:x    :x   dropped the bike today...... it was my own stupidity, I was in a hurry and I parked it on a hill......I leaned it over and it seemed to be sturdy so I got off, but I guess the shift in weight when I got off it caused it to fall (luckily it didnt fall into a car).  I scratched the side of the crankcase (i think thats what its called, the place where the dipstick is) pretty bad, but it doesnt look like it has any cracks or anything real bad.  It broke off one of the rear view mirrors and messed up one of the turn signals.  Do you guy's think I should get it professionally looked at for major damage or do you think I should just replace the mirror and go on with regular maintenence.....    It seems to still run fine, but then again I dont know a whole lot about engines or what to look for as far as damages go.  Could that cause it to leak oil or something??

When I bought the bike, my brother-in-law bet me i'd drop/fall off the bike at least 3 times within my first 6 months of riding it....its been less than a month and here goes #1.....just my luck...Any similar experiences with being an idiot and dropping your bike or am I just a one in a million dumb@$$

like an even bigger idiot, when it fell, I tried to pick it up and my leg touched the exhaust, burning a nice hole in the flesh, almost to the bone.......i've been stabbed with a knife and it didnt hurt this bad!! watch out for those pipes, they are hot!!!

Quote from: jamesmcblike an even bigger idiot, when it fell, I tried to pick it up and my leg touched the exhaust, burning a nice hole in the flesh, almost to the bone.......i've been stabbed with a knife and it didnt hurt this bad!! watch out for those pipes, they are hot!!!

Don't worry much about the engine. Just do the minor replacements yourself and Ouch..that hurts!!  

Take it easy - I've dropped mine twice in a week.  But that's because I have a horrendous parking spot and have to do some crazy manuveuring on two perpendicular steep hills into a driveway surrounded by bushes that aren't as wide as my mirrors.  That's why I bought a '92 bike - because the scratches I caused on the mirror and crankcase just blend in  Both times the engine didn't like running - I would try to start it and it wouldn't idle.  But by giving it some throttle for 10 seconds after starting it, it would finally idle and clear out whatever fluids had gotten into places they shouldn't have been.

Quote from: jamesmcbAny similar experiences with being an idiot and dropping your bike or am I just a one in a million ...

As I have confessed here before, I dropped my fully loaded bike last year - after having logged some 25,000+ miles.  As near as I can tell, I tried to get off without even putting the kickstand down!

This happened halfway through Day 9 of my 10-day trip from Utah to British Columbia.  I had just filled up at a gas pump and then pulled forward to park next to the convenience store.  I can't remember what all was going through my mind.  Perhaps:

* the last few miles we had just ridden?
* the threatening rain clouds?
* the fellow Kawi Concours rider that my Dad was conversing with back at the pumps?
* getting inside to the bathroom?
* something else entirely?

Anyway, I stepped off ... and found myself doing the trying-not-fall-on-my-face, headlong stumble as the bike tipped over behind me.  Luckily for me, the engine guards and the hard saddlebag took the brunt of the weight, and I came out of it with "only" a curled clutch lever:


So don't sweat it!  Just "look forward" to the next one!  

PS - I have dropped the bike on at least 2 other occasions, within 20 minutes of each other.  One had to do with ice in the parking lot at work and the other with snow in my yard.  Both of them "front brake mistake"s.

PPS - Oh yeah!  Then there was the time that I tried to pull through to a better parking spot, between 2 cars parked kitty-corner at a WalMart in Wenatchee, WA.  Only I forgot I had the hard saddlebags attached on the back.     The left bag pushed off against the bumper of the car on that side, and tipped me against the van on the other side.  My windshield still has the scratches from that one.  And yes, I paid $300 to the owner to get the crease along his lower panel fixed.

Are you feeling better yet?  

dropped the bike first time within a few weeks (the day my new M license came in the mail!), second time a few weeks later. Third time was a YEAR later.

Then 4 months ago I dropped my brand new cbr600rr the first week I had it. Total riding just under 2 years so far.

Comes with the territory of being a new rider. Now arent you glad you didnt buy a new fancy bike as your first?

I dumped it at my first go at my license, in the rain.    That's the only time it's been down in my hands, but damn, it was embarassing.  I did the whole test with no points off despite the rain, and then at the stop test, I grabbed too much front brake, the front tire slid, and she just plopped.

I started riding again 14 months ago after not riding for 33 years. I bought a 98 Suzuki 1400 Intruder as my "get back into it" bike.  I dropped it in my driveway 2x in the first week, bending and breaking the usual turn signal, mirror, clutch lever etc. Three weeks later I lowsided on a turn when gravel was hidden in the shadows of an overpass. More bent and broken parts, but no more than scrapes and scratches to my person. During the 14 months I've owned the 1400 I have logged over 24,000 miles, and the bike is better than ever because I have personalized it to match the way I ride and my personality. My dropping and downing of the bike forced me to get intimate with my machine to put it back to better than ever. My experienced friends have all assured me that there are two kinds of motorcycle riders: Those that have dropped their bikes, and those that will drop their bikes. It is starting again with my '96 GS500E. Less than 1000miles into our relationship and I was learning to drift the rear tire in a dirt lot and somehow it gets really loose in a left  turn drift and then flung me over the bars in a high side recovery onto my chin. Low speed scrapes and bruises to me, the helmet and does any one have a straight adjustable brake lever? My suggestion is to get good leathers and helmet, keep riding to practice your skills and learn to fix it when you bust it. Ride on, and on, and on.

