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MILK
03-18-2009, 04:59 PM
No worries, so have 98% of the rest of us!! :) I have done it twice.

Seriously - it happens. Sometimes it's bad, other times you get lucky - but it happens.

derf
03-18-2009, 06:05 PM
sorry lady, but I'm perfect

zed
03-18-2009, 08:14 PM
3 times.

njchopper87
03-18-2009, 09:48 PM
3 also. I'm lucky the way the foot pegs are designed to work with the bike if it falls over, because otherwise I'd probably be fucked. They never let me fully drop it... yet.

JoJoYZF
03-18-2009, 10:00 PM
My buddy dropped it in grass the day I got it. Ive dropped it once at a light when my foot slipped and once turning onto a gravel driveway.

zed
03-18-2009, 10:06 PM
3 also. I'm lucky the way the foot pegs are designed to work with the bike if it falls over, because otherwise I'd probably be fucked. They never let me fully drop it... yet.

oh, dropped, not crashed/totaled. I've totaled 3 bikes.

foot slipped when learning to ride my first bike. after my ankles were messed up I dropped a bike loading it onto the lift at work, didn't matter because it was fur covered and pretty much screwed up but I was replacing all the messed up parts on the bike already and I didn't damage anything that wasn't already damaged. still didn't feel good about it though.

Mrs. Colleen
03-18-2009, 10:33 PM
My husband dropped mine. :tt:

t-homo
03-19-2009, 01:13 AM
Not yet.

Quick281
03-19-2009, 01:55 AM
Buddy of mine dropped it, then I have dropped it twice to far.

All I can say is that my Woodcraft frame sliders saved me on damage every time and that you can just turn the bar ends around so the scratches aren't visible.

Rider
03-19-2009, 09:00 AM
I've never dropped any of my bikes.

Mr Lefty
03-19-2009, 09:07 AM
I dropped my zzr a few times... Snow and sloped driveways suck.

jtemple
03-19-2009, 09:43 AM
I dropped mine in the garage once. Thanks to the sliders, you wouldn't even know it was dropped unless I pointed out the two scuffs to you.

Ninjakel
03-19-2009, 10:31 AM
Yep, i have dropped every one of my bikes at least once. It happens.

MILK
03-20-2009, 04:26 PM
My husband dropped mine. :tt:


Ouch.

I never dropped the used $600 Honda Rebel that was my first bike. When I bought my nice new VFR I promptly dropped it one week later...

Particle Man
03-20-2009, 04:59 PM
dropped in mud once, no damage.

knocked over by someone's freakin' little rug rat, busted clutch lever, front turn signal, bar end weight, and shifter.

jalaan1
03-20-2009, 05:55 PM
1 crash, 2 drops, only been riding for about 2 seasons.
hopefully it's all out of my system now.:idk:

Sanchez
03-20-2009, 05:58 PM
I've had some pretty embarrassing drops. Once I stepped off my bike and forgot to put the kickstand down.

3 weeks after I bought my Ulysses, I dropped it in a parking lot trying to u-turn. I rode back to Atlanta from North Carolina like this:

http://www.incorrect.org/coppermine/albums/911ride2006/normal_2006-08-21_12-11-40_Matt.jpg

Another time, I stopped on a steep slope with my bike perpendicular to the hill. When I went to put my downhill foot on the ground, there was nothing under it, and I fell right over. To add insult to injury, I couldn't lift the bike by myself with it pointed down the hill.

KSGregman
03-22-2009, 09:13 PM
1 wreck....no drops. *knock on wood* :lmao:

LoVei2ide
03-26-2009, 02:39 AM
dropped once randomly in a parking lot.. slid once trying to keep up with my dad when I first got the bike (he was on an fz1)

Homeslice
03-26-2009, 05:50 PM
3 crashes and probably 12 drops over the last 7 yrs.

pickle.of.doom
03-27-2009, 12:21 AM
This guy in my class got a job as a porter at an HD dealership. 20 minutes into his first day he was pushing a bike around, it was so heavy that he actually broke his shoulder socket pushing on it, and then of course dropped it :D

Mr Lefty
03-27-2009, 08:13 AM
well either my neighbor or the wind... dropped my bike last night... fuckers... minor scratch on the tail... and scratched up bar end... otherwise good...

I'll take a better look and maybe some pics tonight after work.

MILK
04-21-2009, 10:44 AM
My husband dropped mine. :tt:

Hey woman. My husband dropped my bike Sunday. :panic: He had backed it out to get to his bike. Lucky for him it was against the far side of the garage so it didn't go all the way down. No damage! :)

racedoll
04-22-2009, 10:49 PM
My husband backed into me and down we went. Broke my right foot peg and scratched up the stickers, a little on the plastic.

I dropped it once at my Mom's work, but picked it up no problem. I actually caught it, but couldn't hold it so I gently let her down so there was virtually no scuffs from that incident.

unknownroad
04-24-2009, 11:31 AM
Note to self: shorten the kickstand on the chopper :zowned:

Dave
04-24-2009, 11:43 AM
sorry lady, but I'm perfect

sorry buddy but your slider says otherwise :p

derf
05-06-2009, 12:09 AM
sorry buddy but your slider says otherwise :p

Sorry buddy, but that was prior to my ownership of the bike

Riceaholic
05-06-2009, 02:25 AM
I've wrecked 3 of mine and dumped one off a lift. I was more pissed about tripping on the air hose that crashing any of the other ones....