Falling off ya bike

[slofox]

Very slow day today at the vino shop. So as always, the minds strays onto irrelevant claptrap. Like falling off motorbikes.

Got to thinking. So far, of all the bikes I have ever owned or ridden, there's only one that I haven't fallen off of. That was a cb250 communter bike. It was just too boring to fall off of. Present gixxer six doesn't count yet since I still own it. But so far, it has stayed shiny side up.

So how about others? What's your falling off record like? Doesn't have to be a crash - any time it's gone over with you aboard counts.


SCORE: Fell off: 7
Stayed on: 1

See. told you it was a slow day. :zzzz:

[Maha]

Parked the Yamaha between two cars once (locally) and Anne was a couple park down..
A'henny way....I forgot about the side stand and down it went...:blink:
Anne could hear my cries for help, but couldn't see me...:confused:
The people in the shop across the road could and probably would have come to my aid once they had picked themselves up off floor from laughing. :laugh:


Lowered the Honda once...had my foot under it so only a hand grip touched the ground in the end (thank goodness)
But once it started going, there was no stopping it, minimise the scrapes was the only option.

Never dropped the Triumph...came close at Whanga's McDonalds one night in the rain, but managed to avoid it.

Heres the Yamaha on that very day...soon after in fact.

[bluninja]

Suzuki A100 ..turned into driveway a bit sharpish hit potholes...and slid bike into carpark with me running behind.
Kawasaki ZX9R, highsided at Monza out of the Ascari (sp?) bends
Aprilia RSVR.... bounced off a tractor
Suzuki SV650 ....dropped at Manfield hairpin, Pukukohe hairpin, and slid it across the infield grass at Manfield after the esses.
Suzuki SV650S.... hit 1 of 3 polish students who took a ride on my fairing

Didn't do anything with a Kawasaki Eliminator 600, a Kawasaki ZZR600, my second RSVR, a Suzuki X5.

The DL650 hasn't been dropped yet.

[Road kill]

Had a bad crash in 1988 but haven't come off or dropped any of the four bikes I've owned since then.

[\m/]

Twice on my bandit, first was stalling out of my driveway, put feet up too soon, second was a lowside at turn 1 Taupo.

[DMNTD]

I've never dropped a bike :wings:

[KiwiPhoenix]

Kawasaki EL250, dropped due to the side stand not being down, 3 times (haven't dropped it since)
Yamaha XJ750, dropped in pub carpark as I was turning, dropped leaving the Brass Monkey last year (sprained ankle and some minor damage to the bike) then dropped outside the pub as I tried to start it in 1st gear (fractured my knee, won't be doing that again in a hurry! And again, I haven't dropped it since!)

[nodrog]

I've never dropped a bike :wings:

I weeeeed!

:niceone:

[slofox]

I've never dropped a bike :wings:

You can't be trying hard enough. :whistle:

[mossy1200]

I stopped for some girls at a crossing once on a xl185s and my shoe lace was caught in the rear brake lever. hot exausts suck and so does getting laughed at.

[Oscar]

I've never dropped a bike :wings:

You're not trying hard enough.

[Oscar]

I've primarily owned dirt or adv bikes, so you know that sooner or later yer gonna drop 'em. When you don't the air of expectation becomes intolerable...

When you do, 950 adventure bikes are fucking heavy to pick up...:no:

[SMOKEU]

I used to have a CBR250R and a CG125. Didn't manage to stack either of them.

[Akzle]

i've never fallen off a bike before being hit my something.
and only twice anyhow. both on my ts185, which got stolen, so maybe that was for the best after all.
once when some dick cutting across 3 lanes of traffic "didn't see me" when my ankle actually stopped the bike hitting the hard. and once when i was following my mate in a car around a blind corner.

he stopped...


...i did not.

headbutted his car and rolled onto the pavement.

for reference i was a good hundred yards behind him, it's not as if i was following to close, but certainly put the shits up me. lessons learned. thankfully my now-bike has bigger balls than me.

[Oakie]

Before I answer, does falling off/over when trying to push start a bike count?

[slofox]

Before I answer, does falling off/over when trying to push start a bike count?

I'd say no since you weren't actually "on" the bike. Unless it fell away from you when you jumped onto the seat.

[wysper]

I'd say no since you weren't actually "on" the bike. Unless it fell away from you when you jumped onto the seat.

what if you weren't actually on the bike by the time it fell over?

[Oakie]

I'd say no since you weren't actually "on" the bike. Unless it fell away from you when you jumped onto the seat.


what if you weren't actually on the bike by the time it fell over?

