Fell Off. A stationary bike. Which was on its side stand... [Archive]

slofox

29th November 2017, 12:29

Like the title says, I fell off a stationary bike that was on the side stand. Without the engine even running. How stupid is that? :weird:

Simple enough. As I stepped off, I caught my foot on the tail bag. Which unbalanced me and I fell backwards onto the asphalt footpath. I guess, like Ian Botham, I didn't quite get me leg over...

I thought "Oh damn, I'll just roll." (Again.)

Not this time. The foot catch rotated my alignment to the ground so that I fell flat onto the lower back. There was a moment of absolute stunned silence whilst I listened to all the internal body sirens wailing. Thought "This is not going to be good."

Two minutes of lying there I decided I had to stand up. Dragged over to the fence and used it to hoist upright again. Some very serious pain going on at the time.

Well a week later an x-ray showed a compression fracture of the L4 vertebra. Which is why I am still unable to do most anything. Wondered why the pain was not going away. A week of ideal riding weather and I'm stuck with a busted arse.

I just bet ACC will use this to rant on about motorbikes again. Even though the bike itself wasn't really involved.

Moral of the story: If you're gunna get your leg over, make sure you DO it.

Not a happy camper right now. :angry:

Banditbandit

29th November 2017, 12:46

Bugga - hope you get well soon

I ripped my left hamstring NOT falling off. I stopped put my feet out and the bike kept going over. I held it up - at the expense of a lot of pain .

KiwiPhoenix

29th November 2017, 12:50

EJK

29th November 2017, 13:09

Been there, done that :innocent: Was trying to lift the bike on rear wheel lift stand. Right side hook wasn't properly "hooked" on :brick:

Hope you heal well!

HenryDorsetCase

29th November 2017, 13:15

Ouch - sympathies. :(

I dropped my bike onto my car the other day. Rode to work and parked in the drive, few minutes later realised it had started to rain - putting the bike in the garage on its paddock stand and as I pressed down on the paddock stand my left hand slipped onthe wet seat and ooooover she goes. I whimpered like a little girl and strained all my arm trying to not have it plummet. Bike is fine but the car is a bit (more) secondhand.

slofox

29th November 2017, 13:31

Honest Andy

29th November 2017, 13:46

HAHAHAHAHahahaha ha ah ah .....

hmmmm

actually, that reminds me of the first time I rode a 10 speed with clip-on shoe things. Everything was going sweet and I was looking super fit and cool and fast. Then I stopped for a couple of choice looking chicks to cross on a pedestrian crossing... actually do I have to finish this? It's still a bit embarrassing... :facepalm:

Or the time I was sitting on a bike in the garage checking the straightness of the crash bars I was making and hopped off forgetting that I had automatically flicked the stand up :weird:
Or the time I forgot to put the sidestand up leaving a carpark and plowed into the curb on the first left-hander and bent the forks :doh:

Or that other time when...

Anyway you get the idea. I hope your recovery is quicker than predictions, and you get rid of that bloody tailbag! :niceone:

ellipsis

29th November 2017, 15:35

My fucked knee has given out twice, ending up with the Sportster on it's side...once at a Bunnings carpark and I shit you not, two old ladies helped me get out from under the bike...one had a walker frame...the other time was getting through our garden and I just had to lay there 'til someone came home and unpinned my leg from under it and the brick it was jammed between...it's a cunt getting older, crook and spent...

granstar

29th November 2017, 16:25

Some years ago was stopped at traffic lights red one day on way home from toil. A few cars in front and many approaching from behind it was 5 PM in sunny Invercargill. As you can imagine the traffic rush is horrendous for 5 1/2 minutes at that time. Anyway this day it was piscing down with rain (very unusual) and I thoughtfully had my wet gear on. As I put my right leg down to terra firma the leggings bottom of leg caught onto the footrest causing an unbalance, and I and bike hit the tarmacadam...plop! at 0 kph.
So the lights change and the traffic carries on in front, those behind just drive around me (good one :tugger:NCGAF) as I struggle with up righting said self from under the 900cc Hilda lump, then the bike which with brute force and a bit of adrenilin chucked in managed to get it back up. Cars continue to drive around as if I'm a problem (how do they know this) as I sort the fuel cut out situation from behind fogged up helmet.
Major Damage; ego.
Minor Damage; Few light bruises and smashed indicatorator which I did not mind as it saved the tank from a nasty dent.

