Anyone never dropped a bike?

[beuleux]

Hi all
Just curious if anyone hear has never dropped a bike, not just your current bike but any bike, not including accidents that wern't your fault but drops due to your own clumsiness.


I know I have 😆

[darrsi]

Not sure if people are gonna really want to tempt fate by answering that question!


I dropped mine for the first time in 34 years riding, about 6 months ago, but it was all in slow motion.
The road outside my work was flooded from a very heavy rain storm, so traffic was diverted to the next road up where there was an Exit gate on the road which is normally kept closed. But as i got to it, along with about 7 cars behind me, the security guard was locking it back up, and he then started to point where i'd just come from?
So i went back round there and as expected the road was awash with moving water, which can put your balance off a bit. Looking further ahead i saw cars driving through deeper water, but noticed that the water was up to the kerb level where i was but the kerb itself was clear of water.
I then made a split second decision to ride up the kerb, but without putting my feet down to stop my boots from getting a soaking.
Turns out that the water hidden kerb was about 8 inches high, so my front tyre just slid on it then i felt the weight of the bike falling. I landed on my back after pushing myself clear, but my bike jacket just splatted on the water surface and i didn't even feel a thing.
Had a couple of workmates nearby who saw it happen and helped me get the bike back up, but the only damage was a bent rear brake pedal, which i bent out easily when i got home.
It was embarrassing more than anything, but to be fair i should never have been put in that situation to begin with. What made things worse was the next day when i had a look, if i'd gone about 3 feet further there was a dropped kerb, but it was all under water so no way i could tell at the time. 

[BBROWN1664]

When I was learning to ride (off-road) when I was 12 or 13 years old it regularly went down. since being on the road though, only twice so far. Once on thick ice where I ended up stepping off the bike and laying it down and the second time when I was 16 but riding my 125 on the road around Gatwick Airports "new" North Terminal. Fresh tarmac, mud, rain and knobbly tyres didnt mix very well

[Grahamm]

Just curious if anyone hear has never dropped a bike

I dropped mine five minutes after I got it!

I decided to get a little practice around the back streets near the dealers, pulled up to a T-Junction, put my left foot down flat, the bike leaned over and kept on leaning...

[beuleux]

I dropped mine for the first time in 34 years riding, about 6 months ago

That's quite a good track record and quite surprising, I was discussing "everybody drops their" bike with a dealer recently so I got to thinking has anyone NEVER dropped one.
For me in 35 years I've dropped every bike I've ever owned within a few weeks of buying it apart from the gen2 I own now which I've had for about 8-9 months, my previous bike a gen1 was my quickest ever drop which was driving it home from the sellers house. 😄

[beuleux]

Just curious if anyone hear has never dropped a bike

I dropped mine five minutes after I got it!

You've just beat my record, it took me 45mins to drive it home 😄

[darrsi]

I dropped mine for the first time in 34 years riding, about 6 months ago

That's quite a good track record and quite surprising, I was discussing "everybody drops their" bike with a dealer recently so I got to thinking has anyone NEVER dropped one.
For me in 35 years I've dropped every bike I've ever owned within a few weeks of buying it apart from the gen2 I own now which I've had for about 8-9 months, my previous bike a gen1 was my quickest ever drop which was driving it home from the sellers house. 😄

Our CCTV picked it up too, so I even have the video. 

[Dudeofrude]

Only ever dropped one. My first "big" bike, a yamaha thundercat. Left the disc lock on and tried to pull away 🙈🙈 needles to say it didn't work 😅

[midden]

Only ever dropped one. My first "big" bike, a yamaha thundercat. Left the disc lock on and tried to pull away 🙈🙈 needles to say it didn't work 😅

  I've done that..... resulted in dropped bike and smashed fork leg

[Captain Haddock]

I'll bet no foccer here has dropped a bike like this!
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/africa/ghana-explosion-emergency-intl/index.html

[BBROWN1664]

I'll bet no foccer here has dropped a bike like this!
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/africa/ghana-explosion-emergency-intl/index.html

Not sure what we are meant to be seeing there

[Captain Haddock]

A bike collided with a truck, a truck packed full of dynamite....17 dead and a small town levelled!The vid at the beginning seems to mention a gas explosion that was years ago but that's not the story.

[Frosties]

Left home at 5.30am for many years on my 97 Triumph Tiger, same route every day. One T junction in town i stopped at evry time with no one coming.


This one wet morning a car was coming so pulled up, put my right foot down.................. straight onto a plastic bag and down down he went (all bikes are male).


Pissed off, I heaved and grunted this bike (full tank) upright and proceeded to throw it over onto the other side.............forgot to put the side stand down 


At least both sides matched after that and you just know some fecker watched all of it.

[agricola]

Dropped the fazer outside my sisters house. Pulled, side stand down, leant over and the bike just seemed to keep going. The camber outside her house is massive, I slid off and the bike followed me

[b1k3rdude]

Not sure if people are gonna really want to tempt fate by answering that question!

LOL, indeed.

[b1k3rdude]

A bike collided with a truck

And how does that have much or anything to do with dropping your bike..?

That was general section post at best imho.

[darrsi]

Had a strange one 2 days ago. Was sitting at the front of traffic, on the nearside as I was turning left, and as the lights changed I accelerated and the engine started screaming as if I had the clutch in? Then I started feeling the bike moving from the side until eventually I pulled away, albeit a bit confused.


As the lights changed a car on my right decided to turn left too, and I'm guessing didn't see me, for whatever reason?
So his car was pushing onto my exhaust, which made the wheel spin and the rear end was being nudged sideways until they must've seen me and realised what was going on.


No damage, just a shiny spot on my exhaust where the contact was, but my tyre only had 10psi in it last night when I checked, with no visible puncture (plus I have Slime in the tyre) but hopefully that's all good again now. I'll check it again tonight after work.

[Grahamm]

No damage, just a shiny spot on my exhaust

I'm surprised there wasn't a brown spot in your underpants!

I'm glad you got away from that safely, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse

[darrsi]

No damage, just a shiny spot on my exhaust

I'm surprised there wasn't a brown spot in your underpants!

I'm glad you got away from that safely, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse

After a few seconds of realising what was happening, bearing in mind my eyes were still focussed ahead, i was kinda waiting to be pushed over. Thinking about it, if i hadn't been using the throttle at that exact moment i would no doubt have been down on my left side. Would've made interesting viewing but i doubt anyone else even saw it happening. It was a very bizarre moment. 

[Slaninar]

It happens to everyone.




I've dropped and fallen off any bike, or bicycle I've had. 

[notsofast]

I've not dropped every bike that I have ever owned - just nearly all.
Current FZ1 took a fall in the garage a few months ago when I was taking it off the rear paddock stand and forgot to put the side stand down.  It was ok though, my car caught the handle bar and prevented damage to the bike......

[acid drop]

I've dropped a few bikes and I know a few peeps that have as well

[beuleux]

I've dropped a few bikes and I know a few peeps that have as well

It's character building 😁

[unfazed]

Not yet , but came close a few times.