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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Basically dropping the bike is what you did... that hardly counts as an accident. Shake it off, and remember even the best bikers drop a bike sooner or later. (Use it as an excuse to learn how to pick it up by yourself... it can be done!)
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I wholeheartedly agree with the learning to pick it up. I've picked both of mine up after a couple of oil-slick drops. And, my mom had a wonderful drop at the post office several years ago.
She owned a Virago 1100 (nearly 500 lb bike, mom weighed MAYBE 100 lbs at the time). She had a little tool-bag affixed to the handlebars. She took the bike out for a spin, and went to drop some stuff in the blue-box. It was a little warm outside, and so the leather straps that held the bag to the handlebars had come a little loose which caused it to slide between gas-tank and top part of the triple-tree (I think that's what it's called...). She went to accelerate and the handlebars wouldn't turn. Ultimately, the bike fell on her and pinned her to the curb. Mom managed to pick the bike up and ride it home, after which she collapsed on the couch with 3 broken ribs among other injuries.