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11-17-2004, 12:01 PM
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| Sprocket Pilot   Join Date: Nov 2004
Bike: 2005 BMW R1200RT
Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 893
|  I learned how to drop/set down my bike
This week is my first week riding to work. I had an amazing ride today. 65+ mph in the HOV lane, smooth as silk, just awesome, I'm loving life. At work there's a waiting list for garage parking so I've been parking in a little gravel lot a couple blocks away because its very cheap. This morning I pull in there, way too over confident and cocky after my amazing ride in, I pull a big wide circle and come around into the parking spot of my choosing and as I'm gliding into the slot and straigtening the bike out I guess I tapped the rear brake a little and the back end slipped just a bit and the bike went over. Since I was going so slow I was able to basically lay the bike down. After I picked it up and looked it over I only saw a little mud on the mirror and the right peg was flipped up, I mashed the peg back down (its hinged just for these occaisons) and it seemed fine, so I think no harm done. It was a good lesson about getting overconfident and assuming that just because I'm going 2mph in an empty parking lot that nothing bad can happen to me and my bike. |
