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iforwms
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PostPosted: 20:02 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Bad concrete and bad luck Reply with quote
So I park up behind my house as usual (part gravel/concrete) around the back. Put it on its side stand, then straighten the handlebar to and push down on the centre stand, I get my weight over it and the back end starts rising, then crack... and in slow motion the bike falls over away from me.

Once I get it back up, I look at the centre stand, still in one piece, and I see on the floor next to it a rectangular hole where the centre stand leg punched through the concrete - gutted.

Luckily no real damage, just scuffs to the fairing, c'est la vie.
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Conon
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PostPosted: 21:47 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Someone will be along soon with your "Cool Story Bro!" Sorry I cant help Very Happy
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iforwms
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PostPosted: 21:56 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Conon wrote:
Someone will be along soon with your "Cool Story Bro!" Sorry I cant help Very Happy


Haha, I've heard of bikes falling over parked on tarmac in boiling hot weather, but not bike stands going straight through concrete!
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PostPosted: 21:57 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
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stonesie
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Re: Bad concrete and bad luck Reply with quote
iforwms wrote:


Once I get it back up, I look at the centre stand, still in one piece, and I see on the floor next to it a rectangular hole where the centre stand leg punched through the concrete -


Are you sure it's not a tank? That's some going for a bike to punch through concrete unless Chuck Norris is the former owner...

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Conon
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PostPosted: 22:00 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
CRF-Rider wrote:
piccie


See, I told you Thumbs Up
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iforwms
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PostPosted: 22:00 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Re: Bad concrete and bad luck Reply with quote
stonesie wrote:
Are you sure it's not a tank? That's some going for a bike to punch through concrete unless Chuck Norris is the former owner...


Nah, Chuck wasn't involved, the world's thinnest concrete hardstanding was the culprit methinks...
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stonesie
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well it's good to hear that the bike is not badly damaged Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 23:48 - 18 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Went down to the Newark Autojumble a few summers ago, nice hot day. Called into a pub on the way home for a cool beer and sandwhich, parked up by the side of a railway line. Turned out it was the East Coast mainline. One of Brandsons 100+ mph trains shot through and blew my 'Blade, Migs Triumph RS and Bob's Fazer 1000 clean off their sidestands. Nothing to do with the OP's post, just bored.
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PostPosted: 09:10 - 19 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
jjdugen wrote:
Went down to the Newark Autojumble a few summers ago, nice hot day. Called into a pub on the way home for a cool beer and sandwhich, parked up by the side of a railway line. Turned out it was the East Coast mainline. One of Brandsons 100+ mph trains shot through and blew my 'Blade, Migs Triumph RS and Bob's Fazer 1000 clean off their sidestands. Nothing to do with the OP's post, just bored.


A sandwhat?

Sorry. Brool story co. Did you sue?
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PostPosted: 13:00 - 19 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
carlosthejackal wrote:


A sandwhat?

Sorry. Brool story co. Did you sue?


Surely you mean ' A sandwat?'
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PostPosted: 13:12 - 19 Dec 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
jjdugen wrote:
Went down to the Newark Autojumble a few summers ago, nice hot day. Called into a pub on the way home for a cool beer and sandwhich, parked up by the side of a railway line. Turned out it was the East Coast mainline. One of Brandsons 100+ mph trains shot through and blew my 'Blade, Migs Triumph RS and Bob's Fazer 1000 clean off their sidestands. Nothing to do with the OP's post, just bored.


I used to live in Newark...! Nice place. Cool

Nothing to do with the OP's post, just bored.
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