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2012 BMW G650GS, 2006 GTS,
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Never put a bike down on the streets... Yet.... Been riding since 1994. But in the dirt, thats another story.
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20 GTS Super Tech 300
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I did it.
My Blk. 07 GTS 250ie went over in my gravel driveway. It sucked flipped out on my roommate because she was parked next to it, but I found out later it rain two inches that night. I felt like a jerk oh well sold it on MV a week later didn't want to deal with a painted scoot.
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BMW R1100RT The Problem Child Kymco Downtown 300 - I'm not the Uber BMW R1200 RT Big Red
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Paging Dr Beat
Come off a few bikes but never come off a scooter.

Still, plenty of time.

Riding badly sinse 1982.

Bill XX
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T5s
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Bill Dog wrote:
Writing badly sinse 1982.

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BMW R1100RT The Problem Child Kymco Downtown 300 - I'm not the Uber BMW R1200 RT Big Red
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It's takes years of practice to be this rubbish.

Thanks for your input Bitsa.
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2003 Vespa GT 125
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2003 Vespa GT 125
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yep i have last year when i was 16, had owned my 50 for about 3 months, and the way it happened was rather embarassing lol.

At school bicycles and scooters and parked in a lane that goes up beside the school, and i was leaving just before lunch so noone was around (luckily), i was turning the scooter round in the lane (using the engine) so i could leave, and going at about 1 mph i rode onto some wet leaves (which id never experienced before or been warned about), went to floor it down the lane and the front went from beneath me faster than you can blink! but i had my feet out coz i was going so slowly and turning around, so when the scoot went over i landed on my feet, and it landed on its side, only damage was to my pride and a scratch on the footplate and mirror.

and even just that little accident clicked the sensible part of my brain into gear! But iv still had plenty of near misses with locking the brakes, people pulling out infront of me without looking, feeling the back end twitch on a roundabout that cambers the wrong way, going too quickly round a bend and ending up on the white line in the middle of the road, but i have only been on the road for over a year, and think of myself as a sensible rider but i expect there are many more accidents to come! but you have to embrace that fact lol Razz emoticon
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sorry bill but when im bored i type .... as they say the devil something something for something somethings
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2006 Vespa 250ie
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2006 Vespa 250ie
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Luck
I haven't turned my body into a form a road pizza yet. I put about 4k this last three months. I am ALWAYs trying to look out. I did have a semi truck try to wipe me out, but I didn't over react and he saw me. I do think there is a simple skill involved......PAY CONSTANT ATTENTION.

I ride in ran, snow, etc... This morning I drove about 65 miles to work from up Payson Canyon to Orem, Utah and drove a lot on the freeway.

-Carson-
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Kymco Downtown 300i the 'Dolphin Noise'
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four times.

twice in my first month of riding. both times at walking pace

the third time, i was hit by a driver who pulled out alongside me in a crowded intersection without looking. that one was annoying because my new GT200 was only 10 days old at the time

the last time, i was riding 'at speeds in excess of optimum for the conditions' or something along those lines .... a mud/gravel road in Cornwall, blind corner, a bit too much speed ... you do the math Razz emoticon
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Molto Verboso
GTS Vintage Red
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Yep - First month at a Stop Sign. On a hill. Laid it down softly was so mad!
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Molto Verboso
2007 GT200L Graphite Black
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Knocking on all things wood in my reach when I say that no, I've never dropped, fallen or wrecked.
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laid down my first scoot, a px150, inside of 3 months. have had 3 scoots after that and never crashed those. yet.
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2017 BMW R1200GS and 2010 Vespa GTS 250 (shared)
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Me too
I've dropped the damn thing on myself three times over the past year. All while parking or trying to get the scoot off of the center stand. Each time I was unfathomably stupid.

Only once did I damage the scooter when I did it.
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GTV 400
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Sometime u just gotta take it.
First week i had mine i was practicing making really small circles with the handle bars locked all the way over. Started to tip inside, but i was in such a small area i couldn't throttle out of it, so i had to put my foot down, BUT i was wearing Sperry's, and the edge of my sole snagged on one of the ridges in the floorboard. it only delayed my foot coming down by like a half second, but it was long enough that i just had to take it on the shoulder. Hit the ground in my riding position, didn't even let go of the bars. Prolly looked like i didn't even try to save it; but in my parking garage, nobody saw or heard. The silence was deafening.

Like MODNROd, the track is another story...
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Molto Verboso
2007 Vespa GTS 250ie
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I hit a curb and flew over the handlebars back in 1982 on my Honda Passport, but that bike and I were indestructable in those days.

I went down on my Honda 50cc in some gravel at less than 5mph and damn near broke my foot.
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LX150
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Not going to jinx it by answering.
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2005 GT 200
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8) fell once on my dirt bike when I was a kid, but thank the Lord not in the street wihile riding my scoot.....
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2010 Orange S150
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I'm confused. The OP asked who had NOT laid it down yet this has turned into many tales of laying it down. We've cornered too fast & laid down this thread Razz emoticon
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2020 Honda NC750DCT
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Have not. Working really hard to never do it.
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Molto Verboso
PX200E X 2
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never had, did tip a mc once or twice
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GTV 300, [GTV 250], [CB500F], SG250, MINI R59
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GTV 300, [GTV 250], [CB500F], SG250, MINI R59
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Re: From what I understand...
ScootChef wrote:
...it's not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when"
lol. seriously. i've had mine for about 4-1/2 days without incident.

It came with its own set of scratches so maybe that'll hold me off. on a related note- i finally figured out how to put it on the kickstand w/o my blood pressure going up each time.
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Vespa 300GTS Super ABS 2015
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I only rode 600Kms thus far, but i hope i will never have an accident:
XLR8 wrote:
(...) being extremely aware of everything around me and never riding over my abilities. (...)
Those are my weapons, and i intend to put them to good use. It's my life on two wheels...
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