Am I useless?

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Taff said:
Liquidlan has a point here. One of my spills was caused exactly like that. We won't mention my other one. :blast

One thing you can easily do which will boost your slow-speed confidence no end is practicing slow speed turns, ie figure of 8s, in and out of cones (slowly increasing the angle) walking speed straight-lines etc etc. Find yourself an empty car-park and fill your boots. Trust me, its a good way to get used to your bike. If you're ultra paranoid, temporarily stick some polystyrene onto your crash bars with masking tape - the chances are if it's going to go over, you'll be barely moving anyway. Industrial estate car parks are good, as they're usually deserted on Sundays so there's nobody to laugh at you. :thumb2
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I used to be an instructor with Star Rider when the old (lol) part I and II style test was in place. If we had a student having trouble doing the slalum and figure of 8 on a 125 more often than not we'd have to demo it on our bikes - I've been able to do it on a K750 (borrowed), Z650 and I've seen it done on a CB900 - not sure I could do it now though :D
 
oh no

hi sv2evo
to drop a bike is to easy , least you did not end up with it on your leg or some else's. nearly went over with mine first day of getting it ,tank was full ,took it off the side stand to get it upright and the road was lower on the throttle side and lost balance:blast ,nearly went over few seconds with all strength trying to hold past the point of balance and suddenly back upright,sweat on ,worried all day then about dropping ... now only run around with enough fuel for the day and going to work . have also put engine guards on to cover rocker covers , next engine bars .... ,dropped my old adv 1150 on a drain cover,foot slipped out full of fuel , nearly got a hernia picking it up and loads of people around whaaaaaa:mad:.rocker cover damage and mirror broke . think a lot of people drop their bikes and not admit it :eek
pb:beerjug:
 
LiquidLAN said:
We're still waiting on the pics :D
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Can only admire a man who believes in miracles! :D :D :D I would suggest a good interweb session and a larger monitor. :D I am certain you will find more than you need or can possibly cope with. :D :D :augie:comfort

On the issue, I have got in touch with the ever friendly and great bloke, Ian, at Cooper BMW, who gave me a price for the covers etc. Not as bas as i expected, to be honest. After I ring around for a good price, I will probably buy a set and keep them in the garage.

This will serve no purpose whatsoever, other than calm my OCD tendencies. :D I will then proceed and keep dropping it with a big smile on my face...:JB
 
Mine fell over at a standstill the second day i had it, tried to put my foot down on the 'wrong' side on a heavily cambered sideroad in Holmfirth, with the misses on the back.

Thank god for engine bars.

She's not been out on it since. :D
 
I really don't get this. Why own a bike you are afraid you may drop at a standstill? There are loads of other bikes out there.
 
You wanna read something really stooopid ?
I'm out with some 100's of bikers on a one day trip.
We arrive at a parking spot, of course it's a marketplace with plenty of onlookers.

I've been riding pretty 'enthousiastically'.
With the same enthousiasm I kick out the sidestand.
The sidestand enthousiastically veers back to where it was. :augie

I move the bike to the left and notice it's going lower than normal ('what's this ?').
There's no holding her, I realize that sidestand isn't where it should be ('oh no, feeeeeeck!'), bike's dropped.

Now, in my own defence : nobody told me that 'Upon parking, one must check position sidestand'. :D

On the plus side : before I got up, 4 other bikers were pulling my bike up.
And no damage. :thumb

Ah yes, did you know that all things come in two's ? :blast
 
We've all done this kind of thing. Many moons ago, when working as a courier, I had a pick up at Loreal in Kensington Church Street in the summer. There was a bus stop outside the office, always chock full of Knightsbridge babes in mini skirts and not much else. I thought I'd impress them with my masculine biker prowess by employing a trick I'd learned on my ex-police K100. This was to kick the side stand down before the bike had stopped, then jump off at the moment the bike came to a halt, as if dismounting like a dashing cavalry man. Naturally, the stand popped back up without me noticing and as I jumped off with a flourish, the bike crashed to its side. In an attempt at hiding my shame I walked off as if that was how I always parked.
 
ExpatinIstanbul said:
We've all done this kind of thing. Many moons ago, when working as a courier, I had a pick up at Loreal in Kensington Church Street in the summer. There was a bus stop outside the office, always chock full of Knightsbridge babes in mini skirts and not much else. I thought I'd impress them with my masculine biker prowess by employing a trick I'd learned on my ex-police K100. This was to kick the side stand down before the bike had stopped, then jump off at the moment the bike came to a halt, as if dismounting like a dashing cavalry man. Naturally, the stand popped back up without me noticing and as I jumped off with a flourish, the bike crashed to its side. In an attempt at hiding my shame I walked off as if that was how I always parked.
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You are my hero! :D
 
In the early 90's i had a FJ1200A, lovely bike BTW.

I bought it new and when i got it i had the option of a new trick alarm system to be fitted. Now being a bit of a gizmo ejitt and a long adopter of all things new i thought i'd have it fitted.

One of the tricks is that it could start the bike remotely. When the bike was parked up in my back yard as it was then, and it was chilly, i could hit the button from the kitchen window it would start, and be nicely warmed up by the time i had my helmet and gloves on. No key was needed either.

One nice summers day with the bike parked up in the middle of a packed Darlington high St, i did my usual trick. As i walked up to the bike i hit the button to start it up. This was usualy a pretty good trick, walking to bike, bike starts, onlookers impressed with my magical powers :cool:

What happened next though was at the same time the funniest thing i've ever seen and also the most heart gut wrenching.

As i hit the button, the bike started, jumped of its sidestand hurled its self about 10ft forward and fell over, keeping the engine revs at redline, probably to make sure i had the most attention possible all with me at least 10 yards away. As people were running away from this haunted bike that had just tried to leg it up the high street by itself, i had to go up and hit the kill switch to turn the thing off.

It was with much embarrassment i picked the bike up, got on it trying not to make eye contact with anyone including the pigeons, restart it and took it round the corner before i even stopped and checked it for damage. Luckily it was just the usual plastic work that was scraped.

Thankfully it didn't hit anyone or anything. Imagine that on the claim form.
Q: where were you when the accident happened with your motorcycle?
A: Up the street watching it happen!!

The bike's engine was not supposed to start if it was in gear, and i later found out it was partly wired into the neutral indicator light. This hadn't been connected correctly and eventually earthed it self allowing it to start in gear.
It had been fitted by Cusworths in Doncaster who denied all responsibility for the problem when i got in touch with them. The alarm was removed pretty damn quick after.
 
Pillion training

This is whats lacking, she MUST learn to THROW herself under the bike so as to prevent damage to the same, thats what pillions are for. me? no well I aint got a pillion. (dunno why!).
dave gs.
 
same thing

dropped it at dealers when picking up from 1st service, hammerite the shaft mark then get an RG crash bobbin, (stable door etc) scratches add character...and detract value.. worst thing when I dropped it I had just fitted new crash bars, now chipped but did the job!
 
I can't believe you failed to train the missus to dive under the bike to prevent any damage to it when before it hits the deck!:nenau
 
hiup said:
I can't believe you failed to train the missus to dive under the bike to prevent any damage to it when before it hits the deck!:nenau
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I humbly apologise. The oversight shall be corrected imminently.
 
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