Both of my parents have dropped my dad’s fatboy
My father was cutoff by a women making a left turn. He bailed just before it slid under her rocker panel(broken cell phone, lots of bruises and $5000 in damages to the bike). Luckily a district attorney and a cop saw the whole thing. Unluckily, the women had no insurance and no money, so he was unable to get anything from her
My mother lost her footing at a stop sign and the bike fell over at about 100 miles on the odometer(she was new to riding)
Dropped my 600rr the 2nd week I had it, took a turn too slow at night and it fell over, no damage.
Totaled out said 600rr, accident on NFB was the end of that bike, 100% not my fault though.
Never dropped the 636, I’ve learned from past experiences and baby this bike like there is nothing to it.
<3 my 636
Dropped it in my cousins slanted stone driveway while turning it.I learned what not to do at least.
dropped my ninja 250 twice…first year mehh…had my 636 for 2 seasons now and nothing since…knock on wood
not yet, but probably will
get it, will? as in willybeen
Will, get off your high horse faggot. There is no case to be made. I understand a lot of people go down, but it gets old seeing you in every thread stating it. Settle down buddy, we all know you are still the bike guru :mamoru:
ili scott
Only time I’ve ever dropped a Motorcycle is when I got hit by a car :gotme:
ili too scott. <3
little known fact:
shrives actually only almost dropped a bike once. he was turning onto milestrip from southwestern at 196 mph (corrected, not indicated). he got the bike a little sideways, and proceeded to do a little known stunt i call the wheelie drift. it’s a self explanatory. that went for about 3 miles. as he was coming into lackawanna, a guy pulled out in front of him and stopped. there was nothing shrives could do. he was going to go down. low side right on milestrip. luckily, mr. kawasaki was flying his green helicopter above the accident and airlifted shrives off the bike. believe it or not, mr. kawasaki took the fall himself so shrives wouldn’t have to. after shrives wheelied around in the helicopter for a bit, he landed and mr. kawasaki gave him a new green 636.
i never dropped mine, but i didn’t have it long enough to get a chance. i’m planning on dropping one next summer.
my first bike ninja 500 was dropped in the garage checking the oil went down on wherle and transit because i grabbed to much front brake because of rubber neckers slamming on thier brakes to look at a harley on fire at the sunoco. and twice in one day flipped a wheelie and the going around a corner my right clip on actually broke off and i lowsided. but the 600RR has yet to see the ground
Dex I <3 you so much lol
I am crying laughing lol
IDK about this, we are talking about ROAD motorcycles… thats like saying there are two types of people,people who have crashed a car and people who will crash a car…
I have never dropped my bike (well, I did once putting it on a stand) and I have logged probably 15K miles on my two bikes combined.
I have how ever come VERY close. If you are VERY carful on a street bike you could have one for 50 years and never drop it.
Now if you were talking dirtbikes, yes, everyone who owns one has went down hard at least a few times.
The saying in motocross is, there are 2 types of motocross racers, ones who have broken their collar bones, and ones who will.
I lost count of how many times I dropped my dirtbikes lol
its really easy to drop one by parking on a hill, in sand, on grass, taking it off of a stand, learning slow maneuvers, etc etc… I mainly think most people drop them by having too much faith in the ground below the kickstand.
I voted no but i wasn’t counting dirt bikes. But I think it’s acceptable to crash a dirt bike, i mean, if you’re not dodging trees in the woods, then your airborne for obscene amounts of times. It’s more like a rodeo than anything… crashing is half the fun.
I’m in my second year on my street bike. I’m knocking on wood, but i have not come close to dropping my bike, not even once. As for all those instances where you drop it due to unstable ground… i just don’t park it in those conditions. It seems like common sense can eliminate nearly all bike drops.
I think as long as you’re careful and don’t ride like a moron, your only real chance of going down is due to something well beyond your power (animal at night, bad driver in a car, etc), and even a lot of those can be avoided by doing the speed limit and not flexing for the girlies as you pass by. I dare say that most incidents are caused by people attempting to do stunts or just by simply riding outside of their limits. Oh, and by not understanding that a few hundred pounds focused on a kick stand will ultimately sink into grass and other soft terrain.
I’ll emphasize the word “MOST” in my previous statements, as I know that not ALL incidents are avoidable. I just think that most “accidents” are not really accidents at all and could be avoided by a pair of open and aware eyeballs.
Dex, i seriously fucking love you right now
word. I parked at sunset on the edge of the road in which I thought there was pavement underneath the sand, came back hours later with the kick stand almost buried.
Although, it could have been Mr Kawasaki underneath the sand holding it up for me.