I. Am. An. Unbelievable. Moron.
I keep my nearly brand new XSR900 in a locked garage, secured to a pragmasis ground anchor with a hiplok DXXL along with a disc lock at the front. The hiplok is hung over the swing arm and is left on the garage floor ready to lock when I come home, the disc lock comes with me.
My routine is unlock garage, remove disc lock, remove hiplok, earplugs in, helmet one, gloves and go.
Yesterday I had to stop at a garden centre for some silly bollocks I was ordered to pick up, I get off the bike, whiz the disc lock on and march into said garden centre. It's one of those horrendous one-way system garden centre's and was absolutely jammed up with old people randomly stopping, dawdling and generally getting in the way. The experience was put me in a bad mood. Finally I make the exit, empty handed because they didn't even have the silly bollocks I was sent to get.
I return to my bike.
I look once, I look twice. What do I see?
The fucking shackle from the hiplok hanging from the swing arm!!!
Somehow I had managed to ride 12 miles down dual carriageways and twisty country lanes with the hiplok dangling from the swing arm. How it didn't end up in the spokes and throwing me into oncoming traffic I'll never know!
The bike is okay, some cosmetic damage to the paintwork on the rim which is annoying, there's are great big friction burn in the lock coating where the brake disc basically melted it away but it's still good.
I e heard of people riding off with disc locks still on, but I don't know quite how dumb you have to be to ride off with a massive shackle attached to your swing arm.
Please either tell me I'm a massive bellend or regale me with stories of your own staggering instances of stupidity! Both will make me feel better about having to get my rim repainted!