06-27-2019, 12:42 PM
One of my riding buddies says about motorcycles, "They're designed to be dropped." I believe that is true.
I was sitting on my month-old F800GT waiting in line at a gas station when a guy slowly backed his mother-in-law's car into my front tire at a gas station, pushing the bike over onto its right side. I was so surprised I didn't have a chance to honk and I definitely didn't have a chance to get out of the way. I had to leap off the bike and do a Captain Kirk-style judo roll. I thought the guy would just pull forward like most normal humans. He jumped out of the car saying, "I didn't see you!" I'm thinking, "You didn't even look, you dolt. I'm wearing a hi-viz helmet and jacket!"
There was surprisingly little damage:
[li]Nicks / slight deformation on the bar-end[/li] [li]Tiny nick on the bottom of the engine casing[/li] [li]Tiny nick on the ball end of the brake lever[/li] [li]Tiny scratch on the mirror[/li] [li]Tiny scratch on turn signal[/li] [li]Fairly deep scratches on the front corner of the pannier
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Here's a picture of the bail on one of the GT headlights. People who don't use a camera or mirror to inspect and who aren't alert to the chance for damage are breaking off the three little plastic tabs on the right side near the screw.
![[Image: 71a49f1af34a5c6fa034cd056c52fd41.jpg]](https://cb1100forum.net/forum/uploads/imp/201906/71a49f1af34a5c6fa034cd056c52fd41.jpg)
I was sitting on my month-old F800GT waiting in line at a gas station when a guy slowly backed his mother-in-law's car into my front tire at a gas station, pushing the bike over onto its right side. I was so surprised I didn't have a chance to honk and I definitely didn't have a chance to get out of the way. I had to leap off the bike and do a Captain Kirk-style judo roll. I thought the guy would just pull forward like most normal humans. He jumped out of the car saying, "I didn't see you!" I'm thinking, "You didn't even look, you dolt. I'm wearing a hi-viz helmet and jacket!"
There was surprisingly little damage:
[li]Nicks / slight deformation on the bar-end[/li] [li]Tiny nick on the bottom of the engine casing[/li] [li]Tiny nick on the ball end of the brake lever[/li] [li]Tiny scratch on the mirror[/li] [li]Tiny scratch on turn signal[/li] [li]Fairly deep scratches on the front corner of the pannier
[/li]
Here's a picture of the bail on one of the GT headlights. People who don't use a camera or mirror to inspect and who aren't alert to the chance for damage are breaking off the three little plastic tabs on the right side near the screw.