I have since tossed those loose leg leggings, fitted crash bars which were tested in another topple which you probably don't want to know about as it was when a group ride was taking off and where instead of the usual considerate leaving in an orderly fashion one at a time, some had jumped ahead and caught me unawares as I was leaving from front of line and had to avoid in doing so dumped the bike at speed approaching 1 kPH (tank saved again bars paid for themselves), thought not!; and taken the scenic open road route home and avoid the city and tin tops and live the dream :scooter:

Moi

29th November 2017, 17:37

Like the title says, I fell off a stationary bike that was on the side stand. Without the engine even running. How stupid is that? :weird:

Ouch!

Won't comment on your stupidity... :facepalm:

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Scubbo

29th November 2017, 17:44

Gutted mate, I cham dissmounts all the time when my mind is on other things -- hope you recover well and the bike not damaged

HenryDorsetCase

29th November 2017, 17:46

in another topple which you probably don't want to know about as it was when a group ride was taking off and where instead of the usual considerate leaving in an orderly fashion one at a time, some had jumped ahead and caught me unawares as I was leaving from front of line and had to avoid in doing so dumped the bike at speed approaching 1 kPH (tank saved again bars paid for themselves), thought not!; and taken the scenic open road route home and avoid the city and tin tops and live the dream :scooter:

Cassina is right: clearly it was the pressure to keep up(right) that caused the danger.

Oh yeah - I once rode away (for 3/4 of a wheel revolution) with a disc lock attached..... a dayglo yellow disc lock. with a lanyard.

Oh, and this one time I was on a borrowed DT400 and tried to do a wheelie to impress some girls. Not only were they not impressed, they didnt stop to check when I flipped it and landed on my arse and slid along for a while. two weeks wages of dameage to the bike.

Fuck I'm dumb.

russd7

29th November 2017, 17:48

I've also done this... Tried to start the bike, it was in 1st gear, parked it that way on a slight slope.
Thought I was being cool, nope, bike fell and left me with a couple of tibial plateau fractures!
All good now, but I got a very serious ribbing from my fellow bikers about making sure I was in neutral! ;)

or just get in the habit of pulling the clutch lever in every time you start your bike, a habit i learned as a young fella a couple of yr ago when working on dairy farms before quads were invented.
i still do it

russd7

29th November 2017, 18:04

fitted crash bars which were tested in another topple which you probably don't want to know about as it was when a group ride was taking off and where instead of the usual considerate leaving in an orderly fashion one at a time, some had jumped ahead and caught me unawares as I was leaving from front of line and had to avoid in doing so dumped the bike at speed approaching 1 kPH (tank saved again bars paid for themselves), thought not!; and taken the scenic open road route home and avoid the city and tin tops and live the dream :scooter:

yup remember that well, watched it all happen in slow motion.
slow speed topple for me with wife on back heading off to pop her cherry (first motorcycle rally, get ya minds out of the gutter you dirty bikers),
ZZR all loaded up with gear and missus on back leaving the tea rooms at south end of balclutha (those that know it may understand) i had parked in their little carpark and pulling out from there can be dicey when there are remurera tractors parked in front, rather steep camber on the road and creeping out slowly trying to see past vehicles while looking right and turning left and lost balance and over the whole lot went, wifes foot caught under bike, needless to say her first rally experience was spent hobbling around. mind you she did get invited to join in a group that was getting rather fresh around what was left of the bonfire at 5.00am on sunday morning. some people get all the luck

T.W.R

29th November 2017, 18:17

As I stepped off, I caught my foot on the tail bag. Which unbalanced me and I fell backwards

Bugger!!

saw an almost identical thing happen at the 89 Brass Monkey.....bloke on a goldwing swanning around the site spotted a couple of mates, stopped went to hop off and caught his foot on the pillion armrest thingy then proceeded to do spectacular form of wrestling with the bike and ended up half under it and as it fell on the downward side of a slight slope was well stuck and it took 4 more people to lift the bike off him :lol:

Been there, done that :innocent: Was trying to lift the bike on rear wheel lift stand. Right side hook wasn't properly "hooked" on

