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Gone Cat

Reading the MSF's "Motorcycling Excellence" book, ran across some useful info on how to pick up a dropped motorcycle. What ya do is..Squat down by the low handlebar grip and keeping your back straight put that grip right up close to your crotch, get both hands on it with feet close together and using only leg muscles, lift that grip straight up. It's all in lifting JUST the grip. With the heavier rides today, ya gotta know this. Nothing ruins a tour like a hernia

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HiDesert

Oh, come on; hernias aren't that bad!

Flex your abs at the same time; that will give better support to your back. And keep your back upright or very close to it the whole time. Don't jerk it, either; lift steadily.

Be careful out there!

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HiVel

The thing to do at my age is to set fire to it and get a cab.

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geolpilot

What are abs?

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KingBear

Kinda like this...?

Nochicanes

last time I crashed the DR I broke my left leg right below the knee...bike is facing uphill at about a 35 degree incline, right in the middle of the trail. I figure somebody's gonna come over that hill and wipe the bike and me out. I hobbled over to the bike and got my left arm under the bar but it's a real biatch when you only have one good leg...took me about 5 minutes to gradually lift it up ever so slowly bracing it against my body bit by bit. Took me about an hour to back the bike down the hill inch by inch.

Moral of the story....yeah, 650's sound great but 450's are a lot lighter!

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HiDesert

Of course, if you're Lee's dad, you just shove the bike off the roof, and it will fall right onto the kickstand! Don't tell your son, though. He cares, and he worries.

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Marde

Have a look here also. http://www.pinkribbonrides.com/dropped.html

Martin

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Old Scratcher

When I first dislocated my shoulder, I was so hopped up on adrenalin that i didn't realise my arm was out of its socket until I tried to lift my bike, & wondered why my arm wouldn't work. One glance at the weird angle it was sitting at, & the pain came flooding in.
Funny how the mind works. Innit?

& just to prove it's not just my mind that's funny, I saw an ex of mine break her leg, by slipping on a wet garden hose, while trying to round up her ducks. But she was so into getting the ducks, she leaped straight back up & kept chasing them till we got them. She then collapsed in pain, & was on crutches for the next 6 mths.

I also heard of a guy in NZ who broke both legs in a bike smash, & got up to pick his bike up & wheel it off the road, before collapsing in a heap, to spend the next 9 mths in traction.
But he was a friend of a friend, so that one classifies as urban myth, without independent verification.

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