Did it or didn't it?

[discotex]

Not in the first 6 months but before I got rid of the 250.

Cage saved me the hassle of putting the ZXR on trademe by allowing me to use their insurance to write off the bike Got more from their insurance than I paid for it 9 months earlier. Go market value!

[spookytooth]

Yes it did but it was'nt my fault.There was pretty girls i was 15 at the time.Bike tried to do a wheel stand

[Jantar]

Results so far do show that it is more likely that a new rider will drop a bike within the first six months, but that result is not yet significant.

Out of 50 new riders it is very likely that 21 will drop their bike 16 will not drop their bike and 13 may or may not drop their bike. (to the 95% confidence limit).

I'll update the probability as more votes come in.

[Jiminy]

Nah, made it to the seventh month before the first drop. That's why I didn't buy an expensive new bike when I started riding, I knew it would happen.

[Harvd]

yea i dropped it/flew it... into the sea so never really technically hit the ground... what should my vote be then? 1 month after i got it too

[PrincessBandit]

what makes people think that dropping a naked bike is cheaper than dropping a faired one?

Dropped my pretty little ginny twice (once from stationary, looking down as i stopped in the driveway, second time it jiggled off it's side stand while I was stopped at the letter box). Each time only an indicator smashed. Dropped my beautiful bandit twice too (first time grabbing a handful of brake to avoid neighbour coming round bend in shared driveway very quickly, second time foot slipped in gravel at a stop); each time smashed indicator and scars on the faring. Second time it actually had aaarrgggghhh cracks! Decided that due to $ factor faring could be patched up rather than replaced yet.......

i had my first bike for about a day. pulled into a gravel driveway, stopped, lost my footing and over she went. i think there was a small scratch and maybe a broken indicator. about 2 months later i put it into a ditch at about 50km. damn near wrote it off

I sympathise - see above, although can say quite happily I've never come close to writing my girl off.

Yes it did but it was'nt my fault.There was pretty girls i was 15 at the time.Bike tried to do a wheel stand

Musn't think smutty thoughts, musn't think smutty thoughts........

[Motu]

Dropped my bike the first and second day...and then frequently after that.It was hard to do any significant damage to a BSA Bantam - steel levers with perches welded to the bars.

[Jantar]

Now with 66 votes in we can say that there is more chance of dropping a bike within the first 6 months of riding than not. It is still a tenuous claim and only at the 75% confidence limit.

At the 95% confidence limit we can now say that out of 100 new riders 44 riders will very likely drop their bikes, 32 riders are very likely to not drop their bikes, and 24 riders may or may not drop their bikes.

[XxKiTtiExX]

Lost my footing and fell over with mine after only 3 days of owning it, managed to squash myself in the process... I'm glad I hadn't spent heaps on my first bike thats for sure..

[Ocean1]

Yes. Probably a dozen times.

That's what dirt bikes is for innit?

Actually, the first road bike falled down at about 2 months also, parking incident.

[rphenix]

Never on the road, but the Honda XR plenty of times on the grass especially early in the mornings when theres that water dew/vapour combine that with mud created by deer hooves and you've got a pretty effective slip'n'slide.

Great thing was you could pick up the bike, look around good nobody seen and continue riding. Nothing on the bike except caked mud on the clutch lever and hand guard.

I've always thought some of those city slickers learning to drive cars that drive around at 35km holding about 100 people up in the process should instead go to some farm bootcamp where they can ride a Yamaha AG, Honda XL/XR or similar.

[Quailboy]

Not yet...

[Usarka]

How does you ride feel after you top 150+, without fairings?

It feels like 190+

[Gremlin]

You wuz just goin' after the free watercress, eh, Grem?

The first was full of mud. The second was relatively minor, and completely newbie, right in front of another kb'er. He has always said after, I was yelling in my helmet, stop braking, and tuuuuuuurrrrrrn.

I don't like watercress... or scratching up bikes

[NinjaNanna]

1st bike (ZZR250 - 1991) yes - practicing u-turns, brushed the gutter and lowered it to the ground. No damage

2nd bike (VFR 800 - 1998) - steep driveway 2up, dropped it at 2km/hr. No damage

3rd bike (VFR 800 - 2002) - no, never dropped that one

4rd bike (ZXR-9 1995) - tricky manuveour getting it into parking position, foot down, oh shit too far - technically didn't reach the ground but did scratch lower fairing on some bricks. Strained my bloody back too.

5th bike (R1 2004) - not yet and hopefully not.

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Wife's first bike (ZR-250 Balius 1990) - yes gravel in car park while learning, lost footing while slowly coming to a stop. Lowered it to the ground, probably some new scratching but could tell because of previous owners own misadventures.

Same bike I stupidly left it running on its side stand - ever so slightly facing downhill, heard a crash turned around to see it lying on its side, thought oh well no big deal, picked it up and oil was leaking out - I'd cracked the engine case - oh shit now a big deal, got it sorted and bike is still running fine.