A couple ways to drop your bike...(got any more?) - Page 4

PlasticSun · 11-05-2005, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by JimVonBaden

How about forgetting to turn off the ABS on a muddy dirt road with Tourance tires?

Third lesson: "Get more agressive tires if you intend to ride in the mud!"

Jim

Learned that lesson here's me in a nice deeper-that-it-looks mud patch on my metzler Z6's

Loud Al · 11-05-2005, 11:08 PM

On a long ride on my ST1100 stop at a gas station to check my map. While reading the map both feet on the ground the bike falls over. Still don't know what happened. Had to unload all my camping gear inorder to pick it up.

Slice · 11-05-2005, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Wayne Weber

I carreen through my own garage door, sideways, breaking it in half.

Nice. But, as before, this has not happened until you supply photographic evidence of either a) you sliding, b) the bike sliding, or c) the door repair.

ownst1100 · 11-06-2005, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by kehale

Posted: 02
96. Oh, I remember another one... taking off fast into a turn with new-unscrubbed tires!
the track.

Or.................after getting a new rear tire installed and going down just 20 feet from turning left as you exit the dealership, your brother (service manager) and the entire shop watching as you go down. Your Honda ST1100 losing a mirror,mirror cover,and a LH bag cover. And the backside of your favorite riding pants.

DOD · 11-07-2005, 07:04 AM

Trying to snake around the front of my pickup to get into the garage. Damn those BMW bags are wide. Well attached too!!

Uncle Larry · 11-07-2005, 09:28 AM

When your beloved attempts to back the car out of the garage, catches the front bumper on the bike, and PULLS it down.

Good for removing the front bumper from a Nissan Maxima, too.

scfrank · 11-07-2005, 12:34 PM

Yep, it's on video too. Wasn't much of a hill, but the rut the rear wheel fell into turned me directly left and the wheelie over the bank into the tree was easy.

Don't know if this counts since the bike never actually fell over.

Joe Harris (tiger955) > Frank Smith, the proud DRZ picker

Jack Daniel · 11-07-2005, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by scfrank

Yep, it's on video too. Wasn't much of a hill, but the rut the rear wheel fell into turned me directly left and the wheelie over the bank into the tree was easy.

Don't know if this counts since the bike never actually fell over.

That's a pretty cool video too! You ought to put on here.

GuidoT · 11-08-2005, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by ownst1100

Or.................after getting a new rear tire installed and going down just 20 feet from turning left as you exit the dealership, your brother (service manager) and the entire shop watching as you go down. Your Honda ST1100 losing a mirror,mirror cover,and a LH bag cover. And the backside of your favorite riding pants.

I did the same on my Guzzi, after 100K miles and XX tyres, the first time I get a dealer to change the tyres I drop it turning onto the main road. Not much damage, cracked screen (why?), indicator popped off and some really rough, tough looking gouges on the rocker protector bars.

++ Guido

Skinner · 11-08-2005, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by JimVonBaden

How about forgetting to turn off the ABS on a muddy dirt road with Tourance tires?

Note the ABS skid marks!

Now that sucks, but it's pretty dam funny from here

KneeDragGirl · 11-08-2005, 09:46 PM

Wait, you guys missed one, bet you have not heard this before.
Girlfriend on her own bike, boyfriend on his following her. They come to a stop before making a right onto a major road. Boyfriend busy paying attention to car load of girls to the left. Boyfriend thinks girlfriend infront of him on her bike has already made the right hand turn....boyfriend attempts to make right hand turn without taking eyes off of car full of girls on left and rear ends back of girlfriends bike whom has not made the right hand turn yet due to traffic and knocks girlfriends bike over and girlfriend off of her bike. Moral to the story....boyfriend causes girlfriend to dump bike, girlfriend dumps boyfriend.

BMWBard · 11-08-2005, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by KneeDragGirl

Moral to the story....boyfriend causes girlfriend to dump bike, girlfriend dumps boyfriend.

Finally stopped laughing long enough to write somethin...well done! and welcome aboard, girl!

nofate · 11-09-2005, 09:28 AM

I brought my new KLR650 home in the back of my pickup truck because the roads in mid April were still partly ice covered. I couldn't wait to drive it and even though my 100 m diveway was ice rutted I figgured if I can make it to the road I could go for a nice first ride. I almost made it, but the bike just slipped out sideways from under me on the melting ice at walking speed. My wife, who disapproved of the bike purchase, was watching this of course. No damage other than to my pride.

The only other time I dropped it I was driving in some tall grass and came to a stop to access a hill and where I put my foot down was a hole that I could not see through the tall grass. Again, no bike damage, but a stick embedded itself in the palm of my hand when I landed. Ouch.

