chomorro
Junior Member
New rider checking in with my story of the week.
I went to my friends house and i have never been there before. He has been riding for almost his whole life and he wanted to see my bike. :BLAA:
So i come up to the house and im like holy crap where am i going to park the street is crazy steep and i have never parked on that deep an incline before. So i pulled into his driveway squeezing by his brand new audi a4. His drive way also slopes up. I pull up and i cant flat foot the ground so i hold the brake and get off the bike to push it up the drive way a little.
We get geared up he pulls his bike out and is whipping it around like its a toy. He 6'5 and im 5'7. :cheer:
There is no way i can back down his driveway and then back up a crazy hill only being able to touch my tip toes on the ground. So i turn the bike around and get set to go forward out the driveway. I thought the steep driveway would be an issue for me so i decide to walk the bike down to the bottom of the driveway. DUMB IDEA. :spank:
We are getting ready to roll out and im right next to his brand new car, my stand is down and my wheel turned left towards down hill street. I get on the bike and i cant touch on the right hand side........ the bike is fully leaned over to the left. I turned back and asked him what im supposed to do. He says lean the bike to the right as much as possible then kick out the stand. I did that and started to roll to the left in front of his car as planned.
Here is the problem. IM rolling to the left but i cant put my foot on the rear brake because its whats holding me up withe the bike leaned right. I grab the front brake very lightly and then im in trouble. The bike starts going very left and leaning left...... It starts going down!!!! I catch it with my left leg and my leg instantly cramps up.
He saw me going down and pulls up next to me on his bike and catches me. Hes yelling at me to hold the brake because he cant hold it, but with the brake held i couldnt turn the wheel right so i went down even more. I couldnt hold it any longer but he strong armed me to the right and saved the bike (mostly because he was going into his car, adrenaline kicked in).
The WORST PART of it all was i damaged his sexy bike in the process. When he pulled next to me to save my bike i was about to push him over too, and into his brand new car so he was fighting for dear life to push me over. He bruised his leg slightly and got my paint all over his fairing. I felt like an idiot, he has never downed his bike and damaged it in any way and i scarred his baby. I didnt mind that mine was bruised it already has a few nicks and scrapes.
IN THE END: He said what i did wrong was trying to turn left onto the street. He said i have to lean the bike over to the right with the wheel turned right and go up the street slightly, and then turn left. I tried to illustrate this with paint shop but because i couldnt touch the ground on the left i just dont see how i could have done it..... Im getting my seat shaved ASAP, this is getting ridiculous lol. I told him hes always coming to my place instead but he insists i have to master his street/driveway combo. I told him short people with bikes wont ever live on his street
So i made a five minute event into a long read but i figured being as detailed as possible helps out others who might be in my situation. :ban:
I went to my friends house and i have never been there before. He has been riding for almost his whole life and he wanted to see my bike. :BLAA:
So i come up to the house and im like holy crap where am i going to park the street is crazy steep and i have never parked on that deep an incline before. So i pulled into his driveway squeezing by his brand new audi a4. His drive way also slopes up. I pull up and i cant flat foot the ground so i hold the brake and get off the bike to push it up the drive way a little.
We get geared up he pulls his bike out and is whipping it around like its a toy. He 6'5 and im 5'7. :cheer:
There is no way i can back down his driveway and then back up a crazy hill only being able to touch my tip toes on the ground. So i turn the bike around and get set to go forward out the driveway. I thought the steep driveway would be an issue for me so i decide to walk the bike down to the bottom of the driveway. DUMB IDEA. :spank:
We are getting ready to roll out and im right next to his brand new car, my stand is down and my wheel turned left towards down hill street. I get on the bike and i cant touch on the right hand side........ the bike is fully leaned over to the left. I turned back and asked him what im supposed to do. He says lean the bike to the right as much as possible then kick out the stand. I did that and started to roll to the left in front of his car as planned.
Here is the problem. IM rolling to the left but i cant put my foot on the rear brake because its whats holding me up withe the bike leaned right. I grab the front brake very lightly and then im in trouble
. The bike starts going very left and leaning left...... It starts going down!!!! I catch it with my left leg and my leg instantly cramps up. He saw me going down and pulls up next to me on his bike and catches me. Hes yelling at me to hold the brake because he cant hold it, but with the brake held i couldnt turn the wheel right so i went down even more. I couldnt hold it any longer but he strong armed me to the right and saved the bike (mostly because he was going into his car, adrenaline kicked in).
The WORST PART of it all was i damaged his sexy bike in the process
. When he pulled next to me to save my bike i was about to push him over too, and into his brand new car so he was fighting for dear life to push me over. He bruised his leg slightly and got my paint all over his fairing. I felt like an idiot, he has never downed his bike and damaged it in any way and i scarred his baby. I didnt mind that mine was bruised it already has a few nicks and scrapes.
IN THE END: He said what i did wrong was trying to turn left onto the street. He said i have to lean the bike over to the right with the wheel turned right and go up the street slightly, and then turn left. I tried to illustrate this with paint shop but because i couldnt touch the ground on the left i just dont see how i could have done it..... Im getting my seat shaved ASAP, this is getting ridiculous lol. I told him hes always coming to my place instead but he insists i have to master his street/driveway combo. I told him short people with bikes wont ever live on his street
So i made a five minute event into a long read but i figured being as detailed as possible helps out others who might be in my situation. :ban:
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