Oh, the shame, just dropped it in the carpark!

[DJFridge]

Embarrassed, moi?:oops: Just a little bit. I always park nose-in on the bike - God knows why, if I drive I always back in for an easy getaway at half five - so I'm just sat on, walking her back while putting gloves on (that's right, hands nowhere near the bars) and the back wheel caught in a drainage channel and off she went. Thanks to Ian :notworthy:for helping me pick her up again, so much easier with two people (not that he'll ever see this, but praise where it's due), and for not laughing! Wifey laughed. Father-in-law laughed (mind you, I laughed when he dropped his Gladys while getting off, twice (!), so what goes around I guess). Bashed shin but otherwise OK. Any suggestions for a funky but inexpensive new brake lever - it's an inch shorter than it used to be!

[yorkie_chris]

Just leave brake as it is or get those chinky CNC ones.

If he owns a gladys, who is really laughing?

[fenjer]

what YC said.

Happens to the best of us. Better than than meeting a tree at high speeds!

[The Idle Biker]

Don't worry about it mate. I dumped mine outside a pub with about 50 peeps looking on at about 5mph. Got jeered to the rafters. C'est la vie. Slow riding can be a bummer if you haven't got legs like a cart horse.

[TamSV]

Oh dear. Happens to the best of us it seems.

Sometimes you're lucky and nobody sees you. :rolleyes:

[Stenno]

In my two months of riding I've almost dumped it twice thinking the side stand was down. Luckily I've caught it both times but felt rather silly.

[yorkie_chris]

I always kick the stand forward before resting bike on it as matter of habit. It's worst when it rolls off stand as you get off and lands on you in a heap.

[christian1000]

I always kick the stand forward before resting bike on it as matter of habit. It's worst when it rolls off stand as you get off and lands on you in a heap.

Same here, you only make that mistake once :rolleyes:

[Specialone]

Yep another one here for kicking the stand before letting go, hasnt happened on my sprint yet but my sv nearly went because it wasnt fully down.

[Jayneflakes]

Me too today, so I trawled through the Org and found this link (http://shop.the2wheels.com/CNC-Adjustable-Clutch-Brake-Levers-Set-for-Suzuki-Lever-Set-Suzuki.htm) for new levers.

Just ordered so that I can have a nice matching set.

Oh well, we all do it. If it was my push bike, I would now be regaling you all with stories of how hard a crash it was! As they say in the Mountain bike world, if you don't fall off once a ride, you are not going hard enough!

[DJFridge]

Me too today, so I trawled through the Org and found this link (http://shop.the2wheels.com/CNC-Adjustable-Clutch-Brake-Levers-Set-for-Suzuki-Lever-Set-Suzuki.htm) for new levers.

Just ordered so that I can have a nice matching set.

Oh well, we all do it. If it was my push bike, I would now be regaling you all with stories of how hard a crash it was! As they say in the Mountain bike world, if you don't fall off once a ride, you are not going hard enough!

Thanks, as I've just posted on your thread, you'll have to let us know how easy they are to fit once you get them. I'll happily wait a week or so before I open my wallet! As for the mountain biking, never done it but I remember my little brother's face after he came off half way down a hill. It looked as lumpy as the gravel he landed in. He didn't go out in public for a week.

I'm just glad I was only walking backwards slowly - I could get my legs out of the way when she went over. The ER5 I learned on nearly broke my ankle when that landed on me, although, to be fair, that had just bounced of a metal fence.

[danielwright205]

Don't worry i have done worse. In a packed petrol station, i didn't want to keep everyone waiting so after i paid i quickly got on my bike, pulled it up off the side stand and fell straight over the opposite side in front of everyone. The best part is that my helmet rolled off and i had to walk past everyone to collect it after picking the bike up. Embarrassing! But as said before c'est la vie!

[G]

Don't worry i have done worse. In a packed petrol station, i didn't want to keep everyone waiting so after i paid i quickly got on my bike, pulled it up off the side stand and fell straight over the opposite side in front of everyone. The best part is that my helmet rolled off and i had to walk past everyone to collect it after picking the bike up. Embarrassing! But as said before c'est la vie!

I've done worse still, filtering through Glossop in convoy, stop to mark a junction. Slip on the gravel and bam down I go. In the middle of a roundabout with traffic everywhere and a good proportion of the .ORG. Think it was YorkieChris that helped me pick the damn thing up... I was knackered which didn't help lol

[Reeder]

Dropped mine three times on my gravel drive way already in just under a year! Luckily no one's ever been looking :D

[yorkie_chris]

I've done worse still, filtering through Glossop in convoy, stop to mark a junction. Slip on the gravel and bam down I go. In the middle of a roundabout with traffic everywhere and a good proportion of the .ORG. Think it was YorkieChris that helped me pick the damn thing up... I was knackered which didn't help lol

Yep! Tit!

[Brettus]

Same here, dropped mine twice now, first time was when I was still new to it and it fell on my drive way, I softened the fall but still went down. Second time was more recent, on the road outside my house, reaching back to shut the gate while sat on it and it just moved to the side too much, smashed my LED indicator and scraped the fairing lowers a bit. Was severely annoyed riding to work with a misted up visor from the cussing but it will teach me not to do it again. we all live and learn.

Nearly binned it yesterday morning at quarter to five, heading to work in a rush to catch my lift to Devon and was flying across the empty car park and into the bike shed at the back, late on the front brake and there was a strip of mud on the floor across the entrance to the shed, almost left a Brettus shaped imprint on the back of the tin shelter!

[Jamesy D]

I always kick the stand forward before resting bike on it as matter of habit. It's worst when it rolls off stand as you get off and lands on you in a heap.

I keep the little ball in the stand locked into the heel of my boot as I get off - have done on all the bikes I've owned, mainly because my first one had a stand that would come up on a spring, so if I didn't hold it there, I'd get off and the bike would fall!

[DJFridge]

Jeez guys, you're all far too honest.Wifey was laughing like a drain as I read some of these out. Makes me feel much less of a numptie though so thanks all round. Do you know what? I've started backing the bike into the space in the morning now so maybe lesson learned. Wifey is backing the Monster in as well, she's very good at learning from my mistakes! The stand-kicking I was already doing, mostly 'cos that's how father-in-law kept falling off his Gladys.

Mind you, stand down can be a problem too. Walking the NSR into the garage, I hadn't kicked the stand out of the way and it caught on the lip of the concrete floor on the way in. Over it went, I just let it go and jumped clear. I had owned the bike for...





...two days!!

[ThePone]

Same happened to me yesterday whilst reversing out of garage. Slipped on wet moss (must clean it off) anyway this is what happens when you crash bung lands on your foot. and I was wearing boots too! I was impressed by the other half as she asked how the bike was when i told her what happened!!! http://tapatalk.com/mu/519a439e-ad27-1b95.jpg

[DJFridge]

That looks a little painful mate! Time for a new pair of boots methinks