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(08-20-2014, 01:05 AM)The Spaceman_imp Wrote: Heck, I rode over 1,500 miles FL to NC in 2 days without incident, got home and pulled into my garage, and stepped off the bike without putting the kickstand down. Luckily the saddlebags (VStrom) took the hit, but damn did I feel stupid.
Maybe we should start a "cuss Stunts" thread and see what else we've got to share.
I hear that same story on other forums too. Not that uncommon. I guess we're so tired from the trip our mind is zoned out. Either that, or we are forcing ourselves to be so focused on the trip, knowing we are tired, that we arrive home and relax a little too soon- pulling into our driveway and saying: "Ahhh... I made it!"
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Confession, they say, is good for the soul.
Yours are doing far more for my mine than mine ever could!
Loving your replies.
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Don't feel bad, OP.
I just slipped on some pine needles going 5 or 10 mph around the corner trying to leave my apartment parking lot this morning. They were not even wet at all, so I was totally complacent about it.
Got some small battle scars on the bike now, but still went out for my morning ride. Not gonna let that one deal any damage to my pride. Stuff happens.
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'Gonads in the slipstream'... 
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As the old saying goes, if you ask 100 motorcyclists if they've ever dropped a bike, 50 will say, "Yes," and the other 50 will lie.
I dropped my Deluxe two weeks after I took delivery, but I was glad I did. A nice (really, she was) middle-aged lady driving a silver Malibu pulled out of a gas station and turned left towards the cross street. I was traveling in the same direction, to the same intersection. Of course, she "never even saw me!"
We both approached the stop line at the same speed, with the same destination in mind; the light was red in our direction, and she was on track for a full broadside. I banked right but I couldn't turn onto the crossing street due to thru-traffic. The shoulder fell away steeply to the inside of the turn, with a gravel-covered ditch at the bottom.
I decided stopping on the incline and putting my right foot down on the slope was better than getting creamed on the left. But of course, my stubby little 29-inch inseam legs weren't even close to adequate for the task. Inexorably, gravity took control of the situation and my bike and I hit the ground with a sickening crunch. Fortunately, that sound wasn't my leg but the gravel shifting as the right bar end, front brake lever, foot peg, and crankcase cover ground to a stop. But I picked it up (using the backwards-leg-lift technique) and rode it home, the nice lady's apologies drafting in my wake.
Cormanus may be right about droppage frequency. I waited three weeks for the front brake lever and foot peg frame to arrive at the dealer--those parts were on back-order.
Oh, and my bike now sports a set of Moriwaki frame sliders Takashi sent me lickety-split after my order. I had them in five days.
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After my dropping the VFR 5 years ago, I put R&G sliders on right away even though it meant cutting through the plastic a bit. The CB DLX now wears the same item. Luckily, I haven't had to test them yet. With the CB, actual metal engine parts touch down, so I put 'em on. I know one person from another forum who won't take delivery of a bike without frame sliders.
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I was wanting "crash bars" for a while, but I waited a bit too long so not that I have a "brand new" bike again they are on the way.
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(08-23-2014, 10:29 AM)Randy B_imp Wrote: I was wanting "crash bars" for a while, but I waited a bit too long so not that I have a "brand new" bike again they are on the way.
[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3802]Ah, ha!
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(08-23-2014, 10:52 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: (08-23-2014, 10:29 AM)Randy B_imp Wrote: I was wanting "crash bars" for a while, but I waited a bit too long so not that I have a "brand new" bike again they are on the way.
[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3802]Ah, ha!
[url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3802]Ah, ha!
You got me...$1,500 crash bars.  
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In all seriousness, the engine gaurds (15k yen on Samurider) would have cost me about a little less than bits and pieces I'm going to have to replace (crank case cover is like 75 bucks on OEM part list online, and the plastic cover for the tacho is about the same) except for the muffler that also got a couple of little scrapes.. that's going to be the expensive one 
I kind of doubt the engine guards would have done much to stop getting scrapes there, but you never know.
Thankfully none of this stuff is showstoppers so I will replace the crankcase cover whenever I feel like it, then the other little bits and pieces similarly, and when I'm done I'll think about adding that engine guard as well!
Maybe an OEM muffler or a nice slip on will appear some time in the classifieds at a time when I am feeling frisky, too. Who knows?
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