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

[granstar]

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]

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

Failed to mention it is Kawasaki

[T.W.R]

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

[russd7]

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

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

did enough damage with one o these,


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]

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]

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.

[GazzaH]

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

[FJRider]

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]

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...

[slofox]

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 ...

All true. But we're dealing with ACC here innit?

[granstar]

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 ...

So sitting at lights stationary and you get rear ended doesn't count then?