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Drop Your Bike? Maybe Not!
Awesome thread. I am at 35, but that's because of wifey and I chose to replace the parts that were only cosmetically damaged so I added the points. And to keep my score low, I am not counting my wife's scratched knee as an injury.
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How would I score this......
It was 1978, I was in college, and I weighed 150 lbs. My girlfriend lived in a bad apartment complex and I was pulling my '78 FXS into her apt., through a glass sliding door.
On approach there was some wet grass, the bike went down and trapped me underneath. I was pinned, but with no weight directly on me, just trapped. I couldn't move it and my girlfriend couldn't move it. I drank a beer while waiting for her brother to arrive and pull it off of me.......
Points?
Oh hell, I haven't seen either of them in over 30 years.... it never happened!
It was 1978, I was in college, and I weighed 150 lbs. My girlfriend lived in a bad apartment complex and I was pulling my '78 FXS into her apt., through a glass sliding door.
On approach there was some wet grass, the bike went down and trapped me underneath. I was pinned, but with no weight directly on me, just trapped. I couldn't move it and my girlfriend couldn't move it. I drank a beer while waiting for her brother to arrive and pull it off of me.......
Points?
Oh hell, I haven't seen either of them in over 30 years.... it never happened!
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Don't feel bad everybody cheats the IRS. lol.
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My score is 70. My first drop yesterday on a group ride because I followed the person in front of me and had to stop on a cattle grate. My foot went through the grate and by the time I got my foot out my bike was leaning low. Nothing I could do to keep it up. I landed on my face because I was trying to keep it up. Can't wait to go to work on Monday, I look like I got in bar fight!
Awesome ride, great weather in AZ here's a few pics from the ride yesterday.
Awesome ride, great weather in AZ here's a few pics from the ride yesterday.
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30 isn't too bad. I wasn't moving at the time. As a matter of fact, the bike wasn't even running at the time! I left a co worker's house after WAY too many drinks. This was about 4 years ago and have since quit. But anyway I was so obliterated I could hardly stand up but I left his apt., got on the bike, flipped up the kickstand and was about to turn on the ignition when I lost my balance and down I went while him and his wife watched me from their living room window! Picked it back up again and got the hell out of there.
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My score is 70. My first drop yesterday on a group ride because I followed the person in front of me and had to stop on a cattle grate. My foot went through the grate and by the time I got my foot out my bike was leaning low. Nothing I could do to keep it up. I landed on my face because I was trying to keep it up.
Many moons ago (like 30 years ago) it was icy in London, I got on my Suzuki 550 at 4am for my bakery job, tried to get the bike off the center stand and down it went. Pitch black on a quiet and empty suburban side street there was nobody around to help me. I could barely get any traction to lift the bike, I tried for about 30 minutes sweating in my cold weather gear to get the bike up (it fell to the other side twice). I finally managed to get it onto the side stand and rode to work, just a few minutes late in the end. I realize now I was crazy to ride on ice but oh well.
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My story:
I pulled up for fuel, put the gas cap on the right floorboard like always, but the wind caught my gas rag and it went down on the right under the floorboard. Now I should have ensured the side stand was down as it usually is, but I was distracted with the freaken rag. I should have gotten off the bike to pick up the rag too, but I was distracted by my own flatulance or something equally as riveting. So I leaned the bike slightly left (in the direction of the forgotten side stand) and leaned far right for the rag. Well I got the rag but the bike forgot to stop leaning, so I dropped the freaked rag trying to save the bike...lost cause.
No body around, no damage, no injury, clearly not my fault as gravity was the main culprit...so my score would have been 5 had it not been for the hero that saw me set her back up and as I finished putting her on the side stand asked me if I needed help (with my hair I guess). So yeah 30 it is.
Great thread.
I've actually dropped mine twice. Both times, alone in a parking lot, trying to back into a spot that went downhill into a curb that pulled harder than I expected and I had the bars turned too sharp. No damage, no injuries, nobody around, that's 5 fives points apiece.
But, I have practiced the maneuver several times (and still practice again on occasion), and have successfully backed into many parking spots since. So I think there should be some mechanism in your points system to take notice of "lessons learned". You know, so many repeats without incident, or maybe simply time served without incident.
Great thread!
Mike
But, I have practiced the maneuver several times (and still practice again on occasion), and have successfully backed into many parking spots since. So I think there should be some mechanism in your points system to take notice of "lessons learned". You know, so many repeats without incident, or maybe simply time served without incident.
Great thread!
Mike