I guess this is relevant for the smaller guys too but I was thinking of the ladies being one myself.

Can you pick up your GS if/when you drop it? I seriously don't know if I could. I have only laid it down once (at very slow speed, no damage) and it was when I was riding with my boyfriend, he jumped off his bike and picked it up and was going over it before I had picked myself up off the pavement.

If you are a smaller person and you can pick up the bike, could you please describe the technique you use. I am told that with the right technique even the smallest person can pick up a bike but after the hard time I had picking up even the tiny little dirt bikes on my safety course, I have some doubts. I'm about 130 pounds and not especially strong.

It's really a matter of technique. (The adrenaline rush after going down also helps.)

Squat down. Grab the lower end of the handlebar and the frame right in front of the attachment triangle for the rear footpegs. Now with straight back and arms as straight as possible lift with your legs.

If you are insecure do a training session, laying the bike down on some soft padding.

Here you go a page with tips on how to pick up a droped bike by a female

http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html

Hope it answers some questions you have about it.  And I hope you never have to pickup your bike.

No I cant Im a wuss.  But my plans are if I drop her again is to take my helmet off, shake my hair around like one of those shampoo commercials, and then to show at little skin as to attract some guys to stop and pick up my bike for me.












Guys are complete suckers sometimes.

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Here you go a page with tips on how to pick up a droped bike by a female

http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html

Hope it answers some questions you have about it.  And I hope you never have to pickup your bike.

+1  Works great for my VStrom! 

Oh yeah, being a guy, I'm a sucker for the hair shake/ skin thing.....  I never pass a lady biker in distress....

ChuckS

Sh!t, my GF dumped my bike while tring to learn how to ride, Now Im a big (muscular guy) 

I mean I bench 315, curl 130 and what not and it had a strain getting that thing up

Im not a big guy, and I don't have much of a problem picking mine up myself. I've knocked it over more times than I care to admit.  Like mentioned before, sometimes the adrenaline helps, but it is also technique. I helped my neighbor pick up his Harley after he tipped it in his driveway too, without any issue.

I fall into the wuss category too. I have dropped my GS 3 times and never picked it up myself. The first two times my friend was with me and he picked it up for me. The last time I dropped it on the side of the highway (it was going up hill too) and had a guy pull over and help me. Even with the technique my friend showed me for picking it up I didn't have ass to pick it up alone.

Quote from: ajgs500 on June 21, 2006, 03:39:31 PM
Guys are complete suckers sometimes.

Unfortunately, this is true...

Quote from: blue05twin on June 21, 2006, 02:58:20 PM
Here you go a page with tips on how to pick up a droped bike by a female

http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html

Hope it answers some questions you have about it.  And I hope you never have to pickup your bike.

Thank you! That looks great. That looks like the technique my boyfriend used to pick up my bike, but he did it so quick I didn't really see exactly what he did.

Why the heck don't they teach that method on the safety courses? I couldn't get even a very small bike up with the way they showed me.

Jenn, the first thing I would suggest you do is get a new boyfriend.

Second, learn to pick it up.  It's not a matter of strength, but method.  The best ways for me are to either put my butt against the tank, grab whichever handle bar is pointing down, and the frame under the seat and lift with my legs or to squat down and grab the "down" handle bar with both hands and lift with my legs (best for light bikes).

ninja edit...the pink ribbon riders link is great!

Quote from: ajgs500 on June 21, 2006, 03:39:31 PM
No I cant Im a wuss.  But my plans are if I drop her again is to take my helmet off, shake my hair around like one of those shampoo commercials, and then to show at little skin as to attract some guys to stop and pick up my bike for me.


switch teams when it benifits you....











Guys are complete suckers sometimes.

Quote from: werase643 on June 21, 2006, 10:03:50 PM

Quote from: ajgs500 on June 21, 2006, 03:39:31 PM
No I cant Im a wuss.  But my plans are if I drop her again is to take my helmet off, shake my hair around like one of those shampoo commercials, and then to show at little skin as to attract some guys to stop and pick up my bike for me.


switch teams when it benifits you....











Guys are complete suckers sometimes.

I can pick mine up! It wasn't adrenaline either cause I dropped it gettin it off the centerstand in my basement.   Grabbed the bars and lifted it right up. I couldn't lift it the way on the website suggested because when my gs went over, it went flat over, it was laying on the bar end, and pegs and the crankcover was flat on the cement. There was no angle to get down in there and lift.   just lifted must be all the hay bales

HICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Aj who is on left?
then i can guess who's on right

Im on the left.

thank ya, ma'm

actually if u use the way they show u on the msf corse it shouldnt be that hard. i renember this short woman doing the techineque during the corse. the didnt have a problem

I'm a tiny dude.. 5'3, about 135lbs... I've dropped her 4 times (maybe 5, can't remember) since I bought her (two weeks ago )... No problems picking her up at all. Like Mak said... grab the down handlebar, grab the frame, push. It's all leverage.