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View Poll Results: How many times have you dropped a motorcycle?
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0: Never... I have always kept my bikes upright.
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4: Yeah, yeah, more than I like to admit.
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21st August 2006
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA)
Posts: 3,426 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 Custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2006
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POLL: How many times have you dropped a motorcycle?
The most basic principal of riding a motorcycle is keeping it upright on two wheels. Unfortunately, mistakes do happen...
So? How many times have you dropped your bike? Bumped it while parked? Lost your balance while pushing it? Dumped it doing a slow, tight turn? Did you lay it down at speed? <yikes>
I'll start... I dumped my first bike while "training" with a buddy on back-country dirt roads in Pennsylvania, on a slow 10mph turn... locked the front brake. Also like a dumbass, I think I dropped my second bike on two seperate occasions while moving it walking (pushing it). I almost dropped the Sportster my third week of ownership pushing it... I have vowed not to push it any more, I sit on it and duck walk it out of the garage now. :P
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21st August 2006
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Chief Master Mechanic
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Sunny Florida
Posts: 452 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200R Sportster/Buell Year: 2004
Reputation: 10
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came real close once, thought the kick stand was down and almost let her go!
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21st August 2006
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 2,510 Sportster/Buell Model: 883c Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: Flyrite Rigid completed? Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003
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Never on a street bike.
Countless times on a dirt bike.
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21st August 2006
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Biker
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Monterey, CA
Posts: 67 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200C Sportster/Buell Year: 2006
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Lost my Honda Magna V65 twice. The first time I was riding 2-up with my wife. We stopped to eat, she dismounted on my side, and I had to dismount to the right. I paused, lost my brain, and leaned her over like I had put the kickstand down. The bike went to the pavement, and I snached it back up quickly. It is a heavy bike, but my pride was wounded.
The other time I was walking it in wet grass and I bit it.
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21st August 2006
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Flat Track Racer
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 222 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200S Sportster/Buell Year: 1997 Other Motorcycle Model: K1200RS BMW Other Motorcycle Year: 2004
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I only dropped the Sporty once and I've never dropped the BMW (hope I never do - the fairing has got to cost major $!)
BUT, with the enduros, if you don't drop them every once in awhile, you aren't pushing it!
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21st August 2006
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Senior Chief Master Mechanic 1st Class
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: NorCal
Posts: 1,258 Sportster/Buell Model: XLH1200 Sportster/Buell Year: '99 Other Motorcycle Model: Not yet!
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Many many many a time, but I guess its expected on dirtbikes!
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21st August 2006
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The XL Forum Host
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Somewhere in the woods, looking for a Geocache
Posts: 14,296 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 Custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2014 Other Motorcycle Model: Suzuki Intruder 1500 Other Motorcycle Year: 2003
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I have droped my Sporty once learning to ride it and I dropped Schnucki's Honda-Davidson once.
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21st August 2006
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Bike Builder
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,892 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 Custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2006
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Don't remember how many times I dropped my CB650, dropped the Hugger two days after I got it. Thought the stand was down. (it wasn't). Did put it down on a trip. Ran a Honda over. Just a couple other times after that. Did drop Sassy on my trip. Going slow and she just went to far. No damage.
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21st August 2006
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Flat Track Champion
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 633 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 C Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Other Motorcycle Model: Heritage Softail Classic Other Motorcycle Year: 2004
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I haven't dropped the Sporty yet (and don't plan to), but have done so on numerous occaisions on my mountain bike. Even dumped myself into a patch of cactus one time.
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21st August 2006
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Chief Harley Engineer
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 596 Sportster/Buell Model: XL53 Custom now NRHS1250 Sportster/Buell Year: 2002
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I've never dropped the bike but left the disk lock on once and laid it down. Had two accidents, both driving below 15mph, where a car pushed me off the road/lane and laid it down then too.
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