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Let's hear your story of your first bike laydown/fall/tipover!

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Me too

Me too

Colorado Springs 1985. I was on my way to take a physical for my first summer on a hotshot crew. I was downtown and only going a few blocks, so my helmet was still hanging on the back of a '78 Yamaha 650. On three lanes one way, no one else but one other guy. He turned into a parking garage, then changed his mind, intending to take a diagonal spot he saw across the street. He looked right at me and I thought, 'you won't do that'. He did. Since his angle was bad, he stopped broadside in front of me and all I could do was lock it up. I literally climbed up on the seat and jumped off as I laid it down. I smacked my head on the pavement and had goose egg for a week. I jumped up and kicked a giant dent in his car but suprisingly, the bike was ok. Me on the other hand...
 
I dropped mine in WV after an emergency stop (my fault, I was being impatient). I got it stopped in time, but the bike wasn't quite upright. I must have been leaning on the bars instead of gripping the tank. Compound stupidity.

BTW, it was the Salty Monk brake upgrade that kept me out of the truck's door.
 
The first time I dropped the bike my co-pilot and I were on a trip, she got off the bike and walked over to a market while I looked at something interesting down by my right foot, doesn't take much to tip a fully loaded bike. Did that again 2 years later but it was just me in the rain, on an angled muddy driveway, that was awesome..not. My first crash was coming into a left hand corner in the Lava bed hills of Southern Oregon, my chain tightened up and locked my rear wheel. My second crash was going into a right hand corner on a very narrow road, again in southern Oregon. Way too fast, on a way to narrow of a road. Came around a corner and fixated on where I did not want to go, that wasn't much fun either. I think I'm supposed to learn something here but I'm not sure what it is.
 
It was early spring '82 on my regular three hour commute from Dublin to Aghada on the trusty Z650. It was cold, wet and windy. Somewhere on the R626 rat run from Rathcormack to Midleton after two and a half hours in the saddle a shiny reverse camber falling right hander kinda crept up on me and I decided I wouldn't make it, anyway my hands didn't work so I ran straight off into what I remember as an orchard and a branch unseated me about fifty feet in as the bike carried on and sank axle deep in mud and remained upright more or less. I repeated the feat a few weeks later on the way to a wedding at a T junction again after two hours without a break in poor weather with frozen hands.
I got the message:)
 
Summer 1961, Warm Springs Or. about 10 am. my sister takes me outside and shows me a Honda 90 trail bike and says get on. So I do.

Now she says turn on the key, so I do. Now kick it a time or two, and pop pop it is running.

Now she says the gear shift is on the left here and shows me, she says push it down once and your in first then heal up two and your in second then third then forth....a piece of cake.

First give it some gas and pop it into first......

so I grab a handful of throttle and slamed it into first.....went right over onto my back.....

my sister laughing her rear off.
Well that was the first time that day.
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First time I crashed was on a close friends. Was riding his 99 Yamaha V-Star Classic 650. Putting around BACK back roads around the shooting range he and his wife went to. He brought his helmet but we thought mine was in the car, it wasn't. No gloves, no helmet, did have a leather jacket on (Not a riding specific one though). Going down navigating some of the turns on side roads, come into one way too fast. Was focused on romping on the throttle not where I was going. Start braking, not experienced at all. Decide to stand it up and go into the dirt instead of trying to take the turn. (Turn probably could have been taken, was only going around 15 higher than the posted speed).

Bike goes into the dirt, I think the rear brake was locked up, not sure what really happened here.

I flew into the air, landed face first in the dirt. Got some gravel scratches on my forehead but nothing broken, no teeth gone. Bike was ~10 feet behind me, laid in the grass. Picked it up quick, looked it over, started it up, rode off before someone showed up (I live in a helmet state).

That experience definitely 'banged it into my head' (oh god that was awful) that wearing gear is a big deal. I know I got extremely lucky somehow on that crash and ever since then I'm not going to take any risks. Even dirt biking around a lawn with some buddies, I won't hop on unless I have something to wear. Too much can go too bad too fast.
 
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