Yesterday, I was tired and in a bit of hurry and needed to move the Versys into the garage, I normally push it around because there is a little slope in the drive, but this time, jumped on, started and tiddled around to the front of the garage, stopped at the garage door, 0 mph, I dropped the fecking bike. The stand wasn't completely down and when I leant over, I felt it jump forward a fraction and over it fecking went. What a knob! Jez feckin feck, I am still pissed off for doing it. Felt my ankle going, I was growling trying to keep the bike up but I just couldn't hold it. The bike has the engine casing crash blocks and it rolled onto those and I only bent the clutch lever. No other damage, fortunately. Ok, it wasn't the Ducati, but feckin hell how stupid do I feel and quite angry at myself.
chillax:smile: dropped the fugly last year in front of about a hundred tourists. on skye. v.embarrassing.
I did the very same with my Benelli a couple of months back I'd just walked away from the bike and heard a sickening *crash* as it hit the deck. Try getting parts for that b*stard... Luckily the damage was minimal (still not sure how - there IS a god after all). A few months prior to that I'd parked up alongside the garage wall, nice and tidy, and then - inexplicably - let the clutch out before killing the engine and the bike lurched forward, crashing the front fairing into the brick buttress that I'm so careful to avoid. Think I'm having a stoopid year. :Bag: But yeah - nothing so annoying as damaging it yourself!
Evo sparrow we all have those days I very nearly dropped mine at my works petrol station I would never have lived that one down Here have a ducbird hug Do you need that ankle massaging
Yep it happens to the best of us. I dropped my 1000ss. No idea why it happened, I walked it backwards out of the garage like I've done a thousand times, went to throw my leg over it like I've done a thousand times, but for some reason this time as I was getting my leg over (so to speak!) the bike lent away from me, I wrestled with it but it reached that point of no return. In my determination to try and save it I manged to hang on to it so as to slow its fall but it still hit the deck with that horrible crunching noise. I was gutted luckily no damage apart from a couple of tiny scuffs. I think my pride was hurt the most.
Fecking GSA with a full tank (that's 33 f'ing litres). Thought the twatting sidestand was down.......It arsing wasn't. Pinned me F'king hand to the bast'ding garage door frame. Try pulling one of those twats up with one hand :Wacky:
Just as easy with a 750SS to make a prat of yourself.......... Bearing in mind I knew how they are with getting Neutral proper..... ....I always pulled the clutch in just in case when I stopped and then kicked the stand down and switched the engine off...... ....only one day when into the first winter of owning it, I wanted to listen to the engine, so I didn't switch it off...... ......got off the bike still holding the clutch lever in..........the Neutral light was showing...... ....so I let the clutch out and it went forward while leanong on the stand, which of course flipped up and the bike fell to the left while still going forward....... ............I must have nearly given myself a hernia to stop it from hitting the ground.......
pulled up at a junction, tried to put foot on ground only to find my shoe lace had caught on rearset.............doh.
I stalled my GSA pulling away after filling up, the damn thing immediately took on a 30 degree list pinning my leg between it and the pump,which s...l...o..w..l..y began to crumple with the combined weight of bike and rider crushing the tin... The cashier was oblivious to my plaintive wailing with his bleedin' headphones on....luckily a couple of burly builders in a passing Transit saw my predicament and came to the rescue. The pump casing was fooked,my knee was fooked,but no-one seemed to give a fook so I fooked off without saying fook all...fook 'em....
My old Katana 1100 had a slight dip in the power curve just off tickover, if you didn't rev it a bit as you pulled away it would often stall. Twice I dropped it in the pub car park, both times the pub garden was rammed to the gills with gawping locals:Shy: Best one I've seen was at Box Hill. Bloke pulls up on a brand spanking new Hayabusa, he'd ridden straight from the dealers to Box Hill to show it off to his mate. Pulled up next to me on a slight downhill, hopped off and turned to greet his mate. I saw the bike slowly start to move and made a lunge for the bars, but it was too late, the bike crashed to the floor. The amount of damage was incredible, fairing lower split in half almost, left clipon destroyed, silencer dented and scraped. I felt sorry for the guy.
