After you got your full licence how long B4 you dropped yr bike?

[Jantar]

WOW, I see that around 33% claim they have never dropped a bike. I didn't realize there were so many tellers of untruths in this forum... Or maybe they own bikes, but just haven't yet got their full licence.

[moko]

I think I can kind of beat everyone here.I turned up for my test but managed to turn the key so hard (nerves or something)that I snapped it off in the ignition switch.Test Centre office was situated in a car-park and the attendant managed to hot-wire it(suspiciously easily)but the instructor wouldn`t let me take the test on it in that state,I went home and fell off on the way,dont remember anything about it to this day but it was nasty,nearly lost an eye.Thing is the test had officially started so despite the fact I wasn`t allowed to finish or pass it I came off about 20 minutes after taking it.............Big Style.Better yet it was my Mum`s birthday so got a birthday treat of a trip to the hospital to see her baby mashed up,I was so bad my family walked past without recognising me,4 months later I was back on a bike again.

[bear]

Came close at the petrol station the other day, forgot to put the stand down and went to get off (routine got mucked up for some reason). Luckily was able to hold it up.

[Oakie]

I haven't binned since I got my full ... about 25 years ago. Before that I had a couple of low speed falls (one on grass, the other when I hit gravel doing a U turn at about 5kph) and I rode into my mum's hedge once when I braked too late. (I don't count the time I rode into the back of her car in the driveway as I didn't fall off .... and I didn't tell her).

The closest since I got my full involved the twisty road to Portobello on the Otago Peninsula, a Z400, a cliff, a blind corner and too much speed on an unfamiliar road. Skidded to a halt sideways about 2 metres from the edge. Lesson learnt that day.

[Sniper]

Only my mates dropped mine so never again, they are not allowed on it!!!!

[mikey]

didnt even bother waiting til i got my licence before i ""dropped"" bike or maybe should read a lovely wee police man assisted me in dropping it.

[Beemer]

I didn't wait until I got my licence to drop my bike! Got my first bike, the RG150, a week before Christmas in 1998 and took it for a ride around the block on Christmas Day. Pulled up at the traffic lights, kept trying to flick it into neutral (they were a mongrel to get into neutral!) and totally forgot to put even one foot down so over I went. A guy jumped out of a car next to me and helped me up - then I realised he was wearing a Santa hat! Dropped it again in the same manner a few weeks later when Alan Kirk was teaching me how to ride (it worked, eventually!), then had to let it go when moving it at the WIMA rally a year later - the back wheel went off the path and my arms weren't long enough to hold onto it! The F650CS didn't meet the same fate, and the Goose is only a month old - so far so good!

No proper 'offs' though - and only one fall while riding rather than while stopping - and that was on a borrowed dirt bike (sorry Brendan!) in Black Forest Station - man, a 500m drop to the bottom of the gully sure puts the frighteners up you! Don't mind admitting it took me 15 minutes to pluck up the courage to get back on it again.

[FlyingDutchMan]

I've only just got my full license (had it for literally 30mins top). Haven't really had a chance to drop it on my full. Done it once on me learners and once on my restricted, so I'm guessing that the there'll be one occasion on my full.

[Lou Girardin]

Before I got a licence.

[bungbung]

Same, I haven't dropped a bike since I got my full, oh wait yes I have. MrMelon's Street Magic #1

does that count?

[JohnBoy]

Bloody trackday....bloody higgins... BLOODY HELL NOW DONE IT TWICE , Labor weekend 04, VMCC RD1 05!!!

all after about 18months happy vertical riding...

never mind, heres a visual aid for those who haven't seen it.
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...achmentid=4508

[MikeL]

I think I can kind of beat everyone here.

... at one end of the scale. Anyone beat my 35 years at the other end??

[Dafe]

I haven't dropped it yet, I'm wondering if I should go out tonight and drop it, coz I can't really call myself a true motorcyclist until I know what it feels like to take the slide!!!!!
They don't hire those human cannons locally do they? I wouldn't mind a warm up first!

[Ixion]

... at one end of the scale. Anyone beat my 35 years at the other end??

Yep. Just. 37 years. But I ride like nana

[Virago]

When I picked up the Virago, I rode the 200 km home. The next day I gave my baby it's first clean. On the side stand, facing slightly downhill. A good bit of vigorous polishing got a rocking rhythm going and suddenly I was flat on the ground with the bike on top of me. VERY embarrassing, but at least she got a soft landing........