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i laid her down, now i feel like an idiot.

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Don't sweat it, it happens more than you'd think.

Most of the GS bikes weigh well beyond 500lbs wet or even dry.
And they are very top heavy.


Stand on your GS and give it a good lean....you'll likely drop it, and there's no stopping it.

Go to your local cycle shop, and lean on a yamaha r6 or average sport bike.
Nothing......total control!

Average sport bike today, weighs a little over 400lbs....sometimes dry!
And the weight it centered much lower.



When it comes to the weight factor.....our bikes are essentially a Harley with the weight on top!

But they are much faster and handle better.
 
duper850 said:
:DJust did it myself. I always stand my bike up straight and then lean over to check the oil (I'm not on it) thinking "one of these days" and sure enough, it went to far right pinning my leg under it and pinning me against the wall and breaking the mirror as the mirror crushed the shelves on one of my wifes:evil: antique shelves.
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I keep a hand mirror nearby to do a quick check of the oil level while I'm on the bike before I crank it up.
 
I think I'm in the running for winning the "tip it over slowly with people watching" prize. One day after a particularly hard into the cold wind ride, I pulled into an Applebee's parking lot, shut it down, sat there for a minute, leaned the bike over on the side stand I forgot to put down, it kept leaning and sat down heavily on the left side bag guards.:o Then they all watched me pick it up and put the side stand down. Now, over the course of time that I've owned this bike, there have also been other incidents similar, not all of them in front of such an appreciative audience.....:confused::clap:
 
I was backing into my regular spot at work my first season. As I was pushing backwards up the slight grade, my foot hit a small (I mean ungodly tiny) pile of gravel, out goes the left foot and over the bike goes. I only set it on the stator cover and am sure it was only scuffed.

Needless to say I was out there with a shop broom later that day cleaning up my spot. Two days later my boss "cleans the lot" and blows all the gravel back into employee parking area. grrr.
 
My dogs all try to get out when I come thru the gate so I have began jumping the fence off a small plywood ramp I threw together. It is a 4 ft field fence with no barbed wire in the section I jump. I moved the ramp to mow the other day and ended up jumping over a section with barbed wire just before dusk. Bad Idea. What a dummy I can be.
 
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