Just finished polishing the bike. It doesn't look too bad all things considered. However, just as I was putting it back in the corner of the garage to make room for my dad's bike and the car, I missed the stand and dropped it on it's left side. :o In the words of the great Butthead..."Damn, I'm smooth." Fortunately, all it did was bust the clutch lever, of which I had two spares. Five minute fix, but can a guy catch a break already or what? Anybody else done this? Jeez. :-/
HEHE! I had about 100 miles on my GSXR (breaking it in before I got it ready for the track), when it got away from me and fell into the wall. Several small scratches and a small dent in the tank.
EVERY bike i've owned (save my R1) has had something like that happen to it. ;D
Maybe you are just getting the bad luck outta the way before the weekend ;D :P
Quote Maybe you are just getting the bad luck outta the way before the weekend ;D :P
AMEN!!!
When the bike falls, just throw yourself under it. ;)
That's what I did to my GSXR 7/11 way back when Gixxers were heavy.
I was at the back of it, and slowed it way down before it landed. Thus, just a clutch lever pretzeled...lol. Steve and Greg...I was thinking (hoping) the same thing. ;D
QuoteWhen the bike falls, just throw yourself under it. ;)
As quoted from:
http://www.cbr600f4.com/secondary_pages/lame.html
The Lamest "bike" crash you've ever heard by "Dirty" Larry Fouts
O.K. here is my story really short and really lame. Friday night I was getting my 98 CBR900RR ready for my area's annual toys for tots ride,(very excited we usually get 100-150 bikes) everything is going well just polished the frame and swing arm, bike looks good I am just about finished when oh crap, I had forgotten to lube the chain. So I break out my trusty LP swing arm stand, chain is lubed, as I stand up I bump the rear of my bike it jumped forward and started to slide off of the stand as I ran around the right side of the bike to catch it my left leg caught on the swing arm. Well when my left leg stopped, my right kept going and I ended up doing a baseball type slide right as the bike fell over on my right leg. I heard a slight pop and when I pulled my leg out my foot was facing in a direction I had never seen it point before. To make a long story short. 5 inch Titainium plate and 6 screws (permanent) in my right tibia and I should be just fine in about 2 months or so. Well now isn't that the lamest non crash motorcycle story you have ever heard?
Thanks
"Dirty" Larry Fouts
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If this were me, all I could see is the conversation while on the garage floor that would be something like this:
"You'd better lift honey because I'm *NOT* going to the hospital until that bike is upright!"
Thanks...at least I didn't get hurt. ;D
Brought my bike home in a pickup after purchase and promptly highsided on the ramp unloading denting the tank. But I think JeF4y is the winner of the tuff luck stories. Get well soon.
Baltobuell, we did the same thing with the Gixxer John had bought me. Bike was 3/4 of the way down the ramp when the back wheel slipped off (board was a tad icy) and we put a healthy crack in the bottom of the fairing. I'm surprised he didn't make me sleep in the garage after THAT one! ::)
Buddy Melk enticed me to buy a bike. I did. A nearly new 00 R6 with about 1K miles. Within the first 4 hrs of owning the bike, it was totaled and i was walking around the Street (on a broken foot) looking for the shoes that had been removed from my feet -- all with Melk watching in amazement. Lesson learned -- have insurance before you ride and don't count on Harley riding experiencing is navigating even the simplest of turns. In retrospect, the turn where i recked could have been negotiated on a go-ped 10x the speed i was traveling.
Melk -- give me a call at home.
Gotta be more to the story than that...and how did you total it going slow?
Was a novice on sport bike at the time. Had been riding harleys for a few years. Came into a turn in a residential neigborhood that was off camber and with a car coming in the other direction (so i believe). As i approached the turn, with Melk on tail, i totally froze up. Rather than even turning the slightest, i stood it up. The real problem came when i hit a foot full of rear brake and no front (another very novice move). I went through a line of trees like an overweight bird with no wings. The last tree caught the foot peg with my foot in between. That pretty much meant the bike came to a very sudden stop and because of the forward momentum, started to tumble head over foot with rider (me) landing somewhere 20 feet away. i jumped up in amazement after landing square on my back to make sure all me limbs were attached to the cadavir. Thankfully, they were. It took a few minutes for the blood to rush to the foot before i noticed something was broken. The real stuppidity in all of this came when i told Melk the bike was unrideable (for me at least, with no shift peg) and he allowed me to ride his bike to my house a few miles away. He had just witnessed me totally destroy my bike and was now willing to have my skills go to work on his -- and with a broken foot, nonetheless. to this day, Melk says his never seen a wreeck like it, with rider and bike so high in the air -- on or off track.
Just glad you were okay. I've seen some wild ones in the dirt track days where the rider was unhurt, and then some that looked like nothing and the rider was hurt badly or killed. Melk's a good guy. At least now I know somebody else that's hit the trees. ;D
I have dropped (not a crash) every street bike I have owned.
I was on a trip from WI to Virginia, near Wash DC, on my R1100RT. The speedo cable broke in Indiana. I found a dealer in Ohio with one. Unfortunately I messed up the directios. I stopped on an off ramp (so I could get back on the freeway if there were no convenient on ramp) to check a map. Figured out what I needed to do. Went to get the bike off the centerstand, between the slope away from me and the sand on the shoulder, I dropped my bike into a guard rail. 660 lb bike leaning at about 45 degrees against a guard rail, with a steep drop off on the other side of the guard rail. I had to climb under the bike to stand it up. Nate, you think your bike is a tank, I call mine the blue whale. After much effort, got it back up, broken mirror (glass only), turn signal, crack in dash, RID mount broken, and some scratched paint. Fortunately besides the cable, the dealer also had the mirror glass and the turn signal. There are some people who drop their new bikes to get it over with.
I am glad I am not the only one.
1.) In college, I borrowed my roommate's 1978 Honda "something heavy" to go to a rugby game. I got on the bike to rock it off of the centerstand with one foot (clad in 3/4 inch cleats) half on and half off the sidewalk. I put a little too much pressure on the outside of my foot, causing it to sink into the wet grass/dirt, twisting the sh!t out my ankle, then lost my balance to that side, the bike's weight driving my ankle ever closer to 90 degree angle with my leg. I somehow got the bike back up (I did not even care what happened to it) and went back into my apartment to start about a three week rehab on my trashed ankle.
2.) Short story. Do not goose your brand new R1 in 33 degree weather at Roebling Road when just starting a track day.
3.) Shorter story. Do not try to push start your slightly damaged R1 in your driveway.
Coming to Moroso this weekend Cees?
Nah,
I've had a bad year for racing because of my work travel schedule. I have only done about 3 track days at Jennings all year.
But, I just started a job in Pascagoula, MS that is a long term gig, so I will be able to travel home and schedule race weekends a lot easier.
However, I got bumped to Expert because it is my third year (with a year off for injury), but I am running 1:39's at Homestead and 1:28's at Jennings (no recent times at Moroso) and I am scared I may be a liability. Can U were an orange shirt in an expert race? ::)
I bet the times would come down once you get out there with the fast guys, and if not, you aren't gonna be getting lapped with those times...so you aren't a liability in my eyes. :)