importance of good boots and crash bars

[paulo]

a few months ago comming down a steep narrow road a car hooted comming up, me and my vera stoped, as i put my right foot down my lovelly presentable slippery shoes sliped and my vera fell on me,breaking my leg in 2. I was operated on,now iv got titanium from my knee all the way dow to my ankel.All because i didnt have decent boots on.the up side is vera has crash bares which only got scached . no real damage since we were stoped at the time.

[PHILinFRANCE]

Sorry to here about your fall mate but sounds like your ok now take care
Phil

[Tony Varadero]

a lesson learned the hard way unfortunately...buut glad you are ok buddy

[Dee Duble Yuh]

Ouch, that's not good. Good reminder about wearing decent boots.

[jolly green giant]

Unfortunately, I've been there myself. Still green on the Vara, came to a stop on a slippery slope and lost my footing. Vara came down and landed on my right leg. No injuries though, I was lucky. No damage to Vara because of GIVI crash bars. Taught me a couple of lessons, that did.

Safe trails everyone.

Brian

[paulo]

well it`s good to know that im not the only one

[Tony Varadero]

well it`s good to know that im not the only one

no matter how stupid a thing we do is, there is bound to be someone else who's done exactly the same thing....rest assured paulo

I sat on my R65 many years ago having a fag and pretending to have that James Dean look in my eyes....leaned too far back and fell off bike and all...! Some by standers had to lift the bike up from my foot

[Sharribee]

well it`s good to know that im not the only one

At least you had a bit of an excuse, I forgot to put my sidestand down which ended up with the bike on top of me

[Paul-S]

At least you had a bit of an excuse, I forgot to put my sidestand down which ended up with the bike on top of me

I remember when Ducati brought out their first batches of 916s and 748s and lots of people doing a similar thing not realising the stands are self retracting for safety reasons so as soon as the weight was off, the stand retracted and they fell off their bikes

[Sharribee]

I remember when Ducati brought out their first batches of 916s and 748s and lots of people doing a similar thing not realising the stands are self retracting for safety reasons so as soon as the weight was off, the stand retracted and they fell off their bikes

I think I was distracted by a nice handbag