How To Pick Up Your Bike

[RhythmJunkie]

Very useful for the female bikers is this or anyone with arthritis or a bad back will also benefit as will office types with slender physiques!;) :D

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pPjYweKeiLk

There are similar vids showing how to pick up a bike on a hill for instance! You just need to search a bit!

[the_runt69]

Thats a great video, any chance of the mods making it a sticky for a while.

[Fizzy Fish]

I love the bit about lying by the side of the road til someone stops to help :lol:

[the_runt69]

I love the bit about lying by the side of the road til someone stops to help :lol:

Wouldnt happen in London theyd just drive past

[skint]

I left the sound off assuming it was an American chatting then fell asleep. Did he get round to picking the bike up? :D

[Toypop]

I dropped mine at work after it stalled. I couldn't pick it up and I am not particularly small or weak! I had to get a bloke on a little commuter bike to help me! I looked like a right tw*t!

Edit: Just seen the vid! Now if only I had known that at the time!

[kwak zzr]

if you fall off usually the adrenalin in your body makes picking your bike up no problem, well this has been the case with me anyhow.

[ClemsonSV]

if you fall off usually the adrenalin in your body makes picking your bike up no problem, well this has been the case with me anyhow.

I'm pretty much a beast anyway so I just use one arm. Seriously though, when I dropped my first bike ('92 yamaha seca II) I just grabbed the frame down low and lifted and pushed against the tires...That bike is also about 80 lbs more than the sv. I don't see the big deal.

[yorkie_chris]

Lol when I dumped my 125, small bike but i think i practically threw it, this was with most of the carpal bones in my wrist broken!


The kill switch is the most important thing there, a bike on its side is unlikely to be properly supplied with oil, if at all, which = siezed/damaged bearings.

Chris

[ASM-Forever]

Bah i wanted to see a real woman pick the bike up....not some former soviet union body builder :)

[LouLou]

I'm pretty much a beast anyway so I just use one arm. Seriously though, when I dropped my first bike ('92 yamaha seca II) I just grabbed the frame down low and lifted and pushed against the tires...That bike is also about 80 lbs more than the sv. I don't see the big deal.

Well I'm a feeble girly so picking up my sv is gonna be a bit of a challenge...I did manage to stop it hitting the floor when it fell over in the garage and lift it again but that must've been adrenaline. My little 125 is very easy to pick up thankfully considering my record lol :D

[ClemsonSV]

Well I'm a feeble girly so picking up my sv is gonna be a bit of a challenge...I did manage to stop it hitting the floor when it fell over in the garage and lift it again but that must've been adrenaline. My little 125 is very easy to pick up thankfully considering my record lol :D

Sorry, I noticed afterwards that the video was geared towards women (not soviet body builder woman) being able to pick up a bike larger than ours.:rolleyes:

I just sometimes take for granted the fact that I can bench press the family van with the family in it!!!:^o

[carty]

As kwak says above - I found adrenaline took over when I had to pick up my bike from the middle of the road a couple of years ago. One of those things where you look back and think 'how did I do that?' ! Seemed dead easy at the time. Although I've also had to pick it up from the floor or my garage (shared garage, neighbour helpfully left oil on the floor and my front tucked as I went in) and it was ok, but I'm reasonably strong if I do say so myself.

Actually, it makes me laugh when the guys fall off their bikes whilst racing and they can't pick them up again - they're a fair bit lighter than an SV and they seem to struggle!

[plowsie]

Once, i dropped mine on a roundabout in March i couldn't pick it up lol. I had no energy to pick it up :( People usually stop to help, but looking at that video it might help.

[Swiss]

Ride in a group. I came off whilst on an SV650.org ride out and by the time I'd stopped rolling about on the grass, picked myself and dusted down up my fellow SV'ers had the bike upright and on it's side stand. LOL Plus then you have sometime to tell you that " You're a daft T*at" and not to mention all the :laughat: :laughat: :laughat:

[plowsie]

...office types with slender physiques!;) :D...
Someone mention me?

[Shellywoozle]

I want to drop mine just to see if I can pick it up, buty I will do my best not too.

I may just try the lying down part, that looks easier :)

[stuartyboy]

I may just try the lying down part, that looks easier :)

I'd come over and give you a cuddle ;)

[philbut]

My GPZ got blown off its side stand over the weekend (straight into my car, @£$%). Just glad it wasn't the SV. Anyway, even with a top box full of crap it wasn't too difficult to pick up and I'm not exactly big built. Just keep yer back straight and lift with your knees, a mate of mine came of his Fazer and did more damage to himself lifting the bike than falling off!

Just feel sorry for anyone who drops a Goldwing :laughat:

[ClemsonSV]

Just feel sorry for anyone who drops a Goldwing :laughat:

Saw a guy drop a goldwing in Jacksonville, Florida earlier this month. I don't want to say he deserved it, but he was definitely asking for it. He flew past me (i was in the trusty mini-van) and it was just raining like h*ll. Some parts of the interstate had a foot of water on it. He was doing about 80mph in that stuff, cutting in and out of cars and I thought to myself..."man I don't want to have to dodge that guy if he goes down." Less than a mile later he was standing next to it in a ditch with water up to his knees. Luckily there was a guy with a truck there helping him out...poor guy...stupid guy. Don't be stupid!

[philbut]

Sounds like he was lucky, I wouldn't want one of those things landing on my leg! I don't think I'd fancy filtering on a Goldwing in heavy rain either, but i guess you guys might have wider lanes than over here. Poor guy, I'd hate to think of how much it would cost to replace all the plastics on one of those things.

[ClemsonSV]

Sounds like he was lucky, I wouldn't want one of those things landing on my leg! I don't think I'd fancy filtering on a Goldwing in heavy rain either, but i guess you guys might have wider lanes than over here. Poor guy, I'd hate to think of how much it would cost to replace all the plastics on one of those things.

I'm sure that thing was totalled going that fast. By between cars I meant just changing lanes close to cars. The only place you can filter over here legally is California I believe. People are too stupid to handle that kind of thing over here. On top of that all you need to do to be able to ride a bike in some states is to take a written test and off you go....