Dropped!

[Uncle B]

I binned the SV I used to have,

Too much gas, too soon exiting a corner whilst still cranked over.
Back end slid out sending me and the bike sliding along the tarmac for a while.
Lesson learnt
Respect the throttle and use it wisely.....roll on, roll off.

[rookie]

I did exactly the same thing on saturday. Was pretty pissed at myself. But no use crying over spilt milk. Broke the screen and top fairing.

yea must say i was pretty dark at the time.

My screen emerged unscathed with the front fairing cracking around the left indicator. The rear fairing under the seat has a nasty crack that'll need teding to soon though...fairing is under a fair bit of tension which is opening up the crack.

[rookie]

I binned the SV I used to have,

Too much gas, too soon exiting a corner whilst still cranked over.
Back end slid out sending me and the bike sliding along the tarmac for a while.
Lesson learnt
Respect the throttle and use it wisely.....roll on, roll off.

One of the joys of being on a 250 is that you can open her up midway through a corner and she doesnt bite...unless you have grease on your tyre from excess grease spraying off chain....hmmm...another lesson that was learnt on another day.

[Buddy L]

Ive been riding for almost 2 months...dropped mine on the weekend for the first time.

Was i hit by some idiot in a cage??
Was i getting the knee down whilst doing 100km/hr round a 35k bend??!!
Or was I 2 wheel drifting in torrential rain?!?!?!!!!

NO!!!

I dropped the bike in a bloody service station after not putting down the stand properly.

Only damage was a couple of cracks on the opposite side of a fibreglass reinforcing job i did the previous weekend....ah well...some people are born to fibreglass i guess

ALWAYS CHECK YOUR STAND BEFORE WALKING AWAY

The worst thing is when you do it to someone elses bike, worth twice as much as your own witch happend to me on saturday as well.
but crashing isn't that bad, yea its a bummer, but all the best come off some time. i came off on a roundabout as well doing the same thing leaning it to much, now i take the out side lane, because their is aways heaps of oil and deseil at roundabouts, commen place for binning.

[vtec]

Yeah, have dropped my bikes a few times. If you don't drop it you are both a nana, and very lucky. Also note my signature, if you ever get any bad drops, give me first dibs to look at it. Will pay more than any wrecker for damaged bikes.

[dnos]

First time I dropped mine was trying to do drifts on the lawn, ummmm grass was a good place to drop it tho.
I also gently placed it on the road doing a slow speed u turn.
Had a few close calls with tyres sliding out but thats all fun - not at any serious speeds. Front tyre going definitely gave me a fright tho

[aff-man]

twice in the first two weeks of riding...


You live you learn ...

[frogfeaturesFZR]

Mate if that roundabout is by Long Bay college then theres enough rubber on the road for a Moto GP bike to fly around it. Just watch out for the kids

[MrMelon]

I dropped my street magic once outside uni with a big crowd around. Got the leg of my pants hooked around the little plate on the inside of the footpeg.. went to put my leg out when I stopped at the lights but was on my side before I could do anything about it! piss.

[rookie]

twice in the first two weeks of riding...


You live you learn ...

awesome

[rookie]

First time I dropped mine was trying to do drifts on the lawn, ummmm grass was a good place to drop it tho.
I also gently placed it on the road doing a slow speed u turn.
Had a few close calls with tyres sliding out but thats all fun - not at any serious speeds. Front tyre going definitely gave me a fright tho

yea had the front tyre drifting round a high speed corner before...it was when the tyres were cold and was quite gradual so i was able to back off without dramas.

[blue_abe]

Lol so many lessons to learn eh. At least we all don't have to crash to learn each one. We'll learn off each other too!

But like somebody said on this thread (I forgot who) it really is best to get back on quick. There was a nagging fear when I got on (like 5 mins after the crash). But that left once I got my rhythm back

[aff-man]

awesome

My folks didn't think so....

Thing was they were both slow speed (first about 50km/h second about 25-30) and was a bit of my fault a bit of the bikes (really shitty tyres they did not hold... new tyres sorted it out and made it heaps better to ride) but I was riding the next day / later the same day.

It phases some people when they have an off, I tend to just be pissed off (mainly at myself), fix the bike up and get on with it.......... Oh and try throwing a bike up a driveway... yes up ... that was the third drop and man I was almost crying before I hit the ground at the thought of my bike getting all scratched up.... again.

[McJim]

I don't feel half as bad as I did about dropping my bike twice in 3 months after reading everyone elses input. There's me riding round Auckland in scuffed boots and leathers thinking 'All the other bikers will be looking at the scratches and thinking Wot a Twat - he fell off' but in reality loads of other peeps have had slow speed spills.

Bling to the guy that started this.

Cool

[Str8 Jacket]

I have a habit of dropping bikes... I wrote off my first bike in the first 2 months I started riding and I probably couldnt count how many times I have dropped the KR. The most embarrasing time was when I forgot I had my disc lock on, it was just after 3.30 and all the high school kids were right across the road waiting for buses, there were people everywhere and it made quite a loud bang so everyone saw me.