Just dropped my bike :(

Dano · 26 Sep 2008 at 14:35

Swung the sidestand out and it didn't lock in place thus collapsed when I stupidly just leant the bike onto it without checking, ended up with > 205kg of Bandit on top of me, what was worstwas the fact that this was in a fairly busy Tesco car park and not one person offered any help whatsoever even though they could see me struggling to lift the damn thing off of myself.

Damage currently spotted:

1 broken clutch lever
1 snapped front indicator
1 slightly dented wing mirror
1 pair of jeans ripped to hell
1 engine cover a little scratched
1 foot in a fair bit of pain

Good news is that the indicator still works so some superglue will sort that out.

I've been riding for about eight years now and this was the first time I've ever dropped it, gutted

Rilot · 26 Sep 2008 at 14:57

Happens to us all eventually mate.
Brush yourself down, fix the broken stuff and chalk it up to experience.

Oh, and I'm not surprised about no one offering help. Last time I crashed a bike badly, I was trapped under it and stuck in the middle of the road. People actually steered around me rather than stopping to help.

Dup · 26 Sep 2008 at 15:04

Rilot said:
Happens to us all eventually mate.
Brush yourself down, fix the broken stuff and chalk it up to experience.

Oh, and I'm not surprised about no one offering help. Last time I crashed a bike badly, I was trapped under it and stuck in the middle of the road. People actually steered around me rather than stopping to help.

Yep, been there done that. One out of about 15 stopped!

Unlucky, but it happens. Hopefully not too expensive to put right

rsatd · 26 Sep 2008 at 15:07

Ouch, did my dropping when doing direct access training on their bikes. Was pretty embarrassing a couple of school kids help me before the instructor turned up.

sharpygsxr · 26 Sep 2008 at 15:11

it def happens to us all, at least you had your lid on so it hid some of the embarassment

I remember driving away with my disc lock on once which when it hit the forks dropped the bike to the left on top of me, now that was embarassing ha ha

On the subject of people not stopping to help you I was driving through a wee town called Clough over here once and for anyone who knows the area theres a road from clough to castlewellan.

Well at the junction of this road I noticed when passing it from my peripheral vision what i thought was a bike on its side at the bottom of a hill. I stopped a few yards up and turned round only to see a ER5 laying on its side witha rider trapped under it.

Turns out it was a female biker who had stalled the bike on the hill and couldnt hold the weight, when it fell she and the bike slid down the hill and it pinned her to a kerb. She said she was there 10mins before i came along, cars, bikers, lorries all drove around her rather than stop to help.

Thats by far the worst case ive seen of people not stopping to help someone in need.

R@tman · 26 Sep 2008 at 15:37

Been there also

I once backed off a curb at a funny anlge next thing i new i was under my
Bandit .

Akira · 26 Sep 2008 at 15:38

Sorry to hear about your fall. Happened to me once, when I forgot to take off my disc lock. The general public, when it comes to helping out at all are generally worthless spunkbags. When the one in need is a biker, the level of humanity in the immediate area drops to that of a syphilitic salted slug. Don't take it personally.

Sagalout · 26 Sep 2008 at 16:05

Aye, happened to me twice when I had the Tiger and thats a 250KG bike.

First time was unlucky, got the back wheel stuck in mud in a deserted viewing spot after stopping to take pictures.

Second time was comically stupid - I was late for work and threw my leg over the bike with such momentum that I just carried on and fell off the other side with bike on top of me haha.

Haven't done it on any other bike strangely

Finglonga · 26 Sep 2008 at 16:28

Yep happened to me also. Rolled my R1150GS out the garage ready to go to work at 4.30am and put the sidestand down while I shut the garage. As I shut the door I heard a dull thud, turned round and the GS was on the floor. Problem was It was the drive is on a slope the bike was fully fuelled and not the lightest thing . . . . Had to wake the O/H up to help me pick it up. She wasn't happy. Luckily no damage at all though.

Demon · 26 Sep 2008 at 16:42

Finglonga said:
Yep happened to me also. Rolled my R1150GS out the garage ready to go to work at 4.30am and put the sidestand down while I shut the garage. As I shut the door I heard a dull thud, turned round and the GS was on the floor. Problem was It was the drive is on a slope the bike was fully fuelled and not the lightest thing . . . . Had to wake the O/H up to help me pick it up. She wasn't happy. Luckily no damage at all though.

LOL.. the exact same thing happened to me, £350 of damage caused by my stupidity... even worse, because of the way it fell, I had to pick it up the hard way (against the 'hill') and on my own, and slipped a disc.. queue 3 years of pain and an operation to sort out!

@the OP.. never mind, it's annoying, but if the only time you drop you bike is when it's static, that's 10 times better then sliding it down the road!

Dano · 26 Sep 2008 at 16:50

Demon said:
@the OP.. never mind, it's annoying, but if the only time you drop you bike is when it's static, that's 10 times better then sliding it down the road!

Gawd yes, just annoyed at myself having become complacent after so many years.