How to amuse your non-riding co-workers

[bungie4]

Actually, an FJR with those plastic "frame sliders" isn't very hard to pick up at all,...  One of the times I had to pick mine up was in the GRASS on a STEEP HILL!  Did it all by myself.  

Has your other ball re-appeared?

My FJR has done taken two naps. One time some dude had it vertical before I got my ass off the ground. The second time I was doing U-Turn on a narrow back country road with sand shoulders. Looked a LOT firmer than it was and the earth sucked it down post haste.

Got it back up without having a shit hemmorage, but it was close, damn close.

[2RR2NV]

that's one way to get practice.  i've seen the backwards version used, but never used it. i should but haven't. dropped the VFR in the walmart gas station. was so embarrassed that once i got out from under the bike, i just grabbed a handful and lifted. guess adrenalin was kicking cause it was cake. thought to myself "why do people say it's so hard to lift bikes?" hmmm...  

[sagerat]

OK, I can't believe I'm typing this.  My GSA in 17,000 miles and three years had never touched terra firma until its inaugural nosedive yesterday morning.  I'm leaving work and stopping at the base of a hill less than a hundred yards from our parking lot where I've stopped a jillion times.

Except this time, there's something under my foot and WHOOMP down we go for the second time.    I did the "butt in seat, walk back drill" for the third time in eight hours.  Let's see, nothing in 17,000 miles and then twice in about 100 yards.  I think I've got it out of my system, but I should probably just walk out to the garage and huck it over a third time and be done with it.  

[expatbrit]

Surely you jest.  I bet he had to wear his helmet in the office the rest of that day.

Jest? Joke?! That's as likely as me, an Englishman, being sarcastic.

Just sayin'.

[2RR2NV]

3rd time's a charm

[ConPilot1]

OK, I can't believe I'm typing this.  My GSA in 17,000 miles and three years had never touched terra firma until its inaugural nosedive yesterday morning.  I'm leaving work and stopping at the base of a hill less than a hundred yards from our parking lot where I've stopped a jillion times.

Except this time, there's something under my foot and WHOOMP down we go for the second time.    I did the "butt in seat, walk back drill" for the third time in eight hours.  Let's see, nothing in 17,000 miles and then twice in about 100 yards.  I think I've got it out of my system, but I should probably just walk out to the garage and huck it over a third time and be done with it.  

Awesome. Good thing you've got a bike meant to take a drop pretty well. That's incredible. 17,000miles and your first three drops within 8 hours.  

dude I don't mean to laugh at your misfortune but it IS kinda funny.

[sagerat]

Believe me, even I think this funny.

[Sarchi]

Jest? Joke?! That's as likely as me, an Englishman, being sarcastic.

Just sayin'.

Reminds me of an exchange from the film Bottle Shock.

It looks like a tough bunch.

 
Best palates in the business.

 
What's he saying?

 
Where I come from,
they call it a left-handed compliment.

 
But I don't think they have
a name for it in England.

 
It's too embedded in their culture.

 
Hmm.

[mellow_gold]

I too have done the "double drop". Twice.

First time was my '72 CB350 and it was sitting on a trailer in front of a motorcycle dealership at the time  

2nd was my '81 GS850GL...I had it loaded to the gills with camping gear in my driveway at home.  Put my foot down on a bit of sand and down we go...with the adrenaline pumping I muscled it up (didn't know about the butt on the seat trick at the time) but was so exhausted by the time I got it righted that I couldn't hold it from going over the other way.  God that was a heavy pig of a bike.    

[tthompsr]

How's about with 0 miles on the bike and right outside the front door of the dealership.  

[2RR2NV]

How's about with 0 miles on the bike and right outside the front door of the dealership.  

ok...  you win!

[esqualey]

First motorcycle I bought was a 80's V45 Magna in 1992.  Never, ever rode a motorcycle in my life before then.  Had my dad bring me there, paid for the bike, they showed me where the shifter and clutch were, I got on and managed to get half a block to a stop sign.  I stopped...and forgot to put a foot down...picture a slow motion fall to the side with my dad in the truck behind me.  

After he found out I wasn't hurt, he was laughing his ass off!  Thanks Dad.  

Pauley

[stevent]

" no I always lay it down on its side to fill it up".

    Classic......