Who\'s ever dropped one?
 

According to the laws of physics any two wheeled vehicle will fall over without some form of assistance....
Since we are bipeds we rely on balance which laughs in the face of physics...This is a very complex action....
People fall over all the time. Be it through alcohol or imbalance in the fluid of the ear.
Since this is such a complex action AND adding 150 KG (roughly of weight) which WANTS to fall over...
Is it any surprise that people drop their bike whilst stationary or at low speed manoeuvres.
Although the bike may have fallen over albeit by natural causes...WHO amongst you has been present when your bike has thus fallen over?

In my teens I had a habbit of digging the non folding pegs on my RD350 aircooled into the ground on roundabouts, once or twice this resulted in the rear wheel leaving the ground and then me crashing.

I've had 4 accidents in my time, two of them were my fault, the worst being when a car did a u-turn in front of me. One very broken Z1000 and one not-so broken TP. Actually, that one hurt quite a lot (steel fuel tank - I went over the bars ... I'm sure you can figure out the rest, although I've had kids since so they still work!)

I've had numerous times when I've thought I was gone and somehow not come off, coming around a blind corner in the National Park in Sydney at a good pace (on a 250 trying to catch up to a guy on a Daytona 1200) and came across some sand on the apex. Ended up with no hands on the handlebars, feet off the footpegs and my chest on the tank - ran straight across the road, lucky no cars were coming, and on to the dirt on the other side weaving around until I slid off the tank and managed to grab the handlebars and the front brake and slow myself down. On the other side of the dirt I ended up in was a bunch of tree's then a drop :o I was 18 and in the Army at the time, therefore clearly immortal :frog:

[Edited on 30-5-2004 by tp-996]

Thanks skidlids for being honest...Did you know that most good bikers DO NOT drop their bikes....

I would say that losing traction is not DROPPING it...Nuff respect for those that have...

Mine normally falls over when I am sitting on it, since my feet dont touch the floor:o:lol:

Hey KB.... You forgot the most common reason in your poll subjects for why people drop their bikes..



Forgetting to take your disc lock off !!

( yes I have done it ... twice in one go before I clicked what the problem was ! )

Well, ... I've never dropped any of them then .... :P

Does that make me good?

My brother-in-law dropped my 250 because he left the disc lock on. Broke the clutch lever and scratched the magneto cover. I usually leave one of those flourescent wires that go on to the handle bars to remind u that it's on.

Handy ...

No Tony...That makes you SUPERMAN or...having stabilizers!
AND I didn't see your Red pants over your leathers on Saturday!!!:lol::P;)

[Edited on 30-5-2004 by kwikbitch]

They were my non-kinky leathers!

when I did a lot of off roading I use to drop the bike a fair bit, hitting wet clay at speed was asking for it, also had the front wheel of my CR250 disapear down a two foot deep hole once throwing me over the bars.
Does doing stand up wheelies on the passanger pegs and then flipping it count as dropping it as it felt more like throwing it away.

Low speed crashes...........!
How about shiny,unscrubbed 207RR's?!?:mad:
Disc lock left on?(Not me,but another member with a shiny new 749.;) )
Sidestand sinking into soft ground.(Had this happen twice,not really a crash,I know)
Mrs KB,bless 'er,has had a few low speed drops.Usually down to her short legs.

In the mist of this hang over this morning mate, you've just made me laugh real hard when i read that.

Kermit is one, and so is miss Piggy and so are you my friend! :p

You havent dropped your bike have you Lisa?


The only time i've dropped one ( a bike that is) is when the wind blew my old CX500 off its centre stand. Didnt even scratch it.

Wonder where this one came from KB ;)
:puzzled:

You should have added "who of you have been present whilst someone else dropped their bike............and carried on chatting amongst theirselves" :P

Only time I cam close was when the sidestand flicked up on me in a filling station. Sorted that little problem soonest after that. :D

Oh yes, stabalisers and 3 foot crash bobbins being fabricated as soon as possible :bouncy:

Probably about 7 or 8 times over 13 years of being a courier. Since that included over half a million miles of riding and well over a dozen bikes it's not too bad.

