Dropped my bike!

May I take this moment to pass my thanks on to those two men in the
removal van that helped me pick up my ER-5 which I dropped at the end
of my road this afternoon. Your assistance was very much appreciated.

Having not dropped my bike before, it was quite a novel (yet unwanted)
experience.

I got to the end of my road, grabbed[1] the front brake to stop and
was thrown slightly forward as the bike stopped quickly. I stamped my
right foot down on the road a bit overzealously. Realised that I was
on a left incline and put my left foot down and then came quickly to
the conclusion that I wasn't going to stop it falling over.

In an extraordinary display of 'Oh Bugger It' I capsized with the bike
landing on the side of the road with a good thump. I pulled my legs
out from under the beastie and looked for damage. It was laying on
its left handlebar, mirror and engine bars, and the gear selector.

I tried to have a go at picking it up, but after my 3rd attempt I
decided that if I waited long enough someone would come along and take
pity on me. I switched off the left indicator, unzipped my jacket,
took off my helmet and gloves and waited.

A lady went around me in her car, pulled up and asked if I was okay.
I thanked her for her concern and said that I was fine and then said
that the bike looks better when vertical. She agreed and then went on
her way.

Five minutes later a removal van came by, backed up around the corner
of a nearby road. Two men jumped out and asked if I needed any help.
I accepted and explained what had happened and they said not to worry
as they were both experts at dropping bikes. They commented that it
hadn't even touched the tank as it was on balancing on the handlebar
and engine bars.

After kicking the gear selector a few times and cranking the engine
over for a few seconds it came back to life, with the oil & coolant
warning lights on, and after revving it for a few seconds they turned
off. I turned off the ignition, put it on the side stand and went to
grab my helmet and gloves off of the pavement and turned around. The
two men and their removal lorry had gone.

I never even said thanks.

Some people do really nice things. Where would we be without them?

[1] Now I know why I was always told to SQUEEZE and not grab the front
brake.

 

Clumsy ****.

 

Are you some sort of gurl?

 

Thank them a bit sooner next time and you won't feel so bad. They're
probably thinking you're an ignorant git!

 

Heh my mate did that last year when she was following me. I stopped but
realised there was a slope and put my right foot down instead. She
didn't catch on and I watched as she keeled over almost in slow motion.

By the time I'd stopped laughing she'd already got the bike up and was
ready to go, with a few choice words for me for taking the mick.

 

YTC. Got a buzz though?

 

In

A lay-dee.

 

When you find out how much some new bits cost, you will be so enraged next
time you drop it you be able to bench press the bastard.

 

It will.

What are you, Auvache's little sister?

But left the ignition on? Not a bright move, if only for the battery's
sake.

No, no, no. If you've got warning lights, you don't rev it to make
them go off. They are not there for decoration.

 

Engine bars are good like that aren't they.

Sitting there, watching as some dozy bugger drove over your bike.

I ended up squashing my nuts on the tank of my FZR by grabbing the front
brake like that.... twice.

 

Hmmmm.

 

Nick composed the following;:

Heheheh, I'm only 5' 4" tall and never found a bike I couldn't pick up
after dropping it, even a Katana 1000, and they are fucking heavy ...
and waaay too tall for short-arses.

Probably ex proddie racers ...

Oooooh nooo, you don't wanna do that mister, it'll likely ****-up big
stylee. If the lights stay on a bit, don't rev it at all until they
either go off, you turn it off, or it goes BANG.

Still sat on the pavement watching twats run over the bike?

 

Hang on .. the ER5 is the 500cc jobby ? And you couldn't pick that up?

**** me ... I picked my lardy Bandit 600 up three or four times, and my
FJR1300 once (another time in Leeds, I had to ask two blokes to help me,
but it was on an incline). A 500cc's a fucking moped ...

Anyway, I'm told that the way to pick up a bike is to put it into gear,
turn your back on the bike, bend your knees, and pull it off the deck that
way. That's how plod here pick up their 1000 and 1100cc BMWs.

 

Nick wrote

Fucking wuss. The rule is laddie: never ride a bike that you cannot
pick up when you drop it.

 

Anyway, I'm told that the way to pick up a bike is to put it into gear,

Useful, I didn't know that

 

Thank Ace or platy: I believe it was one or the other who told me that..

 

Nick wrote:

And why you should never buy a faired bike as a first one

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Why on earth not?

 

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/pickup.html

Useful worked example, butt she doesn't seem to know her conjuntions from
her fanny.

 

'I'll be happy to help anyone who need more intense information'

*chortle*