redprodigy35
New Member
Hello all. Here today to share a story with you about how my bike went down yesterday.
I was out with my mother on Saturday for lunch for Mother's day since she is working on Sunday.
She drove her car, and I trailed on the bike -- simply because it was a beautiful day. After lunch I asked her to take a long way home in her neighborhood so I could get an idea of the roads in the area.
Well after some good riding, we pull up to an open parking lot. HUGE lot. I'm talking mall size, but it was for a church. So we get out, smoke a stoge each, take some pics of my new girl with 140 miles.
Mom asks: Let me sit on the bike and get a feel for this thing. So I said "OK"-- what harm can some seat time in Neutral do? Some Mother - Son bonding for the holiday.... Well soon enough she starts asking about how the clutch works on the motorcycle. I explain to her that we can do a beginner drill and let her feel out the friction zone on the clutch. After about 5 min of verbal instruction from me, taking note of all I wanted her to practice and all I did not want her to do--- she drops the bike into first and successfully feels out the friction zone once rocking back and forth and disengaging the clutch completely. So I'm like OK (she has driven a stickshift car) -- do that a couple more times. Mind you my most stressed commentary involved me repeating to not let the clutch out fully and to pull in completely when she started to move.
She rocks back and forth 2-3 more times, and I go to light up a smoke to watch all this. By the time I lit my smoke and looked back at where she was -- she was about 20-30 ft. away stuttering on the bike by applying the break and not pulling the clutch in. Shortly after noticing this I start to run over in an attempt to hit the kill switch. Not fast enough. Mamma Dukes went down @ about 6 mph.
I run over check her status and she is fine besides a small abrasion on her knee and inside palm. I told her to hang on while I gather my thoughts on how to get the bike up properly. Her leg was stuck right about where the swingarm is, but no pressure that is urgent to relieve. I remember some (at the time boring) video's on Youtube that I had watched about properly picking up a bike. I do said moves and the bike is up. When she got her leg out from underneath, she was keen enough to jump around to the other side of the bike so it would not tip over again.
I proceed to rage for the next 25 min.
She offers to pay for the right side fairing, and bar ends, brake lever (only scratch), and it seems as if I slightly bent my back break lever.
Needless to say moms was very upset and emo over the spill. She didn't drop the subject all afternoon, about how "she messed everything up". I own up to my lack of responsibility by letting her operate such a machine, and say that she doesn't need to cover all the repairs. She insists in such a way that I think she woulda kicked me outta the house had I not given in to her requests to cover it all.
So I think the bike is all good, besides the scratches.
Any advice on next course of action? Order OEM parts? Go to a mechanic and have him do a look over? Get the OEM parts from the mechanic or myself?
Sorry for the wall of text-- had to share this with some of my fellow owners.
I was out with my mother on Saturday for lunch for Mother's day since she is working on Sunday.
She drove her car, and I trailed on the bike -- simply because it was a beautiful day. After lunch I asked her to take a long way home in her neighborhood so I could get an idea of the roads in the area.
Well after some good riding, we pull up to an open parking lot. HUGE lot. I'm talking mall size, but it was for a church. So we get out, smoke a stoge each, take some pics of my new girl with 140 miles.
Mom asks: Let me sit on the bike and get a feel for this thing. So I said "OK"-- what harm can some seat time in Neutral do? Some Mother - Son bonding for the holiday.... Well soon enough she starts asking about how the clutch works on the motorcycle. I explain to her that we can do a beginner drill and let her feel out the friction zone on the clutch. After about 5 min of verbal instruction from me, taking note of all I wanted her to practice and all I did not want her to do--- she drops the bike into first and successfully feels out the friction zone once rocking back and forth and disengaging the clutch completely. So I'm like OK (she has driven a stickshift car) -- do that a couple more times. Mind you my most stressed commentary involved me repeating to not let the clutch out fully and to pull in completely when she started to move.
She rocks back and forth 2-3 more times, and I go to light up a smoke to watch all this. By the time I lit my smoke and looked back at where she was -- she was about 20-30 ft. away stuttering on the bike by applying the break and not pulling the clutch in. Shortly after noticing this I start to run over in an attempt to hit the kill switch. Not fast enough. Mamma Dukes went down @ about 6 mph.
I run over check her status and she is fine besides a small abrasion on her knee and inside palm. I told her to hang on while I gather my thoughts on how to get the bike up properly. Her leg was stuck right about where the swingarm is, but no pressure that is urgent to relieve. I remember some (at the time boring) video's on Youtube that I had watched about properly picking up a bike. I do said moves and the bike is up. When she got her leg out from underneath, she was keen enough to jump around to the other side of the bike so it would not tip over again.
I proceed to rage for the next 25 min.
She offers to pay for the right side fairing, and bar ends, brake lever (only scratch), and it seems as if I slightly bent my back break lever.
Needless to say moms was very upset and emo over the spill. She didn't drop the subject all afternoon, about how "she messed everything up". I own up to my lack of responsibility by letting her operate such a machine, and say that she doesn't need to cover all the repairs. She insists in such a way that I think she woulda kicked me outta the house had I not given in to her requests to cover it all.
So I think the bike is all good, besides the scratches.
Any advice on next course of action? Order OEM parts? Go to a mechanic and have him do a look over? Get the OEM parts from the mechanic or myself?
Sorry for the wall of text-- had to share this with some of my fellow owners.
