February 2007. I managed to drop the Goldwing twice in one day!

Installing a Mud Bug is not with out excitment....that's right, you might think that installing one of these;

might be really boring and even bordering on a "safe" thing to do.....I mean no one wants their 'Wings stand to sink into the ground and fall over do they???

So, who would even think that the extra height could lead to this!;

The thing I am REALLY ticked off about the most????......My wife was standing next to me, the camera was sitting on the deck.....and we did not get a movie of me lifting it up! (Argghhh!!!)

(Side issue, in the middle photo (click on it for a bigger version), what's with the oil leak at the front, and what's with the hole in the motor?? (if you have answers, email me..... beno.id.au [at] gmail dot com))

Ok, so, rewind to the day before....I put the MUDBUG on the side stand, thinking, kewl, the bike wont sink into the ground now..... Ride to work and park the bike, Getting the gear off and locking the panniers, the bike is A LOT more vertical than I thought, and it tips over. One bent antenna and a smashed off RHS mirror (and some minor scratches on the windshield) is the only damage. (heh, at least on the second drop 'round, there was no RHS mirror to damage!)

I think to my self, Hmmm, better go home and grind that MUDBUG down a little to make it a bit lower......so, I get home, put the bike on the side stand and before I can say "Ricky Tick", its fallen over........Arnt habits amazing????? ....I have been parking the bike in the same spot for the past 2 years and never thought anything about it, its never fallen over there before.....(well, it has, but I was to blame).

So, while it was leaning over, I figured it cant go any further, so now was a good time to grind that MUDBUG down a little more......It ended up about an inch thiner. It still seems to work just the same, but now its a lot safer!

My feet slipped a little on the lose gravel, but using the 'ol butt into the seat lifting trick, this old guy lifted his 'Wing.....

Yeah, I should have taken a video, yeah, I should have taken a before photo of the mudbug......fact is, I dident.....but then again, I have not seen too many photos of dropped 'Wings on the web either........so....well......enough already....... (besides, at the end of the day, I fixed the mirror and replaced the antenna, and there are no marks on the bike (the windshield will get replaced at some stage with version 2), so it was a reasonable way to learn a lesson??)