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Originally Posted by
Ryland Johnson
For the third time today I dropped the bike. I was ready to go just distributing my weight and she started to fall, nothing I could and on her side she went. Broke the front brake hand lever and that cost �60.00! Also scratched the wind visor but at �120.00 I will learn to live with the scatch Lol.
Any others ever have this difficulty? Todays problem was due to wearing water proof trousers that where medium and not large so the crotch part refuses to allow me to spread my legs appart so I just couldn't save the bike from falling. Hell that truly annoys me as I know once it reaches a certain point of misbalance there is B A I can do and I know its going to fall. 31' inside leg yet cannot stop this happening. How do people with shorter legs get on lol.
soon fixed though and thank heavens I had full front crash bars fitted before it left the showroom, those babies have saved me a fortune!
Its proving to be an expensive learning curve is this.
You all keep safe.
Ryland.
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I know its a bit ' after the event' but if you have the time when the bike is going down, to flip the bars away from the direction of fall, you will minimise the risk of damage to the fittings. I have had a couple of drops while off road and so far broken nothing. it could make the difference between gettin home or not.
Ride safe mate.
Goughie