I dumped my bike the other day. If you could have seen it you'd have laughed your ass off. I wasn't laughing though. Nobody got hurt, but my pride was pretty bruised. Luckily there weren't any hot babes around to see it.
Did I mention my bike has a hair trigger throttle, and 4500w? What happened was, I was riding along minding my own business. Sound familiar so far? Anyway, a lady in a SUV rides up next to me and yells that I dropped my sunglasses back there on the road. So ok, I turned around and went back to get them. I rode up next to them, but when I tried to reach down and pick them up I couldn't quite reach them. I should have gotten completely off the bike, and put it on the stand, but for some reason I was acting like I was in a hurry, which I wasn't. It was kind of cool out that day, so I was wearing gloves. I dismounted on the left, but reached across my bike, holding the throttle with my right hand, as I reached down to pick the sunglasses up. As I bent down, without realizing it, my hand was twisting the throttle. My bike instantly took off without me. I held on with a death grip, as it started riding away, and I hopped awkwardly around the back of the bike to the other side, but the bike started leaning to the left and the wheels rode under my feet. I quickly lost it, and my bike fell on it's left side, and then I unceremoniously fell on top of it.
There wasn't much damage luckily, but the handle bars were tweaked, and the left pedal was scratched. The worst damage was the left pedal crank arm was slightly bent. Fortunately a few months ago someone had a sale on Bomber crank arms on eBay, and I bought a set just for such an occasion. The scratch on the pedal was so slight I was able to repair it with touch up paint. It's all back to normal now. Lesson learned.
Did I mention my bike has a hair trigger throttle, and 4500w? What happened was, I was riding along minding my own business. Sound familiar so far? Anyway, a lady in a SUV rides up next to me and yells that I dropped my sunglasses back there on the road. So ok, I turned around and went back to get them. I rode up next to them, but when I tried to reach down and pick them up I couldn't quite reach them. I should have gotten completely off the bike, and put it on the stand, but for some reason I was acting like I was in a hurry, which I wasn't. It was kind of cool out that day, so I was wearing gloves. I dismounted on the left, but reached across my bike, holding the throttle with my right hand, as I reached down to pick the sunglasses up. As I bent down, without realizing it, my hand was twisting the throttle. My bike instantly took off without me. I held on with a death grip, as it started riding away, and I hopped awkwardly around the back of the bike to the other side, but the bike started leaning to the left and the wheels rode under my feet. I quickly lost it, and my bike fell on it's left side, and then I unceremoniously fell on top of it.
There wasn't much damage luckily, but the handle bars were tweaked, and the left pedal was scratched. The worst damage was the left pedal crank arm was slightly bent. Fortunately a few months ago someone had a sale on Bomber crank arms on eBay, and I bought a set just for such an occasion. The scratch on the pedal was so slight I was able to repair it with touch up paint. It's all back to normal now. Lesson learned.