on that trophy!!