A man walks into a Harley-Dealer. He buys a new FXDB Street Rod. He mentions that he is signed up for the Rider’s Edge New Rider Training in a couple of weeks, but he wants to ride his bike home before taking the class. After a 60 second introduction to the bike, he takes off. The bike is cold. If you’ve ever ridden a new H-D, you KNOW how much they pop and spit right off idle. It’s spitting and popping, and wanting to die. So, the guy revs it up - to 5 grand - and dumps the clutch.

The bike takes off across the parking lot, with the guy aboard trying to gain control. He goes about 80 feet in first gear. He’s headed straight for a bunch of parked bikes, a fence, a curb, a brick post and a guardrail. He grabs the brake, and simultaneously opens the throttle wider.

He hit the curb going about 20 MPH (best guess), and narrowly missed the post on the right, but hit the back end of a bike (not shown) that was parked where the bike with the flags is in this picture.

The forward momentum and hitting the curb caused the front end of the motorcycle to raise up and land on top of the guard rail (shown), denting the guard rail with his frame.

Thankfully, the new owner was not seriously injured, suffering just a bruise and a cut finger. The bike was not so lucky.

Word has it that he completed the New Rider Training soon after……