I just remembered my first bike dropping story, Totally not my fault. I had just got my first real bike (the afore mentioned Triumph and was riding around a sweeping left hand curve on the highway, about 55 MPH. A quarter of the way through the turn, I'm leaning into the curve, and the bike won't lean! I push on the brake and hold on for dear life, still tryin to lean to the left, but the darn bike refuses to lean! I slow crashed into a soft grassy area off of the curve, stopping just short of a barb wire fence. I collected my senses, and looked at the bike. The kickstand spring had broken and the kickstand crept out and wouldn't allow the bike to lean over! I brushed myself off, the bike suffered no damage at all, and I tied a shoe string to the stand to keep it up. It was funny afterward,
and I have never forgotten that funny feeling of a Trumpet that, for a moment anyway, just didn't handle well in a curve!
