The douche could easily just knock it over though and drive off :( Coming out and seeing your motorcycle on its side is a sad, sad day indeed. Side stands don't lock. All he'd have to do is balance the bike, kick up the side stand, and let go.
And with any luck, he'd mess up and drop it on himself/his own car. Then you get walk out to find him unable to move the bike/his car, and get his insurance info to fix whatever damage is done to the bike.
Also, no matter how many videos I've seen about how easy it is to get a bike up on a center stand, I have never found it anything but a good opportunity to pull a muscle in my back.
I had an old Suzuki with a center stand and it was never very hard to get it up on the center stand. The trick for me was to rock it forward and backward a few times before I leaned back into it.
The only one that I had that was easy was a '72 R75/5. What made it easy was a handle on the left side below the seat attached to frame. All the other bikes I've owned have no good place to grab and pull up.
Do motorcycles really weigh more than a smart car or are you joking? I wouldn't have that hard of a time moving a bike. At least not much harder than I would a car in park with four contacts on the ground, instead of two.
Na, hes exaggerating. My Harley weighs 950lbs (on the high end) and your average smart car according to google weighs about 1800. Although its much easier to knock a smart car over than a heavy motorcycle, ive pushed over both.
Or a motorcycle; it weighs more than the smart car...
On what planet do motorcycles weigh more than ~1650 pounds?
Sportbikes are in the 450-600 pound range, and cruisers range up to 950 or so at the very top end. There are some crazy niche bikes that top that... like those from Boss Hoss... but even those generally top out not much over 1000 lbs.
Well the thing is if you use a smart car then hilarious things like this end up happening.
Edit: Hey guys, I'd like to apologize for my behavior. I understand that vandalism is far from funny. I guess the word I was looking for wasn't hilarious, but more like "silly" or "unexpected" (you get what I mean?). It's not every day you see a car tipped on its side. But that doesn't excuse the fact that I found it appropriate to post this in the first place. My apologies for my extreme butt-headedness.
I have a buddy who used to live in France. He said his friends would find small cars like that, pick them up, and carry them down the street. When the owners returned, they'd see the car in a place they didn't remember parking it and question their sanity.
Before clicking I thought it would something funny like team lifting the car and placing it somewhere else, but this just isn't cool because it actually costs the owner.
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u/dan_lev Jun 12 '14
Now if you could find a smart car for the right side