whose dropped their rides?

foundation982

foundation982

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so I'm face palming at myself pretty hard this morning, I went to set my CL350 on the sidestand, but it wasn't down. stupid me dropped it on its side I can't describe how dumb I felt, probably the stupidest thing I'll do this year.

But thank god its still in the beater stage and there really was no cosmetic damage

anyone else got some dropped bike/crash damage stories?
 
Almost did the same thing to my 360 last year. Got off the bike and rested it on the side stand except the side stand wasn't down. Nearly dropped it. I saved the bike, but killed my back.
 
I was putting in my engine and I was on the kickstand side and my momentum went to the wrong side of the bike and I very slowly dropped the bike, it felt like forever, I was trying so hard not to drop it but the engine wasn't bolt in and I had no choice. Luckly I just scratched the engine a little and slightly bent one of the fins. And there wasn't any polished aluminum. ;D
 
I was removing the rear shocks and was prepared for the bike to tilt to the right, but obviously not prepared enough. I grabbed the frame and in the process gouged a chunk of skin off my thumb. Luckily the bike didn't fall and I didn't realize I was bleeding at first... couldn't feel any pain.
 
I rolled my XS1100 into the garage. When I started the kickstand was down, and I didn't notice it got caught by the lip of the concrete sslab and went up. So I went to lean her onto a kickstand that wasn't there...

Luckily she went over slow and easy, no damage except to my pride.
 
Fix said:
I rolled my XS1100 into the garage. When I started the kickstand was down, and I didn't notice it got caught by the lip of the concrete sslab and went up. So I went to lean her onto a kickstand that wasn't there...

Luckily she went over slow and easy, no damage except to my pride.
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HAHA yep thats exactly what happened to me I felt like a complete dumbass
 
My cafe has a nice dent and a (repaired) chip in the paint from when I dropped it...
Had it on the sidestand on a then gravel driveway, ran into the house quickly to grab my gloves and when I came out she was on her side in the grass.
 
pulled up to the post office on my XS650 and promply stepped off it, dropping it to the ground. Dented a day old muffler and bent the headlight bracket. I was so red in the face it wasnt funny.
 
I think a shorter list would be who hasn't dropped a bike ;)

I posted this in another (similar) thread...

Redbird said:
I remember, years ago, I was on my CB900F. I was leaving a friends house and idling down the driveway. When I got to the street and started to go down the curb, I saw a car approaching. I smoothly came to a stop, with the front wheel in the street, the back wheel still on the driveway, and me centered over the void at the curb... frantically trying to reach the the ground with my foot.
My friend said I stretched out twice with my foot, but hit nothing. Then me and the bike teetered over and hit the ground. Over with in two seconds. He said I made a noise that sounded like a hiccup.
However, in my head it was all in slow motion. I had more of a "Wile E. Coyote after he's run off a cliff and realizes the ground is missing" kind of experience. I remember "toe'ing" for the ground several times and thinking WTF?! And then the reality started to sink in and I remember saying "AW Fuuuuuuuuck" all the way to the ground.

We still laugh about that :D
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The first time I got me 360 running I didn't have the throttle cables adjusted right, pulled out of the driveway into apartment parking lot, closed the throttle... but it didn't close. I apparently panicked and about 5 feet later and veering to the left she was on the ground, put a nice gash in the pavement, and skinned me up just a little. I was just glad I didn't hit any of the cars nearby.


A day or so later I took it to a nearby Starbucks, before I was off two guys were walking up apparently intrigued by my weird machine. As soon as I stepped off I lost it and set it right down. Embarrassing.


Also lost my Monster once like that on a really nasty crooked broken up driveway at a place where a local guy rebuilds and customizes Unimogs (Driveway was perfect for those) The guy had just given me a tour of his place and was finishing washing his car right next to me... He pretended not to notice me dropping my bike, I think he was embarrassed for me :)
 
I have dropped min ea few times, usually in the shed trying to move it around. and I have almost dropped it in my gravel driveway when the stand sinks to far in the gravel I have learned to keep a piece of ply on the ground where I park it most to keep that from happening now.
 
I recently assembled my bike on a little platform (cooler). After I had it together I realized I had to take the back wheel off to correct something in the rear brake panel. My dad was holding it still when I pulled the rear axle out. Apparently I had put some more stuff on the front since putting the back wheel on and it tipped forward. My dad caught it but then it tipped sideways and fell on my dad. Luckily he was unhurt and the only damage to the bike was a bent brake stay.

Later after getting the bike running I took it to my local vintage bike shop to get an o-ring. The owner came out to check out my handy-work. I went to start it up and the bike jumped forward about two feet. I had forgot to put it in neutral. Since I wasn't sitting on it, I couldn't hold it up and it fell over. The only damage was a bent shift lever and a wounded pride.
 
Last year, trying to push-start it while I was on it. I went down into 1st rather than up into 2nd. It didn't fire up in 1st & halted abruptly. I lost my balance and she tipped right over. I might've been able to keep her upright if my back was stronger but I had a spinal fusion 2yrs ago. I felt like a total dumb@$$. No real damage other than pride. Luckily, this was pre- bar end mirrors.
 
Funny you bring this up. Just this past Friday, rolled up in front of the garage on my 850, flipped the sidestand down and started leaning... Only problem was the sidestand slipped off my heal before extending fully and sprang back up. This normally would have just been a minor annoyance, but I was closer to the driveway drain so my leg was lower and I couldn't stop the lean. It was a slow, painful fall but thankfully my leg, foot and tail trunk took all the damage. Thank god for steel toe boots! :p
 
Even better then my last post.

When I was 16 I had a 81GS650G that I used for a field bike. In the fall I decided to take her for one last rip around the property before wintr storage. Unfortunatly I forgot that there was electric fence seperating the field in half. I saw the wire at the last minute while going about 60-70kph, tried to stop, dumped it and went flying. To my friend Danny (rip) it looked like I came flying out the side of the barn and cartwheled across the field with the bike in hot pursuit.

He ran over, picked up my bike and promptly dragged the electric fence across my twisted and twitching body. It didnt help.

Moral of the story? Dont forget when a farmer puts fencing across your property, and 600lbs streetbikes make piss poor dirtbikes (at least without knobby tires).
 
There are those who have, me included (more times than I could tell but then I have 45 years of practice) and those who have yet to drop theirs.
 
A couple of weeks ago I was on my way to a car show and a chick got off an older Honda 250... As I was walking buy I stopped and said "Hey, Nice bike" and she promptly dropped it on its side.
Picked the bike up for her and said "It's still a nice bike." LoL
 
Ease said:
A couple of weeks ago I was on my way to a car show and a chick got off an older Honda 250... As I was walking buy I stopped and said "Hey, Nice bike" and she promptly dropped it on its side.
Picked the bike up for her and said "It's still a nice bike." LoL
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More importantly was the rider nice and did you "pick" her up after ;D
 
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