| 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  |