I'd start, but I haven't dropped my Ninjette yet. I've only put on ~100 miles.

[DPN]-Teamkilling since 11/06.

My very first NEW bike, a Z1-R, was bought on a bright summers day many moons ago in the year 1980... fresh off the showroom floor for 3500$ OTD. On that clear Saturday morning I sidled over to Buena Park Kawasaki and picked her up... she was a sight to behold. Black on Black, DOHC, 11 sec quarters, fresh new bias ply tires... the first place I went was a school friend of mines home, in a cul de sac with an inclined drive way. As I pulled in, parking heads up mind you, he had no idea who it was... I slid off the beast and revealed myself from under my black on black helmet, all 135 lbs of me at that time. Now mind you, this was state of the art back then... 19" front wheel, 1000+cc's, 550 lbs of back bone framed dry weight, 10-15 lbs of upper triple clamp weight do to a thick fiberglass fairing and instruments... all conspired against me when I tried to leave resulting in a 2.5 hours new bike being dropped in a friends drive way that early day. I tried to make an inclined U turn in a confined space with a 550 pound motorcycle that had a 19" front wheel... Priceless

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2007 Suzuki GSXR 600

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My kawi 650r couldn't have been more than a week old. i was waiting at a light. i must have been day dreaming or something. the bike just started tipping over, by the time i reacted i didn't have enough leverage to hold it and bring it back up. i just gently brought it down till i could grab it properly and bring it back up.

i felt so stupid. but nothing happened to the bike. just hurt my pride a little lol

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I was practicing 2 weekends ago, I have a nice empty industrial park with wide streets to work on my riding

Well, instead of using the wide streets to make an easy U, I went into a TINY parking lot, like seriously a 2 spot lot. Leaned the bike over to the left immediately without slowing to a crawl, was about to hit a curb so I grabbed the front brake (with the bars turned eek), bars went to full lock with the quickness and the bike started to fall from under me. I quickly put both feet down and started heaving upward, and with my hulk like strength was able to save it right before it hit the pavement, then with my second wind I got it upright

2nd day, rode across state lines to buy fireworks with my relatives on their bikes. Good 40 mile trip. Thinking hey, I have driven cross country. I got this all figured out.

3rd day, let's ride to the motorcycle shop in Bloomington. Ok no sweat. Gear: harley helmet, shorts, tshirt, shoes. Take off with my relatives again. Take the scenic route around otter lake. First sweeper..downhill entry. I planned on taking the racing line, start wide, hit apex, and then drift out...except...I accelerated a lot on the downhill, and the outer part of the lane was covered in gravel (left over from winter for traction in the snow) so I was going 50mph in a 35mph corner on an old bike with blown forks and what felt like no shock, and I had not even heard of countersteering yet. So coming in too hot, on gravel, I grab some front brake and the handlebars just go loose, I'm outta control, drift to the side of the road and the tires grab dirt, bike immediately stops, and I slide forward, my left leg somehow wrapping around the exhaust pipe, burning the back of my leg from my ankle to my knee. Then I go over the handlebars, bending them as the front brake reservoir digs into my thigh damaging a nerve, leaving me with a numb spot to this day. I cartwheel over the bike and land on my head and shoulder. My shoulder pops and the helmet so it has a nice ding on it. Neck is tweaked, shoulder is popped, skin is bubbling off left leg, right thigh is numb. Bike is laying there sputtering. Forks bent. Handlebars bent. Got a ride home from my bro in law.

Epilogue: my skin eventually fell off the back of my left leg. Right shoulder has limited range of motion, and will get searing pain and give out for a few weeks when playing sports. Right leg still numb from that brake reservoir. A few years later I got checked really hard in hockey and it fixed my neck!

I ride slow now. I still creep around downhill left hand sweepers.

98 INTEGRA (iggy22)
88 CRX (crxma22)
05 CBR RR (chase22)
06 z71 (tank22)
03 H2 HuMmeR (Hex22)

almost cried.

[DPN]-Teamkilling since 11/06.

but my undulating driveway has gotten me at least 3 times. on the F2, F4i, and a friends zx6r. i was walking the bike around each time.

my first fall was at the track. lowside @ buttonwillow in turn 3.

I am not the biggest guy, and would have never dreamed I could dead lift a bike upright, but when that adrenaline hits, I grabbed the handle bars and stood it straight up the first time I attempted. Not much damage to the bike, it kind of fell into some other stuff that really broke the force of the fall. Still felt like a dumb shit.

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2005 Infiniti G35 Coupe 6MT/Nav/Premium pkg
03 R6

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00 GSX-R 750

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2007 Suzuki GSXR 600

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It's the first summer I had my bike, I had just gotten it in running condition. My two friends and I are in my garage, I'm sitting on the bike, they are to my left. I say to one of my friends, "here, take a seat on it" and for some idiotic reason I get off on the wrong side. As I put my weight on the right peg. the bike goes from leaning left on the kickstand to flipping the other direction. Between my panic and the light weight of the 250 I somehow catch it before it hits my dad's car and the garage floor. Bent the rear brake lever slightly, but I fixed that in a jiffy. Needless to say I was a bit red in the face, and not just because I lifted my bike up from such an extreme angle.

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Couple days later I pulled the bike out of the garage and we have a dirt drive way. I got off the bike thought I had it in a solid area because there was some roots around there...well apparently It sunk in and when I turned around from locking the doors on the shop I seen it going and it landed right on a root sticking up. It chipped the paint on the corner, that was even gayer then the first time.

But its all good though, cause I don't really care its nothing that sticks out and really you wouldn't notice without being right up on the bike its just the fact that it happened. lol

The bike stopped right there because it wasn't going too fast. It stopped faster than I could put my right foot down...and then it started to fall to my right, when I could react it was already too late...

Only a couple minor scrapes on the bike, and gadly nothing happened to me. Just my ego that got a reality check.

I would ride to a nice building, stop, find the sign that was on the building w/ contact info and move along. Well one stop I made I forgot to shift into neutral lol and it stalled. Resulting in me falling very slowly over onto my left side trying to catch it the entire way down. Laid it down just barely and scuffed the crank case.