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TechBMW wrote:

Dennis27 wrote:Haven't dumped any motorcycles yet... but I did dump a scooter with my gf and I at the beach two years ago... turning around at a boat slip... loose gravel.. little tiny tires on the scooter..you get the point.

O Man this happened to me once ... Honda c70 scooter ... coming from 20mph to a stop in a crowded parking lot, the front hit a patch of sand and locked up started skidding ou t of control, so me being young and stupid decide "It's only a scooter, I can stop it w/ my feet ..."

So I drop my sneakered feet to the deck, and the asphalt grabs the rubber of the left shoe, bending it back (mind i'm still traveling at ~15mph) breaking my big toe and pulling my butt off the seat of the bike ... but i'm still holding on to the handlebars for dear life cuz I don't want to drop the bike.

So ... picture this. You're standing around a parking lot when all of a sudden this dude laying belly down on a wobbling, skidding baby blue scooter with his feet dragging behind him blasts by you....

LMAO.... I could totally see it happening. Thats hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've dropped mine moving once and standing once. Once when I was finishing tuning it after assembling it I was trying to find the optimum idle setting and had it turned up too much, so when I went to test it out in my parking lot I let the clutch out (a little unexpectedly) and without any throttle input I was gaining speed a lot faster than I thought I would be .Aimed squarely at the rear quarter of my car panic took over, and I discovered first hand just how much steering input and front break don't get along. Later that day I stepped off it at a starbucks before putting the kickstand down and just after I had filled the tank for the first time (CG's a lot differnt with a full tank ) tilted her away from me bit too much and down she went in slow motion as she took me with her. Unluckily there were a couple of harley guys there to help me out.

I did the same thing in my driveway. I felt like such a dork.
Ok well I have done it twice. Go ahead, laugh at me. I am on my second clutch lever. Yikes. First time was when I first started riding. I was getting ready to park, handle bars turned to the left and moving way to slow, so the bike tipped over and my sis was right behind me, she has been riding as long as I have, and the funniest thing..... She tipped right over right after I did. It was dominoe affect. It was the funniest thing you could ever see. We were both cracking up and then... as she is still stuck under her bike, people were stopping to ask if we are ok, and I am standing there saying... "WE are ok". Too funny. Then the second one was
on the driveway.

I lowsided my RZ500. Cold tyres, too much enthusiasm and next thing I was on my arse. I just belted the bar back into place and rode home rather red-faced.

Mine was about a month ago. I was sitting still at a stop sign in a parking lot. I wasn't even thinking about moving yet and then noticed the bike was leaing against my left leg and it was too far gone for me to wrestle it back up. I have no idea what I did.

Fortunetely, my friends who were still at work didn't notice, and no one else was around.

My only moving drop was with my VTR250 while being push started by some nice guy I didn't know. I realized we were heading for a truck in the parking lot and couldn't decide if I wanted to turn or brake, and ended up doing both. Add a little gravel, and you have a bike on it's side.

After reading your experiences, I have to put in mine. The first bike drop for me was many years ago (can we say 40). I had an old 1956 model Cushman Eagle scooter which I had been riding for a couple of months. Being Y & D (young and dumb) and possessing the usual teenage attitude of immortality, I thought I was a real hot shoe. I was soon to enter the schooling of "hard knocks".

I was turning left at a corner and hit a very small patch of sand and the next thing I knew is I was seeing "stars, moons and old Popeye cartoons". I had augered in hard to say the least. Both knees and left elbow were painfully covered in "road rash". Took over a month to heal up. The damage to the Cushman was minimal and was repaired in 10 minutes with some sandpaper and a little black spray paint and replacing the left handlebar grip. I learned a valuable lesson that day the hard way, but I have never forgotten it.

nsr 125 trying to outbrake my friend who races an rgv250...

it was on a track, went 60mph into the corner and it just went... oops... lucky i had my old plastics on the bike at the time...(that was 3 weeks ago)

hoping i dont dump my new GSX-R though

I was coming to a stop at a toll booth on the good ole Garden State parkway in New Jersey. A vehicle had dumped some fresh oil or tramsmission fluild a couple of vehicles ahead of me. I was slowed to about 5 mph and gave it some back brake, well that slid that rear tire right out from under me. No damage to me or the bike 84 MotoGuzzi. Another biker on a Harley saw this happen and stopped and helped me pick the bike up. This happened about 2 miles from my home and I was returning from a rally in upstate New York, must have put on about 600 miles tthat weekend.

I bought an '02 used F4i. I bought the bike and I'd literally never even sat on a motorcycle or even a dirtbike before, not even as a passenger. One could say I was new to the sport. Anyway, I got on it and was like damn, this thing is the easiest thing in the world to drive, I'm hot "poo poo". Anyway, about a month later I was showing off in the parking lot of a theater trying to do a wheelie. Got going WAY too fast, noticed the end of the lot was coming up fast so I panicked and hit the front brake just a touch harder than the back brake. In an excellent display of how not to do an endo, I went up and over the right side. Slide along the pavement about 30ft and about 15ft up a grass embankment. (Like I said, WAY too fast) A few spectators, but the accident was bad enough I wasn't concerned with being embarassed. There's a pic of the results of the accident in my sig.

Another time I was in a Walmart parking lot going down the lanes looking for a spot to park. I saw one just as I came up to it. I was a little too far past the spot to ride right into it so I stopped and turned all the way to the right. Just as I started going the thing just tipped over to the right on me. I got it up myself and there were a couple people that were too far away to actually say something so there was no one laughing at me thankfully. The security guy watching it all on video probably got a good chuckle out of it.