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[DICKW]

Ok........I layed it down today.
No ones fault but my own, I was on a hill coming to a stop sign and needed to go left up a hill......just a goofy position and the Handlebar went right. I didn't even try to fight it....I would have pulled something. I let it go down as easy as I could....man you gotta love a Bagger!  I scratched the lower fairing and my Black tip on the muffler.

Picked it up (just like they teach you in Ride like a Pro) and finished my ride up to Conn.

Not proud of it but not really upset either.

Just wanted to fess up..... that was my first time without any help from idiot drivers.

[Twolanerider]

Ok........I layed it down today.
No ones fault but my own, I was on a hill coming to a stop sign and needed to go left up a hill......just a goofy position and the Handlebar went right. I didn't even try to fight it....I would have pulled something. I let it go down as easy as I could....man you gotta love a Bagger!  I scratched the lower fairing and my Black tip on the muffler.

Picked it up (just like they teach you in Ride like a Pro) and finished my ride up to Conn.

Not proud of it but not really upset either.

Just wanted to fess up..... that was my first time without any help from idiot drivers.

Be proud Dick.  Be proud.  Hey, at least you didn't do it directly in front of about 35 friends on 25 bikes all parked at a gas stop .

Back when the group was in Eureka Springs a few months ago I did just exactly that.  Was maybe eight weeks or so past having wacked off a big hunk of my left index finger with a miter saw.  It still had a couple of hypersensitive spots.  So everyong had finished fuel.  The whole crowd was lined up behind me because, well, nine-finger-twolane was lead that day.

Don't remember what right now but something required me to circle around.  So I rolled forward to make a nice night U-turn on what was about a 20 degree grade in a little section of the parking lot.  Quirky maneuver anyway, but not that big a deal.  Except...

As I'm nursing the clutch and bringing the bike around in the right hand turn the end of the damn finger hits one of the sensitive spots.  With a mind of its own it tries to go behind my head.  So dumped the clutch, killed the engine and on over the bike goes on the little downhill slope right in front of everyone.

Don't think I'd hit the ground before a half dozen were already the 25 foot or so across the lot and standing the Road Glide back up.  Fortunately my right hand didn't get as stupid as my left.  It knew the bike was going to fall.  And so did the right foot.  So the brakes got hit.  Forward motion was stopped.  And I could set it down as slowly as I could manage on that grade.  In the end it was right on the front and rear crash bars and not a mark on the bike.  But the damn finger hurt for a couple hours .

[DESERTBEAR54]

Well as you can see most people that own a ultra have layed them down. I have layed my 08 SEUC over three times with my girlfriend on it. It had to do with me getting used to the higher center of gravity and not making my mind up which parking space I wanted to turn into until the last second. 30,000 miles later I don't make those choices anymore. It all has to do with getting used to the bike/carrying a passenger and NOT making last min decisions on turning. Thank God it's only the EGO that gets hurt in this situations!!

[tompen]

It's a pretty big club. Stopped too quick on a turn, on a hill. Was stopped when it went down.

[Compu_blast]

It's a pretty big club. Stopped too quick on a turn, on a hill. Was stopped when it went down.

One of those hard cafe racer right turns where the footpegs almost craping when ~OOPS! sand~ frontwheel starts to go where No front wheel should ever go.
So after my right heel toutched the ground at a highrate of speed {Motocros style save}the sole of my Boot Slaps the ground so hard that any old scool princapel would be so proud of the sound of WHACK!
Toes tingeled for an hour,~~BUT  What a Save!

[napalm]

Well, now that you layed it down once, you don't have to worry about it!!!!!  Just ride....

I dropped my 2006 SEUC, forgot to put the kick syand down...started to get off and down she went!!!!  No damage, surprisingly since it was on my gravel drive way!!!

Get that SEUC!!!

napalm

[Elixer]

been there, done that...that said, if its the SEUC that your heart is set on, then climb on and get moving. We all learn from our mistakes and from them, lessons are learned that we typically do not forget and thus forego repeating.

Lets all remember the learnings from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF, Rider Safety)....SEE (see / evaluate / execute).

Great to know the only piece of you and your wife that got hurt was your pride.

even though we ride alone at times....we are never truly alone.