XJ Droppers Anonymous

I'm confident that I'm a member having owned my XJ since 1982.

Anyone else?

Cold weather makes for strange topics!

Marc the Librarian
1982 650 Seca, original owner
2002 Kawasaki Voyager

 

my first time owning a bike and i an now finding out that the air cooled xj doesnt really like the cold. So i think that im going to move out to southren AZ in may, i dont really like the cold so its a cool

 

its a cool what?

 

Almost. Rode the bike from the barn to the garage on snow. GUESS WHAT? Hold that front brake, hold the clutch, put into gear----rear wheel starts to turn on that snow. Can't go forward (front brake) so goes sideways.

I managed to keep it up (back was better in a couple days ). I am a member of XJ Donuts Anonymous though.

 

Ive joined the club now I dropped my bike on a patch of black ice this evening. Teaches me not to drive the night after an ice storm.

 

I've dropped my 900 on it's side in my garage... Does that count? :lol:

 

You OK Dingo? Bummer, mom used to tell me stories of the dreaded black ice she would hit cresting the summit in Tahoe. Scary stuff.

 

Im fine the bike is okay too. no scatches or dents, But ive got a few nice bluemarks now. Im still young, so i bounce back pretty quickly, not to mention that i also rock climb, skate, cave and cook. Pretty danguros habbits.

 

Well ... if the seating arrangements are made for being stupid ... I'll take a seat on the Dias.

OK ... get ready, it's finally going to snow. Maybe even worse! Prepare to die. All that stuff on the News.

Go to garage. Look for gas can. See gas can. Move Max to get gas can.
Gas can empty. Go get gas. Push button. Open garage. Leave with gas can to get gas. Return with gas. Find Max on side in garage. Nice move; Lame-Brain!

Left-open garage door exposed the bike to extreme cold. Rear tire deflated in the cold. Bike on side-stand does an Auto-Dump when the center of gravity changed.

Minor damage.
Major stupid.
Live and learn.

 

In my younger days I tried to do a burnout and ended up on the ground! A few scratches and a slightly tweaked set of bars. It's stayed that way for about 20 years now. I'm much older and wiser now.

 

I'm a member.
Dropped my bike downtown... In traffic... At a red light.

Gave the bike a double middle finger, realized i was being watched, picked it up and waited for the light to turn green, haha.

No damage at all... not even a scratched turn signal.

The factory case-savers are a godsend (allbeit in a butugly disguise).

 

yes a member! me and some buddys at sonic just oulled in sitting on my bike and some girls walk over and start talking about going on a ride with us being the cool cat i get off my bike from the right side and too busy flirting i did not know i had not put the kickstand down it fell over girls laugh and walked away. my buddys are still laughing.

 

Almost...I was sitting at a stop sign and I reached down to fix my riding pants around my boot...and well....It almost went over. I caught it , but it took some muscle and some icy hot afterwards on my back.

 

workin in my garage, the other day, i was pushing my tool chest around to the other side of the bike, my garage has the old style flooring, chiped up concreat... so when it got snaged on the extension coard there i am thinking its just snaged on one of the many cracks on the floor so i give it a nudge... well the back tire if the bike cought the coard and over went the bike... i think i just put the du in dumb a$$ lol oh well no damage, as the plastic sides were taken of a while back and it landed on the carpet i had set on the opposite side of the bike. i knew there was a reason i didnt get rid of that dang carpet. lol

 

I'm glad to hear the carpet was there too! I just don't recall impact absorbance being one of the qualities I look for in a carpet. Maybe I ought to start.

 

Had a boot lace hang up on a highway peg on Broadway Ave. in Chicago. Only by the grace of god did I not kiss pavement. That time.

I know of my bike being horizontal 3 times. Once in the previous owner's garage when some kids were climbing on it during a BBQ, once when I laid it down doing about 20 MPH, (I know I posted that story around here somewhere last year), and once when I had it parked in Chicago and some jackass decided to knock it over.

 

Yesterday I laid mine over in the driveway and pulled a hamstring trying to keep it from going down. Didn't hurt the bike at all but I'm sore as hell.

Total bonehead move :roll: