Common methods of dropping bike?

[Str8 Jacket]

Its not just newbs that do that, I am embarrassed to admit I did it outside work about three weeks ago!. did $300 damage to the bike too....l.

lol, I was so embarrased. An older gentleman with a walking stick came to help me up but he couldn't even bend over to reach me. There was a school load of children waiting for a bus and I was at the car park of a full service station.....

Funnily enough I have never done it again. I just stopped using disc locks all together!

[HenryDorsetCase]

lol, I was so embarrased. An older gentleman with a walking stick came to help me up but he couldn't even bend over to reach me. There was a school load of children waiting for a bus and I was at the car park of a full service station.....

Funnily enough I have never done it again. I just stopped using disc locks all together!

same!. .......

[Houseman]

Trying to balance a Big Mac combo at the McDonalds drive through.

Fanny.

Hahaa classic I thought that was just me...

[megageoff76]

Riding in sneakers and the laces get snagged around gear/brake lever.
Makes it hard to put your feet down at the next set of lights.

[The Pastor]

being a noob

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Common methods of dropping bike?

Gravity...

[cheshirecat]

Taking the disc lock off and being interupted by a someone wanting to know about your bike. Forget to completely remove and ride off - well not and fell over on to the next bike (the one l was about to sell) which fell over onto a Range Rover (also on the market)

Getting flared jeans caught on gear shift on my CB160 and falling over at traffic lights along with my friend on his CB500 who did exactly the same thing next to me (it was the 70's)

Falling over at 2kph in a firestation forecourt whilst attempting a U turn with fairing restricted lock, large tankbag, full tank of petrol, full camping gear and dog on back. Dog decides to move to the inside lean to get a better view of firemen and we fall over. Dog leaps out to disascociate himsefl with the embarisment and what seems like hundreds of firemen arrive to see if we are all right.

Falling over at 2kph when traversing a steep road to park and pillion decides to put feet down and forgets the downhill side is lower

[hellokitty]

parking on a gravel driveway at a cafe - trying to back the bike out and my feet going nuts on the gravel but getting nowhere! Luckily a random man gave me a shove otherwise I would have dropped the bike = 250kg is a heavy bike to pick up.

[vifferman]

Lesseeee...
My bikes have been down for the following reasons:
Test-riding my first bike: found it a bit heavy to manoeuvre and dropped it in the owner's rose garden.
Wearing a dark visor in dreary twilight: clipped a Mini I didn't see.
Swerving around some plonkers standing on the road, only to have the front wheel wash out in some gravel behind them.
Lost steering (and all control, in fact) when a cyclist turned in front of me without looking.
Wheelied up my drive, realised I was going too fast, hit the picks and slid on the shiny concrete into the back wall of the carport.
Lost traction when trying to ride my road bike up Mt Tarawera (back in the days when you could).
Lost contact with the bike (and all control, in fact) when I intersected with a car that failed to give way (nice somersault over its roof).
Lost front end when I turned into a corner and the tyre hit a squashed softdrink can.
Had difficulty steering and braking with a errant pedestrian under the front wheel.
Swerving and braking to avoid a car changing lanes without the driver looking first = FAIL! (Newly-fixed pedestrian-damaged bike damaged by road).
Being side-swiped by a brain-dead, u-turning Audi driver.(Newly re-fixed road-damaged bike written off)
Bedding in new brake pads by braking hard on greasy off-camber road with tar snakes (dumped bike at near standstill in front of road workers, landed on my head)
Taking a shortcut around traffic on grass/gravel verge while drugged up = FAIL! (dumped bike at near standstill in front of service station patrons)
Brain overload while drugged up and tired: Braking + turning + indicating + operating gargre door-opener + trying to look kewl for spectating neighbours = FAIL!

Err.... that's about it, if you don't count off-road adventures, such as trying to ride an AG100 with trailer+ dead sheep up hill, or parking XL100S into electric fence, or getting barbed wire wrapped around ankle while riding MT250 through a swamp, or wheelying same MT250 over backwards up a hill.
Or "stunting misadventures: donuting a CB175 on concrete. Or gravel. Or grass. Or asphalt....
Really (sadly?), there's no end to the ways you can dump a bike or yourself on your ear.

