Near disaster last night
 

So I get home from work last night and am parking th ebike in the driveway. I put down the kickstand, or so I thought, and go to get off the bike I lean it over, then with no kickstand gravity takes over:panic: Fortunatley I was close to the back porch so I braced the bike with my body on the porch. Of course no one was around and I was in an awkward position to push it back up. I thought about laying it down and then getting fully off the bike but realy didnt want to do that. Finally I swung my righ tleg off the bike so I could get under it and push it back up. So in the end all was well and I after being kinda cold riding home I was sweating in my gear

Tom

hahaha... You poor thing. How's the pride? Still intact?

prety much, fortunatley there were no witnesses:dthumb: I did feel like an idiot holding the bike there while trying to figure out what to do. In retrospect I am glad the proch was there otherwise it would have hit the ground.

Tom

At least you saved the bike if not your pride Tom :D

'Tis always better to damage ones pride than harm the machine

Or both.

Good job being patient. Not everyone can be.....

lol, its been sooooo long since i've had any drops or near misses. i'm prolly due for one any day now.

i prolly make up for in in crashes though.

Steve + guardrail = ...

that I was lucky with this year, had 2 crashes at the track last year but only a few off road excursions this year so thats always good.

my gsxr did fall off the jack stands though

Tom

that poor machine has been through so much without you doing more to it :lol:

Tell me about it, Its due for something though since its been running very well and have logged a lot of miles since sept. I think I need to check the kickstand though, 2 or 3 timse since the near disaster it wouldnt go down when I pushed it.

Tom

Glad to hear you were able to save it. :dthumb:

Start lifting weights...

that may well be user error... redflip

Nice save. One time, at my ex's family's house, a guy was parking his busa in a driveway next door. Well, my ex's family happens to live in SF, on a very steep hill. He was fumbling with his kickstand, and started falling off to the right, which happened to be the going down the hill side. He quickly jumped off on the underside of the bike and managed to hold it until help arrived moments later. After that, he decided to park on the top of the hill in a flatter area.

Then you went and screwed up and told all of us... now we laugh at you and point.


OK, not really, but we've all been there...

Truth.

I dropped my brand new bike on the sidewalk in similar fashion... Put the kickstand down, got off, turned around, took two steps and BANG! Fuckin' think was laying on it's side. I finally felt better about it after I lowsided at 75mph three months later.

Thats a tough way to get over a sidewalk drop.