To clarify then ... Mrs Oakie and I had stopped for a break at the Chertsey Pub on the way south. Went to mount bikes again and discovered that Mrs Oakie's Eliminator had continued to dribble petrol through the carby bowl leaving a large puddle on the ground and the bike hopelessly flooded. Tried to start it off the starter unsuccesfully and finished up deciding to give crash starting a go. Sorted out a strip of road, started running and when I got as fast as I could I went to throw my leg over the seat ... but didn't throw it far enough and finished with one foot stuck on the seat and having to hop on the other leg just to keep up with the bike. (The foot on the seat was not far enough over to slide down the other side but was far enough over that I couldn't get it back on the ground ... well not at the same time as my other foot was having to hop forward at double speed). Unfortunately I couldn't hop as fast as the bike was going so gradually got further and further back from the handlebars until I reached the point that I tipped the bike over.

Other times:
> Out riding my CB125 in the early days on some longish grass. Looked up and saw a lamp post infront of me so quickly thought "Turn or brake?" Either would have worked ... unfortunately I did both. 'Nuf said?
>Same bike ... low speed U turn ... hit some gravel on an off camber part of the road and had a wee lie down
>Probably my XL175. Went down our driveway and probably through inattention just rolled to far and finished up with me and bike buried in the hedge. Probably doesn't count though as I didn't fall over.

[Corse1]

Wow that got me thinking. Think I have fallen off every bike Ive owned apart from the speed triple and current Tuono. Seeing as I still own the Tuono I can only say one bike out of about......hang on add a GT380 so thats 2 out of 14 bikes that have stayed 100% upright in my ownership. About seven of them being off road/trail bikes though. Still not a good record and I still don't know how I saved the triple from tipping me off during a very scary two wheel chirping every time they hit the tarmac 110kph death wobble:shit:

[ducatilover]

GPZ400R - Stayed on.
GN250 - fell off
BROS650 - fell off properly
VT250 Spada - fell off on pain meds when stepping off the wrong side of the bike :facepalm:
CB400 SF - Stayed on,
ZZR400 (with 600 motor) - Fell off reasonably well.
ZZR600 (In the sig pic) haven't ridden it with the new frame etc...so I have stayed on :shifty:
Geoff the GN250 - Stayed on.

Does that mean I'm betterer than you Slofox?

[Ender EnZed]

Three out of nine bikes stayed 100% upright while I owned them, but two of those I didn't own very long.

[Gremlin]

ZZR250 - Dropped a couple of times I think.
ZX7R - never dropped
ZX10R - never dropped (but fark I had some close ones)
990SM - dropped both sides a handful of times probably, only one was a bin as such, the rest were stationary pretty much, mostly on unsealed roads
1200GSA - learnt my lesson with the KTM and put extra protection on it. Owned for less time than the KTM and I've lost count (both sides). One bin, the countless drops usually in sand, and some rivers as well. Sometimes drop it more than once a ride, but that just means the "road" is more fun :laugh:

[DMNTD]

I weeeeed!
:niceone:
Yerp, I found it difficult to type!
Team Bloop Bloops!



You can't be trying hard enough. :whistle:

You're not trying hard enough.

'97 Suzuki TL1000S
'06 Kawasaki ZX10R
'05 KTM Superduke
'07 MV Agusta Brutale R
'08 Ducati 1098S
'08 Kawasaki ZX10R
'07 Kawasaki ZX14
'06 Yamaha Jog...heaps of times :laugh:

[martybabe]

Stopped on a trail bike once and my support leg disappeared down a grass covered big hole: Note, trying to lift a bike with one leg completely underground and the other leg still straddled across the bike is a tad difficult, best avoided.

FJ1200 fell over when the side stand sunk into ground that seemed hard but wasn't.

Worst ever was Donington park one year when the tarmac melted in the heat of the day and row upon row of exotic expensive bikes toppled like dominoes, my old heap was fine parked on the grass.

Finally, a gold-wing I had for a while tried to take a tumble whilst manoeuvring but I managed to save it by jabbing my knee under the side of it. Note: if you have a Goldwing that wants to fall over just let the fucker go! I saved the bike but couldn't walk properly for a couple of weeks.

[nodrog]

Yerp, I found it difficult to type!
Team Bloop Bloops!





'97 Suzuki TL1000S
'06 Kawasaki ZX10R
'05 KTM Superduke
'07 MV Agusta Brutale R
'08 Ducati 1098S
'08 Kawasaki ZX10R
'07 Kawasaki ZX14
'06 Yamaha Jog...heaps of times :laugh:


what about the
'10 Kawasaki 450 megahurtything
'12 Hyundai polewacker
?

:sunny:

[Tigadee]

Scorpio - 3 times (U-turn on slope & fell over, slipped on leaves, parked wrong way on slope)
GT250 Comet - 2 times (side-stand still up, stopped too fast/didn't put foot down on time)
Zeal - 1 time (started off with cold engine trying to do U-turn)
XJ400 - 1 time (stopped on slope/put foot down on low-side & tipped over)

:facepalm: :no:

[slofox]

Does that mean I'm betterer than you Slofox?

