pyroclastic
Junior Member
Had my first spill off the FZ6 today. 
Was making a left hand turn into my housing subdivision and some guy thought it would be good to see how fast a motorcycle could stop and pulled out in front of me. I think I grabbed the front brake a bit harder than I should have, however the bike came to a stop, but my body didn't. Went off the right side of the bike into the road. Luckily my jacket and pants cushioned my fall. I jumped up afraid of being run over, and the driver ran over saying sorry and that he didn't see me. Guy was so freaked out that he didn't even help me pick the bike up (harder to do than I thought, glad I had some adrenaline to help out). I wasn't sure what was going to be damaged so I pushed it to the side of the road to inspect it. To my surprise the foot peg on the right side prevented any damage to the back of the cycle and only the front fairing had a 3 inch scratch going towards the head light. I didn't realize that the mirror could be pushed in to keep them from breaking, but the right mirror just folded up and only had some minor scratches on the back side. When I picked the bike up it was only about 3 feet from the car so I guess I got lucky this time round. I was really shocked that the bike was not damaged more than it was. Looks like Yamaha did some research when dropping the bike from little or no forward motion. I did have to tighten the screw that holds on the right front turn signal, but other than that the bike is fine (with a few scratches). I consider my self lucky, but if anyone drops their bike and it doesn't hit anything on the way down, it should fair quite well considering.
Was making a left hand turn into my housing subdivision and some guy thought it would be good to see how fast a motorcycle could stop and pulled out in front of me. I think I grabbed the front brake a bit harder than I should have, however the bike came to a stop, but my body didn't. Went off the right side of the bike into the road. Luckily my jacket and pants cushioned my fall. I jumped up afraid of being run over, and the driver ran over saying sorry and that he didn't see me. Guy was so freaked out that he didn't even help me pick the bike up (harder to do than I thought, glad I had some adrenaline to help out). I wasn't sure what was going to be damaged so I pushed it to the side of the road to inspect it. To my surprise the foot peg on the right side prevented any damage to the back of the cycle and only the front fairing had a 3 inch scratch going towards the head light. I didn't realize that the mirror could be pushed in to keep them from breaking, but the right mirror just folded up and only had some minor scratches on the back side. When I picked the bike up it was only about 3 feet from the car so I guess I got lucky this time round. I was really shocked that the bike was not damaged more than it was. Looks like Yamaha did some research when dropping the bike from little or no forward motion. I did have to tighten the screw that holds on the right front turn signal, but other than that the bike is fine (with a few scratches). I consider my self lucky, but if anyone drops their bike and it doesn't hit anything on the way down, it should fair quite well considering.