Try working on a bike that slips off the stand whilst you're buried in it and ends up clamping down on your arm as it falls on it's side :( was like being grabbed by a wrestler in a full nelson hold & you're trying to tap-out on the ropes :pinch:

or just get in the habit of pulling the clutch lever in every time you start your bike, a habit i learned as a young fella a couple of yr ago when working on dairy farms before quads were invented.
i still do it

And current import dairy farm workers think clutch locks are great things....funny they keep burning out clutch packs :lol: had one rather large farm with a fleet of KL stockmans do a multitude of packs in one season :pinch: we didn't mind but when we informed the farm manager of what was causing it he wasn't a happy camper :brick:

Personal experience of arsing off bikes at near stationary was having a mate on his Pantah decide he wasn't able to get in a small side gate that we always used and he backed back into me, I went to paddle my way back out his road & went to put my left hoof down and just went clear into the gutter totally off balance and ended up on the side of Porthills Rd 230kgs+ of XJ750 lying on top of me :pinch:

AllanB

29th November 2017, 20:35

Sorry all I'm finding this thread amusing (after a shitty day at work).

It also reminded me of decades back riding along next to a mate we stopped at the traffic lights and he pulled up next to me then fell over with his motorcycle. He had stopped and forgotten to put his leg(s) down ........... blamed the hangover if I remember correctly.

Laava

29th November 2017, 21:00

it was piscing down with rain

Like this?

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/53bc4f86eab8ea6104e57a51/sharks-falling-from-sky.gif

caspernz

29th November 2017, 23:49

Ouch! Wishing you a speedy recovery :scooter::scooter:

jellywrestler

30th November 2017, 03:46

i once pulled out to avoid a child and fell out of bed...

pzkpfw

30th November 2017, 06:50

Ouch. Sympathy. Only time I've ever laid my bike down was at 0 kph, moving it around in my garage. It happens.

Having said that, I had my first on-road "accident" on my current bike last Friday. Again - stationary. Was behind a Van at some red traffic lights. He decides he wants to turn right not left, so reverses to go to other lane, hadn't seen me behind him (I wasn't stupid close). His bumper was on my guard before I could react. Luckily kept it upright, not too much damage. Worst was my pride; after we had our initial discussion and agreed to go around the block to park up and discuss insurance, I left my side stand down (was a bit flustered) and the engine turned off when I went for 1st. Flailed a bit getting it going. Pride damaged more than bike.

Honest Andy

30th November 2017, 07:08

It also reminded me of decades back riding along next to a mate we stopped at the traffic lights and he pulled up next to me then fell over with his motorcycle. He had stopped and forgotten to put his leg(s) down ........... blamed the hangover if I remember correctly.

And this happened to your 'mate' did it?
Riiiiiiight
:laugh:

Cosmik de Bris

30th November 2017, 10:03

It looks like most of us have had this experience. Like the OP, on one of Pioneer's rallies I stopped at the Rolleston petrol station, went to get back on, right leg caught the luggage on the back, bike went over on the right side and I hung on to the handle bar to slow the fall, it threw me like one of those Irish whip moves in Judo and I landed on my back on the other side of the bike. It earned me the first drop of the rally award.

I've also had the "catch the boot or jeans on various bits of the bike" thing, several times.

Cheers

old slider

30th November 2017, 11:37

Enjoying this thread,
I remember looking at my new pride and joy, 1999 W650 in absolute pristine condition not a mark on her, only 2500kms and been in storage for 10 years,
I placed it on her stand and started to move back to admire her and take a photo, the slow motion fall as she crashed onto her side still grates me.

My Harley Davidson side stand locks and can not retract once the bike weight is on it, something the Japanese hadn't done to this bike .:argh:

T.W.R

30th November 2017, 12:01

My Harley Davidson side stand locks and can not retract once the bike weight is on it, something the Japanese hadn't done to this bike .:argh:

Ducati should've taken note of the HD system...... My mates 900SP had a vicious side stand :facepalm: anything less the level was just asking for trouble, I dunno how many times we'd pulled in somewhere dismounted and turned to see him wrestling with the damn bike as it's tried to lay down for a nap :laugh:

On a slightly different tone though but worth a laugh.
There was a certain Croatian that used to work at the VTNZ in Ashburton, right pompus A/hole and popular as a dose of the mumps
He was doing a wof check on a new Can-Am Spyder and drove the bloody thing over the pit :facepalm: he was dispatched backwards into the pit off it and the spyder was swinging away like inverted metronome :laugh:

Needless to say he doesn't work there anymore :clap:

HenryDorsetCase

30th November 2017, 13:08

old slider

30th November 2017, 16:12

After a couple of times either forgetting to kick my stand down or it springing back up after I have kicked it I now always LOOK at my stand before getting off. If some on here find doing this unsafe I am sure your local riding school can give you a lesson on how to do it.