Only injury (other than bruising) happened when some idiot did an illegal u turn in front of a car which massively over-reacted, swerved across two lanes and clipped my front wheel. Have to say that one hurt a bit..... I s'pose landing under the handlebar of a 500lb motorcycle would though. The scar across my middle looks "cool" though (Scares kids is more like it.)..... :barfy:

Came off at Snetterton too but that was a case of too little horsepower combined with Japanese 600s crossed with stupidity and a unhealthy dose of testosterone. Now ride with a little note on the tank with the cost of a clutch and bodywork written on it.

Never dropped any of my previous bikes a honda hornet and a vfr400. Only ever got knocked off them by someone else.

I have had my new 748s less than a year and been dropped twice now:mad: How come I drop the most expensive bike?

Came off in the snow early in the year which was silly trying to ride in the snow:puzzled::( Claim on insurance all put back right. but going to have to tpft this year now.

Then dropped it the other week when I stalled it:mad::flame:

Most embarrasing one I've had was at the CSS doing level 1.

I had put a pair of pattern parts levers on just before the BHC lads went to Yorkshire. I had my warning leaving a garage, when I put the bike on full lock to trickle out of the forecourt and the bike came to a very sudden halt right in front of KeefyB...I had just discovered that the new levers would foul the fairing on full lock and jam the front brake on.

I should've done something about it then...but no!

Later that week, I'm taking my turn at the CSS quick turning drill. This is done in the car park, and consists of weaving away from the instructor and weaving back towards him, until he's satisfied that you're turning the bike quickly and your body is going with it (instead of sitting upright and just pushing the bike down into the turn). At the end of each run you do a full lock U-turn to loop around the instructor and... surprise, surprise I'm half way through the turn, nudge the bars onto full lock and BAM! The front brake grabs on and pitches me off at walking pace...right in front of all the people waiting their turn...DOH!

Hi Lisa, I once dropped my old Bantam, from a train .....

I was unloading it from a guard’s van once when I got into a tangle with the bike and we both fell splat onto the platform - at a very busy station.

It was a long, long time ago!
:D

I'm glad you enjoyed that one Flanker!

Of course we won't mention the time I grabbed too much front brake in a panic attack and lowsided myself into the gutter, then a rubbish bin, and then a rather large tree! That hurt, but nowhere near as much as the Z1000.

The Z1000 accident was something like out of Mr Bean. There were a few moments of me realising that I was not going to be able to avoid this clown and sort of bracing thinking "This is gonna hurt" and then impact. I pushed the steel tank in with my genitalia, snapped a ligament in the outside of my wrist, banged my recently operated on knee and caught my ring finger between the handle bars and the car so that I didn't superman over the car but swung around with my arm acting as a fulcrum and slapped down on the boot of the car. I was writhing around in pain clutching my nuts when I rolled off the back of the car boot - well the car was fitted with a towball wasn't it, so this completely hooked up on my ribs and turned me over into the gutter. So I now had one hand on my nuts and the other on my ribcage and was rolling around in the gutter. OUCH!

Very funny stuff.

The only times so far (counting simple "dropped it"s as opposed to accidents/spills/slides/etc) were twice, when I was in the process of discovering how much heavier a Suzuki GT750 (my first big bike) is compared to an MZ TS125 (Lux!), my first ever bike. I managed to cushion the drop each time, with varying degrees of success (and damage to my body) :(

Actual spills and offs, over the course of 20 years and in excess of 100,000 motorbike miles, umm, well more than four and less than six :D

have done so once.....

crashed my mito after hitting a diesel spill,picked it up,still swearing and punching the tank,then dropped when moving it out of the road.

Some of you guys are sooooo honest...
It's nice to see that it isn't just me that has the inevitable happen to me....
AND MR Barrett....according to this thread, that new design of crash bobbins and stabilizers you are intending to sell looks as if it could REALLY take off!:P

A long timre ago when I had a LC250. I lived in a cottage that only had a dirt road to gain access. It was 1981 or 82 when it snowed heavy just before christmas. I could'nt get up the dirt road because of snow drifts, so I had the bright idea of running across the open field to the road. I'd seen the snow plough go past, so I know it was clear. I shot across the field, which is slightly up hill, keeping my speed up and pushing the bars from side to side trying to stay in a straight line. All of a sudden I was flying through the air. It was a lovely soft landing and when I got up to look for the bike, all I could see was the rear of the bike sticking out of the snow.

What I had'nt counted on was the fact that there is a small hollow in the field about 6 - 8 foot across and about 3 feet deep. This had been filled with snow and then levelled off with the wind.

