This is a re-post. Somehow I put it in the "free" section the first time around. Fits much better here! 
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There is a saying here on the forum somewhere that there are two kinds of ST riders... Those that have dropped their rides and those that are going to.
Over at http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2007/06...your-bike.html is a list of 128 ways to drop your scoot. Some funny some stupid, all possible; one I have done twice (stepped in a hole and one almost (stepping in the center track oil at a toll booth!), both on Suzukis, and a hole, in the dark, on the Kaw.
#44 mentions wet grass. But my #129 involves an old long dead tree root hidden in the grass that I somehow managed to straddle while parking the bike at a local historical site this morning! I let my wife off to park it and apparently as I turned into the grass lot, moving about 2 mph or actually less, I got (recreating this after the fact) the front wheel on one side of the well hidden and slippery tree root and the rear on the other. I was down in the grass, looking at the sky before I really knew what happened. A hundred thoughts all at once... WTH? What happened? Was I hit by a car? Shot? Lightning? And worse. I had not seen anything to cause it but there I was. Getting up off the ground. Broke the RH mirror housing, put a neat hole in the RH tip-over wing that was actually buried in the dirt, and me? Thanks to a Scorpion helmet and CE pads in the shoulder and elbow, got not much more than a sore butt from the rock I (think) I landed on. I did bang my head on the ground with no apparent damage there.
I hunted around after I got the bike up and on the side stand, with the help of my wife and a passer by... Wife was fortunately off the bike, as stated, while I was "parking" it on the ground. I couldn't see or feel anything that would have put me down like that. As I turned back to the bike to check the damage there, I slipped on the root hidden in the grass and almost went down again! Apparently the rear wheel slid out to the left of the root and I went spilling to the right and off the bike.
Lesson learned? If you can't see the surface of what you are driving on... DON'T GO THERE!
Jerry...
:There is a saying here on the forum somewhere that there are two kinds of ST riders... Those that have dropped their rides and those that are going to.
Over at http://davedragon.rilysi.com/2007/06...your-bike.html is a list of 128 ways to drop your scoot. Some funny some stupid, all possible; one I have done twice (stepped in a hole and one almost (stepping in the center track oil at a toll booth!), both on Suzukis, and a hole, in the dark, on the Kaw.
#44 mentions wet grass. But my #129 involves an old long dead tree root hidden in the grass that I somehow managed to straddle while parking the bike at a local historical site this morning! I let my wife off to park it and apparently as I turned into the grass lot, moving about 2 mph or actually less, I got (recreating this after the fact) the front wheel on one side of the well hidden and slippery tree root and the rear on the other. I was down in the grass, looking at the sky before I really knew what happened. A hundred thoughts all at once... WTH? What happened? Was I hit by a car? Shot? Lightning? And worse. I had not seen anything to cause it but there I was. Getting up off the ground. Broke the RH mirror housing, put a neat hole in the RH tip-over wing that was actually buried in the dirt, and me? Thanks to a Scorpion helmet and CE pads in the shoulder and elbow, got not much more than a sore butt from the rock I (think) I landed on. I did bang my head on the ground with no apparent damage there.
I hunted around after I got the bike up and on the side stand, with the help of my wife and a passer by... Wife was fortunately off the bike, as stated, while I was "parking" it on the ground. I couldn't see or feel anything that would have put me down like that. As I turned back to the bike to check the damage there, I slipped on the root hidden in the grass and almost went down again! Apparently the rear wheel slid out to the left of the root and I went spilling to the right and off the bike.
Lesson learned? If you can't see the surface of what you are driving on... DON'T GO THERE!
Jerry...
