Sidecar Flip
Living Legend
I got to witness an interesting and embarrassing (for the rider) sight today.
I stopped at a truckstop withy my student for lunch and just after we walked out the door after eating, an older guy rode up on a really nice HD dresser, pulled into a parking spot and forgot to put the sidestand down and got off. It went down to the left and laid on the highway bars and the HD lower fairing. He tried to pick it back up himself but he could not budge it. It took myself, my student as well as the old man to get it off the pavement and it did at least a couple thousand bucks damage to the left side.
I felt really bad (I don't care what you ride, it's that you ride that's important to me), but I thought about the Rock and it's weight and having that scenario happen to me. Scary.
I'll be double checking my sidestand often now.
I stopped at a truckstop withy my student for lunch and just after we walked out the door after eating, an older guy rode up on a really nice HD dresser, pulled into a parking spot and forgot to put the sidestand down and got off. It went down to the left and laid on the highway bars and the HD lower fairing. He tried to pick it back up himself but he could not budge it. It took myself, my student as well as the old man to get it off the pavement and it did at least a couple thousand bucks damage to the left side.
I felt really bad (I don't care what you ride, it's that you ride that's important to me), but I thought about the Rock and it's weight and having that scenario happen to me. Scary.
I'll be double checking my sidestand often now.