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Well I aint gonna do a Furry and give you all the list as I've been riding abike since I was 14. You can do the maths!
My last 2 were both on the Falco
1x low side on diesel. I hate tractors.
1x stoppie of epic proportions.

Not gonna go into the whole scene but this Clio with 3 young ladies inside was in front of me. I should have overtaken them miles back but the scenery was soooooo nice
Looked in my mirror seeing a white car which held my attention a fraction to long, looked forward and yep the Clio had stopped. Applied Brembos with considerable force. Result 1 airborn 17 stone exocet missile. Landed like a huge muticoloured martian on the hatch of said Clio, frightening all inside into hysterical tears and screams. Really funny then and now. Bike didnt hit car but toppled from vertical on front wheel to left hand side bending foot peg, clutch lever minor scratches.
Spent 30 minutes consoling driver of Clio No damage to car.
Have walked away from all my spills with no major injury.
The big man aint only lookin after Furry.

Had plenty of spills when I was 17 on FSIE's and on one occasion I hit the rear of a Vauxhall Viva on Tamar Bridge. I cut through the boot and my pillion flew off the bike just hitting the barrier otherwise he would have gone over the bridge!!! At the time I was riding a 125 with no licence, tax, mot , insurance, with pillion. I was such an idiot. Since riding proper bikes, I dropped my Daytona and ended up leaning against a parked car so no damage to the bike but so far thats it. Got hit from behind a few weeks back but didnt come off. I think most common is dropping the bike when moving it about in a garage or car parks etc.

Dropped my cg twice. I was coming round a fast right hander in the wet with the bike over further than it really should be ne way hit a manhole cover and lost the front end simple as that. This was about 2 in the morning. Scraped can, bent mirror, scraped fender, scraped bar end, bend foot peg, bent handle bars. Riding it home afterwards was an experiance with wonky bars and no brakes (the front one just wasnt working, and i couldnt push the rear down due to the peg being bent). Second time i dropped it i was pulling out of my drive and just kinda keeled over as it was already damaged from the firt time no extra damage this time

On the ride out to Weymouth a few weeks back........parked at the side of the road...dodgy camber + heavy bike + short arsed git = dropping bike onto it's right hand side. I was very near the front of the group so was in view of almost everybody.
Only damage though was my pride

Fizzy......rode off with the steering lock on and hit a wall

KH100....went onto the back of lots of things due to the crap front drum brake.

B120....rear-ended into my mates brand new GSX250. Only damage was to my jacobs.

GS550..... rear ended a Polo after he braked hard to let a bus pull out . Didn't fall off but I ended up sat on the tank and Ali ended up where I was sat. Bent the forks.

XJ600....Overtaking stationary line of traffic, hit side on by a car pulling out of a side road. Cracked fairing, clocks, footrest bracket etc, etc.

SV650S.....Blew off its side stand in strong wind. Broken gear and clutch lever. Minor scratches.

Never been really hurt other than a few bruises.

dropped my nsr twice, one was gettign bike tax didnt park it properly came back from post office and bike was on da deck.
2) parked up in da vauxhall showroom went on a test drive wiht my mum and went to push bike on center stand on a slope (bad) and it got away from me, just a crack in the fairing nothing some glue wont fix.

HEHE I dropped my bike for the first time the other day, the one way that most people seem to do it, disc lock on, pull away, clnk off.

No damage except for liht scratching on the peg, managed to lower her luckily

Crashed my old supermotard going into a roundabout at about 50 and there was diesel on the road surface and lost the front wheel. Which hurt not much done to the bike smashed the rear brake master cylinder which cost alot, cracked the number plate and an indicator.
I also dropped this bike a few times only minor scuffs and the odd bent lever but it had the world dodgyest sisdestand!

Erm since I've had the ZXR I binned it on a patch of ice doing about 5 mph, crankcase hit the curb spilling it's guts everywhere cracked the fairing and a couple scuffs cost me about £300 tho!

like clunk i drove up someones boot on an rxs100 due to crap brakes and driving too close. saved from going over the bars by a testicles/clocks interface didnt do that again in a hurry.....

Had a suicidal pheasant jump in front of me at 40mph on the rxs too, hit me in the chest and then started flapping about in front of me. stayed on but had to pull over for a bit of a sit down!!!

threw my 650 katana down the road in the wet after spinning up the back wheel driving off after shouting at kids for chucking stones at me when i rode past. v embarrasing, i still blame the shaft drive though.....

oh and dropped the kat on me leg when it rolled off the centrestand halfway through changing headraces.

not bad for 10 years riding. mind you i have a bit of an accident prone friend, and after picking up at least 3 mangled bikes for him it may have made me a bit cautious. his best/worst was losing a srad 600 on the minehead road, taking out his mates bandit, going over the edge of a bend with a 20ft drop, sailing over a womans head in her garden hanging out the washing, and leaving 2, 15ft heel marks in her grass where he landed and slid that was his third gsxr600 that he killed, the one before that he binned at 130mph coming back from kingswear, it took a car of passing aussies that found him 20 minutes to find his bike in a nearby field prior to that he wrapped a blade almost in half around a telegraph pole 10 feet off the ground on the highweek turning on the road from drumbridges to newton abbot!!! Really fast rider on the track, but on the roads he should have stuck to cycling i think....

Dropped mine doing 2mph turning too tight, in front of lots of people broken front brake lever, scratches to fairing and dented pride.

Bikerbird";p="28607 wrote:Dropped mine doing 2mph turning too tight, in front of lots of people broken front brake lever, scratches to fairing and dented pride.

Almost hit me too

Just the once for me on my old RF9. Caught wet patch on leaves in dark country road corner doing about 40. The pillion saved most of the bike with his leg

bought a blood bike cover,and the wind pulled my bike over twice
never buy 1 there shite

wrote off 3 bikes..

1 MK2 RD125 LC
1 RD350 YPVS
1 RD 500 YPVS

crashed many times in 17 years of riding.

have had :
2 and a half hours concussion,1 ruptured spleen, 1 broken collar bone, 2 broken ribs, 1 broken hand, 3 broken wrists including 1 complete dislocation requiring it to be wired. Have permanant metal pins in my left index finger.


But no accidents in the last 5 years I am way to sensible now.

....to be old and wise first you must first be young and stupid (so there is hope for furry yet)

I didin't exactly drop my bike, however 5 days after getting my new Bandit 650 I parked it up outside the house to open the garage when we had all those gales a couple of months back and the wind knocked it over.

a few minor scrapes and a bust indicator.

I was gutted