Down she goes!

[chucks1911]

Well crap. I laid her down today. More like laid it down I suppose.

I decided to get a new front tire to go with the new rear before heading to NC. So I call the local shop and have him get a new tire and he tells me to bring it in on wednesday.

Since I have to work I have to trailer it in. Thats go to work, take off to go to the shop and drop it off, go back to work, then go and get it after work. What a chore.

So I'm having to use my car hauler trailer due to an "unfortunate incident" with my single bike trailer. As I was pulling it up the single narrow ramp (you see where this is heading?), I slowed down too much and over on the left side it goes. :-[

The highway peg and rail on the bottom of the saddlebag kept it from going over too far really. I had one heck of a time getting it back upright.

The only damage appears to be it pushed in the bottom bag rail and the offset highway peg mount on the left side. Oh and "tweaked" my already bad back.

Funny part was that it went over so slow that as it was falling the thoughts were racing through my mind at seemingly light speed, "man this is going to hurt", "I hope it doesn't hurt the bike too much", " Man what a dumba__" etc, etc. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

Ah well. Life goes on http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[BudMan]

Damn... Sorry to hear that Chuck. At least you weren't hurt
I could have ended alot worse.

[jesse]

Now that you have that one out of the way you can move on.
It happens so easy doesn't it!

[Bull Durham]

It's amazing how when something like that happens, you can have so many fast thoughts. But when you're sitting on the couch and the wife asks you something, you say "Huh??"

[usranger74]

Chuck - Like Jesse said, that one is out of the way.

[glwilson]

Glad to hear you are basically okay, and that the bike is also.

You'll just have to get a few more parts than you expected. http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

[joe3407nomad]

Chuck, when I first got the Nomad I went to make a U-turn on a narrow street, I know what you mean about slow motion! Over she went, same way, on the left side. I wasn't hurt, except my pride. I was on level ground, so I got the bike up without too much trouble. A day or two before I had watched a You-tube video about picking the bike up, that came in REAL handy!
Glad its just the bike dented.
Joe

[rickyboy]

That's a real drag, man....I did think when I read the header, that we had yet another biker hit the pavement while riding. Glad it's more or less an easy fix.

[skeeter]

I did it backing out of the shed. I avoided steppin in the dog @!#% but I overbalanced in the other direction. Just lucky there wasn't anything on the other side....

[skiman]

I know that feeling last fall I slid 20 feet down a metal roof and then 11 feet to a wood deck the crap you think about on the way down, glad you didn't get hurt as bad as I did and the bike didn't use you to cushion its fall.

[Netnorske]

I can see this happening in VERY SLOW MOTION. Sorry 'bout the bad luck...but it could have been a million times worse. Check that one off the list.... ;).

[Idaho]

Glad you were not hurt. It would have been easy to get pinned under that thing.

[Jared]

Sorry about the luck :(

[jmorrow]

Chuck, Sounds like a trip to the Chiropractor might help the strained back. See you in MVNC.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

Speaking of getting pinned Bud, did that. Broken ankle and needed surgery on my left ankle and knee from the damage I did trying to get out from under the Nomad.

[Cajunrider]

I did it backing out of the shed. I avoided steppin in the dog @!#% but I overbalanced in the other direction. Just lucky there wasn't anything on the other side....

No.....you're just lucky I wasn't there watching when it happened. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

I know the feeling Chuck. It's worse when you drop it with your wife sitting on the pillion. :-[

[ringadingh]

I can see that happening very easily, at least it was minor.
See you at the rally.

[desertdog]

Hate to admit it but I have dropped mine a couple of times, and a couple of times with the wife on the back. Nice thing when she is on the back, she hops off and helps lift, we seem to have it down to a science now days.

Times I have dropped it with her on have been in uneven parking lots, or gravel lots.

But it would be better if I did not drop it at all.

[Badger: Black Hills]

Been there, done that! Only 300 miles on Nugget, wife with me for the first time. We pull in to an overlook and over to the side is a cherry '56 T-Bird. I'm gawking while stopping and the bike just naturally tips in the direction I'm looking (left). Ruth is leaning hard to the right, I'm trying to catch it (for what felt like about two minutes), and that's when I really knew the difference between the Nomad and my 800 Classic. Glad you weren't badly hurt.

[desertdog]

Had my Nomad about 2 weeks when I first dropped it getting it out of the garage, it went over real slow, I just could not stop it. Picked it up in a hurry before the neighbors could see what a dumb ass I was.

2nd time about a year later, getting the bike out of the garage, I noticed one of my highway pegs is up, so I lift my leg and flip it down, problem was I had not put the kickstand down first.
That time it went over so fast it launched me into the sage bush next to the driveway, the weight of the bike going over flipped me clean off.

I go back into the house and my T shirt is torn to shreds, wife looks at me and asks how come I lost a fight with a weed wacker. (She is not much for sympathy at times).

[bogatyrs]

Glad you weren't hurt Chuck. Bikes can be repaired but out ego's can be damaged beyond repair...