Mechanista · 11-09-2005, 04:21 PM

What memories this thread brings back!
Many I tried to forget, except this one time my brother and I were trying to get back home instead of getting a hotel. We pushed hard through a very hot day in Utah and now it was about midnight with an hour to go, getting very sleepy (stupid I know) and trying to keep up with my brothers street fighter modified CBX with my new Transalp. Suddenly his jacket that was bungeed to the back of his bike comes off and inflated in the wind, in my headlight it looked like his body flying through the air in front of me! Well I panicked of course and hiway 191 north of Moab didnt have squat for shoulders then, so I found myself diving off into the blackness to the right of the road. there was about a 3' drop into the sagebrush where I skidded to a highside.
My brother didn't come back looking for me for at least 10miutes before he realized that the road seemed darker for some reason, just in time for him to find me just getting the bike back up on the road.
Then I promptly dropped the bike again on the pavement 'cause I thought I had the kickstand down!

KneeDragGirl · 11-09-2005, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by BMWBard

Finally stopped laughing long enough to write somethin...well done! and welcome aboard, girl!

Hey there! Thanx for the warm welcome. Sometimes the true stories no matter how sad, are the funniest!

I have only just begun! This is going to be one kick ass adventure!

11-07-2005, 07:04 AM	#50
DOD idiot dirt rider Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix Oddometer: 1,917	GS has a big butt. Trying to snake around the front of my pickup to get into the garage. Damn those BMW bags are wide. Well attached too!!

11-07-2005, 09:28 AM	#51
Uncle Larry The most suave of stooges Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Fort Lauderdale Oddometer: 14,417	When your beloved attempts to back the car out of the garage, catches the front bumper on the bike, and PULLS it down. Good for removing the front bumper from a Nissan Maxima, too. __________________ *Manosphere*

11-07-2005, 12:34 PM	#52
scfrank I'm back - sort of. Joined: Oct 2005 Location: same as before Oddometer: 6,531	Taking a direct left and hanging the bike in a tree. Yep, it's on video too. Wasn't much of a hill, but the rut the rear wheel fell into turned me directly left and the wheelie over the bank into the tree was easy. Don't know if this counts since the bike never actually fell over.

11-08-2005, 09:46 PM	#56
KneeDragGirl Heather Bear Joined: Oct 2005 Location: Wherever the spinning globe stops Oddometer: 376	I got one..I got one!! Wait, you guys missed one, bet you have not heard this before. Girlfriend on her own bike, boyfriend on his following her. They come to a stop before making a right onto a major road. Boyfriend busy paying attention to car load of girls to the left. Boyfriend thinks girlfriend infront of him on her bike has already made the right hand turn....boyfriend attempts to make right hand turn without taking eyes off of car full of girls on left and rear ends back of girlfriends bike whom has not made the right hand turn yet due to traffic and knocks girlfriends bike over and girlfriend off of her bike. Moral to the story....boyfriend causes girlfriend to dump bike, girlfriend dumps boyfriend. __________________ Waiting for someone to say something worth quoting.

11-09-2005, 09:28 AM	#58
nofate what blackflies? Joined: Nov 2005 Location: Chapleau, ON Oddometer: 2,619	I brought my new KLR650 home in the back of my pickup truck because the roads in mid April were still partly ice covered. I couldn't wait to drive it and even though my 100 m diveway was ice rutted I figgured if I can make it to the road I could go for a nice first ride. I almost made it, but the bike just slipped out sideways from under me on the melting ice at walking speed. My wife, who disapproved of the bike purchase, was watching this of course. No damage other than to my pride. The only other time I dropped it I was driving in some tall grass and came to a stop to access a hill and where I put my foot down was a hole that I could not see through the tall grass. Again, no bike damage, but a stick embedded itself in the palm of my hand when I landed. Ouch. __________________ Rick, Chapleau, ON Triumph Scrambler 900 Honda Trail CT90 Flying with Rick float plane video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6my0FM9F_Q

11-05-2005, 11:08 PM	#47
Loud Al . Joined: Aug 2005 Location: Forest Grove, OR Oddometer: 3,617	On a long ride on my ST1100 stop at a gas station to check my map. While reading the map both feet on the ground the bike falls over. Still don't know what happened. Had to unload all my camping gear inorder to pick it up.

11-09-2005, 04:21 PM	#59
Mechanista manic depressive Joined: May 2004 Location: G.J. Colo. Oddometer: 368	Oh My God! What memories this thread brings back! Many I tried to forget, except this one time my brother and I were trying to get back home instead of getting a hotel. We pushed hard through a very hot day in Utah and now it was about midnight with an hour to go, getting very sleepy (stupid I know) and trying to keep up with my brothers street fighter modified CBX with my new Transalp. Suddenly his jacket that was bungeed to the back of his bike comes off and inflated in the wind, in my headlight it looked like his body flying through the air in front of me! Well I panicked of course and hiway 191 north of Moab didnt have squat for shoulders then, so I found myself diving off into the blackness to the right of the road. there was about a 3' drop into the sagebrush where I skidded to a highside. My brother didn't come back looking for me for at least 10miutes before he realized that the road seemed darker for some reason, just in time for him to find me just getting the bike back up on the road. Then I promptly dropped the bike again on the pavement 'cause I thought I had the kickstand down! __________________ My wife knew I was this way before she even married me!

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