I'd hope so mate - nobody'd wanna be WORSE than me...:facepalm:

[mister.koz]

Owned 9 so far fell off one :) :pinch:

[slofox]

Owned 9 so far fell off one :) :pinch:

Definitely not trying hard enough...:nono:

[mister.koz]

Definitely not trying hard enough...:nono:

Haha dunno about that i did tail-slide the 10 a few times and drift up the divy regularly :)

[slofox]

Haha dunno about that i did tail-slide the 10 a few times and drift up the divy regularly :)

They've just resealed the divvie (western side anyway) with hotmix...:devil2:

[mister.koz]

They've just resealed the divvie (western side anyway) with hotmix...:devil2:

What about HW22? :devil2:

[slofox]

What about HW22? :devil2:

Still the same old mix of holes and loose chip and cow-shit.

[mister.koz]

Still the same old mix of holes and loose chip and cow-shit.

<_< shame.. its still a good ride though, specially if you enter via waingaro :)

[meteor]

Dropped my bike today, only time I've dropped a road bike. My dirt bikes... fallen off them all.
Low speed, leaving the gym, turning over some painted lane markings that must have had some dew on them.
Just broke the mirror bracket and bent a bar end bolt... Ego took a hit tho' :(

[slofox]

<_< shame.. its still a good ride though, specially if you enter via waingaro :)

Here ya go - couple of weeks back - just the very southern end.

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[haydes55]

After reading this thread I will now laugh at every bike ad I see "Dropped by previous owner" hahaha

Is this including dirt bikes? Crashed all my speedway bikes so many times I've lost count and the hospital has a huge record for me.

125, 2x 200's and crashed 3 500's at speedway

Road bikes crashed and totalled my Hyo, lost the front end of my current bike on a round about (car pulled out infront of me and a car in a 2 lane round about, the car locked its brakes up and I braked a bit too hard on my front mid turn, low side/drop, no damage). My FZR250 wasn't so much as scratched by a key (Which is stupid cos my Hyo was immaculate and my current bike is very tidy!)

So 2 out of 3 on the road dropped.

[G4L4XY]

To clarify then ... Mrs Oakie and I had stopped for a break at the Chertsey Pub on the way south. Went to mount bikes again and discovered that Mrs Oakie's Eliminator had continued to dribble petrol through the carby bowl leaving a large puddle on the ground and the bike hopelessly flooded. Tried to start it off the starter unsuccesfully and finished up deciding to give crash starting a go. Sorted out a strip of road, started running and when I got as fast as I could I went to throw my leg over the seat ... but didn't throw it far enough and finished with one foot stuck on the seat and having to hop on the other leg just to keep up with the bike. (The foot on the seat was not far enough over to slide down the other side but was far enough over that I couldn't get it back on the ground ... well not at the same time as my other foot was having to hop forward at double speed). Unfortunately I couldn't hop as fast as the bike was going so gradually got further and further back from the handlebars until I reached the point that I tipped the bike over.

Other times:
> Out riding my CB125 in the early days on some longish grass. Looked up and saw a lamp post infront of me so quickly thought "Turn or brake?" Either would have worked ... unfortunately I did both. 'Nuf said?
>Same bike ... low speed U turn ... hit some gravel on an off camber part of the road and had a wee lie down
>Probably my XL175. Went down our driveway and probably through inattention just rolled to far and finished up with me and bike buried in the hedge. Probably doesn't count though as I didn't fall over.


Hahahaha I bet that was a funny site! Hope you weren't hurt, but a good laugh that was :P

[G4L4XY]

Ok first and only bike so far, had it two years.

Went to get onto it from the left, momentum was too much and it started tipping over the other side, kept it up!

Stalled at some lights as I took off, dropped it, felt embarrased and that was the first time I found out how heavy it really was, people finally had come up and asked if I needed help....AFTER i picked it up and put my back out :(

My partners aunty dropped it, she had to fork out for a new fairing and mirror etc....she wont get on it anymore muahahaha

Had a tankslapper....miraculously it saved itself i was just hanging on for dear life!

and then finally binned it couple months back, i blame the car!!

She's getting fixed, more drops to come!! well i hope not

[Tigadee]

Stalled at some lights as I took off, dropped it, felt embarrased and that was the first time I found out how heavy it really was, people finally had come up and asked if I needed help....AFTER i picked it up and put my back out

Yeah, they're bloody heavy, aren't they? Last time I'll own one! :no:

[G4L4XY]

Yeah, they're bloody heavy, aren't they? Last time I'll own one! :no:

Yeah but hey I've learnt on it, before I had NO idea how to ride a bike....now look at me, I still suck but I can ride it! :facepalm:

Next one will hopefully be an R6 or 600RR