How To Pick Up Your Bike

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!

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!

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

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

Originally Posted by Fizzy Fish

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

Wouldnt happen in London theyd just drive past

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

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!

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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