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I dumped my bike for the first time tonight. Love gravel.

You just need a HUG - it's gonna be alright - we (some of us) are acutely aquainted with yer grief .

Sorry, it is not a question of 'if' it goes down, it's when.... now you got yours overwith, little harm, little foul...were there witnesses and damage?

How much damage did you do?

I love gravel too, Knock on wood i never dumped it yet but came close a few times on the gravel road i live on.

oh man that sucks, hurt the new pipes?I think I've fallen in everything else except gravel.

Gravel rash, the worst sort as it sticks in them cuts and takes ages to come out or you can go the painful way. Hope there's not too much damage

nothing really hurt except my pride. skined my knee, bent brake pedal, scratched blinker. pipes....no a nic. thats all that matters. jack..i did it going into the speedbowl. plenty of people saw and me wife drove away on her harley. that hurt the most.

That stinks, glad you and the bike are ok.

I've tipped my bike a couple times @ <2 mph!!. Being a slow-learner it happened when wearing my leather-soled cowboy boots. Extremely comfortable for riding, but sometimes like ice skates during critical take-off's & landing's. I realize that the rubber-soled Frye's give a much better "platform". Not that I won't ever wear the cowboy boot again. I did mention I'm not that smart .

Ride Safe

jh

One of the unwritten laws of motorcycling:

If one takes an embarrassing fall, there shall be a mimimum
of 7 onlookers.

Remind me to tell you about the time the Mrs and I just kind keeled over in the parking lot at old Mystic Village.

"plenty of people saw and me wife drove away on her harley. that hurt the most. "
Sorry...Im trying real hard not to laugh but...

I droped mine the second week I had her pulling into my fathers drive way.Tried to hide it from my wife by hiding it his garage till I could replace the scratched mirror and pipe that was going to replace anyway.(had the BUBs allready.I worked out untill my brother came over my dads saw tha bike and left a message on my home phone asking if I was ok.(she got the message first)

it's funny how the moved this to riding technique. i really think falling isn't much of a technique....more like a flare.

I have loved gravel in the past. but I gave up that love years ago for the pure lust of laying it down in cinder road pavement. Here in Southeast Iowa, on some back streets, they use a crushed coal cinder mix, I suppose left over from some local factories furnaces. The best part is it is easy to tell how deep to dig the cinders out of the flesh because it is black. Oh, and did I mention that it has the consistency of crushed razors? Ahhhhhhhhh, true love! I've never been able to forget my first time (cause all I have to do is look at the black scars on my right knee!).