How many times have you layed down your current bike?...[mad]

[Javakilla]

I'm on my 3rd week with my current bike and 2nd time already.. Grr. Dropped while getting ready to take a right in some sand at a busy 6 way intersection... No real damage except for my ego and some black stuff on my header.


Frustrated

 

[xtremelow]

Rebuilding but been there

 

[Jobe Zeebuh]

3 times!!! 1 because of my faulty p.o.s 2003 kickstand. 2 from taking a twisty in the rain and hitting a mailbox. (LOL) 3 from my bike lunging forward because I started it when the neutral lite was on. (it wasnt in neutral... electrical malfunction!!!)

It is what it is. I love my bike. Crashing gave me excuse's to make it better.

 

[gunut75]

Dumped mine on the test ride. Bought her and took her home. Been mine ever since, and will be mine forever. I get compliments on the dented header.

 

[Macbuell]

1st bike I have ever owned, going on my third summer. Not once yet

It has been on its way a few times while stopped or moving slow, but I am big enough the bike feels like a toy. Not too hard to pick up no matter how far over she is.

 

[njdevils1990]

well my buell is the first bike ive owned and also the first bike ive dropped. 1st time was when i pulled into my garage....forgot to put the kickstand down...broke the mirror. 2nd time was at a stop sign and my shoe slipped off so went to pull it back on and lost my balance...broke the mirror. 3rd time was at work, i park on the side walk and thought i heard and felt the kick stand go down...didnt break anything that time.

 

[nitto12ss]

Twice, first time my rear tire caught a sand patch as I was pulling out of my work driveway, 5mph tops, but that was the catalyst for my modding fever(bike was stock prior). The second time I hit a oil patch that was hidden in the tree shadows on a 180 degree sweeper at Palomar mountain. Lost the rear and low sided at around 30-40mph, but got lucky and it only took a rear slider, rear brake toe shifter knob, and a bar end mirror to restore the bike to its former glory.

 

[Loki]

Once with my last buell and 2 days ago with this buell. You may have seen my thread about it. Only worth while damage was this...

But have a fellow bueller nice enough to GIVE me his. Pay it forward.

 

[jasoncummings64]

once. three weeks ago... parking at work... lmao.. sooo embarrasing, was turnig around at 525 am.. and it started to go because i was off balance.. maybe .5 a mile an hour, i jumped off and tried to stop it... it was a losing battle.. once it actually touched the ground, i took a deep breath and said, i cant be seen like this OR ask for help to pic this up! and i went for it, picked it up in a couple seconds, my left tricep was ruined for three to four days. shame.

 

[J_Undisputed]

Twice. Once while taking a sharp turn while practicing in a lot after I first got my waiver/endorsement from the Motorcycle Safety school (hows that for Irony). Broke a drop peg and a cheap plastic clip inside the stock left signal. Welded the peg and filled it in with solid bar stock.

The second I was rolling into a toll plaza, and the EZ pass came off the velcro inside my windscreen and bounced under my rear wheel sending it skidding out from under me. She went down but stood on the solid peg which made her easier to yank back up.

 

[firefighter1c57]

None

 

[guzabri]

Many times on my dirtbike a few years back. Once (in the lawn) on the wr250x supermoto that I traded in to get my Buell. Haven't gone down on my Buell yet. But you know what they say, there are two types of bikers. Those that have been down, and those that are going down.

 

[j4nn3]

Twice. First when taking off from a parking lot, maybe 5-10mp/h, sharp right hand turn, sand on the street etc. Second when parked, my daughter climbed on bike before I had both feet firmly on the ground and the bike balanced.

 

[vanson1200r]

Out of 4 bikes and over 100,000 miles of riding I dropped two bikes. I forgot the disk lock on my Kawasaki ZRX1200R and hit a deer on my Triumph Thruxton 900. Never dropped the Buell (knock on wood).

 

[JohnnyD]

Not yet.

 

[onelogue]

20k miles (13k in Los Angeles) lane splitting everyday and the other miles in Oregon rain snow and gravel ZERO lay-downs

[cool]

 

[2004xb12s]

0 and trying to keep it that way but we all know it is bound to happen sometime.

 

[Javakilla]

Thanks for all the responses..

Ego and right shin still pretty bruised right now.

The first time I laid it down was the second day I rode it and I was in a dirt lot about 5 feet from my garage door and actually just stoping to put my garage door down.

Last night I think it was mainly just caused by my inexperience in heavy traffic, and I was about to take a right, but hesitated to let traffic in and then touched the front break and the back slid around I was going less then 2 mph..

Luckily nothing is broke on the bike, just scuffs on hand guards and a little scuff on my new back axle slider and tar or something on the header. Is there a product that you can use to clean the header?

I'm just glad that it seems with axle sliders and pucks and handguards buells don't have much that can get messed up from just falling over.. except for the damn header of course(luckly mine came pre-dented).

Thanks,
Bruised Ego and Shin

 

[MotoPhreke]

Sorry to hear you dropped it. Depends on which bike though. Been lucky on the street, only been down once oh so many years ago and it was a slow sped stupidity thing.
Now dirt bikes, different story, may have bruised a rib last night while trying to avoid a buddy that went over the bars while at the track. I was little close and took his back wheel to the chest as his bike went tumbling, may have bruised a rib but still ended up with the lesser part of the crash. Luckily those bikes are meant to be dropped a little..

 

[anrkizm95]

not going to ginx my self