The first day I had my bike, or maybe the second, I almost dropped it in my driveway. I just wasn’t thinking, and I got off of it without putting the kickstand down. My thought was that I would walk the bike to where I wanted it from beside it, like I would my bicycle. And I knew that the way to turn it around was while you were on it, because we did that in the MSF course. But I just wasn’t thinking.
I realized that this was a stupid thing to do immediately, so I was able to keep the bike upright. But if I were a smaller person, I’m pretty sure I would have dropped it. I basically had to muscle it to keep it up, and it was pretty tough. That experience has definitely made me be more careful when dismounting though (I always check the kickstand twice), so I count it as a positive experience. But I definitely felt pretty dumb, but I would have felt way worse if I had dropped it.
Do you guys have any experiences doing something dumb when you weren’t thinking straight? I figure if someone else can learn from our dumb mistakes, that’s always good.
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