Dropped for the first time today.

Comin home from a visit to my parents house, tryin to beat the rain storm, i was 1 turn away from gettin home and boom. Low sided on a left turn. It had just started to rain and i was purposely going extremely slow, I took the turn perhaps between 5-7 mph and It still just dropped and slid out from under me like a rock, i couldnt believe it. Bent and scratched up the engine case guards, and i bent the left handle bar in just enough to put a dent in the tank.... I am so furious at myself. Just when i finished the bike earlier in the week...

 

PS...

this adds one more reason i am absolutely against the new type of black tar roads they are using..... They need to start using the gray asphault again.

Though i guess its smoother on the fall and not craggly... but i dont think i would have gone down had it not been black tar road.

 

are you using new or old tires? What type and brand?

 

Glad your ok and no one was following close behind, it could have been much worse! Dents and scratches are badges of courage, kinda like an Indian blanket. Also glad to hear the case guards did their thing.

 

That Sucks

Waiting for my time to dump mine.. just hopin for an easy time

 

awh man... i am glad to here you didnt get hurt yourself! and yeah those tar roads are realy bad when the rain first starts... its like somoene spilled oil all over them! I remember reading in my Drivers ed book that the roads are slickest during the first few min of a shower.

 

I spilled my Max on a freshly tarred street just like yours, but I had just put a new front tire on to boot. Painful lesson.

 

Some things can be funny sometimes , i once fell over at a set off traffik lights once , and yes i forgot to put the feet down , [for months i was practicing on how long i could keep er up by balancing] , busted lever/mirror and and good laugh for the viewers , thing was i thought my feet were down! and no twas soba...

 

yeau i was riding with gear, only thing i got was a strawberry on my knee and a hurt ego. The tires arent brand new but tread is great. They are a chinese tire lcalled something like chenzhen or soemthing i cant spell correctly... Thanks for the concern guys.

 

from what I have heard the Chen tires have horrid wet performance.

I lucked out and the PO of my bike has just put on a new set of Dunlop elites...

 

My experience with ChengShin is not a positive thing. They wear quickly, unevenly (cupping is common), and have lousy weather characteristics. They are round and they do hold air but that is about the extent of their abilities. I'd shuck them in a heartbeat for a decent Dunlop!

 

Glad you were not hurt. I laid mine down last year, no damage to the bike, but I had one hell of a bang on my leg.

 

Good, my gut feeling about the tires may have been on the spot.

 

interesting....

 

somone told me just the other day that there are two types of bikers...ones that have went down, and ones that are going down....just yesterday a friend showed me her knee, she forgot to put her feet down...lol...funny coincidence....me i got my wreck out on my first ride... picture this...large dirt bike, long hay field...rider twists bars at thirty mph...rider is airborne for 15 or more feet...owner of dirt bike is livid glad to hear youre ok, tank dents are cheap broken feet arent.... last person to ride my enduro..(broken foot)

 

That's a relatively entry fee into 'The Club.' Glad you're OK. I forget what tires I had on my bike before, Continentals, I think, and I rode those in rain, sleet, etc. The only time I had problems (yes, I'm a club member, too) was when I hit a patch of diesel/oil on a turn at night. Now I'm on Dunlop Elites. I don't have as much crap weather exerpience on them as on the old tires - I have a car now for those days

Don't they say the majority of accidents happen within X miles of home (where X is a small number around 5)?

Again, glad you're able to post still.