06-09-2014, 09:57 PM
808 whilst I am new to this forum, I have owned my Honda for just a little over a year and covered 3000 miles.
About a month ago I finally felt that I was getting to know it after I had been out for one of those exhilarating rides were everything works and you chime with the bike? So pleased was I that I parked the bike outside my garage on the side stand to admire a bit longer before putting her back in the man cave. A throat quenching pint of beer later I marched out front, stood on the left side of the bike, lifted it off the stand, turned the handle bars hard right to push it in the garage and dropped it! As it fell away from me onto it's right side I had one of those moments of do I try and hang onto it and take the risk of falling on top of it and doing more damage? Or do I just let it go? I let it go! Then I had the embarrassment of having to rush indoors for help to pick the heavy beast up off the ground.
Damage was fortunately slight; footrest broken off (NOS pattern part ebay), slight bent brake pedal (straightened carefully with a long piece of tube), bar end weight gouged (removed filed up and resprayed), front brake lever bent (removed and straightened) and gravel rash to what I think is the alternator cover. No damage to the pipe.
6 hours later all was as good as new! What a waste of time.
I know, I know, steering geometry blah, blah, blah. A vital lesson learnt, never push the bike away from you, always turn it in towards you if walking.
I have always wickedly sniggered at Harley riders struggling with their bikes geometry in car parks (and falling off on hard lock). Never again!
In all my years of biking I have never pulled this stunt before and hopefully never will again.
Cheers DB.
About a month ago I finally felt that I was getting to know it after I had been out for one of those exhilarating rides were everything works and you chime with the bike? So pleased was I that I parked the bike outside my garage on the side stand to admire a bit longer before putting her back in the man cave. A throat quenching pint of beer later I marched out front, stood on the left side of the bike, lifted it off the stand, turned the handle bars hard right to push it in the garage and dropped it! As it fell away from me onto it's right side I had one of those moments of do I try and hang onto it and take the risk of falling on top of it and doing more damage? Or do I just let it go? I let it go! Then I had the embarrassment of having to rush indoors for help to pick the heavy beast up off the ground.
Damage was fortunately slight; footrest broken off (NOS pattern part ebay), slight bent brake pedal (straightened carefully with a long piece of tube), bar end weight gouged (removed filed up and resprayed), front brake lever bent (removed and straightened) and gravel rash to what I think is the alternator cover. No damage to the pipe.
6 hours later all was as good as new! What a waste of time.
I know, I know, steering geometry blah, blah, blah. A vital lesson learnt, never push the bike away from you, always turn it in towards you if walking.
I have always wickedly sniggered at Harley riders struggling with their bikes geometry in car parks (and falling off on hard lock). Never again!
In all my years of biking I have never pulled this stunt before and hopefully never will again.
Cheers DB.