Percentage of dropped bike vs. not yet dropped

[hyphen]

i dropped my first bike twice while rolling. mainly because i was a novice on top of a 500lb bike and i was on my toes.  haven't dropped the monster at all.  no high speed crashes.

[hyphen]

I'm the 65 year old whose avatar is himself jumping in trees on a snowboard.  I think we should have a poll as to whether I am serious, ironic or sarcastic -- or just a plain jerk.  Not only am I a sensitive guy, I always put the toilet seat down.

not sure if you're trying to brag, but going off a ramp through some trees is not something to toot your own horn over.   

[jdubbs32584]

not sure if you're trying to brag, but going off a ramp through some trees is not something to toot your own horn over.   

Dude, he is so freaking cool. We should all hope to be like that.

[hyphen]

Dude, he is so freaking cool. We should all hope to be like that.

one can only aspire to attain such awesomeness and badassery.

[cmorgan47]

Hey, I'm a sensitive guy, I can take a little constructive criticism.  How about if I rephrase as  "it is time you quit embarassing the guys you ride with"?   

I weigh 140 pounds and throw a ball like a girl.  I learned the backward trick after I laid down a 550 pound FJ1200 loaded with camping gear while waiting to load a ferry in Canada.  As the line of autos built up behind me, I had to get help from a guy who only spoke French and couldn't figure what I was trying to get him to do.  On a subsequent trip, after the lesson, I laid the same bike down in a gravel parking lot with almost exactly the same load and I stood it back up and rode off.  There is, incidentally, a reason why I downsized to a 695 Monster and camp with only 20 pounds of gear -- don't want to embarras the guys I ride with, you know.   

Tommy T.

Are you serious?

If so, you're completely wrong. I've ridden with several members on this board and none of them are embarrassed to ride with me simply because I can't pick up my bike. I don't imagine that when Tini rode with ducpainter and everybody at DiMBY they were embarrassed to ride with her.

That's absolutely make the beast with two backsing ridiculous.

I read what he said as "I'm a small dude who can't pick up a bike and get embarassed when I have to do it so please learn how so I don't have to"

[jdubbs32584]

Giggle.

/threadjack
Hey, you've got a 696 right? Did the dealer actually tell you about the coil issue or did you have to ask about it?

[Tommy T.]

not sure if you're trying to brag, but going off a ramp through some trees is not something to toot your own horn over.   

The question posed was "are you serious."  The response was to suggest that a 65 year old whose reputation as an out-of-bounds snow boarder is his best claim to fame is perhaps not a person who expects to be taken as "serious."  Especially not when the little-devil-with-horns emoton was added to the original comment.  

Jeez, I'm the one who admitted that I knocked over a whole line of bikes in a showroom.

Tommy T.

[cmorgan47]

Giggle.

/threadjack
Hey, you've got a 696 right? Did the dealer actually tell you about the coil issue or did you have to ask about it?

me?  haven't noticed the problem.  stock exhaust and chip.

[jdubbs32584]

me?  haven't noticed the problem.  stock exhaust and chip.

Cool. Was kinda wondering how Ducati was going about that. I was an owner of a 695 with burned engine paint that was a known problem that it took Ducati forever to admit to.

/threadjack done

[AndrewNS]

Um...I voted wromg. I thought you meant dropped your current bike (which I haven't). I do have multiple drops on other brands, though.

Why is it everyone likes talking about dropping their bikes, anyway?

[Tommy T.]

Um...I voted wromg. I thought you meant dropped your current bike (which I haven't). I do have multiple drops on other brands, though.

Why is it everyone likes talking about dropping their bikes, anyway?

Like the initiation rights at Skull and Bones at Yale -- it's a form of bonding.

[Desmo Demon]

We all know there are two types of riders: the one's that have dropped their bike and the one's that will drop it. I was curious about this percentage from the members of our board.

Of the eight bikes we currently own, five of them have been dropped by me or my wife, whether it was at a standstill or while moving.

Edit - I guess I should add that between the two of us, we have over 300,000 street miles on motorcycles and she has a paralyzed left leg.

[CougarSlayer]

Refuse to participate that last time I did something like this I dropped my first bike.  So to please the biker gods I will not vote anything but boobies.  Love them more anyway

-panthro

[jclin]

I think a better poll would have been this:

How long was it before you dropped each of your bikes for the first time?
< 1 week, < 1 month, < 6 months, < 1 year, < 3 years, < 10 years, never.

[arai_speed]

I'm the 65 year old whose avatar is himself jumping in trees on a snowboard. 

Thanks for clarifying that....I had no idea what your avatar was...and I am being serious!