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Saltcreek · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject: confessions of a bike dropper

Right in my own driveway. One moment you're maneuvering at low speed, next moment it's down. Just lost my focus. I bet more bikes end up on their side at under 2 mph than over.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject:

Now we know what happened to the beer. Razz

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Saltcreek · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

Jim · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject:

No - it's the other way around - he dropped the bike after sucking down the beer so it wouldn't go flat...
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject:

After dropping the bike you should have finished off the 6 bottles. That way at least you wouldn't have cared about the bike.....

So- do we get to assess the damage next week at the HL concours d'elegance competition?

Seriously, that color match car wax (can't recall the brand and I am too lazy right now to go downstairs and look) really works well on any minor scratches.

Unless your mirror is hanging limp off the side. Wax "ain't" fixin' that.
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Don Sproule · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: confessions ....

Hey John,

Why don't you waddle downstairs and get the name of that fine product.
I'd like to check it out.

Don

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

OK, OK.

This has been great on scratches. The exact color match does not seem to matter.

Your results may vary.
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Don Sproule · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks John.
I'll trot right down and try and get me some.

Don

SugarHillCTD · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:02 am Post subject:

Jim,

Seriously, is the bike OK? I've done the full drop once and a "leaner" (up against the garage door opening).

Hope yours was a no damage event.

John
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Saltcreek · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 7:10 am Post subject:

This was a slow right turn. I practice lock to lock turns feathering the clutch and brake and am not bad at it. I don't know hat happened. Just lost focus. I'm better to the left than to the right. Only damage was a couple of sheared rivets on a side case latch. Fixed.
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1994 K1100LT Mystic Red, bfd, 37000 miles, sold Sad

2009 Wilderness Systems Zephyr 155 ST
2002 Litespeed titanium

chrisk1100rs · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:06 am Post subject: Re: confessions of a bike dropper

endoman100 · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject:

After dropping my bike more than once I finally learned to hold the front brake while dismounting. Embarassed

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supercat1 · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject:

not gonna lie, it kinda makes me sick to see the rash i have on the sides of my bike from extreme low speed drops. thankfully they are just on the fairing and supposedly easy to patch up. gonna look into having the fairings and mirrors repainted over the winter. i'm just glad none of the metal body has any damage except the knee area on the tank, bunch of light scratches on the clear coat.
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RobWheatley · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:03 am Post subject:

I dropped my LT a while ago, at a packed shopping centre Embarassed

Came out to go home, got on the bike, put the side stand up, wanted something in the topbox, lent the bike over on the sidestand and over she went, I had forgotten that I had put the stand up.

Lucky for me I had the panniers on as she only went over till the pannier stopped it, broke the rivits in the pannier locks and the hinge though and OMG they are heavy when trying to get them upright again.

Rob
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SugarHillCTD · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:10 am Post subject:

The one constant force that is always working on a motorcycle is gravity- that force WANTS to lay the bike over

The entire time we own a bike we are working against that force. When we ride balance and centrifugal forces help us. In the garage the center or side stand act as our substitute legs.

But ANY TIME we accidentally fail at our job of working against that force, gravity- that never ending constant- prevails.

Today's philosophy lesson Laughing

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Off the grid · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:50 am Post subject:

I think that with a motobrick that force has more of a pull that normal.
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RobWheatley · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:26 am Post subject: