Common methods of dropping bike?

[blackdog]

if ya dont wanna put up with the tears and recrimination, might be better just dropping them via text message

[JacksDad]

This guy i know dropped his bike in the drive-way when he stalled it trying to take off and turn 90degress up hill at the same time, he now has a special short clutch lever.

[Hellzie]

Dropped my bike yesterday on a stupid cambered road... put my foot down on the downhill side, couldn't hold it up. BOOO!!!! Seems super stupid now, why didn't I realise it before I did it?

Note to self - next time stick more to the crest of the camber and lean uphill....

GRRR!!! Lucky I was able to put it down gently and only the gear lever was bent a bit, no other damage.

[oneofsix]

Dropped my bike yesterday on a stupid cambered road... put my foot down on the downhill side, couldn't hold it up. BOOO!!!! Seems super stupid now, why didn't I realise it before I did it?

Note to self - next time stick more to the crest of the camber and lean uphill....

GRRR!!! Lucky I was able to put it down gently and only the gear lever was bent a bit, no other damage.

Oops, glad the damage wasn't too bad.
Your drop illustrates one of the issues with the "recommended practice" of holding the back brake when stopped. I prefer what I was taught which was to put the right foot down just as you stop as this is the up hill of the camber - usually - and holding the front brake. Means I don't have to do the foot dance to pop into or out neutral.

[Hellzie]

Oops, glad the damage wasn't too bad.
Your drop illustrates one of the issues with the "recommended practice" of holding the back brake when stopped. I prefer what I was taught which was to put the right foot down just as you stop as this is the up hill of the camber - usually - and holding the front brake. Means I don't have to do the foot dance to pop into or out neutral.

That was exactly my issue! Normally I use my front brake, but I've been practicing the 'slow race' stuff lately, gently back braking, and keeping the clutch in friction zone and throttle on a little... then while I was concentrating on all this, I didn't think about the camber and the fact that I should put my right foot down instead... I guess back brake stops are definitely not always the best option... Annoying thing is I've done that stop plenty of times before... with front brake and both feet down.

[R-Soul]

Rode a mates bike DT125 down a gravel road, a bit pissed and in the dark- enjoyed giveing throttle and missed a corner. Just missed a telephone pole. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.


Rode another mate's DT125 down a tar road, sober, in broad daylight. Missed a corner - down embankment into cornfields. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.

Years later learnt about counter steering, and realised that I had no actual control over bikes in the first two crashes:

LEARN ABOUT COUNTERSTEERING NOW!

You cannot control a bike with weight shift alone.

[Hellzie]

Rode a mates bike DT125 down a gravel road, a bit pissed and in the dark- enjoyed giveing throttle and missed a corner. Just missed a telephone pole. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.


Rode another mate's DT125 down a tar road, sober, in broad daylight. Missed a corner - down embankment into cornfields. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.

Years later learnt about counter steering, and realised that I had no actual control over bikes in the first two crashes:

LEARN ABOUT COUNTERSTEERING NOW!

You cannot control a bike with weight shift alone.

I blame the DT125.

[R-Soul]

I blame the DT125.

dont joke- I did originally too!
But once I discovered counter steering, I realised that trying to steer the bike (even a light one like that) without countersteering, was like trying to steer a car by scraping my foot on the road....

[Conquiztador]

Rode a mates bike DT125 down a gravel road, a bit pissed and in the dark- enjoyed giveing throttle and missed a corner. Just missed a telephone pole. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.


Rode another mate's DT125 down a tar road, sober, in broad daylight. Missed a corner - down embankment into cornfields. Big damage to bike. Pissed off mate.

Years later learnt about counter steering, and realised that I had no actual control over bikes in the first two crashes:

LEARN ABOUT COUNTERSTEERING NOW!

You cannot control a bike with weight shift alone.

Lesson one: Ride your own bike.

Lesson two: Don't ride DT 125's

Lesson three: Stay sober

Lesson four: Keep your fuckups to your self ;-)

[R-Soul]

Lesson one: Ride your own bike.

Lesson two: Don't ride DT 125's

Lesson three: Stay sober

Lesson four: Keep your fuckups to your self ;-)

Nobody likes admitting that they stuffed up (especially on a DT125!). But if somebody else can leanr a lesson from it without doing it the hard way like I did, then its worth it.

[Hellzie]

Nobody likes admitting that they stuffed up (especially on a DT125!). But if somebody else can leanr a lesson from it without doing it the hard way like I did, then its worth it.

+1 Totally agree. Plus it's fun to laugh at other people's mistakes. Plus it's good not to take yourself too seriously and know that you're human and make mistakes.

[skinman]

Ha
you guys think you have it tuff now
just wait till you get a big heavy bike (see my avatar)
lets just say its a good thing that footplates always hit the ground first & if you dismount quickly it can be stopped there. Picking it up is a both hands job.

[R-Soul]

+1 Totally agree. Plus it's fun to laugh at other people's mistakes. Plus it's good not to take yourself too seriously and know that you're human and make mistakes.

I guess, but hell, if I think of the stuff that I did, with no respect for the machine (or my life) at all, I sometimes wonder how I managed to survive my teenage years and twenties....

TBH I was a fucking retard, and could easily have killed my self on both of those occasions - but at least they made me think hard and long about what I was doing wrong, and to leave bikes the hell alone for a while until I knew how to control them properly....

[sportsbikesrock]

Weird ways of dropping bikes - cant do the normal way it seems....

A duck decides to fly straight at you and so you brake.... hard.....

Some dickheads in a shitty matt black r33 skyline reverse into you deliberately cos its fun - you fall off cos you didn't expect it.

Must say I did enjoy roaring at them, pity I couldn't have done more than that.
Fucking ducks and dickheads. Still out riding though! Bound to have something worse happen.

[R-Soul]

Weird ways of dropping bikes - cant do the normal way it seems....

A duck decides to fly straight at you and so you brake.... hard.....

Some dickheads in a shitty matt black r33 skyline reverse into you deliberately cos its fun - you fall off cos you didn't expect it.

Must say I did enjoy roaring at them, pity I couldn't have done more than that.
Fucking ducks and dickheads. Still out riding though! Bound to have something worse happen.

Purposefully reversed into you?
Geez that is just looking to have their side view mirror smashed off and door kicked in. Although you do have to have a bike that can outrun a skyline after that. Or you could get off and smash their head in through their window...