Hi I'm Tim and I'm a C-10 Connie dropper. About a week ago, I was leading a group of mostly Harleys from my church group on a monthly ride about the countryside here. As we had just finished a ferry crossing and were about to get on the main road the group kinda got out of order and a slinky effect began. Now the access road was very steep and off cambered to the right. I move back up to the front of the group and wait for a vehicle to pass and being very proud of our first ferry crossing, pull out......in second gear, the bike stalls and I'm already committed to a right turn and my Feet are up on the pegs. I try to catch her with my right foot but find the road surface covered with BB sized gravel. Well she falls over and hits the ground quicker than you can sneeze and I just stepped off of her like a dead horse. But no harm done, Had a set of tip over bars from Murph's and they saved the day except for my pride.These sort of things work very well when you have an audience with you, and everybody got a big hee haw laugh out of it and being a bunch of Harley riders , were all very impressed with my bike handling skills. And by the way, the bars make it pretty easy to reverse dead lift her back to a more proper position with no problem. Lesson learned? DDDT........Don't do dumb things.