I dropped mine in the driveway last year. And, I've been riding 17 years!

If I had a couple of bucks for everytime I dropped my bike I'd probably have enough for a new GS.

http://www.gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=103780#103780

I hate it when I drop it on the left though. Almost everytime I do I end up snapping the clutch lever. I've had to replace that thing twice now. I wonder if my Suzuki dealer sells them in a wholesale twelve pack.

Yeah, it happens. To everyone eventually. Sometimes several times. :mrgreen:

How'd you burn a "hole almost to the bone" on the exhaust? Not to rag on you but it sounds like ya got mighty slow reflexes.  
Did you get pinned under it?

I dropped mine in a parking lot the second time I ever rode it. I stalled it and it jerked and I fell down with it.

The second time I dropped it was a couple of months ago. I was trying to get it on the centerstand and dropped it on it's right side.

Laura

Day one, hour one... My GS got intimate with a giant bush on the median of the Bryce Jordan center parking lot.  Bent shift lever, scratched mirror... otherwise she was fine.... If you MUST have a wreck, I highty recommend wrecking into a median with a flower-bed on it... like crashing on a cloud   :lol:

since then a few close calls, but I never dropped the R6 or the SV yet.. (knock wood).

Day 1, hour 1, dropped my brand new GS500F taking her off the trailer. .  No noticeable damage on that one.  That weekend, did the stop and drop, (that i am apparently working on perfecting :dunno: ),  broke the break lever, and rashed the fairing.  3 days later, pulled in the driveway at the house, put it in neutral so I could move the car to pull up, and forgot to put the sidestand down.   Of course I realized this too far into the lean to stop it, so now both sides match. lol.  I just hope that's it for a while.  Every time I meet with my friend to ride he looks over my bike and asks, "what's new this time", lol.
I just tell him I couldn't have her looking to good for too long or people would think I wasn't really riding.  :lol:

Month 2 --
Trying to look smoothe for the girl standing near the car in the spot next to me i pulled up on my 500f pretty smoothly, then as i put the kickstand down my foot hit the clutch lever in the same way it would hit the kickstand to put it down.  Naturally I thought I had very "coolly" tapped down the kickstand.  I dismounted and watched her (no, not the girl, the bike) start to tip over and realized she was about to get "cosmetically broken in".  Luckily I'm still close and catch it midway through the fall but think "there's no way im going to lift this i'll just try to pad the fall", but then flashes of a messed ferring and broken clutch lever went through my mind.  I bend my legs and just before tapping the ground i get it back up.

Once it was over i hardly cared that the girl had made some smart alec comment  and just was glad my bike was still mint.

Hopefully no more close calls...every time i stop i gotta double check the stand man, it makes me sick just thinkin about a dropped bike!!  

DB

I dropped mine the first day I had it. trying to back it in an unlevel parking lot    No major damage, just a little bit on the mirror.

I dropped mine twice in two days, in my first week! I was taking off after a cold start, stalled it, and it just dropped like a sack of $hit on the right side. Needless to say, I learnt how to use the choke properly after that
Then just after I put the new brake lever on, I was riding home and tipped over again at a stop sign ! Luckily that one only scratched the new lever. Need faster reflexes

been there done that. I am a kitty cat of sorts.. cant lift my bike for some reason after i drop it.

dropped my girl the first 300 yards I rode it and had to get a new mirror, plus a couple scratches on engine casing read about it here

Then last week TWICE IN A ROW    trying to get her up on the centerstand in some uneven sandy stuff.  I find that if im really railing to lift her onto the stand, and my left foot is on the centerstand trying to push down, that i can't get off it fast enough to brace us if it starts leaning to the left.

Ah well, such is life.  Thankfully no damage either drop the second time around@!

Good luck, don't be too hard on yourself! see?  We all do it![/url]

Quote from: esokittydropped my girl the first 300 yards I rode it and had to get a new mirror, plus a couple scratches on engine casing read about it here

Then last week TWICE IN A ROW    trying to get her up on the centerstand in some uneven sandy stuff.  I find that if im really railing to lift her onto the stand, and my left foot is on the centerstand trying to push down, that i can't get off it fast enough to brace us if it starts leaning to the left.

Ah well, such is life.  Thankfully no damage either drop the second time around@!

Good luck, don't be too hard on yourself! see?  We all do it![/url]

If you wanna drop a bike on sand, you should've gotten a dirt bike in the first place...much more fun to drop.  :lol:  :lol:  sorry j/k

mabbe we should start a  "0 miles dumped" club.  :lol: