cap'n
Junior Member
...guh.
Went to the grocery store last night to get soy milk for the baby. Took a Givi E21 side bag in with me, filled it, paid, left. Got back to the bike and realized the parking spot pitched slightly down to the left, meaning there was a lot of weight already on the kickstand side... I didn't want to lock on the side bag and put 30 lbs more on there and THEN have to heave it upright, so I walked it back halfway out of the spot and turned it uphill first, so it would be easier.
At this point, I stuck the kickstand out (**but not all the way, accidentally**), set the bike down on the kickstand, and it stayed upright so my brain was all "hey cool everything's perfectly ok!" I grabbed the side bag, clicked it on, and the bike began to eeeeeever so slowly roll a few inches forward as the kickstand began to give up and twist back. Brain: "hey wait bike's not a-sposed to roll forward like that what's going on OH SONOFA - NOOOOO!" It was like slow motion. I tried like hell to stop it, and I did slow it down, but with all that crap on it I'm sure the bike was over 500lb's. And as I heard a sickening CRUNCH slowly unfolding somewhere under the bike, I realized that things were even worse than they otherwise might have been.
A guy was loading his car right next to me, and he rushed over and helped me right it. At this point I looked down and realized that my Shoei RF-1000 was still locked onto the side of the bike, and had indeed born the entire weight of the bike upon itself. It slid up into the bike's plastic black side pod, crushing it as well, all of which left the helmet with deep gouges and scratches down into the shell material. The helmet was 3 years old, so that's fine, I guess, but the blue mirror visor was pretty new. Dammit.
So you're looking at the proud new owner of an Arai Vector 2 in dark metallic blue. Went to a good local shop and paid a little more, but got all the pads swapped out for ones that fit me exactly right, which is awesome - no extra charge. And it's nice to support the local guy.
Ahhhhh, that New Car smell. Make sure your kickstand is 100% EXTENDED, kids. Kick that bastard hard.
Went to the grocery store last night to get soy milk for the baby. Took a Givi E21 side bag in with me, filled it, paid, left. Got back to the bike and realized the parking spot pitched slightly down to the left, meaning there was a lot of weight already on the kickstand side... I didn't want to lock on the side bag and put 30 lbs more on there and THEN have to heave it upright, so I walked it back halfway out of the spot and turned it uphill first, so it would be easier.
At this point, I stuck the kickstand out (**but not all the way, accidentally**), set the bike down on the kickstand, and it stayed upright so my brain was all "hey cool everything's perfectly ok!" I grabbed the side bag, clicked it on, and the bike began to eeeeeever so slowly roll a few inches forward as the kickstand began to give up and twist back. Brain: "hey wait bike's not a-sposed to roll forward like that what's going on OH SONOFA - NOOOOO!" It was like slow motion. I tried like hell to stop it, and I did slow it down, but with all that crap on it I'm sure the bike was over 500lb's. And as I heard a sickening CRUNCH slowly unfolding somewhere under the bike, I realized that things were even worse than they otherwise might have been.
A guy was loading his car right next to me, and he rushed over and helped me right it. At this point I looked down and realized that my Shoei RF-1000 was still locked onto the side of the bike, and had indeed born the entire weight of the bike upon itself. It slid up into the bike's plastic black side pod, crushing it as well, all of which left the helmet with deep gouges and scratches down into the shell material. The helmet was 3 years old, so that's fine, I guess, but the blue mirror visor was pretty new. Dammit.
So you're looking at the proud new owner of an Arai Vector 2 in dark metallic blue. Went to a good local shop and paid a little more, but got all the pads swapped out for ones that fit me exactly right, which is awesome - no extra charge. And it's nice to support the local guy.
Ahhhhh, that New Car smell. Make sure your kickstand is 100% EXTENDED, kids. Kick that bastard hard.