Which side do you drop your bike??

[Lance]

Its just struck me that any time I have dropped my bike its been on the left hand side. Am I just left handed or is something happening here.

[buggsubique]

normally ends up being left...god knows why, but I have nice scabs up my right shin from two RH drops last weekend...

[moT]

on the front, on the rear and on the top mostly

[far queue]

I seem to have no difficulty arsing off on either side :crazy:

[Zapf]

mine is always on the right.

[young1]

Normally the left, I presume this is because you have your left foot down while the right is planted on the brake?

I also find it easier to pick the bike up from the left hand side, I get off on the left hand side and if I have to push it or manoevure it around the garage I also do that from the left

[Lance]

I gues it could be that the back kicks out to the right when back braking too hard also

[buggsubique]

OK, so I decided to test the laws of probablity today by doing the Akatarawa traverse (P'ram over to the Hutt). Wet as hell and with Pirelli MT21's the clay was deadly. To be perfectly honest I lost count of how many times I dropped the bike on each side, but by the end of it I was like "oh sh*t, not again, pleeeeaaase!!!".

Biggest problem was the large knobs of the MT 21 rear...no bite and just acted like a slick on the top surface. Mind you in places it was hard enough just standing up let alone picking up 125 kg of bike off the floor...

First shot going uphill, second shot was later on showing the knee and hand marks...and the drift that threw me over...

So in summary, most falls on the left, but a couple of surprise drops to the right.

P.S. I did not set out to fall off at all :shit:...wicked ride though.

[Lance]

jeees buggsubique I ddint mean you to go and kill yourself all in the name on science. Was wondering though when you run down a "greenie lefty pinko fuckwit" do you fall left

[buggsubique]

Actually I consider myself a very respectful trail user and at all times I maintain an awareness of other users who are less fortunate and don't own a one wheel drive. I have not been compelled to run over anyone yet, but if I did I would be tryin pretty darn hard not to fall off at all. :innocent: If I had to though, I would probably fall centre-right lol.

[bart]

Nice work. Looks a bit slippy.

I'm usually an 'over the handlebars' kind of guy, so it works out about 50/50.

To tell the truth, I've always replaced more front brake levers than clutch. Perhaps brake levers are weaker, or maybe.....

[marks]

I prefer to just park the bike in an interesting way - like today in the Mungatooks when my chain wrapped around the knobby...


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[young1]

Marks - I normally wait until I get home to wash the bike!

[Transalper]

Marks - I normally wait until I get home to wash the bike!
Must have been real dirty, see how brown it made the water in that pudd..pond.

[marks]

Marks - I normally wait until I get home to wash the bike!

if you hit the water fast enough its almost as good as water blasting it.

I thought I was rather clever choosing a puddle that had a nice rut in it so that when the chain came off and jammed the back wheel the bike stayed nice and upright and I was able to step off onto dry land without filling my boots full of water.

Getting it out was another matter entirely.....Glen (who I had just helped get his upside down dt230 out of a mud bog the size of Africa) suddenly didn't want to know me...

[XF650]

Sounds like another DT230 may have got scratched on it's maiden trail ride??

Was my right side ribs that broke the fall off my DT.
Ironically t'was also drop to right, on Freewind the week previous, but much less spectacular

[_Shrek_]

I prefer to just park the bike in an interesting way - like today in the Mungatooks when my chain wrapped around the knobby...


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Transalper i hope we wont be following suit... :shit: me or my bike can't swim :crybaby:

[Transalper]

Transalper i hope we wont be following suit... :shit: me or my bike can't swim :crybaby:I often thought an air bag of sorts attached each side of the tank or somewhere similar that could be used as a jack to right a heavy bike after falling would be a good thing. Maybe they would work as water wings for the 'my bike cant swim' riders among us too.

[marks]

Sounds like another DT230 may have got scratched on it's maiden trail ride??

No Damage (except to Glen's pride) - the mud was so soft you could have dropped the bike from the tree tops and it wouldn't have got scratched.

Actually I christened the DT a couple of weeks ago on some tree roots - no damage that time either but I'm only allowed to ride the "shitters" now. When my younger son sees where I parked his bike (the red one in the top pic) I most probably won't get to ride that either.....

this was the puddle where the DT slipped off the edge of into (taken on a previous ride when I came to grief - see top of picture).

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Was my right side ribs that broke the fall off my DT.

Did you actually break your ribs or just bruise everything up?

[marks]

I often thought an air bag of sorts attached each side of the tank or somewhere similar that could be used as a jack to right a heavy bike after falling would be a good thing.

I always thought that the answer was to have a bike the was light enough to pick up by yourself (100-120kg?) but when Glen parked the DT with its wheels higher the the tank there is no way one person could have got it back upright - so we'll take couple of sets of those air bags when you finally develop them ....

We often carry a couple of 4m ratchet tie down thingy's as a poor mans tow rope and I suppose they would allow you to very slowly winch a bike out of serious grief but it would take all day.

[mbazza]

Good one Lance, I've dropped my last bike twice on the right. I'm right handed. Haven't dropped the V-strom (yet). Don't intend too either! Too much plastic. Cheers.:innocent:

[mbazza]

Air bags, don't need them! My last (right side) was on snow/ice. looked up to see a young blood get out of a new Ford sports ute. "New there was a reason I was too chicken to ride to the Brass Monkey', he said as he helped me pick the XT600 up from the middle of the road. Nice young bloke! Cheers :stupid: