i had an AWESOME ride today...UNTIL...i was parking my bike and instead of backing it into a spot i park in, i decided to do a U-turn, needless to say i had speed down and leaned bike a bit too much and it began to fall, i tried to catch it and did, but the bike was in first and i didnt want to rev it or let go of clutch so i ended up SETTING my bike on the ground
after placing the bike down i turned the key off (so as to not grap the handle bar and gun the engine) and had to lift it back up, i just topped the tank off w/ gas so it was heavy as fook to lift, but i did it on my 2nd try(im only 140lbs, soaking wet, was definitely surprised how hard it was to lift).
thank god i had FRAME SLIDERS on my bike, i was leary about whether or not they would protect my bike(they seem to not stick out far enough at all) but there were NO SCRATCHES on my fairing and the frame slider took no damage as well (my right front turn signal touched the ground, but did not scratch at all because it is like on a spring or something)
basically i "set" my bike down (i was trying my damnest to hold it up, but i couldn't cause i was only standing on one leg when i tried to catch it)
only damage done was too my ego (i looked around, at least no one saw)
i really didn't want to drop it ever, having been told 1,000 times that I WOULD drop it eventually, but now that ive dropped it i can feel satisfied that no real damage will happen to my bike if i do it in the future.
needless to say im gonna go to a parking lot and work on doing figure eights like you have to do at the MSF class