Bad Day
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 2,432
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From: FL
Yep, I dropped one a long time ago getting ready to leave the house. I was all set to go when I realize I forgot something in the house. Jumped off the bike to get it and realized I forgot to put the jiffy stand down. Man, that sucked!!
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 392
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From: Southeastern Wisconsin
Welcome to the club. We all do it at least once (although some won't admit it). Mine was really stupid. Backing up out of a parking spot (first mistake) and turning hard to get out in one push (second mistake), and then the big one, switched looking over m left shoulder to my right, and I felt the center of gravity shift right.
I manager to hold it from going down, but couldn't get it back upright either. Talk about a rock and a hard place. I finally carefull let it go over and rest on the engine guard.
Pretty damn embarassing, but it's a lesson you only have to learn once (kind of like using the front brake (at all) when under 5mph, or riding with your feet off the boards.
Glad your OK and the bike suffered minimal damage.
I manager to hold it from going down, but couldn't get it back upright either. Talk about a rock and a hard place. I finally carefull let it go over and rest on the engine guard.
Pretty damn embarassing, but it's a lesson you only have to learn once (kind of like using the front brake (at all) when under 5mph, or riding with your feet off the boards.
Glad your OK and the bike suffered minimal damage.
Road Master
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 922
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From: Riverside, TX
done it twice..1st time in the garage moving it....I about crapped my pants straining trying to lift it...
watched the video a week or so later...... next time thought the jiffy stand was down (long story), plop, it went over...did it the way it showed in the video and it was a piece of cake...no more ruined drawers lol!
watched the video a week or so later...... next time thought the jiffy stand was down (long story), plop, it went over...did it the way it showed in the video and it was a piece of cake...no more ruined drawers lol!
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 3,555
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From: Brockport, NY
Don't feel too bad as I dropped my Ultra for the first time last summer after 8 years of riding experience. It's alot better to have your pride bruised now then it gets stronger afterwards with a lesson learned.
Drop, Swallow, Live and Learn,
Thorey
Drop, Swallow, Live and Learn,
Thorey
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Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Just Outside Chicago
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Man I feel your pain. I'm also a recent inductee to the "I dropped my bike club"
Was making a slow u turn to the left when the next thing I know I'm looking up at the blue sky. I was on a steep incline and in the process of picking the bike up (didn't have a hold of the front brake. Lesson learned.) I dropped it again. Suffered a few scratches on the bottom of the left hard bag.
Like I was told there are two types of bikers, those that have been down and those that will be down.
Good luck to ya.
Was making a slow u turn to the left when the next thing I know I'm looking up at the blue sky. I was on a steep incline and in the process of picking the bike up (didn't have a hold of the front brake. Lesson learned.) I dropped it again. Suffered a few scratches on the bottom of the left hard bag.
Like I was told there are two types of bikers, those that have been down and those that will be down.
Good luck to ya.