I dropped my bike today!

[heyjoe]

Been there - done that. It always happens when you least expect it eh?
Glad to hear that there is no serious damage.

[ninjac]

Im sure it's possible with the right technique... any help there would be muchly appreciated!!

I can give you lessons. The first one is free!
Oh hang on, are we talking about the same thing?

[MyGSXF:Me]

Glad to hear you & Cookie are still in one piece! May have dented the pride.. but a good learning experience all the same. Stick with it fellow biker babe!

Jen

[Meekey_Mouse]

I can give you lessons. The first one is free!
Oh hang on, are we talking about the same thing?

Hmm... Some how I don't thing we are talking about the same thing lol

[andrea]

I hope cookie gets fixed soon, I was horrified ta hizzle `bout it n shit. Not too mizzle damage done though, n a doggy stylin' experience =)

Word.

http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html

hey thats a primo site aye cheers for that, sorry to hear bout your drop meeky mouse at least your ok, and good to hear that you had a good time.
there was a bike show or something up here in manukau at the telstra centre heaps of bikers there, i was just passing by dragging off some cagers heading towards my sisters house

[KLOWN]

Haha no problem... tangents are good. I am use to getting trail bikes up, so I do know a few techniques... but the bike was sloped down hill so I was also fighting gravity and the hill.

I was told with trail bike you use your knee as a wedge to help get it up (ie lift it till the wheels touch the ground, get your knee into it and use that for leverage. Every lil bit up it goes get your knee under more). That didn't work, I gave it my all a few times with different techniques I could think of at the time but to no avail. Now my knee is just bruised and sore. I think 65Kgs against 200Kgs is a bit tough but Im sure it's possible with the right technique... any help there would be muchly appreciated!!

The one time my bike has gone down I lifted it by grabbing the handle bar that wasn't smushed againt the road and placed my feet against the tyre then leaned back and pulled at the same time. This got my bike up quick. The only hiccup maybe is, the bike went down after being clipped by a car and after I picked myself up of the road my adrenaline was pumping so it could have been easy due to this.

[Hawk]

Dropped a few myself, more ego pain than anything else and of course a 5 ft nothing rider tring to figure out how hes going to pick it up ( always managed it by the method already stated, lower handle bar, bent knees, straight back ) his Kawa 1000, BMW R80 and few others.

You are now a member of a club with lots participants your subs are due

[ceebie13]

Really sorry to hear of your drop. It happens to us all so nothing to feel ashamed about. Just be prepared for criticism from some quarters of KB who maintain that if you can't pick it up you shouldn't be riding it. Not my school of thought I hasten to add.

[slimjim]

that's a bugger, real wrapped you had a great day out anyway, pity you couldn't carefully spin the bike around to help weight wise lift , bloody quiet country road's ha ha,

[Ixion]

Don't fret about it. Happens sooner or later to everyone. Biker who hasn't sometime or other done the "slow down, stop, foot down, WTF where's the ground gone, oh shit shit argghh " bit is either a liar or a poser.

Lifting a bike is a matter of technique , not strength. If you know the trick even a small person can lift a very heavy bike

See this thread for the trick http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...2&postcount=66

[Meekey_Mouse]

Thanks to every one for all the advice and help by what I've been told it seems that using your back to get the bike up is the best way, I shall try that next time as Im sure this won't be the last time I drop a bike.

Thanks again!!
Jas

[Maha]

Really??......your bike weighs 200kgs?
Mine weighs 207.....
I think we all have those little opps! stories.. i have done it twice, once at a gas station, forgot to put the stand down, GN 250,....
And dropped my 600 yammy, well sort of, same thing, forgot about the stand and got off and the bike followed me, to the ground, no damage but...

[pritch]

The question is, should small people ride bikes too heavy for them to lift back up?

As someone else has already pointed out there is a specific technique. The best I've seen involved squatting with your back to the bike, gripping the bars and wherever else you can and standing up. Slowly! Otherwise you will have to walk around the bike and do it again from the other side.

You do need a solid surface and some grip in the soles of yer boots.

And no, I haven't tried it. If any of you do, please let's know how it works...

[sunhuntin]

bugger! glad there doesnt appear to be too much damage! everyone asses off at some stage...just be glad it was slow/no speed and all the rest.

ive dropped my old bikes once or twice....managed to get them back up both times without much effort. when i got hit by the car though, i couldnt even lift my topbox, let alone the bike!

[lukelin250]

those damn slow speed manouvres always tricky im in the club aswell,i tryed to walk it u-turn n somehow dropped it,the bad thing is it was in the middle of the road at night and at the end of a blind corner!!! the adrenaline kicks in seeing your baby on the ground and i swear i coulda picked her up and run her over to the kerb lol