well..its only a bike FOR GAWDS SAKE!!!!

(says the dropping queen, who has stopped crying now after the fifth drop!!!):P

lol very true Lisa just at the time you do feel like crying :lol::lol:

Still it does work still just cosmetics:bouncy::bouncy:

Lee,, I did it the other way around, Forgot to put my stand up, 200yards 80mph, written of 916 and a very sore boy...
Cured my problem now ,race bikes dont have side stands.
Glyn

lol Scooter! These new fandangled ducatis have switch that stop u doing what u did, i wish they had one that sense u not put down stand to:o:o:lol::lol:

Got the kick start lever of my Bonneville stuck up the leg of my flared jeans back in the dark ages and arriving at the lights, found I couldn't get my foot down cos of this bloody lever up my trouser leg. By that time had already committed to leaning that way, and just sort of toppled over.

Can I have the veteran Muppet badge? :sing:

You should have seen what Santa did with his sleigh last year!:o

Lee

Picture the scene many years ago....Going to work on my old GS1000 fitted with twin headlamp endurance racing fairing and clip ons. Wind is blowing a gale ..literally . Stop at junction and before I can get me foot down the wind blows me and bike over.

I drag meself from under it and pick it upright while leaning it into the gale....wind drops and the bike now falls the other way with me on top.

Broken fairing...both sides
Dented tank.....both sides
Dented pride....inside

I can laugh about it now...honest

Phil

I came home on a dark wet night, backed my ST onto the sloping pathway next to my barn, got off the bike and started to pull it up onto the centre stand. It usually comes up pretty easily because as I'm pulling the bike up onto it's stand the gravity of the slope helps.

This time, the wet sole of my boot slipped off the centre stand just before it came up over centre. I was only holding the left handlebar and the little grab handle that ST's have to get them on their stand, so the bike got away from me, ran backwards down the slope, down a couple of steps and fell over onto a load of rubble from a wall I'd just demolished.

Yeti, Kirsty and I just wet our pants laughing at that, We can imagine it happening....Class
glyn