Which side do you drop your bike??

[XF650]

Sounds like another DT230 may have got scratched on it's maiden trail ride??

Was my right side ribs that broke the fall off my DT.
Ironically t'was also drop to right, on Freewind the week previous, but much less spectacular

[_Shrek_]

I prefer to just park the bike in an interesting way - like today in the Mungatooks when my chain wrapped around the knobby...

Transalper i hope we wont be following suit... me or my bike can't swim

[Transalper]

Transalper i hope we wont be following suit... me or my bike can't swim

I often thought an air bag of sorts attached each side of the tank or somewhere similar that could be used as a jack to right a heavy bike after falling would be a good thing. Maybe they would work as water wings for the 'my bike cant swim' riders among us too.

[marks]

Sounds like another DT230 may have got scratched on it's maiden trail ride??

No Damage (except to Glen's pride) - the mud was so soft you could have dropped the bike from the tree tops and it wouldn't have got scratched.

Actually I christened the DT a couple of weeks ago on some tree roots - no damage that time either but I'm only allowed to ride the "shitters" now. When my younger son sees where I parked his bike (the red one in the top pic) I most probably won't get to ride that either.....

this was the puddle where the DT slipped off the edge of into (taken on a previous ride when I came to grief - see top of picture).

Was my right side ribs that broke the fall off my DT.

Did you actually break your ribs or just bruise everything up?

[marks]

I often thought an air bag of sorts attached each side of the tank or somewhere similar that could be used as a jack to right a heavy bike after falling would be a good thing.

I always thought that the answer was to have a bike the was light enough to pick up by yourself (100-120kg?) but when Glen parked the DT with its wheels higher the the tank there is no way one person could have got it back upright - so we'll take couple of sets of those air bags when you finally develop them ....

We often carry a couple of 4m ratchet tie down thingy's as a poor mans tow rope and I suppose they would allow you to very slowly winch a bike out of serious grief but it would take all day.

[mbazza]

Good one Lance, I've dropped my last bike twice on the right. I'm right handed. Haven't dropped the V-strom (yet). Don't intend too either! Too much plastic. Cheers.

[mbazza]

Air bags, don't need them! My last (right side) was on snow/ice. looked up to see a young blood get out of a new Ford sports ute. "New there was a reason I was too chicken to ride to the Brass Monkey', he said as he helped me pick the XT600 up from the middle of the road. Nice young bloke! Cheers