[cheshirecat]

Lesseeee...
My bikes have been down for the following reasons:
Test-riding my first bike: found it a bit heavy to manoeuvre and dropped it in the owner's rose garden.
Wearing a dark visor in dreary twilight: clipped a Mini I didn't see.
Swerving around some plonkers standing on the road, only to have the front wheel wash out in some gravel behind them.
Lost steering (and all control, in fact) when a cyclist turned in front of me without looking.
Wheelied up my drive, realised I was going too fast, hit the picks and slid on the shiny concrete into the back wall of the carport.
Lost traction when trying to ride my road bike up Mt Tarawera (back in the days when you could).
Lost contact with the bike (and all control, in fact) when I intersected with a car that failed to give way (nice somersault over its roof).
Lost front end when I turned into a corner and the tyre hit a squashed softdrink can.
Had difficulty steering and braking with a errant pedestrian under the front wheel.
Swerving and braking to avoid a car changing lanes without the driver looking first = FAIL! (Newly-fixed pedestrian-damaged bike damaged by road).
Being side-swiped by a brain-dead, u-turning Audi driver.(Newly re-fixed road-damaged bike written off)
Bedding in new brake pads by braking hard on greasy off-camber road with tar snakes (dumped bike at near standstill in front of road workers, landed on my head)
Taking a shortcut around traffic on grass/gravel verge while drugged up = FAIL! (dumped bike at near standstill in front of service station patrons)
Brain overload while drugged up and tired: Braking + turning + indicating + operating gargre door-opener + trying to look kewl for spectating neighbours = FAIL!

Err.... that's about it, if you don't count off-road adventures, such as trying to ride an AG100 with trailer+ dead sheep up hill, or parking XL100S into electric fence, or getting barbed wire wrapped around ankle while riding MT250 through a swamp, or wheelying same MT250 over backwards up a hill.
Or "stunting misadventures: donuting a CB175 on concrete. Or gravel. Or grass. Or asphalt....
Really (sadly?), there's no end to the ways you can dump a bike or yourself on your ear.

Don't tell me it was your RC46 you were taking up Mt T

[Berries]

Forgetting to put your foot down at the traffic lights when you are wasted.

[Gremlin]

Left side... Right side...

[PrincessBandit]

SJ's post (29) covers most of them. Short legs are a common trap, especially for those of us with top-heavy bikes - over balancing when trying to back into my driveway has caught me a couple of times in the early days; have also gone to ride off with disc lock in place and suffered the consequences.

First time I dropped the bandit was meeting a neighbour on the bend in our drive - he was caning it up the r.o.w. just as I was entering the bend and had to grab a handful of brake. Bike went over, cracked my faring and smashed my brake lever and all he could say was "is that a new bike?" He didn't even offer to help me pick it up! I was furious, and I'd only had it a couple of weeks!!

[steelphoenix]

I've managed to drop the bike only once, thus far...

First lesson on the bike (months ago now), turning a corner, leaning on the footpegs, hit the footbrake by accident... rear wheel skidded out from under me, splat.

Almost dropped it trying to put it up on its centre stand... still takes me four-five tries to do that...

[superman]

Lesseeee...
My bikes have been down for the following reasons:
Test-riding my first bike: found it a bit heavy to manoeuvre and dropped it in the owner's rose garden.
Wearing a dark visor in dreary twilight: clipped a Mini I didn't see.
Swerving around some plonkers standing on the road, only to have the front wheel wash out in some gravel behind them.
Lost steering (and all control, in fact) when a cyclist turned in front of me without looking.
Wheelied up my drive, realised I was going too fast, hit the picks and slid on the shiny concrete into the back wall of the carport.
Lost traction when trying to ride my road bike up Mt Tarawera (back in the days when you could).
Lost contact with the bike (and all control, in fact) when I intersected with a car that failed to give way (nice somersault over its roof).
Lost front end when I turned into a corner and the tyre hit a squashed softdrink can.
Had difficulty steering and braking with a errant pedestrian under the front wheel.
Swerving and braking to avoid a car changing lanes without the driver looking first = FAIL! (Newly-fixed pedestrian-damaged bike damaged by road).
Being side-swiped by a brain-dead, u-turning Audi driver.(Newly re-fixed road-damaged bike written off)
Bedding in new brake pads by braking hard on greasy off-camber road with tar snakes (dumped bike at near standstill in front of road workers, landed on my head)
Taking a shortcut around traffic on grass/gravel verge while drugged up = FAIL! (dumped bike at near standstill in front of service station patrons)
Brain overload while drugged up and tired: Braking + turning + indicating + operating gargre door-opener + trying to look kewl for spectating neighbours = FAIL!

Err.... that's about it, if you don't count off-road adventures, such as trying to ride an AG100 with trailer+ dead sheep up hill, or parking XL100S into electric fence, or getting barbed wire wrapped around ankle while riding MT250 through a swamp, or wheelying same MT250 over backwards up a hill.
Or "stunting misadventures: donuting a CB175 on concrete. Or gravel. Or grass. Or asphalt....
Really (sadly?), there's no end to the ways you can dump a bike or yourself on your ear.

You sound like a good bloke to have a beer and chat with