Some manufacturers developed a safety feature into their side stands for those, possibly like yourself who may forget to retract them as well, this feature allows you to start and run your engine, but if transmission is in gear and clutch released the bike stalls, clever HD designed theirs to overrun this feature if your travelling over 15-20kmh and your stand for some reason falls out of its fully retracted position and the indicator lights etc will flash a warning. I read it in a book or maybe it was mentioned at a learn to ride day.

granstar

30th November 2017, 16:59

Sidestand on Honda, I don't trust it, of the shorter type when at the bike is on an odd camber it can roll off it.
Sidestand on Triumph complete faith in stand to hold bike, no faith in stand bracket to frame weld, I'm on my second one.
Sidestand on Guzzi, forward lump of metallic bliss, you should all be jealous...

http://raresportbikesforsale.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1996-Moto-Guzzi-Sport-1100-L-Side.jpg

russd7

30th November 2017, 18:31

And current import dairy farm workers think clutch locks are great things....funny they keep burning out clutch packs :lol: had one rather large farm with a fleet of KL stockmans do a multitude of packs in one season :pinch: we didn't mind but when we informed the farm manager of what was causing it he wasn't a happy camper :brick:

Personal experience of arsing off bikes at near stationary was having a mate on his Pantah decide he wasn't able to get in a small side gate that we always used and he backed back into me, I went to paddle my way back out his road & went to put my left hoof down and just went clear into the gutter totally off balance and ended up on the side of Porthills Rd 230kgs+ of XJ750 lying on top of me :pinch:

yup they were removed quick smart off the two wheelers that the staff used for that very reason. worst i had was an ag100 with a hole in piston at two months old and a broken rear axle on my kvf650 while i was away on holiday, came back early and had staff meeting only to be told "shit happens" the staff member concerned was suspended and it took another ten effen days of interviews and meetings to finally be able to tell him to pack his bags and fuck off. turns out he was flying down the road ringing the ags' neck and decided to whack it down a couple o gears to lock the back wheel up in the gravel, never did get to find out how the hell he snapped the axle tho

T.W.R

30th November 2017, 19:23

yup they were removed quick smart off the two wheelers that the staff used for that very reason. worst i had was an ag100 with a hole in piston at two months old and a broken rear axle on my kvf650 while i was away on holiday, came back early and had staff meeting only to be told "shit happens" the staff member concerned was suspended and it took another ten effen days of interviews and meetings to finally be able to tell him to pack his bags and fuck off. turns out he was flying down the road ringing the ags' neck and decided to whack it down a couple o gears to lock the back wheel up in the gravel, never did get to find out how the hell he snapped the axle tho

:shutup: ol Ag100 mighty wee things, the guy I worked with at Chappies had a real passion for them, or more the so the motors; he'd hot-rod the hell out of them and make grass karts for them......I gave him a loan of a template book of Yamaha porting options for air cooled YZ motors and the bugger never gave it back :facepalm:

Doing well to snap a axle on a KVF :yes:
you might have seen this post, there's a picture of a cam shaft out of one that I had to repair after it came in with the owner saying it was running a bit rough :facepalm:
https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/178867-Triple-down-memory-lane?p=1131048742#post1131048742

russd7

30th November 2017, 19:35

:shutup: ol Ag100 mighty wee things, the guy I worked with at Chappies had a real passion for them, or more the so the motors; he'd hot-rod the hell out of them and make grass karts for them......I gave him a loan of a template book of Yamaha porting options for air cooled YZ motors and the bugger never gave it back :facepalm:

Doing well to snap a axle on a KVF :yes:
you might have seen this post, there's a picture of a cam shaft out of one that I had to repair after it came in with the owner saying it was running a bit rough :facepalm:
https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php/178867-Triple-down-memory-lane?p=1131048742#post1131048742

no longer farming but kept the 650, now sitting in the shed in disgrace, died on the beach and got towed home by a monkey bike and a honda chaly, effen embarrassing that was, but a bloody good laff at the same time. one day i may pull the motor but pretty sure its fucked the front cyclinder which apparently is a serious weak point with them

granstar

30th November 2017, 20:02

I dont think you would fall off anyway as it would make a sound like a footpeg scraping and the sound would warn you to stop to avoid it being ground away too much.

