Funny story....

[AApple]

..NOT! oh2: (well...maybe a little funny...)
Here's the deal....
My driveway where it meets the garage is on an incline. I park the 'Wing inside the garage, and when it's time to go to werk, I back it out, and park it sideways, with the left side on the high-side of the incline. Not the best situation to have, but it's all I got. Anyway, when I throw the kickstand down, and swing off the bike, I always grab the handlebars, and pull to me, to make SURE the thing will not flop over, and it never has......until today. I get off, pull on the bars, let go, and...FLOP....right over on the right side....on top of Mama's Corvette. :doh: I just stood there for a minute staring, wondering wtf just happened. After I regain my composure, I get on the right side and flip it back onto the kickstand, and hold it, then move it around a bit until it is steady enough to let go long enough to grab the air hose and shoot some air into the rear shocks.
No real damage, except the light bar around the trunk...it is now off-set to the left, and has two busted lenses...one from the fall, and one from me trying to move( :builder: ) the dang thing back, which didn't werk out too well. Gouged the paint on the trunk pretty well where the light bar hit it, too. :crying:
When I get home this evening, I noticed that I had apparently hurt my left knee somehow when the bike fell....don't know how, but I did....
opcorn:
Sooooo...how was YOUR day?

 

[joedrum]

well sounds like you and me had the same kind of day joel it looks like ive trast the ignition on the 82 bike by shorting the wiring with the jumper cables ...sometimes the things we do most end up biting us bad :Awe: :cheeky: :fiddle: :mrgreen:

 

[89-300ce]

I have the same sidestand routine that you do and it's done the same thing to me, but not onto a car. I'm always afraid that it will fall over onto one of our cars cause the driveway/garage is always packed. I'd be more concerned about damage to the cars as I can fix the wing easy enough. How was the vette? No mention of it (priorities?). If I pranged mama's car I'd hear about it.

 

[GILLT]

If I pranged mama's car I'd hear about it. So true Jorg, so true.
Would never hear the end of it. :crying:

 

[slabghost]

Wow! I was dreading going back to work after a few days off. I hope everything gets fixed soon.

 

[danf]

More like a sad story, I'm sad this happened to you and your wife...What happened to the car..Is she still talking to you or rubbing it in really good that you did this to her car...Or was she nice and sorry it happened and just glad you didn't get really smashed.. :smilie_happy:

 

[AApple]

:blush: What Mama don't know won't hurt her.....

:mrgreen: :smilie_happy:
Actually, I did tell her what happened. She ain't worried aboot the car...it's got a cover on it... :whistling:

 

[skiri251]

Your driveway situation is similar to mine. My GL got a sidecar so the routine is different but when I pull XS750 out, it's like that. Yes, I learned long time ago if the bike leans away from me it's all over unless it's like my newly acquired CT90.

Anyway, this is my funny story.
I tried to renew GL's fork seals and bushings. I looked up this forum and learned that I could do it without removing the forks from the triple tree.
Then rather mindlessly I went on.

First off, I forgot to let the compressed air out before I drain the oil. Oil spewed out and messed up my cloth, garage floor, and the XS parked next to GL.
Then I made a mistake putting it back. I put the bushing in the fork leg first. Then found that I couldn't put the fork into the fork leg that way. :head bang: If I had removed the fork, I hadn't had this problem. Now the bushing was so tight that I had to ruin the brand-new bushing to take it out of the fork leg. It took 2 hours.

The next day I did the other side and it only took half an hour. Now I am waiting for that bush I just ordered. I was too ashamed to post it here but your post gave me an opportunity. :hihihi: