Went down on the Hawk - sucks to be me.

[NT696]

*RANT*
So after a long winter of working on the bike and getting on the wifes nerves, I take it out last Thurs. for a test ride. Dont I get only 300ft from the house (first turn) and highside it. Low speed, but I landed on top of it, piledriving it into the pavement.
Two cracked ribs for me, but the bike got the worse deal. Ordered the parts I cant fix, but the tank now has a serious nasty dent on the left side.

New, unscuffed tires, touchy clutch cable, grit on the road, and getting re-used to the bike 'feel' all contributed to this crash. at least none of the parts I needed came back as unavailable anymore. Hope that is my bad luck paid up for this season and a few more to come.

Everyone be super careful on their first rides if you are bringing it out for the season. Check all bolts, signals, mirrors, and anythige else touched over the winter. And if possibe, rough up the surface of new tires with sandpaper to help grip.

Anyone know a good place that can rework a gs tank? I may as well section it and make it bigger next winter.

[Guzzisti57]

Especially if you've modded anything, or have new tyres...

Hope you get it back together soon

[MrDude_1]

ouch... sorry to hear about your luck...

i wasnt going to tell anyone this, but i almost dropped my bike the second time i took it back out too... shoelace got wrapped around the rear brake... made it so i couldnt take my foot off the brake.. i ended up holding the rear brake down because i didnt want the tire to suddenly catch, and i tried not looking at the outside of the rapidly approching corner... really the only thing that saved my ass was that the front brakes are so good now that i could just stop before going over/into the curb.
of course as soon as i stopped, i almost fell over because my shoelace was still tangled up. almost... i had that panicky feeling as the bike was trying to decide if it was really going to fall that way or go onto the otherside where my leg could hold it up... lol.

[Hawk Jr]

LOL I just plan dropped mine in the garage... forgot to put the kickstand down and just laid it over real nice like. Bent my gear lever and my pride...

Stood it back up in 2 seconds... hope the neighbors didn't see...

[balou34]

Sorry to here that NT696, hope it doesn't happen to me in a couple of weeks.

Good luck

[NT696]

Thanks for the support guys.

Another injury to report: I punctured my ego. now completely deflated. Only thing worse would be if it happened in plain view of the Swedish womens volleyball team.

Time to call Rod and get some frame sliders methinks.

[Soul]

Sorry to hear about the drop man. I am glad you are relatively ok. My first ride was a 200 mile ride of twisties. By mile 100 i was back to feeling nice, was a warm day out and my tires were all sticky and I started pushing it a little bit...this post reminds me of how crazy that was.

Hope the bike gets fixed up soon.

[PaullyBoy]

Sorry to hear about the fall, I almost droped mine in the garage in front of about 15 people. I just got off work and my roommates were having a party. I pull into the garage and as I stop my foot slips in spilled beer, and I caught the wall of the garage with my helmet and my shoulder. That was a great way to impress the single girls that were there. Didn't get hurt just my ego and pride. Hope you recover quick and get your bike back on the road.

[Roberto]

Hope this cheers you up... not sure if they're Swedish, but do you really care??!!

[SVHUNTER]

Now you can order one carbon tank! Just don't tell her!