It was a good excuse not to go to work that day.:saint:

If we're confessing to simply dropping the bike as opposed to crashing it, I've got two examples, both of which I blame on my parents being shorter than I am!!!

First one I'd had the brand new 748 a week and still running it in. Found a nice little bendy road and decided to turn around and do it again, so turned onto someones driveway which was on a bit of a slope, didn't appreciate that the 748 has such limited steering movement, put it on lock, whoops, bike tips in, I go to put my foot down at zero mph and the ground just ain't there....legs too short...so I laid it on the ground, shouted FECK and picked it back up again.

Second one was at the Isle of Man in the middle of a packed Douglas prom. I was trying out someone elses leathers and they were a bit too tight and the VF750FD had a high seat and as I went to get off, my leg caught the back of the seat and the bike slowly fell on top of me. You'd think with all those people around there would be plenty offers of help to pick it up for me, but nobody could move for laughing....barstewards!

WeeJohnyB

That second drop sounds a little like "one" of my drops...
There is a multitude!!!...LOL

m8s....Great aren't they! LOL:lol:

Touch wood i haven't dropped mine as yet, but i did watch as my mate dropped his F4 after the sidestand flicked up as he was leaning it over to get off it. One of the other guys who was already off his bike grabbed the back end to help lift and found that the zorst was still a tad warm.....

Amazingly no damage to the bike as they caught it just in time.

Dropped the duke once when some c*cksucker left diesel all over an entrance to a roundabout :mad:
The wind has also blown it over, leaving a very nice dent in one of the frame tubes too :(


Regularly dropped my old aprilia when I was 16 due to a combination of alcohol and bad weather :lol:

Then theres always the lying neutral light on my Mito - remember kids, always pull the clutch in BEFORE you thumb the start button! :lol:

[Edited on 1-6-2004 by DJ Tera]

Hmmmmm!
 

Far far away not so many years ago (oh alright about 30!) when I was 15 and before I'd had any knowledge bashed into my brain about how to ride a bike I thought I'd be clever and get used to my SS50. So I rode it out of the garage down my dad's 20 foot long "drive", duck-paddle it round on the path, then ride back into the garage! Thought I'd be even more clever one day and rode out onto the road and tried wrenching the handlebars round to turn it without putting my feet down! Oops! :lol:

Last summer,first track day at brands a bit nervous waiting to go out ,thought i would just check the oil level again.Not easy when the bike has a flick up stand and you need it upright and be on the other side of the bike to see the level.So thought i could see it sitting on the bike and peer down:puzzled:(just need to lean over a little more,a little bit more to far:flame:)Stand flicked up and i couldent hold it up so down it went DOH:(.in the pitt garage in front of about five other guys.Went down slowly so only marked the fairing and bar end.Wont be doing that again.

Matt::barfy:

Last summer,first track day at brands a bit nervous waiting to go out ,thought i would just check the oil level again.Not easy when the bike has a flick up stand and you need it upright and be on the other side of the bike to see the level.So thought i could see it sitting on the bike and peer down:puzzled:(just need to lean over a little more,a little bit more to far:flame:)Stand flicked up and i couldent hold it up so down it went DOH:(.in the pitt garage in front of about five other guys.Went down slowly so only marked the fairing and bar end.Wont be doing that again.

Matt::barfy:

I'd just arrived back from a fantastic Winter's evening rideout on my GSXR600 and rode the bike onto my driveway which is on a very slight, barely noticeable downhill slope. I got off the bike and caught my trailing foot on the seat hump. That's all it took for the bike to very slowly inch forward and topple slowly off it's stand onto nextdoor's grass verge and flower-bed. I picked the bike up on pure adrenalin only to find a scratched side fairing, stickers and engine casing. Expensive! I still park on my drive but always leave it in gear just in case.

yep - couple weeks ago:sniff:and doing a uey at Poole quay

:o:o:o

There is nothing like doing it in front of an audience !!:lol::lol:

My little disc lock bit ( mentioned earlier ) was back in 1997 along the prom between Boscombe and Bournemouth piers on a balmy summers evening...... not that many students and people on the beach then..:o:o:o:o:o:o

Yes!!!! I have one of those too!...Have learnt the hard way not to believe it and ALWAYS pull the clutch in!!!!