Layed down my rocket!

[mr hunt]

@Robm422 I am glad you are not broken and that the bike fared well. Beside what everyone else has said, have you considered getting engine bars? I have dropped my Touring twice and the bars keep it off of the important parts quite nicely and make picking it up by yourself much easier.
I dropped mine when the kickstand was not fully forward and once when my shoelace got caught on the shifter at a stoplight. Two great lessons learned that a 35 year long rider should have never been caught doing but I guess I got complacent and forgot the basics. These both happen after two year hiatus from riding after meeting Bambi and ruining my last bike so I will blame the deer. ;-)
And remember, practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice does.

2x shoelace incidents for me in the last 12 months - none in the previous 25yrs....

....and I was taught that practice makes progress

 

[Robm422]

I have considered engine bars, it just another thing that i'll have to save up for. I'd like to get black ones.

 

[alpental]

I signed up for the course. I believe that if you pass the course, you don't have to take the test.

I took the MSF course in California last year (2014), and successful completion meant that I only had to take the written part of the state test at the DMV, not the DMV riding test. Starting Jan. 1, 2015, California switched from the MSF to Total Control's Motorcycle Training Course (MTC). Read more about it here: http://www.ofirmx.com/blog/2014-12-28/california-dropping-msf-going-to-lee-parks-total-control/50. Successful completion of this course will give you the DMV DL389 certificate which waives the DMV riding test requirement (same as with the MSF course in years past).

 

[scot in exile]

No one lays the bike down it is called dropping it, falling off it or crashing it laying the bike down is for the movies, if you cannot pick your bike up after -you lay it down- you need to practice it my club has skills practice once a month where we practice high speed braking, swerving, slow speed turns etc etc etc if you do not get these basic skills into your muscle memory when the times comes to use them you could be in a world of hurt.
I teach the MSF -BRC and ARC classes most weekends and IU cannot stress enough to the new riders to keep practicing some of them listen to you and some of them just want to go 100mph and worry about stopping later.

 

[mexican]

Never in my life have taken a mc test

 

[1olbull]

I have considered engine bars, it just another thing that i'll have to save up for. I'd like to get black ones.

Engine guards are a MUST IMHO!
They saved me and my motor from further damage in my 2013 crash.

 

[1olbull]

Never in my life have taken a mc test

Amigo!
Is this one of those MEXICAN things?

 

[Bob R]

Never in my life have taken a mc test

I can't say that. I took my first and only MC test when I was 14. I was on a Yamaha 60. Went to the licensing office downtown, the examiner told me to go up a block make a right and then another right at the next block, then go over two blocks make a left and then another left and park in front of the cafe. He went for coffee while I tested. I must have passed, I have never had to take another one.

bob

 

[HELBOY]

I hadn't thought about it but I'm thinking I could benefit from some lessons.

 

[mcather]

They should give you the license for picking it up. Where do I practice picking up a rocket touring?
cat