dropping the bike

[xgringo]

Get a Motobike jack. The inventor is a Harley guy but it's as though he invented it for the f6b. Just place that hook on the rear tip over bar and in maybe ten cranks and she is up.

I can easily lift the b on level ground, but I had an experience where she went down on an incline in soft dirt. Thanks to the Harley rider who saw me behind the trees on the roadside. Thanks again Phil!!

Thanks to the Jap love of side opening cases I carry two, one in each case at all times.

http://www.motobikejack.com/video.html

[oldxtreme]

Glad to see I am not the only dropper! Had mine a week and dropped it in my driveway. Slight decline, facing down hill and out of gear...Learned not to do that again. The bike rolled off the side stand and I of course tried to keep it from going over! Well, it did what it wanted to do and trapped my leg under the bike with the passenger peg sticking through my heel. No one around so the only thing left to do was either lay there or pull like hell until I pulled my heel off and my leg out! Good news NO SCRATCHES on the bike but 47 stitched to reattach my foot!

Lessons learned... 1. If it decides to go down, it will go down...get out of the way!
2. Put the bike in 1st gear and roll it forward until the gear play is taken up.
3. Never park facing down slop or a right handed lean.

One other time this summer, when completing my 8,000 mile road trip, I pulled out of a parking lot, going too slow and was making a right hand turn when the front wheel just wanted to keep going right. Not enough forward motion to overcome the wheel from going too far and the bike laid down in the middle of the street!

No leg to try to stop it this time but no scratches either! Outstanding design on the crash bars...both sides!

Lesson learned...don't make slooow, 90 degree turns!

I am acutely aware of where to park, the angles of the ground and if I can pull forward or have to back peddle it!

I am getting off a VTX 1800 and never laid it down once while parking or turning after 80,000 miles.
great bike! It must have a lower center of gravity. It does have a shorter side stand so the lean is probably 30 degrees. It is a little tougher to get up right if it is parked on a left handed slope...but it does not fall over!

[f6byellow]

I thought i had the kick stand down when i was backing out of the garage and leaned it left to get off but it went slowly down thank god for crash bars had all i could do too pick it up man heavy bike lessen learned always look down on left side

[wjduke]

I dropped mine several times. Always in front of others, total embarrassment.

[billsim]

Get a Motobike jack. The inventor is a Harley guy but it's as though he invented it for the f6b. Just place that hook on the rear tip over bar and in maybe ten cranks and she is up.

I can easily lift the b on level ground, but I had an experience where she went down on an incline in soft dirt. Thanks to the Harley rider who saw me behind the trees on the roadside. Thanks again Phil!!

Thanks to the Jap love of side opening cases I carry two, one in each case at all times.

http://www.motobikejack.com/video.html

Kind of steep at $216.00 plus S&H...................