This fat trick. ....*scratch removal advice*

Amen Brother!

Should the owners manual come with a general tip over repair-tip kit?

Nah...that's what we have VFR World for :glee:

 

The Gen 1 Hayabusa is notorious for that. Nearly every owner I know has had/almost had the bike have a lie down after rolling off its kick stand.

 

You jinxed me. Don't post crap like this ever again! I read this post the other day and guess what? I did the same thing yesterday. DAMMIT!!! I was moving it or doing something....I can remember what now because of my Hulk rage memory loss. Anyway I forgot to put the stand down and TIMBER!!! I'm pretty big and it was everything I could do to stop it from crashing into the blacktop. Nearly dislocated my shoulder and wrenched my back in the process. Somehow, somehow, like a mother lifting a burning car off her baby I lifted it back upright in a split second. Only damage was a tiny nick of paint in my tank (must have been from my boot zipper and an almost invisible dimple in the top of the tank (no idea how I did that). The f--ed up thing is I heard a lady scream as it went over but there was nobody around....spooky.

Somebody please send me one of those demon bells.

 

Hey that what it is we need to do put those on our bikes, you send me one and I will send you one.

I think these fuckers should have side airbags, don't you think?

 

Most paved streets are inclined, maybe parking nose out instead of nose in would prevent some tip overs. If nothing else it's easier to ride out of a parking slot than backing up first. I know I have a hell of time trying to find reverse on the mach 1 91.

 

I always park pointed uphill. Turn around if needed, then back it in downhill. That way the weight holds it against the kickstand (parked in gear) and you don't have to fight to get uphill and out of the parking spot later.

I bought mine with scars on both sides from the PO, but dropped it last December when we rode to LA for the International Motorcycle Show. We were riding the canyons- headed into a downhill left-hander, when one of the guys went wide and scrubbed up into the guard rail.

Since it was a pretty blind corner, I went back uphill around the turn to slow traffic, in case there was any. So I get back around the corner (Where no one can see me) and start a very slow u-turn (with the inside of the turn on the downhill side)... and the engine dies halfway thru the slow u-turn, and the bike falls into the turn, the downhill side. Broke a clutch lever and hurt my pride.

I learned two important lessons from this:
1. Keep your mind on what you're doing.
2. Don't buy clutch levers from Honda. They like them way too much, and judging by the price they want to keep them.

 

The inclination is the slope of the roadway opposite the long axis. This is so that when you reach into your pocket for a quarter for the meter and drop the quarter, it rolls into the stormdrain.