laid it down

In a parking lot doin low speed cornering manuevers.
the bike sufferd minor damadge.
turn signal,bent foot peg, bent mirror, and the WORST PART bent the bars.
Second that the WORST part , i bent my brake lever.
Tried to retweak the brake lever, AND BROKE THE DAMN THING RIGHT OFF THE BAR, yeah thats the worst part.
Oh well time to go shoppin,lol
Anybody else drop there bike practicing?

Dang, that's rough. Sorry to hear that but glad you're okay. I took a dive yesterday myself in an intersection no less. Sounds like a lot of damage to the bike but I'd take that any day over damage to yourself. I wouldn't beat yourself up though. Having just taken the MSF course last weekend, I heard many stories about people dropping their bikes while in the class and I'm sure there's just as many, if not more, while outside class. It's all about the learning experience.

What happened exactly? Do you know?

doin slalom around the endcaps to the parking spaces, turning around at the end to go back through trying to hit FULL LOCK at LOW speed, FOUND IT right before i hit the ground.
not going more than 10 mph, diving into the corner lost the front wheel, simple as that.
all i can do is try to learn what not to do!
stein

This is how we learn. Bet you won't do that again!

Stein,
That exact thing happened to me on my 550 the day after I got it.
Slow manuvering is the most difficult thing to do on a bike IMO. When I fell, I got a significant amount of road rash and broke my left hand!!
It's great to hear that you're practicing. To many people just jump on a bike and hit the open road. I've had friends that did that. The operative word is "HAD". They're dead.

CD

Bikes remain somewhat stable when moving because the trail helps the front wheel turn into a lean which catches you from tipping over. When at full-lock, that stops happening because there isn't any way to turn the wheel any farther. Because of that, you have to find new ways to catch yourself. You do that with clutch and rear brake, or throttle and rear brake, but at full lock, you should be going slower than first anyway, so just clutch and brake 99% of the time. First off, when moving slow and turning tight, drag the rear brake. Instantly you will feel the bike settle in and tighten up. Now, if it starts to lean too far, let out on the clutch a little (or apply throttle), and it will stand back up. If you aren't leaning far enough, apply more rear brake and it will lean over. If you go too far and lock the rear, you will instantly start to fall. You have to do the work the bike's geometry normally does naturally, so it takes some practice. But after you get it nailed down, you can do lock-to-lock figure 8's. When you get that, you can turn around anywhere.

You can't straighten levers BTW. I have been working on a process to do that, but the general word is, once they are bent, they are binned.

um ... what?

I have soooooooo many things I could say right now. LOLOLOLOL

I consider this post "self moderated".

That's it, Si...get a grip!! Breath deeply and count to 5000!!!
LOL,
CD

If i am not mistaken, his point is to trail brake with the rear brake and control with throttle. I get my brake lever tomorrow, YEA,lol.
Can't wait to test the theory.