My Falco tried to kill me :(

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Syltiz · #1 Post by **Syltiz** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:59 pm

.. actually it was my own stupidity. Had the bike strapped up on the ramp for some work. When I dropped the ramp to floor level I must have been in a complete daze because clearly the straps were holding her upright - yet I bent down to unclip them. As I was standing up from unclipping the right strap I met the bike halfway on her downward plunge.

I am pleased to say I sacrificed life and limb and with the aid of the wall next to me and only at the cost of a clipon in the ear and what must have been my spleen in pushing her back up - we both survived

D-Rider · #2 Post by **D-Rider** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:14 pm

LOL - well caught

..... reminds me of my "unscrewing the sidestand" moment ......

#3 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:18 pm

silly twonk!!

Im sure ive probably done something similar, just my mind is blanking it out at the moment...

Glad youre not dead. You'd not organised who has dibs on what bits off your bike.. There wouldve been bedlam on ARS..

finn · #4 Post by **finn** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:28 pm

Wow....
I was just trying to corner mine into the living room...no luck, so it stays in the hallway. My wife noticed the cheese sidestand when it was close to tipping over, and i think i just got some funding for a US version.

DavShill · #5 Post by **DavShill** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:57 am

well saved that man. I remember losing my footing on a gravel car park when I had a nice shiny new GSXR. at the point of no return I desperately tried to get my other leg round and managed to throw both legs under the bike to save and damage........ needed two other blokes to lift the bike off me though. Very very humiliating

k1w1boy · #6 Post by **k1w1boy** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:38 pm

.... running round untravelled essex roads, practicing for an iam test i never followed through with, i encountered a horse float on a hump back (single lane) bridge after a blind bend. Road was wet, was foggy; dumped enough speed from 40ish to slide into the left hand ditch and was pinned to the wet earth by my steaming firestorm... 5 faces peered down at me through the trees as I laughed my arse off. Float driver and mate pulled the heavy black bitch off me and dusted us down before we continued, muddied (bike and rider) with barely a scuff.

Nooj · #7 Post by **Nooj** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:01 am

Kiwi... I put it to you that you have actually spent more time with your bike on top of you, than you have with you on top of your bike.

k1w1boy · #8 Post by **k1w1boy** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:30 am

Nooj wrote:Kiwi... I put it to you that you have actually spent more time with your bike on top of you, than you have with you on top of your bike.

possible but unlikely ... sometimes the bastards just fall over by themselves, without giving me the chance to throw myself under them and break their fall...