Tip sensor tested

[Notty]

My mates discovered his wife has breast cancer just before Christmas - so he wanted to get out for a blast on the first  dry day even though there was lots of laying water and leaves around !! 3 of us went out, I was riding tail end Charlie, We stopped in a Queue  at traffic lights on a quiet country road. We all started to move and the car in front of me hesitated, whether it was  a lack of concentration on my part but the 14 started to fall to my left, got past the point of no return and we lay holding each other on the side of the road and the engine cut off  My mates had gone, old dears in the car behind looked horrified but I smiled and waved them on. A Good Samaritan stopped, I warned him its a heavy bastard but we got her upright  of course it wouldn't start  My mates would be back shortly then a Gleaming Harley rider stopped and offered help - so its not true what they says about them ! mates soon arrived and we checked the 14 over, just a scratch on the engine casing, all started so off for a coffee - I felt embarrassed more than anything I guess - maybe getting too heavy for me so will have a think whether to give up riding. Anyway, the Tip sensor worked  :clapping

[seth]

 
Not another scratched casing?
Glad all is ok .
Especially you 

[KiwiCol]

Glad you're ok Notty.  The bike isn't getting too heavy for ya, you just have to watch what's happening - oh, and get longer legs.    Maybe change how you take off? don't put both feet up till you're rolling nicely?

[Will14]

I would bet on a little lapse of concentration

Almost had the same myself a couple of years ago, turning left at a downhill junction with a bit of a camber on the road, not fully concentrating on what I was doing she started to go to the left while stationary & to be honest I thought I had lost her but somehow she came upright again thankfully, if the same thing happened now I doubt I would have got her back so try and pay a bit more attention to what I'm doing instead of being nosy and set myself up at junctions etc a bit better

I think sometimes we take for granted what we do until we get a warning shot fired across the bow, be a sad day if you decide to hang up the helmet though

Pete

[grog]

Youll be right Notty, just bad luck. Back on the horse they say. Imagine how i felt, 7 yrs ago, bush track, trying to turn around,  14 ended upside down. Me and Wife under it, she still has scars from exhaust.Dont know how but i lifted it off her and put it upright. Broken mirror, couple of scratches. Started straight away, rode home 100 k. Scariest day of my life, had total depression for weeks for being so stupid. I still cant believe i could lift bike, cant believe we both werent more injured, cant believe bike so un scathed. Life went on. Youll be right Mate, no helmet hooks required. 👍

[froudy]

Glad to hear that both you and the bike are ok @Notty 
Trying to get a GSX14 back up on two wheels after a spill isn't easy to do on your own. I did it once and it caused me more hurt the next day than actually hitting the ground in the first place.

[Notty]

Glad to hear that both you and the bike are ok @Notty 
Trying to get a GSX14 back up on two wheels after a spill isn't easy to do on your own. I did it once and it caused me more hurt the next day than actually hitting the ground in the first place.

I remember you telling me Steve - my mate has an 1100Rt which he dropped and because of total embarrassment he picked it up himself, he heard his disc pop in his back and thats why I waited for help 
@froudy

[Hooli]

Ya gurt plonker Notty.

If it's any help, they are easier to pick up after the first half a dozen or so times.

BTW, my tip sensor never worked once in all the times my 14 had a rest.

[GSXKING]

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My tip sensor has never functioned during the falls I've had.
Fortunately I'd been instructed on lifting a heavy motorcycle at quite a few courses prior to crashing one.

Glad you're OK @Notty 🙏🙏

[Mick_J]

That's a pisser Notty, glad you are okay. 

[urbanus]

Glad you are okay. 

Stuff like this is easy done and anybody who is more than just a casual rider will have done something daft/embarrasing/downright idiotic and if they say not, are probably being economical with the truth!  I once rode down to Spa in Belgium for the 24hr race (I went every year for about 10 years when I was young and flexible enough for a tent) and met up with some Belgian friends and my brother in law in Gent before cracking on down to the track.  All went well until we needed to stop for fuel and a coffee.  When the 5 of us lined up in front of the service station I put my bike on the side stand and got ready to get off except.......I didn't actually put the side stand down and as I was the last bike on the right, I lent into the next guy, who lent into the next guy.....well, you get my drift.  Que 5 bikes all on the deck!  I learnt quite a few new Flemish swear words that trip!

Regarding stopping or getting something smaller, everybody has those thoughts too and at some point we will all reach the time when nature etc. means its no longer a viable mode of transport for us - no idea if its your time to get a scooter or go electric, ride a solex whatever, only you know that.  I had a serious heart attack two months after finishing work and was airlifted to the local hospital for emergency surgery, That was two years ago and I thought my large bike time was done when the doctor told me I would not be the same after recovery.  Well... he was right about that, I have got worse! Gone from one 1100 bike to 2 and now the 1400.

[Mick_J]

Bikers, what a bunch we are.  Notty, your mates wife has cancer (and might die because of it) but we all care that you have scratched your bike more.  Is it right or wrong of us ? 
I will admit my first thought was, did you damage the bike.

[grog]

Exact correct mjgt, never really thought of Nottys friends Wife.

[Notty]

Bikers, what a bunch we are.  Notty, your mates wife has cancer (and might die because of it) but we all care that you have scratched your bike more.  Is it right or wrong of us ? 
I will admit my first thought was, did you damage the bike.

Bike was avoidable, cancer isn't - yes bike first thought for me  lump being removed on 23 January ( strikes permitting ) apparently its behind the nipple and likely a full mastectomy but at least you get to live hopefully if it hasn't spread.

[Boa]

Those slow offs are so annoying! Better than a fast one, of course, glad it only suffered a scratch. When I had a slow off a few years back I forgot to let go of the bar and now have a plated wrist

Hope everything goes well for your mate's wife.