Done Anything and ( Almost ) Drop Your Motorcycle ?

[laperlenoire]

All,

As I just started riding and I am sure I will be as long as I will be riding, I would like to share my experience today when I had to slowly drop my bike as I could not hold it anymore.

After changing the oil and oil filter, I decided to sit on the bike and look at the sight glass to verify the oil level. As I was trying to look at the sight glass oil level, I had my right foot on wet grass and the bike leaned and my right foot started slipping. The more I was trying to hold the bike, the worst it got. And finally I had to let the bike drop slowly.

I will never do that again :smt009

Please share your stories if you have done anything that might have caused you to drop or almost drop your bike.

Thanks.

[kaivalagi]

Dropped my SM-T after not a scratch in over 2 years by turning too tight at walking pace into a parking spot, would have been fine on my own but I did it infront of a load of the gang from here...no excuses just "sh|t happens" sometimes :)

[The Idle Biker]

You're not alone fella, been and done that a couple of times now. Slow motion, where you can hear the crunch before it happens, and then it does.

[SIII]

Did it on my Honda VT125. Swung my foot at the stand and missed, but was already leaning the bike over, couldn't hold it so just let it fall as slowly as possible and left my leg under to limit damage. Worked a treat and no damage caused. Only problem was I was now pinned under the bike !!! Van driver took pity on me and helped lift the bike. My face was so red, I just left my helmet on !!!

[Jason H]

Was sat in the ****ing rain at the side of a petrol station in the New Forest absent mindedly chatting to a yound lady on another SV, foot slipped in the leaves and almost put it down but my foot gained traction just in time.

Safe to say we both laughed but it could have been a little more embarrasing.

[rp16v]

actualy decked my scooter at a stand still pulled up ready to open gauarage after an exhausting day an just dident put my left foot down....at all lmao just rolled over and realise what actualy happend

another was trying to bump start the sv on my own never tried before came so close to hitting the deck

[thulfi]

When I bought my first motorcycle, I kept it a secret from my parents. When it arrived, got the guy to drop it at the local pubs car park til my mates mum agreed to let me keep it in their back yard. The day she did, I thought I'd see how fast I could wheel it down the road to his house whilst running beside it. Had an epic drop half way down the road, which cut my hand quite painfully. I'd sustained my first bike injury before even getting on it.

[Mikey360]

I did it with my GSF400 a couple of times....
Came into a pub car park once with a weird tarmac design with sand parking bays, touched the front brake to come to a stop (less than 5 mph) and the front just went, snapped the front brake lever and rode home a little embarrassed at such a low speed!
Also, braking hard on a mates gravel drive gave whilst showing off made me look a slight plonker too -_-

[DaveRushton]

Me and L3nny were trying to get my new Sprint onto the centre stand, he ttys on his own, then i slowly see the bike fall over :(

[DJFridge]

We've all done it. I dropped my NSR125 just that slowly and carefully when I went to wheel it up into our garage, forgetting the stand was still down, and said stand caught on the raised bit of floor and ever so gently tipped it away from me. And I managed to drop the SV twice in the space of a couple of weeks in the works car park, trying to wheel it off the same uneven bit of concrete. Slightly embarrassing

[kaivalagi]

Moral of the story....get some sliders or bars fitted, bike depending :)

[Littlepeahead]

I'm short and I stopped in a narrow road in Epping Forest only to realise that lorries use it as a shortcut and the tarmac dipped into tracks with me parked on the raised bit in the middle. Bike tipped as I went to put my foot down. I could probably could have yanked it back up but having already ripped a titanium plate out of my arm a few months earlier I decided that any metal I had to replace on the bike would be cheaper and less painful than getting my elbow put back together again, so I let it go down as gently as possible. The crash bungs took the weight. I'd owned the bike 2 years by then and those bungs went on the bike the day I got it new as I was sure I would drop it in week 1.

[cb1000rsteve]

I was so close to dropping my cb1r today as I moved it across the sodden garden to the conservatory for some work to be done on it. As said garden was basically a bog it spun up and went completely sideways. Only the fact I never had my feet on the pegs saved it.
Another near drop was when my z750 came off its paddock stand. I caught it but as I had hold of the tail couldn't get it up right! I waited 10 mins (felt like forever) for someone to walk past my house but had to lower it slowly to the floor then pick it properly by the bars. :-(

[Nutsinatin]

I actually dropped my SV in a petrol station last year, some **** was sitting on his KTM behind me bouncing off the rev limiter as soon as I walked out the door, so I wheeled the bike forward put my helmet on, then it just fell over. I had knocked the side stand back slightly when I moved it, them it just tipped over in slow motion, and I couldn't catch it as I was half way through putting my gear back on. Sum total of the damage was five small scratched to the fairing lower and a scuffed crash bung. It was bloody embarrassing as the alarm went off when it fell over, so I had to pick up this screaming bike with everyone looking at me like I was some twit who had just bought a bike and had no idea what he was doing.

[Matt-EUC]

You're not alone fella, been and done that a couple of times now. Slow motion, where you can hear the crunch before it happens, and then it does.


Was one of those times in a tent by any chance XD

[L3nny]

Me and L3nny were trying to get my new Sprint onto the centre stand, he ttys on his own, then i slowly see the bike fall over :(

At least I can write!

