Dropping or dumping your bike

[jstark47]

1. In 2004, practicing emergency braking on the Reflex scooter we used to have. Locked up the rear wheel and lowsided. Some fairing scuffs and a bruised leg where the bike came down on top of me. No mechanical damage, picked up the bike and went back to practicing. Gotta love Hondas, built like tanks!
2. Second day I had the Bonneville in 2005, trying to do a low speed 270 degree turn in front of my house. Target fixated on the curb, bailed out of the turn while the bike was still leaned. Caught the bike just as the left pipe kissed the pavement, didn't leave a mark.

Since then nothing really, though I've had to put a foot down at low speed a few times (wet leaves, gravel, etc.)

[Wrider]

I dropped mine 10 min. into my 1st ride. While taking a relatively low speed right hand turn, I decided I needed to slow down a bit more and grabbed a handful of front brake. The bike tossed me right off.

Well no wonder your S/N is flynrider!
Wrider

[roscowgo]

Rolled my katana out of a shed after putting a new rear tire on. Didnt make sure the sidestand was all the way down.

Thunk.

popped the glass from the left mirror out..... i wound up cracking it trying to put it back in.

new c50.. not yet.

[tanitatt]

The first time I dropped my bike I came to a stop sign and forgot to put my feet down in time ... yeah ... pretty stupid ... but it happens. The second time I dropped my bike I was practicing max braking from 60mph and locked up my fronts. The third and final time I dropped my bike was practicing turns at speed and got scared going into one too fast and did what everyone says not to ... brake in a turn, ended up low siding at 35 mph ... good thing I was wearing my gear. All of this was definatly not in a parking lot.

Thomas

[KarateChick]

Alright.

MSF bikes:
1. Never had been around a bike before so it was like "holy crap this thing is heavy!" so while pushing and walking beside it in a turn on the first day and whoops, tipover to the left.
2. Fixated on the chain link fence during a slow turn on the course and that Yammie TT had one heck of a touchy throttle - pow, right into that fence just like being caught in a net. Very funny now that I look back.

One of my bikes:
1. Slow speed u-turn on a dirt road, lost confidence in the bike & my turning skills distracted by the narrowness of the road and Looked Down! (bad!) and tipped to the left.
2. Parked bike, kickstand down in major mud (like about 2-3 inches) and when I moved away from it, the dang thing tipped over to the right, away! from me!

Saves:
Well, I've had a few where I was like "no damn way is this bike gonna DO THIS to me here!!" For me, these were during a slow speed manouvre or during stopping (I'm on my toes on the bike and the pavement was uneven at a stop and I couldn't move anywhere)

Moral: think twice before riding with me!

[Dragonhawk]

When have you done it? What exactly what were you doing?

Does it happen mostly stopping? Turns? What?

First Drop:
Forgot to unlock the handlebars as I was duckwalking out of my parking space.

Second Drop:
Damn front disc lock! Who put that thing there!? ... Oh. Yeah. I did.

Third Drop:
Tight u-turn ... on a VERY steep mountain road ... with a REALLY hot 24 year old model as my passenger ... (ahem) Yeah, she stopped calling.

Hmmmm...

I think that's all of them so far.

I'm sure there will be more eventually.

Oh! By the way - forget the whole "while learning" caveat. I'd been riding about 2.5 years by the time I did my third drop.

[intotherain]

only time ive dumped it is when I tried to jump on the bike jumping over the windshield 6 months ago... It seems like the greater the power = more dumps. Since you have a friendly bike, I think you will never dump your bike while learning or you will drop it once or twice maybe doing a slow speed turn or backing up.

[intotherain]

only time ive dumped it is when I tried to jump on the bike jumping over the windshield 6 months ago... It seems like the greater the power = more dumps. Since you have a friendly bike, I think you will never dump your bike while learning or you will drop it once or twice maybe doing a slow speed turn or backing up.

[avoidalliteration]

The one time I dropped it was a combination of wet grass and bad judgment on my part.

I was at a barn party where the "parking lot" was just a field. We're leaving at 2 in the morning and the grass is wet from the dew/fog that rolled in. I warm the bike up, get on and start heading up to the dirt road and instead of making a wide turn like I should have, I try for a close to 90 degree turn. Wheels don't agree and I lose traction. Happens so fast I actually end up standing upright while the bike slides out to the right. No major damage, but broke my left turn signal off, which actually gave me the excuse to go and buy the flush mounts I wanted =)

[RideYourRide]

only time ive dumped it is when I tried to jump on the bike jumping over the windshield 6 months ago... It seems like the greater the power = more dumps. Since you have a friendly bike, I think you will never dump your bike while learning or you will drop it once or twice maybe doing a slow speed turn or backing up.

I think weight is probably more of a factor then power.