Lol, Sounds like hell to me. Can you JUST imagine the video clip and me going down the road half on and half off the bike will trying to control chaos!! Agaaaaaaaa.
I drop the poor bike while its stationary, trying to mount while it is moving! Yeh, I can see me doing that! lol lol.

I even need a reverse gear. This week end I drove into a spot to park then couldn't get the bike back out from same spot. It is so heavy to move. I have to apply the front break, push forward then 'rock' back, and repeat untill I am where I need to be. Point is after doing this I need to park it again to go and rest! lol. End of the year you may well see me in the vet's Mr Universe competition, I shall have muscles in my spit and be able to crack open a nut with my eyelids!

I do like the ride once under way though, the bike give the feeling one is driving the equivalent of a 4X4 car!

How the chap with a 26" inside leg who rides a Tenere is beyond me!

My best to one and all,

Ryland

I'm feeling the urge to put blocks on me boots now, youve made me nervous!!

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Lol, "Simple push"............. I fall of on my own very well without the need for the slightest "simple push"!
I shall overcome! (I hope) Poor bike.

Ryland

Compared to my 20 years old VFR I find the Tenere very light and easy to manoeuver.

the high handle bars and grab rail make it very easy to stay straight and the light steering help too.

manoeuvering a 20yo low bike with a "hard" steering is much more difficult: you're bent and can exert no strength whatsoever and have a poor balance.

The Tenere has helped me a lot gaining confidence in manoevering a stopped bike.
And a week without sidestand has helped too... climbing up/down the bike without sidestand, using the centerstand all the time..

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I don't think I have ever dropped my bike at the lights.

But my best crash with my ten has to be when I was leaning over the bike to look at something and I must have leaned a bit to far and i just felt the bike go away from me and crash into the house wall.

It spat the screen off but luckily the plastic break away bolts did there thing.

The ' very expensive" plastic break away bolts, you mean.

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Tenere having a little nap.

Perhaps try some of these

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Stand behind the bike, take a run up and jump mounting the bike, ride off into the sunset...


No seriously I use the standing on the footpeg method (testing the ground first if on dirt). I have a top box on and don't have the proper flexibility to either get a leg over the seat or miss the top box so I just find the other way easier. If your mounting using the footpeg i've found sitting down on the seat hard will distribute the weight to the opposite side of the stand so it is easier to get off the stand (i had a bad leg injury in my left leg so sometimes I don't have the muscle strength in that leg to push it off the stand so i've developed this method with all the bikes ive owned over the years).

I've only ever dropped her standing still once and it was at a set of traffic lights, put my foot down without actually checking the ground as I was riding up, was a spill of diesel and my foot just slipped straight out and we all went down. No damage to bike though, only to my pride after turning around and seeing an attractive 20-something year old girl in the car just behind me.