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10-12-2003, 08:22am
Arrived at work. Double garage completely empty , so I've beaten the two girls to work.
Go to turn the bike around in the garage, as inside and out it slopes the wrong way everywhere. I was doing, oh, maybe 300...millimetres an hour, and whoosh over she goes with me on it.
I selflessly throw as much of me under it as I can, (hey, it cost me $14,200), but I can't get over enough because I need my left hand to still keep the clutch lever in. All the bike's weight is being held four inches off the ground onto my right wrist. The angle I'm holding the handlebar at means that the engine is screaming at 5,000rpm.
Can't flip the kill switch with my right hand because the bike will drop. No choice - left hand. Enter instance burn-out (my first ever). Kill switch on.
Bigger than expected effort to get bike up without letting it go down more. Was holding the brake lever in so tightly it falls off. I kick it onto the burn out marks on the garage floor. Side stand down. All over. Right side of back tyre looks really impressive, I notice, even as I'm checking who caught my embarrassing moment (the biggest thing in my mind throughout).
Damage. One brake lever, replaced for $30. Never give up!
Go to turn the bike around in the garage, as inside and out it slopes the wrong way everywhere. I was doing, oh, maybe 300...millimetres an hour, and whoosh over she goes with me on it.
I selflessly throw as much of me under it as I can, (hey, it cost me $14,200), but I can't get over enough because I need my left hand to still keep the clutch lever in. All the bike's weight is being held four inches off the ground onto my right wrist. The angle I'm holding the handlebar at means that the engine is screaming at 5,000rpm.
Can't flip the kill switch with my right hand because the bike will drop. No choice - left hand. Enter instance burn-out (my first ever). Kill switch on.
Bigger than expected effort to get bike up without letting it go down more. Was holding the brake lever in so tightly it falls off. I kick it onto the burn out marks on the garage floor. Side stand down. All over. Right side of back tyre looks really impressive, I notice, even as I'm checking who caught my embarrassing moment (the biggest thing in my mind throughout).
Damage. One brake lever, replaced for $30. Never give up!