R_W_B
Senior Member
You know I've read threads in the past about when someone dropped their bike or fell with it which I guess would also be dropping the bike. So far I've been lucky, but yesterday I thought just for a minute my luck had run out.
We had just finished up a PGR ride and we were all getting ready to head home from the graveyard. We were parked on a narrow loose gravel road that had a slight decline going across the road. In other words the road was lower on the right side of my bike than the left.
So I mounted the bike, stood it up, kickstand up and planted both my feet firmly on the gravel and went to lean forward to put my key in the ignition. Just as I leaned forward my right foot slipped on the gravel and I felt the bike and me going to my right side. Just out of a gut reation I leaned my upper body as far to the left as I could, put all my weight on my left foot and pulled hard to left with my right leg on the tank and my hands on the bars.
I had already dropped my key and fob in the gravel. It felt for a minute I was going down, but I just barely was able to pull it back. I will think about that one for awhile. Next time I'm gonna lean the bike left uphill before I put the key in. I'd been just a little sick if I'd a dropped my Bob on that gravel.
We had just finished up a PGR ride and we were all getting ready to head home from the graveyard. We were parked on a narrow loose gravel road that had a slight decline going across the road. In other words the road was lower on the right side of my bike than the left.
So I mounted the bike, stood it up, kickstand up and planted both my feet firmly on the gravel and went to lean forward to put my key in the ignition. Just as I leaned forward my right foot slipped on the gravel and I felt the bike and me going to my right side. Just out of a gut reation I leaned my upper body as far to the left as I could, put all my weight on my left foot and pulled hard to left with my right leg on the tank and my hands on the bars.
I had already dropped my key and fob in the gravel. It felt for a minute I was going down, but I just barely was able to pull it back. I will think about that one for awhile. Next time I'm gonna lean the bike left uphill before I put the key in. I'd been just a little sick if I'd a dropped my Bob on that gravel.