Its a great sunny day, the weather is good and you have saddled
up to ride with your friends to go on Sunday ride to your favorite
location. A short time later your pulling into a parking lot and
almost at a stand still. All of a sudden you and your bike is going
over. You just dropped your bike in front god and every friend you
have, you are so embarrassed you don't know what to do or
what to say!!! You jump up look around make sure no one saw
you. TOO LATE everyone is running over to make sure your OK.
Does this sound familiar? It should because it happens to all of
us. Experienced or unexperienced riders will at sometime in
there riding career drop there bike. If your one of the lucky ones
that have not dropped your bike beware one day it could happen
to you. Lets take a look why we drop our bikes? All kinds of
factors can play into the role why we do such a embarrassing
thing. The one I have noticed the most is uneven pavement. That
can be really noticed in Virginia City, Nevada, which is a
challenge for even the experienced rider. Other items can be the
bike is not fitted to the rider, are you riding around on tip toes, or
top heavy, loose gravel, riding to slow for the conditions, or riding
when fatigued. Numerous reasons can be contributed to such
and act and not one can be singled out to a cause why we drop
are bikes. The best thing to prevent such a thing happening is to
be aware of your surroundings, look ahead, watch for that
uneven pavement and know your riding abilitys with your bike
and learn from your previous experiances. One thing to look at....
Hopefully you will not ever drop your bike but if you do I would
rather drop it at a stand still than go down at 70mph.
Like Always Ride Safe--- Dave
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