Quote from: CirclesCenter on August 29, 2006, 11:57:00 AM
Is this some weird short/small people disease? 

It must be.  I put one hand on the rear and one on the clutch and just back it out.  Although it weighs twice as much as my scooter, the GS is not all that much longer.  Even so, I can't just pick it up and move it around like I could with the scoot.  I nearly dropped it today while trying to mount (total Noob moment).   

It seems like we've been plagued by a bike dropping epidemic lately.

El Noobo

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on September 05, 2006, 08:19:46 PM

Quote from: callmelenny on September 05, 2006, 07:38:01 PM
I always wondered if those case savers were worth anything. Do you think they saved any damage?

They saved my tank from getting dented when mine had a slight tip over the other week.

What style did you have? I think OkayfOOl was riding my old GS (with your old ignition!) which had 2 point case savers.

Quote from: callmelenny on September 06, 2006, 04:07:24 AM

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on September 05, 2006, 08:19:46 PM

Quote from: callmelenny on September 05, 2006, 07:38:01 PM
I always wondered if those case savers were worth anything. Do you think they saved any damage?

They saved my tank from getting dented when mine had a slight tip over the other week.

What style did you have? I think OkayfOOl was riding my old GS (with your old ignition!) which had 2 point case savers.

Mine are the 3-point style, but the only part that got scratched on them was the front part, the front two contact point ones. The bike just kinda rolls along that spot when it falls.

When I had my '92, which had two-point case gaurds, the bike's tank never got dented when it was dropped. Only when it hit a curb! 

Quote from: CirclesCenter on August 29, 2006, 11:57:00 AM
Is this some weird short/small people disease? 

The only time I dropped mine was a lowside. (Ok lots more pain there....)

But I move appliances and can flat foot the GS easily. (I know the moments when if I was smaller or not as strong it would have gone over though.)

Like when I nailed the brake mid U-turn when I was first starting out and just planted my foot and pulled. (WHAT A NOOB!)

Yeah, thats exactly what I did. I was trying to turn a right-hand u-turn into a spot, and tapped the front brake. OHSHIT. My foot went down and I held tight. Then again, I'm 6'3" and built like a refridgerator. No goin down for me...thankyouverymuch!

My first drop was in a similar circumstance.

Was walking the bike it started to fall one way and I just couldn't hold it. I lowered it as close to the ground as possible before being flung over it.

Luckily mine was on grass. I then placed a reminder to myself in my signature on here. I WILL NOT drop my bike.



I then had it knocked over by someone in a car park,

but that all pails into significance after coming off my darling GS at 80km/h. Now she's really hurt 

I dropped a bike this weekend.  Forutanately it was gentle... unfortunately it wasn't my bike. I was riding my friends (dads) nighthawk, it was an older bike that he just uses to teach people on.  Hes got leather covers on the  clutch and brake lever that are loose and float around freely.  I was stopped with just my finger tips holding the clutch lever and the leather rolled and I dumped the clutch with my front tire turned. I did everything I could to keep it up but that nighthawk was a solid 200#s heavier than the GS and It wanted to lay down.  Fortunately no real scratches and just a bent clutch lever to show for it.  Later on that ride the battery gave out - we had to take it home, refill a cell, charge it and go back for the bike.  Last time I take his nighthawk out... i think its bad luck.