delcoco_ninja
February 15th, 2012, 11:26 AM
i knew it would come one day...i've been riding since august and i finally dropped it today. i really don't even know what happened but i'll do my best to explain.
its about 45 degrees out, and i had just started riding. i rode a block down the street to my friends house and pulled into his uphill driveway. its pretty steep so i usually just give a little gas and play with the clutch. but i think what happened was 1.) my tires are cold 2.) his driveway was damp and cold 3.) it was uphill and i was kind of slanted, and so when i 4.) accidentally popped the clutch out too fast, it just slid out beneath me. i think my tires are a little low on pressure too which could have been a factor
it happened so fast, one second i was fine and the next i was on the ground. really weird. my foot was actually beneath the bike I'm lucky it didn't do any damage to my leg. i picked it up in 1 second and looked around to see if anyone saw...no one did, at least that i could see. so my ego isn't damaged that bad, haha.
no damage to the bike. not new anyway. pretty much the same thing happened to the previous owner, so there was a very minor scratch on the fairings from before. other than that nothing, so i lucked out there too.
everybody gets one. lesson learned - be aware of my surroundings. also, i'm not invincible to dropping my bike, it can EVEN happen to me, ha. this is my first post in here, and hopefully my last...
its about 45 degrees out, and i had just started riding. i rode a block down the street to my friends house and pulled into his uphill driveway. its pretty steep so i usually just give a little gas and play with the clutch. but i think what happened was 1.) my tires are cold 2.) his driveway was damp and cold 3.) it was uphill and i was kind of slanted, and so when i 4.) accidentally popped the clutch out too fast, it just slid out beneath me. i think my tires are a little low on pressure too which could have been a factor
it happened so fast, one second i was fine and the next i was on the ground. really weird. my foot was actually beneath the bike I'm lucky it didn't do any damage to my leg. i picked it up in 1 second and looked around to see if anyone saw...no one did, at least that i could see. so my ego isn't damaged that bad, haha.
no damage to the bike. not new anyway. pretty much the same thing happened to the previous owner, so there was a very minor scratch on the fairings from before. other than that nothing, so i lucked out there too.
everybody gets one. lesson learned - be aware of my surroundings. also, i'm not invincible to dropping my bike, it can EVEN happen to me, ha. this is my first post in here, and hopefully my last...