Was recalling a couple of threads on another site i frequent.
Dummy drops(no kickstand ect) low speed layovers, those lil mishaps.
Was wondering who had and what kind...lol

And if before it happened you 'had that feeling' so many riders talk about where you felt like maybe you should of stayed off the bike that day?

Teach you !...............quit loadin, & start ridin !

I drop twice in a year and a half.
Once checkin the oil the stupid book way, and once making a u-turn w/ gravel over pavement going downhill, and I think I touched the front brake

LANCER wrote on 08/26/10 at 02:57:02:

I tried to move the bike around underneath my back porch, and I lost balance. My equilibrium is handicapped, because I am deaf in my left ear since I was 5 years old. So while I was trying to move it between two 4x4 poles I stumbled and the bike pulled me over to the starboard side and hammered in the pole with the side of the tank, leaving a 2" long vertical crease from the edge of the 4x4. I am not going to repeat and translate what I was shouting after that.

Let me see here. Dropping the bike. Long ago I was told by a rather well seasoned rider that if no body saw you do it it didn't happen. I believe this to be true ---Ride safe, far, and often---Luke

1st one - on my driveway.  Its almost flat out of the garage about 3 feet, then slopes down pretty good.  I was backing out of garage, turned as I started down the slope, cut the front wheel, and over on our side we went.  broken left rear signal, small mark on tank.  Scraped side of helmet too.

2nd one - Riding along, went to make a left turn, sharper than 90°, probably 125° and uphill.  Cars were stopped at the bottom.  I made the turn, didn't throttle enough.  Panicked, fell over on the right side.  Broken right rear signal to match the left.  

3rd & latest - pulled off the road into a little gravel, too quick...  front brake...  light dump, basically caught it.  no damage.

All of these happened in the first couple months of having it.   <knock on wood>  

The only MC I've dropped has been my Concours. Once in the driveway, I don't know if I forgot to put my kickstand down or what, but when Connie starts going over it's best to get out of her way and let her down gently. Second time was when I stopped at a 4 way stop to turn right. My turn, I started leaning and applied the throttle, and nothing. Only time I've ever had a hiccup from the engine. I reached for some pavement on the right hand side of the MC and due to the left to right slope of the road, I hit air until the comment above about Connie going over applied and I just stepped off, because she was going over fast due to me already starting to lean for the turn. Second time cost me a foot peg - no scratches, I got lucky. Some guy stopped his truck in the middle of the intersection and came running over to help me lift it. No worries.

Well, hate to have to 'fess up, but I fall off my bike getting on and off of it fairly regularly now days.   Every month or three to be more exact.

Bad legs due to diabetic neropany and bad joints, combining to give me both weakness and a lack of "feel", especially after riding a bit.

Last one was on an overlook up in the mountains, nothing caused it except my legs were too fatigued to hold the bike up while I was getting off of it.  Bike moved forwards a bit, side stand folded and I took yet another quick dirt roll.

Such is being old and feeble ....

Guess I'll chime in here.  Went to look at my friends Savage before I bought it, and he told me to get on and see how I fit on the bike.  All I had ridden before was a moped, and 4 wheelers.  So he told me where the clutch was, explained the gears, etc.  And told me never, ever hit the front brake untill I am stopped by the rear.  I start it up, and he tells me to slowly let out the clutch.  I did, and start moving.  Then I ease on the front brake to slow down, but forgot about the clutch.  I was going maybe 5 mph, when the front wheel hit some fine gravel, and whoosh, down I went.  Broke the right footpeg, and mirror, dented the tank slightly.  Got lots of road rash on my right arm.   Needless to say, he really had me spooked on ever using the front brake again!  But I finally got over it, and learned to use the front properly.  

Jive