Testing tip over wings

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Ontario, Canada
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ST1100A
It was bound to happen. I was riding up on my motorcycle dolly and the back tire rode up on the edge throwing me off balance and over it went in the garage. I was standing there surrounded by the bike, the paint cabinet, the wall and the snowblower. I was concerned the dolly might slide when I upright it so I tried to phone my wife since I didn’t want to crawl over the bike to get out and cause more damage. I didn’t have mobile reception but had wifi so I texted her. Please check your messages, please check your messages…
She came running across the driveway in bare feet thinking I’m pinned and the neighbour saw her running (we don’t run much) and sensed an emergency so he came to the rescue too.
I remembered the videos and got down in the crouch position with my feet against the wall. Grabbed the lift handle and handlebar and asked my helpers to not lift on the plastic. I think they pulled on the rear Givi mount.
She stood up quite easily with a scuff on the pannier where it hit the snow blower and a crack in the windshield. No other damage and “I’m quite pleased with that”.
 

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I hate when that happens. Only thing hurt is your pride, I'm sure.

The same thing happened to me. My wife came out of the house after she heard the revving of the V4. She noticed me standing beside my tipped over ST1100 (at that time) with a look of disappointment on my face. I was trying to correct the kick-out of the dolly so kinda slow-mo tip over. There was a point at which you say, "Nooooo!" The fall did breakaway the one mirror but that's what it's supposed to do. No damage otherwise.

Happy to hear you are okay. One thing I always check is to ensure the bike is lined up with the dolly and both ramps are down (Ride-On-Off position). There's a little test I perform now because you can't see the rear tire position. With clutch feel ensure you have just enough roll-on momentum for the rear tire. If it isn't lined up the dolly will move.

Good luck.
Dave
 
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