Had to happen somewhen

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Just dropped the bike

0mph on the patio though

Was replacing the rear brake pads and disc, job done, time to turn the bike around and do the nearside front. Get the bike half way around at because our patio has a ramp going upto it and a "annexe" to the side of the ramp where the workshop juts out and the water butt sits as I brought the front wheel back from the annexe it dropped two inches onto the ramp, with my sidestand still down

gently laid it down but it still had the ramp to provide a little forward motion to scuff the cylinder head cover, just had to file it a little and put a bit of cellulose on it.

pish

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oh yeah, first damage in 2 1/2 years of owning it, and somehow I put a four inch scuff across my leg in the process and drew blood, double pish!!!

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but I'm glad I'm not the only one that this sort of thing happens to.

I'd just put my spotless/unmarked '93 Fireblade up for sale and had ridden it to work to place a 'For Sale' sign on it. Some time in the afternoon a gust of wind hit it on the left side and knocked it over (the event was captured on security camera). $700 damage to the fairing.

More recently, a couple of friends and I (me on Bubba, an '03 R1150GSA) had pulled into a deli in Loebethal for a cuppa. I stopped on a part of the parking space that had quite a slope which combined with a lack of inseam length to cause predictable fall, but since the pillion peg was down, it snapped right off, sheesh.

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Brother-in-law took his Tiger out for a final ride having just advertised it for sale. Binned it on a slow bend and wrote the bike off. Actually got more £ from the insurance company than the price he had advertised for sale.

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I think I learnt how to drop the bike at stand still with my Triumph T595 dropped it once on the left as I caught my trainers in the peg, then once on the right on a car park ramp that was cobbled and the clutch didn't want to do low speed work

I thinkt he moral of selling something is "Don't touch it and pray it don't break till it's been paid for"