Common methods of dropping bike?

[HenryDorsetCase]

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.


Had difficulty steering and braking with a errant pedestrian under the front wheel. :
Really (sadly?), there's no end to the ways you can dump a bike or yourself on your ear.

awesome!!

those are my favourites....

[ckai]

We just sold the wife's bike to the old man (returning rider ) and I went for a ride with him and stopped at a cafe. When we went to leave we were all geared up, started my bike and waited for the old man to start his. I turn again and see him started to fall with the bike still attached!

As an instinct I reached out then thought bugger that I can't keep me and 250+ kgs up.

Turned out the silly bugger forgot which side the stand was on and leant it the wrong way to flick it up!

I felt so stink for him. Luckily there was another biker there that came over and helped us out. He was bloody good about it ("I've done that heaps of times") and Dad took it surprisingly well too. I still felt stink for him. Funny all the same. The lucky bugger only scuffed the fairing about 1cm since he managed to lay it down on the grass.

Bloody returning riders ah?

I've nearly done the forgot-stand-up-when-taking-off-lift-thing and slipped on gravel. Lucky my bike is pretty light.

The wife (vertically challenged) slipped on our gravel driveway and god knows how she managed not to drop it. It was bloody impressive. I swear it was past the point of no return but she said after "there was no fucking why I was gonna drop it". haha determination that is.

[vifferman]

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

Hmmm... now there's a thought. It's done some gravel riding, but nothing that gnarly.
No, it was my first bike - a CB175. I doubt the VFR would've fared better - various other bikes didn't make it either (CB550/4s, CBB750/4s, etc etc.). My next attempt succeeded easily (MT250) and I had a lovely time motocrossing around on the summit (yes, yes - very un-PC, but hey - it was the '70s.)

[vifferman]

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

I don't do stunting every day - those stunts were spread over 37 years.

awesome!!

those are my favourites....

The wheelie one would have to be up there, fer sher. The somersault over the car probably had the biggest bang and destruction for the least injury (few abrasions and 9 stitches in my knee. (The bike was so bent it ripped half the rocker cover off when the frame buckled. Amazingly, it was rebuilt, courtesy of a CD175 donor bike).
Also memorable in that I was wearing jandals, it was Christmas Day 1975, the police visited me at home to try to get me to confess to speeding, and in the legal wrangle over money, I had one Paul East representing me.

[Cheshire Cat]

being a noob

"I Like This"

[davebullet]

Looping it

[Ride Fast Live Long]

Letting your mate whose determined hes a better rider than you have a boost

[Toaster]

Sheep......

[HenryDorsetCase]

Looping it

Oh yeah, I was on a mates near new DT400 and I thought I'd do a wheelie to impress some girls I knew, looped it and it cost me three weeks wages to fix the bike and the girls pissed themselves laughing. Doh.

[Corse1]

Stalling when exiting driveway and putting feet up too soon

New bike take off and at the same time turning..stall feet down but too much weight on the falling side to hold.

Stall on hill in driveway ...put foot down but garden was 8 inches lower than concrete drive......same as above.

And the best advice I can I can give is if you are manouvering a bike inside a confined space like a garage and you are close to other objects......sit on the damn thing while you are moving it

Thats three strikes so it shouldn't happen any more or does that mean I am out

Seriously its been a long while since those incidents but they are still fresh in my memory.

[Deano]

If it hasn't been said before ?

Ask a Mair !!

Jimmy and Drew are well qualified.

[steelphoenix]

Turning at the top of Twin Oaks Drive in Cornwall Park, forgetting the clutch until a moment too late, stalling, realising that I was tilting... over... too much... CRUNCH.

In front of a group of runners... undignified...

[vifferman]

Looping it

Oh.
Yeah, done that too.

Here's something highly entertaining but kinda stupid.
When I was at high school, a classmate of mine asked his brother for a turn on his bike. He'd never ridden before, so his brother gave him some pointers, in the back yard:
"Er...yeah, turn this grip here, until that needle there is on that red bit on that dial, then let go of this lever here."

[Conquiztador]

Riding with a windshield. In the dark. In the rain. And too fast. Then coming to a 90 degree turn... Oh and, after a few beers...

In a hurry with a new bike with a 7 meter turning radious and a few hundread meters down the road realising you forgot something, doing a U-Turn at speed (with the bike weighing 250Kg's) and hitting the steering stop... I can tell you now that putting down the foot is a waste of time.

[Coolz]

Stalling on a cattlestop and foot slips through rails ... Trying to get through gate before wind blows it shut ... Showing off in front of the ladies....