Dumbest newbie thing you've done (that didn't result in a crash...)

[Pink]

Well, I haven't been riding that long. Not really used to wearing a helmet etc.

I pull up to my apartment building and press the button to open the gate. I'm waiting for the gate to open, helmet still on. I turn my head and spit.

Gross.

Just curious, anyone as stupid as me?

[He Man]

ive done that more than once. i do it in my sleep too. perhaps ill be dreaming that im chewing gum right when i wake up and decide to spit it out and actually spit lol

[Bun-bun]

I think we had a thread like this last year . . . Or maybe that was TOB.
Anyway, I'll take "Forgot to put the kickstand down for 200", Alex.

[somegirl]

I think we had a thread like this last year . . . Or maybe that was TOB.

Is this the one?  128 ways to drop your bike

[scduc]

How about putting the helmet on and getting half way home before realizing that you forgot to buckle it. And overcompensating when in turn and front wheel hits a rock.

[redxblack]

I have a feeling most of these posts will have SOMETHING to do with either the kill switch or the kick stand.

[alligator]

I hit the kill switch by accident once when making a tight turn in a parking lot.  Not on my current bike, but you can guess what the result was.  The bike stopped moving forward and gravity suddenly got a lot stronger.

[Goat_Herder]

At a grocery store partking, getting ready to leave.  Flipped the kickstand up but didn't realize it didn't go all the way up.  The kickstand came down on itself.  Anyway, this was what happened next.

1. turn key
2. start bike
3. shift to first
4. engine dies
5. go back to step 1 and repeat 5 times
6. end procedure; feeling like an IDIOT!

[Pink]

Does seem like a lot of kickstand/kill switch stuff. Haven't anything like that so far, but my kickstand sneers at me all the time "I'll catch you out someday!"

Edit: I have also tooted my horn at people instead of canceled my blinker on more than more occasion.

[MAXdB]

Not really a newbie thing but it is definitely a dumb thing: After having reverse shift on my 2 previous bikes, I decided to just keep the monster standard 1down/5 up. Rode the monster for a good 10k miles before changing it to reverse shift. First ride out, five minutes in, pull a second gear wheelie and click the gear shift lever up to change to third... but instead end up in first and come slamming down, bouncing off the limiter.. embarrassing and felt sorry for my monster 

[1313]

Commit to a turn or don't turn at all. I was riding down a street one afternoon and saw an alternate street I could turn on. I thought about the right turn for a sec and hessitated.  In the process I grabbed the front and rear brake too hard and also locked up the rear. I slid a bit ultimately missing the street all together. It scared me a bit. Either you turn when you are supposed to or don't do it. 

[blue tiger]

How about asking where the hell the rear seat was on my s$rs? I didn't know the seat cowl was removable as my dealer never mentioned it.

[hunduc]

Edit: I have also tooted my horn at people instead of canceled my blinker on more than more occasion.

I bet everyone did that at least once. 

[roggie]

How about putting the helmet on and getting half way home before realizing that you forgot to buckle it...

+1

and +1  on the horn tooting instead of the blinker cancel...

[psycledelic]

Not really a newbie thing but it is definitely a dumb thing: After having reverse shift on my 2 previous bikes, I decided to just keep the monster standard 1down/5 up. Rode the monster for a good 10k miles before changing it to reverse shift. First ride out, five minutes in, pull a second gear wheelie and click the gear shift lever up to change to third... but instead end up in first and come slamming down, bouncing off the limiter.. embarrassing and felt sorry for my monster 

Swapped my bike to a reverse shift pattern and tried to start off in 6th gear at 2 consecutive stoplights.  It is one thing to stall at a light, but to stall at a light and then have to go all the way through the gearbox to get started.  Pretty embarassing.