It's bad enough to drop your bike, but then have google map it?

[Top_Speed1]

We've all been there in some respect, feel bad for this K16 guy, not only the drop and damage but to have Googlemaps capture it? The case on the ground is not the Right side saddlebag but rather the top case....

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-72.342768!3d43.645858!2m2!1f249.52!2f76.12!4f75!2m9!1e1!2m4!1soQyikI9IdYCzBgXuMny5UQ!2e0!9m1!6sNorth+Hartland+Road!5m2!1soQyikI9IdYCzBgXuMny5UQ!2e0&fid=5

 

[Bugnatr]

know I shouldn't laugh but that's funny. He did have on his fancy Beemer Rev'it suit

 

[dcarver]

Ouch!

Salt in wound.

 

[rushes]

Damn innernet...

It should only be for pretty wimmen posting pics of thereselves in a mirror.....

 

[wfooshee]

Ah, the ol' feet-don't-reach-the-ground-if-you-straddle-the-gutter!

 

[creg-ny-baa]

That's bloody Fn incredible!

know I shouldn't laugh but that's funny. He did have on his fancy Beemer suit.

Actually (and I'm sorry that I might actually know this), that appears to be Rev'it...

Ah, the ol' feet-don't-reach-the-ground-if-you-straddle-the-gutter!

Yup! That's 'zackly what that looks like.

 

[bgross]

"It's just restin'." ~ Michael Palin

 

[wnyfjr]

"It's just restin'." ~ Michael Palin

Pining...for the fjords...

 

[creg-ny-baa]

I thought only BMW GS-es were narcoleptic.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Been there...

White River Jxn that is.

 

[escapefjrtist]

Ouch...wonder if he's counting to ten right about that time.

--G

 

[airboss]

Good thing Google doesn't do audio....................................this would be NWS.

 

[majicmaker]

Ah, the ol' feet-don't-reach-the-ground-if-you-straddle-the-gutter!

After many, many close calls on the rain gutters and being lucky every time, I decided NOT to do that anymore. )

 

[Surly]

Nice guy in the foot cast looks like is going to help pick it up. Could take more than two of them.

 

[gixxerjasen]

Been there...White River Jxn that is.

Lived there when I was a kid.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Nice guy in the foot cast looks like is going to help pick it up. Could take more than two of them.

No wonder he is just letting it sit there. It is a 1600. Talk about a hernia maker!

 

[Geezer]

It looks like he was planning to pull out, but saw the truck coming and had to stop without thinking about exactly where he was when he stopped. I thought of this because I had a similar incident at EOM this year, except for me it was a pothole I didn't see that I put my foot down into.

 

[TomInPA]

You can go back up the road and see the bike was down long before the truck got there. I tend to agree with the others, he made his stop straddling the gutter and just didn't have enough leg reach to stay upright. Could happen (has happened) to any of us.

 

[Top_Speed1]

Ah, the ol' feet-don't-reach-the-ground-if-you-straddle-the-gutter!

YUUP! Thinking that way as well.

And knowing that bike now quite well, with the saddlebag, topcase, LED fog light ASM, multiple tupperware pieces he's easily in the 7K range (parts only). We don't have sliders like on our FJR's but rather (optional) engine protect bars running parallel. Zooming in on the top side, I can't define any engine protect bars at all?, normally these optional add-on bars will protect way more than even our sliders do. I have Ilium-Works on my GT-Sport, excellent tip over protection, yes.. BUT the problem is... he's in the freeq'n gully!

Even with Ilium's he would of sustained a lot of damage. Maybe with the Wunderlich (cage) system?, maybe not anything! Those wrappers are like body condoms for your bike, just all those bars everywhere makes it look like your in Alcatraz.