Murphy’s Laws

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Addendum: If you have to lay your motorcycle down, make every effort to throw yourself under the bike. Skin grows back, bike parts cost money.

Boru

Nobody ever "laid a bike down".

They are just embarrased that they fell off.

I slid off the road after hitting a patch of sand on a curve taken above the speed limit. When I went over the edge of the road, I jumped off. As I slid face down along the embankment my only thought was, "Where is my motorcycle?", because the last thing I wanted was to be run over by my own machine. Turns out the left handlebar dug into the dirt. It was still running when I picked it up and was struggling up the embankment when some people I had recently passed were gracious enough to stop and help me back to the road. Not sure I would have gotten the bike out alone. Harleys are kind of heavy. And tough. Even though the handlebars were bent, the clutch lever and the brake still worked, so I rode it home with my left side handlebar pointing at me. All it took to fix was putting a foot at the fork and pulling the handle bar almost into shape. I sold it that way when I joined the Navy. As for skin, I was lucky that I had a face bubble, or I might have had to get a job scaring little kids more so than I already do.