[Specialone]

Me and L3nny were trying to get my new Sprint onto the centre stand, he ttys on his own, then i slowly see the bike fall over :(

It's all technique, gotta get the right hand in the right place by the pillion footpegs, right foot on the foot of the stand.

[ChrisCurvyS]

Dropped my SV twice. Firstly when I slipped on a leafy dog turd while wheeling the bike through the yard, secondly when my neighbour piled me with drink before I'd had chance to put the bike away. Was so wasted i could barely stand up - it was less funny when i saw the scratches the next day.

[yorkie_chris]

Yes more occurrences than I could even start to tell about!
potholes gravel sidestands drunks kerbs drinking disclocks etc etc.

It happens. Though I've probably had more crashes than drops!

You want to talk about drops, ask our lass :mrgreen:

[Alexander94]

The closest I've come to dropping a bike on the road (after many random little crashes on a YZ125 crosser, one of which was quite funny until I impaled myself on the handlebars) was at a petrol station, i put my foot down on a patch of diesel (the devil's fuel!!) and very nearly dropped my bike, I really wish people would be more careful about getting their fuel IN the tank... Accidents happen but if you spill fuel at least have the curtousy to put sand down :/

[yorkie_chris]

The closest I've come to dropping a bike on the road (after many random little crashes on a YZ125 crosser, one of which was quite funny until I impaled myself on the handlebars) was at a petrol station, i put my foot down on a patch of diesel (the devil's fuel!!) and very nearly dropped my bike, I really wish people would be more careful about getting their fuel IN the tank... Accidents happen but if you spill fuel at least have the curtousy to put sand down :/

I honestly don't know how anyone dare waste a drop, must have more money than sense.

[Noddy]

I honestly don't know how anyone dare waste a drop, must have more money than sense.
LOL . Typical Yorkshireman Chris, you only ever breath in eh! :smt003 Back when I first got my SV, I managed to lay it down. 'Ol Numpty here actually FORGOT to put the side stand down in the garage. :-dd

[CharleyFarley]

Two mates & myself approached red lights on main road into a large town.....I pulled up centre of road, 1st mate to my left, 2nd mate to his left!! 2nd mate got his trouser leg court on foot peg........slowly fell to his right & into 1st mate.......who couldn't hold 2nd and self upright......& slowly fell onto me..........who couldn't hold 1st, 2nd & self upright........laughed so much (after embaresment passed) tears ran down my legs!!!! 😝


"Gas it w###a".........

[Stuuk1]

Done it just the once and have no idea how I held it...

Just bought my new FZ1S after having two SV650's (curvy and pointy), pulled out of a junction turning hard right, stalled it and the bike went so far over, I was determined not to scratch it and somehow managed to lift the bloody thing back up!

[ChrisCurvyS]

Two mates & myself approached red lights on main road into a large town.....I pulled up centre of road, 1st mate to my left, 2nd mate to his left!! 2nd mate got his trouser leg court on foot peg........slowly fell to his right & into 1st mate.......who couldn't hold 2nd and self upright......& slowly fell onto me..........who couldn't hold 1st, 2nd & self upright........laughed so much (after embaresment passed) tears ran down my legs!!!! 😝


"Gas it w###a".........
Love this one. They should have had that scene in Wild Hogs. :-)

[Littlepeahead]

I notice Hong hasn't posted in here yet. The first AR we travelled to together he dropped his SV so many times on the way to Wales that I was starting to wonder if he'd realised it had a stand at all!

Mr LPH used to own a 200cc classic Vespa. He asked me to take it for the MOT in town. First I was about to leave home and realised I'd forgotten the documents. Tried to put it on the stand and realised I couldn't so leaned it on the garage wall. Got to the MOT place and still couldn't get the stupid thing into the stand so sat outside the dealer with my finger on the horn, which sounds like a duck farting, until the mechanic came out looking confused and asked what the problem was. I said the problem was that I was riding a piece of s***. He said that was no way to talk about my bike, to which my reply was that it wasn't mine and I had a proper bike with a proper stand.

[CharleyFarley]

Love this one. They should have had that scene in Wild Hogs. :-)


All naked bikes-Super(wet)Dream/DT250/CX500......
So only pride damaged........(wish I'd seen it from car drivers view!!! 😝


"Gas it w###a".........

[Heorot]

I dropped mine on the ride home after buying it. I say I dropped it, but it would be more accurate to say that I was thrown off it. I was doing about 20mph when I changed down without putting the clutch in fully. The back wheel locked and I was thrown through the air to land on my hip 10 feet from the bike. The bruising was spectacular.

[rb8989]

Stand has sunk into ground on the supermoto before and bike fell over. They're pretty much made for little drops here and there so no damage.

We have a small 1ft high wall next to the garage, I got the sv out once and started to tip over a bit, the wall stops you being able to stick a leg out to save it and is too short to stop the bike falling .

Really annoying wall, pointless.

Another time made it to work on the sv in the snow ( should have cycled), just pulling into the snow covered parking space and I remember there is a 1 inch curb under the snow.

Too late, the front follows the lip of the curb and i just hop off the bike onto my feet. I had those extra long bobbins so just cost me an indicator.

Shame they are useless when the bike falls on a low wall..

[socommk23]

Theres an old pilot adage that works for bikers dropping bikes too. Theres those that have, and those that will!!