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Drop my bike and nothing broke!
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<blockquote data-quote="RichDoyle" data-source="post: 1266271" data-attributes="member: 84694"><p>Aye, there's the rub. Mostly when I've 0-speed dropped a bike, the same factors that contributed to the drop confound picking it it back up. In the case of my '13's drop, it was into a depression in the pavement. It was beyond horizontal and lifting it required standing in a bit of a hole. When I got it as high as I could with the butt-on-the seat trick, it then required backing myself up the slope and I could get no more traction. It required a passerby to give it that last shove to the left so it was back over the top and on the side stand.</p><p></p><p>When I dropped my ST's, it was on loose gravel. So in both cases as I started to pick it up it slid away from me. And of course I couldn't get any lateral traction from my feet.</p><p></p><p>These idealized demos don't really show the whole picture even with nice dry level pevement. When a bike like ours goes flat-as-a-dead-salmon, getting your butt on the seat and starting the lift presumes you're still as limber as a 19-year-old and can start a lift of significant weight from a deep squat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RichDoyle, post: 1266271, member: 84694"] Aye, there's the rub. Mostly when I've 0-speed dropped a bike, the same factors that contributed to the drop confound picking it it back up. In the case of my '13's drop, it was into a depression in the pavement. It was beyond horizontal and lifting it required standing in a bit of a hole. When I got it as high as I could with the butt-on-the seat trick, it then required backing myself up the slope and I could get no more traction. It required a passerby to give it that last shove to the left so it was back over the top and on the side stand. When I dropped my ST's, it was on loose gravel. So in both cases as I started to pick it up it slid away from me. And of course I couldn't get any lateral traction from my feet. These idealized demos don't really show the whole picture even with nice dry level pevement. When a bike like ours goes flat-as-a-dead-salmon, getting your butt on the seat and starting the lift presumes you're still as limber as a 19-year-old and can start a lift of significant weight from a deep squat. [/QUOTE]
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