...level ground with great traction is best when the camera is rolling
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Yeah, especially for those staged scenes to be posted on YouTube... :roll:
In reality you just never drop your rig on a nice, fully flat, levelled parking lot with a hard deck...
It rather happens like during a 3-way turn on a steep, unpaved, washed out farm access you incidentally landed in... with topcase, panniers, tankbag on, the
full livery...
Or, like my last mishap, on a steep, gravelled parking lot,
right in front of a very popular local RTE pub...
I purposely parked the ST front facing downhill there, planned to have an easy launch when leaving...
But no, a BD-cager parked his stupid car less then 1ft of my front tire...
So, you've guessed right, I had to push the ST back, uphill... right hand on the seat, left on the handlebar, and go...
Worked fine for like 2 meters/6 feet... till my boot lost grip, sending my right knee on the ground... the ST coming down on top of me...
Wind-shield shattered when hitting the left side of my neck... bike stopped bravely on its crash bar though...
I picked it up, mounted and rode off like nothing happened... under the eyes of at least 80 "bikers" observing...