[d_phi_d]

yep that pretty awful...hahaha

just teasing you.... you will learn, keep at it...

This is awful but for me it was like 50 miles and dropped it at a stop...

[elsueco]

How about a near-drop?

Sometime in my first year of riding, I came back from some short ride around town simply euphoric at how fun any bit of time on a motorcycle was. I backed into my parking area and triumphantly stepped off only to soon realize that I'd neglected to put the kick stand down.

My leg broke the bikes fall, and I awkwardly caught it before any shiny parts touched the ground. I then learned how damned heavy these things are!

[Kreylyn]

I'm not going to mention all the drops.... :lol. Those still happen.

Krey

[flash007]

1 +/- yr driving to work in fog and a pickup crossed an intersection with out stopping. struck the rear of the truck and flew into the ditch. walked away with a few scratches. 14K miles.

[1LE]

I haven't yet, but am still a new rider at just about 1.5 year and mileage probably still in the mid-hundreds. I'm old now, got all my speed kicks in a racecar when I was younger, so perhaps my odds are better than some. However, being old, my reactions are slower, so I'm most likely to get hit by someone else I suppose.

No drops yet surprisingly. Getting the Kat through the gate at my house is tough work though (the gate is only about 2" wider than the mirrors), have had to leaning more than I wanted on a couple occasions and had to muscle it back upright before it tipped too far.

[mammut89]

havent crashed yet, 34 000miles. but I know it will happen one day

[e30bradley]

I've put about ~2,200 on the kat so far. Bought it on Friday the 25th of July 2014. Crashed on Sunday the 27th of July. Didn't ride again until Thursday that week and have rode every day since.. I commute to work as well. I don't have a car on the road right now. Who want to go riding?

[Ravelife]

First wreck on Katana was last week. I purchased it July 2013 and a bit over 6k miles later...

I was approaching a stop sign, lots of loose gravel at the end of this road...and a woman in a SUV that was going way to fast to attempt that turn attempted that turn and wound up in my lane.

I looked right into her googley eye sunglasses and I saw the hood of that stupid lady's car fill my field of vision and pitched to the right as hard as I could. I went down and slid in the gravel, off the road into a mud puddle with the bike laying on my leg.

She took off.

I am pretty mad about her ruining my 25+ year no wrecks record. More mad about that than having to fix the bike.

Hurt my shoulder enough to lose strength in my right hand for a week, hip looked like a science experiment.

Was wearing gear. Should see how it peeled everything back from my steel toe, if I was not wearing them I am 90 percent sure I would have at least lost some toes.

This was less than 1/4 mile from the house, on MY STREET FFS.

ggrrrrrrrrrrr


My bruises are purple, yellow, green, and plaid.

[JIB]

30 years, not sure how many miles......

[zuma]

Two years here, I'm an early starter.

[Jar3d200]

2000 miles on my ninja 250 did fine after polly around 500 on my kat got impatient and lane split right into the side of a car pulling across the road to get to mcdonalds about 15 mph learned my lesson now im patient if I was in my car i wpuld be worse off in traffic anyways

[Purplehaze]

How about a near-drop?

Had one on my Kat...
Backed out of my driveway and then locked the steering all the way to the right to take off and had that awkward too-tight-too-slow ground stomp.

This one ought to also get a chuckle...
Buddy of mine got a 2000 GSXR SRAD 600 early June. Been working on the carbs and whatnot and been helping him due to my experience with carbed bikes. Took it for a test ride to check the tune and the same thing as prior happened. Was pretty much off the seat with one leg holding the beast up and sort of kicked off the ground several times to get it back to managable position. Not about to drop a mate's bike

[Tubs26]

Almost got I'm a serious accident after riding my new kat for about 10 minutes...yes. I've had tons of biking, mtn biking, dirt biking etc riding, everyone in the neighborhood knows me as the motorcycle guy lol. Anyways. Was getting cocky and was seeing the speed and acceleration of the kat compared to previous dirt bikes, my neighborhoods quiet, I was approaching this hill, apexed the turn cranked on the throttle and got to about 60mph going up and cresting the hill, next thing I knew I got to the top and a neighbor was turning into their driveway (From my left, in the other lane) and I almost T boned them going 60mph but damn! I've never stopped that fast, ever! They turned left and I carried on going about 10mph after that, the funny thing is, the old lady didn't even notice I was there or anything that was just about to happen, where as I was completely stunned! It happened so fast. Had no idea weather to stop as best as I could or pin the throttle and try to beat them turning, def made the right choice!

Just goes to show how well you gotta be paying attention, and how driving reckless and irresponsible can do a lot more than you think, even if it is for a few seconds...

Showing off never pays off...well sometimes it does Lesson learned

[ontheedge23]

I usually find some gravel the hard way every year, I really should look into some sliders lol

[Jar3d200]

Sliders for post years are 100 dollars called t Rex sliders made in Dallas tx