my little squid day

[Vixen]

So I took the day off from work today, and thought I would take my bike out and practice some :instance stuff. I'm having a horrible time with my stoppies. I keep bringing my left foot down, so I keep leaning to the left. I almost dropped my bike. Before we left to go home, I decided to try a burnout, standing to the side of the bike. As the bike started to turn, my hand slipped off the brake a little and the bike took off. I couldn't stop laughing. I wound up dropping my bike. No damage really, well maybe a little. So here are a few pics.

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[TSC girl]

You go girl!!

 

[Max Smiley]

KEWL

I find it amazing that bike mfrs. haven't integrated some sort of crash protection/sliders to their designs by now (other than rubber turn sig stalks) but then some are just barely keeping afloat to begin with. kinda' like SUV's and remote folding mirrors, like DUH!

see in your pic someone had fun laying down the posi stripes too!

 

[Kalamari Kid]

fb

Hold That Front Brake Tighter when doing a burnout
and be the bike....

 

[Port4mance]

That's badass you just said screw normal stoppies I'm gonna bust them one footed! The only rider in BTB to not drop their bike during a burnout is BTB so don't feel bad about that at all. I'm still waiting for some wheelies though

 

[Vixen]

maybe this weekend I will try some wheelies ...but I need to practice my stoppies...and thank god for frame sliders....it saved my fairings...just a few little scratches here and there.

 

[jkd]

Just out of curiosity, since I haven't tried any squidliness on my part yet...have any of you ever taken the fairings off of your bike while practicing new tricks? Are there any pros/cons to doing so? I was thinking that maybe it might save some money on damaging plastics, but wasn't sure if there was greater danger on messing up some engine parts?

 

[Wolf]

maybe this weekend I will try some wheelies ...but I need to practice my stoppies...and thank god for frame sliders....it saved my fairings...just a few little scratches here and there.

You ought to be proud of your bike's battle scars.
Anyone can go buy a shiny undamaged bike, the dents and scratches show you actually use the bike.

...said the guy who's lost about 1/2 gallon of capacity on his gas tank from dents.

 

[MADMAXR6]

You go girl

 

[ninja_rydr]

Keep it up

 

[theSteveCo]

Just out of curiosity, since I haven't tried any squidliness on my part yet...have any of you ever taken the fairings off of your bike while practicing new tricks? Are there any pros/cons to doing so? I was thinking that maybe it might save some money on damaging plastics, but wasn't sure if there was greater danger on messing up some engine parts?

I'm caught in the midst of that same debate.

 

[Instance]

Just out of curiosity, since I haven't tried any squidliness on my part yet...have any of you ever taken the fairings off of your bike while practicing new tricks? Are there any pros/cons to doing so? I was thinking that maybe it might save some money on damaging plastics, but wasn't sure if there was greater danger on messing up some engine parts?

I'm actually gonna do that when I try rolling burnouts in a circle. EVERYONE tells me that if you're gonna do those you WILL drop it. Just make sure ya got frame sliders though.

 

[Kalamari Kid]

Rolling B

How Fast were you planning on going to do Rolling
Burny ?? You Probally dont need to take off your
fairings considering you already dropped your Bike...
Anyways Have FUN doing them.....

 

[Instance]

I've only dropped my bike once and it was on hwy 9 doin the twisties, and plus it was only on one side. I had sliders so limited damage.......I just dont wanna jack up the rest of it, well I wanna try to prevent it.

 

[Kalamari Kid]

dropped

I dropped My Bike Twice Last Weekend..
Nothing really happend a little wear on the fairing
where it rubs on the Frame slider....

 

[Max Smiley]

IMO keep fairings on. rather rash or sacrifice those than trying to explain and/or fix how all the nekkidness got bent/rashed/broken (dead bust). maybe buy some pre-rashed pieces for cheap if you want to save the originals?

don't believe everyone polishes their frames just because it looks good :rolleyes

 

[Kalamari Kid]

BlannnnggggBlllllaaaannnnggggg

The Reason I polished My Frame was Because
I took all the Reflectors off my bike.......