Falling over ? Might we get to see you on Letterman ? --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Torry Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Torry Barker <[email protected]> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Smooth move, Pops! To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 4:50 PM Cool I'll have to try that sometime. From: surfswab <[email protected]> To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers! <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:14:44 PM Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Smooth move, Pops! I've got this new trick that allows me to jerk the bike up onto its centerstand while I'm still straddling it. Left heel on the lever, make contact with the ground, rock the bike a little left and right to insure weight is centered over the stand's two legs, semi-stand on the lever (you can feel the bike raise up a fraction of an inch when the position is just right. Then fully stand up, left heel hard down and yank back smoothly on the handlebars. Voila ! Works every time...almost. Not so well if the surface you're parking on has an almost imperceptable grade to the left, your weight is all on your left foot when you pull back on the bars, and you pull with a little less vigor than usual. In that case, you tend to faw down, go boom, as my grandson would say. Which I did. Managed to stay with it almost to the bitter end, trying to avoid a lotta damage. But had to let go an inch or so from the ground and tuck and roll away. Damage: Clutch lever rolled up into an almost perfect circle, like it was designed to be that way. Kinda reminded me of Chuck Connors' tricked-out, rapid-fire saddle gun in "The Rifleman." Other than a little road rash to my pinky finger and a big red blood bruise on the back of my hand, the only major damage was to my pride. Fortunately, it was dark and nobody saw, but I still felt foolish as hell. Managed to get the bike up and the kickstand down, went in the house, got on the computer and ordered a new clutch lever from Bike Bandit. Then went a put a bandaid on my still bleeding finger. Lever arrived two days later, was installed that day...and nobody knows about this embarrassing little misadventure ...(!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
