How to pick up your dropped bike?

[kilgh]

Beware the adrenaline rush too, lots of muscle injuries that way, either learn a way to do it yourself or lie down and pretend to be injured, you get a good response that way.

Excellent!

[SMOKEU]

I have lost count of the number of people I have helped pick up bikes for, anything from 250kg BMWs to 100kg trail bikes, if being able to pick up your own bike in 'normal" riding conditions was a prerequisite to ownership then we would all be riding postie bikes and even they are heavy when you're underneath one.

Beware the adrenaline rush too, lots of muscle injuries that way, either learn a way to do it yourself or lie down and pretend to be injured, you get a good response that way.

Well, I'm pretty weak and I managed to pick up a 100kg bike with a broken hand after I had a crash.

[MsKABC]

Well, I'm pretty weak and I managed to pick up a 100kg bike with a broken hand after I had a crash.

So you're riding a postie bike then? 100kg is nothing. I could pick that up with one hand. Most sprots bikes are 150kg+, and they are the lightest type of bike.

[PrincessBandit]

If you can't pick the bike up yourself, then it's probably too heavy for you to be riding it in the first place, or so 'they' say.

mmm, remember overhearing a conversation between some Goldwing owners I happened to be parked next to at a Pink Ribbon ride - the bloke was saying that when his goes over it takes 3 people to get it up.



Shit I need to not drink before typing as it's taken me mutip[lw goes to write this

[PrincessBandit]

So you're riding a postie bike then? 100kg is nothing. I could pick that up with one hand. Most sprots bikes are 150kg+, and they are the lightest type of bike.

hell yeah myu bandit is 215kg drhy.

faaaahk - i mean my bandit is 215 dary

[bogan]

it varies person to person, heres a list I have compiled
Most blokes can just grab the bars and lift it up.
Some smaller and feebler people can huck it up with the adrenaline burst that comes from crashing.
Hot wimmins can just remove some clothes and wait for roadside assistance (wait is proportional to; level of hotness, traffic density, amount of clothes removed, and level of hotness).
Another option is to remove the bike toolkit, find the nearest roadsign and uproot it to use as a lever (those corner arrow ones work best as it shows you the direction to lift).
Or you could get it running, rock it up and down while digging a rut with the back wheel, thus moving the pivot point slightly higher on the bike.
Another one for the toolkit, disassemble bike, and reassemble in an upright position.

[MsKABC]

Hot wimmins can just remove some clothes and wait for roadside assistance (wait is proportional to; level of hotness, traffic density, amount of clothes removed, and level of hotness).

You said "level of hotness" twice Some hot wimmins don't need to wait for passersby...

Another option is to remove the bike toolkit, find the nearest roadsign and uproot it to use as a lever (those corner arrow ones work best as it shows you the direction to lift).

Another one for the toolkit, disassemble bike, and reassemble in an upright position.

Gold!

[Sis]

I don't have to remove anything apart from my helmet.

Then I get these big strong guys (two of them) getting out of their trucks (almost as good as firemen) and coming over to lift my bike up.

[MadDuck]

Cheers for the link Hitcher. Very good method.

Mine is 250kg dry and I can lift it. Problem is where I tend to drop it is on a hell of a steep upward slope of a driveway. My favourite technique in these circumstances is knocking on the lovely neighbours door and saying ....please!

[porky]

330 dry weight. Ill be ringin for Macintoshs crane. But yeah that technique works well as long as you can get good traction and dont arse it right over the other side. Was taught once apon a time when people did advanced rider training, as well as all the other good shit, like not dropping it in the first place.

[YellowDog]

I thought I'd seen much better bike lifting techniques however the one shown wins in terms of using minimal effort and avoiding a lifting related injury.

[PrincessBandit]

I've never had the opportunity to practice lfiting my bike as there has always been a nice chap in the vicinity to assist me. Because mine always has $ damage when it goes over I try to avoid as much as possible. Howecver, I'm sure there will be a day somteime when I'll remember the technique and test it for muyself.

[Virago]

Cheers for the link Hitcher. Very good method.

Mine is 250kg dry and I can lift it. Problem is where I tend to drop it is on a hell of a steep upward slope of a driveway. My favourite technique in these circumstances is knocking on the lovely neighbours door and saying ....please!

Very good point - most such bike drops are as the result of parking manouevers, and are not often dropped in an easily lifted position.

I've drop the Virago twice. The first was a victim of wet grass, I dropped it neatly alongside a stone wall - no way to get a good position for a lift.

The second - I managed to drop it on top of myself when cleaning it - don't ask me how. I used to do a spot of pumping iron, but a 250Kg bench press lift was a bit much...

[bogan]

You said "level of hotness" twice

Of course, it counts double.

Some hot wimmins don't need to wait for passersby...

well yeh, they don't have to, but keep it under your hat, my way is better

[SMOKEU]

So you're riding a postie bike then? 100kg is nothing. I could pick that up with one hand. Most sprots bikes are 150kg+, and they are the lightest type of bike.

Sports bikes are not that light. Dirt bikes and motards tend to have a lot less weight.