So I was in the process of leaving Chic-fil-ay after lunch yesterday. I'm making a left out of the driveway and a guy in a pickup runs the nearby stop sign and cuts me off, thus forcing me to make an abrupt stop with the wheel fully turned to the right.
Almost immediately, gravity started pulling my 900-pound Goldwing to the ground. I tried, tried, tried to hold it upright, but alas, no good. There she was, lying on its right side on the pavement. I quickly stood over it and tried to lift it. Couldn't even budge it.
Then I remembered a Youtube video I saw shortly after I bought the bike. It seemed to me that there was a way...you stand next to the bike but facing away from it...grab the handle next to the seat with your right hand, and the end of the handlebar with your left...then you stand as straight up as you can and gradually walk backward (toward the bike).
It worked!
Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to lower the kickstand on the other side before I did this, so it was just a matter of pushing the bike a little bit over straight-upright, and it rocked over onto the kickstand. No harm done.
Everything I've learned over the past five years has been from Youtube.
Almost immediately, gravity started pulling my 900-pound Goldwing to the ground. I tried, tried, tried to hold it upright, but alas, no good. There she was, lying on its right side on the pavement. I quickly stood over it and tried to lift it. Couldn't even budge it.
Then I remembered a Youtube video I saw shortly after I bought the bike. It seemed to me that there was a way...you stand next to the bike but facing away from it...grab the handle next to the seat with your right hand, and the end of the handlebar with your left...then you stand as straight up as you can and gradually walk backward (toward the bike).
It worked!
Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to lower the kickstand on the other side before I did this, so it was just a matter of pushing the bike a little bit over straight-upright, and it rocked over onto the kickstand. No harm done.
Everything I've learned over the past five years has been from Youtube.