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poppygene wrote:Good greif, Bob! It seems it just wasn't meant for that bike to have mirrors and signal lights!

i believe it was the Onan that had the bad karma,a week after replacing the air cleaner i took it to the lake to work on a boat and as i was sliding it down a tailgate on a 2x4 it got away and fell square on the new air cleaner assembly==it was totally destroyed again as was the automatic choke.

well here goes.....

My first drop happened on my first group ride. It was a 3 dam ride. I had only had my bike 2 months and wasn't taking the MFS class for another month. I had never rode with anyone before, but gramps said "i'll be right there if you need anything". Yeah right!!! Well he forgot to tell me at every intersection someone would block traffic so we all could get thru. (some 500 of us). So he blocked the traffic and I pulled over to the side of the road b/c i was having throttle problems. Well thats when it all happened!!!!

I pulled over to the side and had one foot one the pavement and one foot on gravel. Well I lost my footing. The bike started to tip but I couldn't keep it yp b/c of the gravel.. So I spread my legs apart and let it drop. I then TRIED to step to the other side...........I fell down the embankment into the ditch. While 400 bikers rode on past!!! Finally about 20 people stopped (all on Harleys) picked my bike up for me and checked out my wrist. Which was about twice its size. And then someone offered to take my bike if needed.
I really did have a throttle problem... The casing broke where the screws are. The whole assembly was slipping

Well, my first drop(or should I say set-down) was yesterday. I pulled in my driveway coming home from work. I'm not sure if my brain was numb(the temp was about 35*F--welcome to Wisconsin) or if I was just in a hurry to get inside and see if my new windscreen had arrived. As I was leaning it over on the sidestand I remembered a little too late that the sidestand was not in fact in the down position. Unfortunately I remembered this a little too late. I tried to keep the bike from laying down and thought on two different occasions that I might succeed but in the end, I did end up setting the thing down on the left side ever so gently but it did still put a little scrape in the engine case. That seems to be the only point that contacted the ground though. Thankfully no one was watching that I saw.

Since everyone else is sharing.... I dropped my bike the first day I got it. It was really pretty stupid. I had just found out that the bike had a center stand and I was sitting on the bike fighting to get it up on the stand with no luck. So I thought maybe if I stand along side of the bike and put all my weight on the stand I could get it up. Well sure enough as I was pulling and bouncing up and down I stepped off of the stand and bike started to go over and there was nothing I could do. Didn't do any damage, but I learned never move or do anything like that with the bike unless I have one leg on each side. Part of my difficulty was due to the garage floor being rather smooth and the center stand was just sliding. I still can't easily get the bike up on the stand by my self.

i dont think your supposed to try to put a bike on the center stand while sitting on it. but rather being on the left side just as you were. only keep preasure on the center stand at all times so it won tip over.

i tried a few times to get my katana on the center stand but couldnt so i gave up before i dropped it.

sappsTTer wrote:Since everyone else is sharing.... I dropped my bike the first day I got it. It was really pretty stupid. I had just found out that the bike had a center stand and I was sitting on the bike fighting to get it up on the stand with no luck. So I thought maybe if I stand along side of the bike and put all my weight on the stand I could get it up. Well sure enough as I was pulling and bouncing up and down I stepped off of the stand and bike started to go over and there was nothing I could do. Didn't do any damage, but I learned never move or do anything like that with the bike unless I have one leg on each side. Part of my difficulty was due to the garage floor being rather smooth and the center stand was just sliding. I still can't easily get the bike up on the stand by my self.

I stopped for gas at a self service station. I got off, and it was only as the bike and I were falling uncontrolably to the left did it dawn on me that possibly I should have put the kick stand down before dismounting. However the gas pump did prevent me and the bike from becoming horizontal on the pavement. There were other patrons at the station but if any noticed my difficulty, they were polite enough not to laugh. I filled my tank and paid, all the while pretending that I had done nothing so stupid.

After a month of looking at my bike sit in the garage, I just could'nt take it any longer and decided to take her out for a quick spin. In hind sight it was pretty stupid considering had never ridden and I chose a goldwing for my first bike. I had been riding a grand total of 10 minutes when I did'nt make a curve. I made it through a ditch narrowly missing a fence and slid about 30 feet through someones yard. Luckily the yard was muddy and I came thhrough with just a badly sprained ankle, and no real damage to the bike.

I got my first bike last Friday night. I put it down Saturday I had moved it out onto an old foundation at the end of my drive way to give it a wash. I had only ridden it from the drive to behind my house and from the house back down to the driveway. The sidestand on it goes down to a point where it *seems* down but you still need to give it a little extra to get it all the way down. Well I didn't give it that little extra and as I hoisted my leg over the bike to step off, the sidestand slid back under the weight and there I was hopping on one leg with my hands on the handle bars trying to save her. I didn't. Luckily it has a crash bar so and there was no major damage. Crash bar has some nice scratches in it now, the left mirror is a little scratched. The worst was my left rear turn signal, the whole thing being plastic, had a chunk on the back edge banged in. I'll have to replace that sometime I guess. Have duct tape over it now. Glad I bought a used one.

Tom

Taking off making a downhill right turn from a stop-sign on a sidehill, my bike stalled hard (electrical problem, since fixed), jamming my crotch into the tank. I got my left foot down but whiffed with the right due to the slope and curve. The bike tilted, then jacknifed. Hop, hop, hop, jump.

I stood there singing expletive karaoke for a few seconds, then wrenched the bike up (reverse-deadlift method), got it restarted (a little farther down the hill), and went on my way.

No real damage to anything but my ego. It had all transpired in slo-mo, and the bike had been dropped on that side before I'd bought it, so I scratched the old scratches. Which was the whole point of getting an older bike, right?

Came home late one night, two cars in the driveway, both usually parked had parked as far over to one side as possible so that I can put my bike in the garage (driveway is right beside the brick wall of the house).

Not tonight.

Tried to drive her in -- can't get the angles to maneouver into the garage. Solution: Hop off the bike, neutral and walk it in (used to be skinny enough to pull this off). Got her in the garage, but at the end, my hands are on the bars, my legs toward the rear right of the bike, my torso reaching over it. I lose my left hand's grip, and with one hand only, that grip now starts slipping. I watch as it starts to dip to the left, trying to maintain the hold I have, and drop her.

Superficial damage only.

God I was a tool that night -- too lazy to go in, grab the keys and move the damn cars!

Never dropped it on the road, though; but I'm sure it's coming. . .