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Was working on the bike the other day and after tidying up wanted to try it out.

Bike was already warmed up so I got myself ready and jumped on - now usually the bike is already started and it's just a case of putting in gear and off I go but on this occasion it wasn't.

As i brought my leg up onto the rear brake I felt i had left something in my pocket - a quick grope and it was a spanner.

Mmm , take that out and shove it into my jacket pocket rather than it being tight and annoying in there so stretch my leg out and start to put my hand in my trouser pocket to pull it out.

At this point the weight of the bike moved and I suddenly realised my left leg was tucked in too much and was on the verge of twisting my ankle as the weight transferred over !

Now realising I couldn't stop it from tipping over I was faced with two options :

A) Scramble as best possible out the way and let it drop.

or

B) Swing my right leg over as fast as possible and lay it down on top of me

I chose B and in a slomo moment of me falling and holding the bike up long enough to get my leg round and under I managed the task !!

I then scrambled out and picked the bike up.

Damage:

Scuff on bar end (was new)
Scuff on mirror (was new)
Scuff on indicator (Black marker sort)
Scuff on polished part of gen' cover (polished out)
a few marks on the panel (now polished out)

All in all well happy with that and a god send the bike wasn't running (kill switch being fitted next week)

Moral of the story:

The bloody spanner stays where it is

I did a similar type of thing with my owd B1H, taking it off the paddock stand and the bloody thing just decided it was gona fall, i dont think i've EVER moved so fast as i dived underneath it in a slow mo movie kinda way "NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Got away with a scuff to the mirror and a footpeg in an uncomfortable place!!!!

Dammit MM

That moment when you've got a hold of the bike and if you could stand there forever it won't fall but at the same time you know you have to let go and let it drop because there is no other way to do it is truely absolutely bloody awful.

Got that particular T shirt many many times.

Thankfully my worst case senario has never happened................bike falling from work bench................with no wheels in it.

Similar thing happened to me just the other day, much to the amusement of the wife !

Funny how we are prepared to accept injury to us rather than the bike

Darren wrote: Funny how we are prepared to accept injury to us rather than the bike

I've seen the price of plastics - my bones are cheaper !

With my GT550 I used to let it tumble (top heavy bastid) and not think about it, 1st time the GPz6 done it was the last of letting go , body or mattress 1st then bike

Ah gutted

I had 2 low speed spills over the winter on my VFR.. still havn't figured out how they actually happened

But the worst was when I was parking it up, it went to go and I was holding the left hand bar.. the grip pulled off and it went over!

Broke the mirror / brake lever and fairing.. did as much damage as throwing it down the road at 20mph! :O