whose dropped their rides?

once in 92 , i had a kr1s , stopped at the road side .waiting with mates for a slower rider to catch up, i knocked the side stand down, and just kind of lent it over and felt the ground touch the stand foot, didn't look down, if i had i would have seen the drain cover , as swung my leg over, the bike moved a little the stand went down the grid, me with my leg in the air had no chance ! , it fell on me pinning me to the ground by both legs, laughing my head off, mates came over and had lift if up off me. i just couldn't move , i'd given it a soft landing though
 
put my foot down when pulling up to a red light on my then brand new KZ900, foot slipped on fluid, bike went down. Adrenaline had me picking that thing up like it weighed a lot less than it did....amazingly, no damage.
 
Hate dropping bikes, have managed to keep most of mine upright so far!

Latest incident was with my 1988 CBR1000f, after taking it for the first ride since I got it through some riding roads close to home and such. I needed to turn around to come back so did a U-turn on a straight piece of road. Its nimbleness through the twisties belied its 250kg/550lb weight, and the narrow steering lock didn't help... I cushioned her as she went down. Damn! Only damage were slight scrapes to one side fairing.

Lesson learnt hey?

- boingk
 
Shortly after I first restored my bike and everything was stock on it I saw a girl that I was trying to impress sitting up on the picnick tables at our local park. Me trying to be a big bad biker trying to impress her rode my bike up through the park and was going to drive up next to her and park under the shelter by the tables. AND well needless to say I was going a little too fast grabbed the front brake a little too hard on some wet grass and next thing you know the art of impressing her as a biker turned into her having to play nurse lol but in the end we still wound up going out.
 
Never dropped my CBR600RR (thank god!) but I dropped my XS650 twice shortly after I got it. Kickstarting it at a stop sign and lost balance, and though I put the kickstand down... DOH!
 
In the mid-eighties I stopped in front of a bar on a Norton I had to talk to some friends standing in front.

I let the bike lean over and the stand was not down but luckily kept my hands on the bars and eased it to the ground then quickly picked it back up. The funny part was my friends would not let me ride off as they thought this happened because I had been drinking while riding, which was certainly not the case. Good friends though to keep an eye on me....

I also rode off once without putting the stand up, nothing happened though as I knew what it was right off the instant it kissed the road and I kicked it back where it belonged.
 
It's funny I read this one today. On my way in to work this morning, about a block from my house, I turned my head just as a lady was getting off her Harley (not sure what she was riding, wasn't a Sporty though) and watched as she dumped it over. I hopped out and ran over to her to make sure she wasn't pinned under it, but she was okay, just embarrassed. We picked it up (she had parked parallel with the street) and she checked her kickstand and promptly dumped it over again. The second time it broke the grip, mirror, and turn signal. I felt bad for her, but also learned a very important lesson about parking on the street, haha. She apparently decided after that she didn't want to park it, fired it up and rode off. That's gonna be an expensive bill at the MoCo.

So far I've only dropped mine once; not on purpose, haha. I had been riding almost a whole month at that point, and had not experienced turning around in a gravel driveway yet. Well, needless to say we went over. Didn't do much, but make me feel dumb. I gained a new found respect for gravel after that day.
 
Working on the Cherry new 400F this week. Had it on a jack stand. Was trying to swap out forks. Torqued a bolt a little too hard, and it came right off of the stand and fell on me.

No damage to bike, but I am still sore. Ha.
 
JustinLonghorn said:
Working on the Cherry new 400F this week. Had it on a jack stand. Was trying to swap out forks. Torqued a bolt a little too hard, and it came right off of the stand and fell on me.

No damage to bike, but I am still sore. Ha.
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Thank god the bike didn't get damaged! ;D
 
Years ago (in my young and stupid years) some friends of mine were teaching a bike maintenance course and a female friend of hours had signed up for that course. This was a course where you got to bring your back and work on it. I helped my friend move her bike in to the warehouse where classes took place, and as I'm putting her bike in place notice some very attractive women who are also in the course. So I get off my friends bike but am so distracted by beauty that i entirely forget about putting down the side stand and just walk away from the bike like some drunk rider who somehow made it home from the bar. As I'm walking away I hear a crunch and realize what I have done. Major embarassment ensues and I sure didn't have the nerve to approach the women after that. However, turn signal replacement did get to get demonstrated the next week in class.
 
Thought of another one. Myself and two friends had rode to a restaurant for dinner on a very hot Minneapolis summer evening. We're sitting and enjoying our food when an old timer walks up to us and asks, "Do you boys have the motor sickles outside?" "Yep." "Well the 'Moto Gootsie' is on its side." We head out to survey and the parking lot black top has essentially melted under the side stand and the bike had taken a slow plunge down, lucky no damage and the Guzzi had been on the outside in the direction it fell. Ever since then I have carried a 2" x 2" thin plank of wood in my leather jacket pocket for those steamy days.
 
RadioPaul said:
Thought of another one. Myself and two friends had rode to a restaurant for dinner on a very hot Minneapolis summer evening. We're sitting and enjoying our food when an old timer walks up to us and asks, "Do you boys have the motor sickles outside?" "Yep." "Well the 'Moto Gootsie' is on its side." We head out to survey and the parking lot black top has essentially melted under the side stand and the bike had taken a slow plunge down, lucky no damage and the Guzzi had been on the outside in the direction it fell. Ever since then I have carried a 2" x 2" thin plank of wood in my leather jacket pocket for those steamy days.
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I've never had this happen (yet) but having a big old pig of a bike, I'm sure it would. I normally have to throw a crushed can under the kickstand or something.
 
Haven't dropped either of mine (or any bike for that matter) YET. I stress the word yet, because I feel like it's an inevitability. It's only pure luck that's managed to get me this far. When I first got my DOHC CB750, I had a hell of a time getting it up on the center stand. How I didn't drop it back then is beyond me.
 
the crushed can definitely works, but you don't always have one handy. I used to work at a surplus store and we got in this box of these 2 x 2 pieces of wood and as I said it has been a fixture in my leather ever since. Sold a lot of those to other riders as well, as four of us who worked there rode.
 
Getting off my cb175 after the Steel City Rockers v. Mods Saturday I thought I put my kickstand down - but I didn't. Bike fell over and landed on me. Great thing about these little bikes - didn't crush me and no damage to the ride.
 
Messing with badly clogged fuel filter on side of road. Kickstand not quite all the way down. Shit! Scarred up stator cover,At least the clubmans/barends wern't on bike yet.
 
ive dropped mine on me while i was working on it, twice now i think luckily its a little 125 didnt hurt and wasnt hard to get out from it.
my brother also knocked it over onto a bunch of tools... fresh coat of paint ruined!
 
and ive dropped my mopeds millions of times (they have shitty center stands that roll forward all the time. broke the clubmans i had on my puch, sad sad day lol
 
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