On picking up your bike...

 Since people here may actually start practicing front tire skids :)-,
I have several questions pertaining to picking up your bike...

With bikes becoming as large as small boats, when is a bike too
heavy?

Should you be able to lift a bike on your own without assistance?

How many people here know the technique to pick up a bike that's on
its side?

How many who know the technique have actually practiced it?

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Personally, my answers are:

A bike is too heavy if you can't pick it up.

Yes, you should be able to pick up your bike without assistance.

I know the technique.

I've not practiced it and would prefer to practice it on somebody
else's bike instead of my own. After I install engine guards this
week, I do plan to practice it on my own bike.

Greg

 

When, after two grunts, you follow through.


It's a good idea, but it's not always going to happen. Even a lightweight
bike can prove too much if you've damaged yourself in the fall.


Well I do (back to the bike, in gear and blah, blah)


Me, on a few occasions and yes, it works.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 
Excellent point.

Greg

 For anyone who needs them:

http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html
http://roadstarclinic.com/content/view/82/123/

In case you need practice picking up a bike lying
on its side, here are 128 ways to drop it:

http://www.klouseau.com/oops.html

I dropped my 800 lb Electra Glide twice with technique #101.
Once I raised it myself -- resulting in 4 visits
to the chiropractor. Now I'm developing a method using
a small car jack that rolls the bike part way up
to where I can right it without back injury.

Sean_Q_

 wrote:


I wouldn't do it on a Shadow either but my Ultra is twice the weight
and sits higher. Once it starts to go the best I can do is make the
landing as gentle as possible.

The occasion above was the driveway of a local Kawasaki dealer.
He ran out to help.
--
Bob Mann

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you
aren't getting any