| Author | Message | ||
     Dmcutter |
So I'm on my way home last night, marveling at how quiet my bike is now, and I stopped in traffic at a fairly major intersection at the red light. I was in the center lane of 3-there is a left turn lane, my lane goes straight, and the right lane is straight/right turn but ends about 200 yards past the intersection. There was no one in the right lane and I was about a dozen cars back. If I'm in front in the right lane, bike or car, I can always get the hole shot before the lane ends. I decided to ease on over into the right lane and turned the bars to the right and started creeping forward. Alas, I completely forgot about my hard bags and the left one glanced off the back end of the car in front of me. By the time I realized what I was feeling and what was going on, it was too late...it pushed me over and I couldn't save it. The bike did a slow mo crash onto its right side. Luckily there was no one coming behind me in the right lane. A guy on a bicycle on the sidewalk came over to make sure I was ok and another guy in his car in the adjacent apartment complex parking lot asked if I was ok, and luckily I was just embarrassed. I heaved the bike back upright and started it up and eased on down to the light...thankfully the only damage other than to my pride was a small scuff on the corner of the right bag and a very minor scuff on the end of the right Barkbuster. I'm glad the tank was almost empty because that thing is heavy...hopefully I will not ever have to do that again, and I will certainly be more cognizant of the extra girth with the bags on. | ||
| Red450 |
I too have misjudged the sidecases. I bounced one off of my Element while trying to squeeze between it and my wife's car. Almost dumped it in my own driveway. Another time I rubbed the right case on a stack of cinder blocks in the driveway. I have a nice scrape down the case as a reminder. | ||
| Nobuell |
Glad you were ok and only suffered a hit of your pride. We have all been there! | ||
| Redtail |
Glad you escaped injury and damage. I know the feeling. My gobi's stick way out and while creeping out in to stopped traffic my left case grabbed a Jersey barrier and stopped me dead. Left foot could not touch ground and over I went then flipped bike onto other side for good measure and to complete my show for a street full of stopped cars. I felt like throwing my arms up and doing a curtsy. | ||
| Kevmean |
It could have been worse  http://jalopnik.com/5965138/watch-a-french-journal ist-drive-a-motorcycle-off-a-pier | ||
| Dmcutter |
I had seen that...I was telling my wife about it and how in fact my little tumble was not near as bad as it could have been. | ||
| Griffmeister |
Falling is nothing. Try picking the bike up and getting halfway there when you realize you're on a slight grade and can't reach either brake. I did this in a gas station parking lot, did a short dance and let it back down, put it in gear for the next try as another patron came over and helped. Luckily I was out of state where nobody knew me.  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I had a clown pop out of a taxi right in front of me in Montreal. Hit the left sidecase just right to slam his monkey ass back in there! Wobbled me good but I kept on rolling. Yes. The taxi was in the center lane of a three lane city road. Some people should be on a leash for their own good. | ||
| Trojan |
You think that is embarrassing? Many years ago.....I was once riding a Ducati 250 Mach III through a busy town centre on Saturday afternoon. I stopped at a traffic signal and then set off to turn left (remember we drive on the left of course, so didn't have a good view around the corner). I set off trying to look as cool as possible, turned left and immediately hit ......... a loaf of sliced bread laying in the middle of the road. It had been raining and the loaf was soggy, which took my front wheel away and left me sitting on the road with irate bus drivers stuck behind me! Luckily black visors cover blushes quite well and Ducati 250's are light enough to get back on a skidaddle quite fast  | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
BREAD. what. the. hell. LOL! | ||
| Ourdee |
Good ole England. When I was there I found a horse in my lane. 60 mph corner on a two lane road. | ||
| Trojan |
Good ole England. When I was there I found a horse in my lane. 60 mph corner on a two lane road. I hit a chicken once. It took weeks to get rid of all the feathers and stuff out of the engine! 1970's Norton factory Norton rider Dave Croxford once hit a pig during the IOM TT I was once riding in formation with 4 other police bikes on the M11 (freeway type thingy in Essex) during an advanced riding course. We were doing around 100+mph when we came over the brow of a slight hill and were confronted by a large byuilders type wheelbarrow laying upside down in the middle of outside lane! Nobody hit it but it was close! The funny thing was the two 'gypsy type' guys on the side of the road who had been laughing about it falling off their pick up. They turned very pale when we all pulled up | ||
| Britchri10 |
Almost hit a bull about midnight between Reading and Henley. I managed to keep the bike upright but ended up in the roadside ditch. I woke up a householder who called the Police. They arrived and breathalyzed me as I smelled of beer. Tested negative as I had been working behind the bar in a pub, not drinking. The bull wouldn't move from the center of the road so I had to turn around and go home another way. | ||
| General_ulysses |
I just got my Uly a few months ago and it's the first bike I've ever had with side bags. I was squeaking between two cars in a parking lot (not something I normally do, but these boneheads had the entire lot boxed in where I had no choice) and had completely forgot about the bags being on. I felt this tugging sensation on the right side and before I realized it, I had chafed a nice red lipstick stripe onto my sidebag from a red miata's mirror. The mirror was fine and the mark it left was underneath where it wasn't visible from a normal viewing angle. But it was a wakeup call to be aware and remember when the bags are on! That frenchie going off the pier in that video was pretty amusing, but in reality could've happened to me and perhaps many others! | ||
| Arcticktm |
since we are sharing stories now. I hit a Pontiac Sunfire rear-left with my Uly bag. barely a mark on the bag, and I kept the Uly up, but >$500 damage to the car. I almost hit a moose on a snowmobile once, too (at night). That would have really sucked. Damn those things are big! |
