Apr 29
120 kg
That’s how much my Tricker weighs. And I’m glad it doesn’t weigh a gram more, or I’d have been in a spot of bother. You see, this was my first time out on the motorbike on my own and unsupervised. I drove to the Loossjön parking lot to practise my turns on a gravel surface. I had my camera with me because I’m itching to get a good picture of the bike, so I picked a likely place, parked the bike and had a look around. And then I heard something fall behind me. It could only be one thing – the Tricker had just hit the ground. I looked at it in disbelief, cursing myself for forgetting the mobile phone so I was on my own. Only one thing to do – heave up the bike. So I found out that 120 kg is the absolute upper limit of what I can push up. Relieved, I surveyed the damage and it looks like the bike is none the worse off for kissing the gravel, except for a bent clutch handle. Not too bent though, I had no trouble using it.
I didn’t take the picture.
And I did learn to check the ground under the sidestand – it will have to hold 120 kg!
3 comments
I can not stress this enough: buy a bunch of clutchhandles…and brakehandles too for that matter.
You WILL break them. Them as in plural. Again and again. Every bike in the world seems to be designed so that if it falls, the handles break. Bikedesigners probably own stock in the handlemanufacturer companies.
And the bike will fall. If not by itself, it will fall with you on it. Sooner or later.
When I still had a bike, I bought some expensive like hell titanium-heavy-duty-turbo-steel-nasa-hitech handles, that, according to the manufacturer, should have no problems withstanding the weight of the entire planet – twice! He may have been correct, because they never broke. After about a year, the entire handlebar broke in half instead.
Oh Minna –
My Z750 weights about 250kg and also I had have the experience that I wasn´t able to hold it any longer on a stop… But I was able to lift it up again – alone. 
I believe this is something that happens to the most of us bikers at the beginning… 
I am looking nearly every day!
Keep on going and make more picture of the bike and what you do with it!
Kind regards
Dirk
Spare clutch and brake handles ordered