Incorrect, witnessed a mate take off (RD350LC) with his footrest out,he got about 40 metres before it dug in and he and bike both did a 36 in the air. Lucky no injuries.

Had occasion in my unlearned youth with springs on old 650 Triumphs occasionally letting go, you cannot hear a spring drop (is that a pun) nor any scraping, it is the near tip off that warns you it is time to change yer grundies. A lesson here, never skimp on stand springs, fit new ones, always.

granstar

30th November 2017, 20:06

T.W.R

30th November 2017, 20:48

no longer farming but kept the 650, now sitting in the shed in disgrace, died on the beach and got towed home by a monkey bike and a honda chaly, effen embarrassing that was, but a bloody good laff at the same time. one day i may pull the motor but pretty sure its fucked the front cyclinder which apparently is a serious weak point with them

small galleries for oil feed :yes: and definitely not ideal when there isn't much oil to start with...that's what killed the one that camshaft is out of :facepalm: that was back in 06 when that pic was taken. doing shims on the torque converter is fun too :pinch:
Though we had one cockie who found away around their issues :yes: traded his KVF in on a KFX700...that was fun...3rd gear wheelies on the road :innocent:

russd7

30th November 2017, 21:12

small galleries for oil feed :yes: and definitely not ideal when there isn't much oil to start with...that's what killed the one that camshaft is out of :facepalm: that was back in 06 when that pic was taken. doing shims on the torque converter is fun too :pinch:
Though we had one cockie who found away around their issues :yes: traded his KVF in on a KFX700...that was fun...3rd gear wheelies on the road :innocent:

yeah, problem with lotsa power, its lotsa fun amd has potential to lotsa bad as well

did enough damage with one o these,
333578

won the race tho
ya may notice im holding my right foot up, theres a reason. nuthin that a lot of ice and a few rums didn't solve tho

Oakie

1st December 2017, 07:04

Simple enough. As I stepped off, I caught my foot on the tail bag.:

Did the same thing in reverse trying to crash start a bike. Bike was up to jogging speed so I tried to throw the right leg over but got it hung up on the seat somehow which left me hopping alongside the bike on my left leg. Bike was rolling faster than I could hop so after a valiant attempt to keep up, the inevitable happened.

granstar

1st December 2017, 19:12

Did the same thing in reverse trying to crash start a bike. Bike was up to jogging speed so I tried to throw the right leg over but got it hung up on the seat somehow which left me hopping alongside the bike on my left leg. Bike was rolling faster than I could hop so after a valiant attempt to keep up, the inevitable happened.

:first::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

GazzaH

1st December 2017, 19:45

'The inevitable' being it started and shot off down the road, you clinging on the handlebars and flailing out behind? :laugh:

FJRider

1st December 2017, 19:54

just bet ACC will use this to rant on about motorbikes again. Even though the bike itself wasn't really involved.

You were not riding a motorcycle when you had your accident ... thus NOT a motorcycle accident.

People injure themselves washing their car ... and no stretch of imagination makes that a car accident ...

Racing Dave

2nd December 2017, 05:54

Two weeks ago, on the way to the Bottled Lightning Rally in Reefton, we stopped at the Otira Viaduct lookout at Deaths Corner. A chap on his way to the same weekend's Pike River Memorial ride, two-up on a H-D (Road King, perhaps?) pulled in, thought a car was backing out in front of him (which it wasn't), jammed on his front brake in a panic, lost control and over it all went; no forward speed at all. Because of the slope, it rolled past horizontal - that was heavy to lift! No real harm done, but many scrapes and scuffs on pretty much everything that was chromed or painted on the LH side.

I'm only speculating, but I think that his judgement MAY have been impaired by an earlier stop - possibly at the Bealey...