Dropped my 2000 Busa 20 minutes after I bought it. Being my first bigbore, I was nervous to say the least about first gear power. (From a stop) So when I turned on my first right-hand corner, I forgot to kick it down to first, did not give it enough gas and it stalled. The beast stopped dead in it's tracks and I fought it for a bit, but it overwhelmed me and ended up on the sidewalk.
Second time was a couple weeks later, left hand turn, thought I had enough room to squeeze into traffic from a onramp. A guy quickly entered my lane just as I was pullin out. I stopped only to notice that I was on a hill slanting to my left and gravity was now in control. I fought for over a minute to keep it up...... It went down on the good side.
Two weeks later, being cocky, too hot into a corner, lowside-highside combo... Not pretty, dressed like a squid and the bike received $1200 of damage.....
2001 CBR 600
During a long hot ride, where I did not drink much water... I pulled in to a parking lot in front of 300 tourists and stopped. I never bothered to put my feet down, never even tried.. All I remember is seeing sky and feeling the bike on top of me.
2002 ZX12R
On my way back from Manitoba, a day after my best friend was killed on his bike by a semi in front of me.
I pulled in to lube my chain, was crying and pushed my bike ahead and did not check if the stand was still down. It had moved out of position. I fought this for almost two minutes in the rain and finally laid it down on it's side, a couple scratches to the casing, my luggage load saved it from any major damage...
Consider yourselves lucky!
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