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OK just wanted to share my trip to the local coffee shop today. I like to sit out side on the wooden bench and just visit with who ever shows lots of great bikers to shoot the breeze with on the weekends. Now comes the fun part, just had handle bar standard type risers installed yesterday which moves the bars up 3/4 & back 1 3/4 & closer by 2 1/4. They also adjusted the all balls steering head bearings some. Got on the Wing that I use to know (because I put 6000 miles on her injust 6 months) and pulled the slow tight left turn on a slight down hill slope in the parking lot. Bike got real heavy real fast as I felt that my new hand position was not far enough apart to handle my misjudgment of the turn and down it went. I couldn't have picked a worse time to drop the Wing very embarrassing to say the least. I wasn’t to worried about picking the bike back up as I just changed the tires also this week and did the bike layover thing in my garage with no trouble at all. Then comes the fun, one of the younger HD riders (big arms in a tank top shirt) came running over and asked if he could help pick up the 935lb bike that I also just filled to the brim with gas. He was acting like the world was coming to an end with this situation at hand. Now I am 55 years old and not about to do anything in a big hurry these days, but that young man was acting like we should just grab the passenger handles and pick her right up. I said give me a moment and I will be in position to turn and back up into the seat and then you can use those big arms of yours. Well, I guess he couldn’t wait the 5 seconds and tried to pick the bike up before I got ready and in positionand I think it Damn near killed him. I think he tore his right arm bicep muscle as he shouted out in pain. That left me the old man to do the Goldwing pick up technique by myself. No problem, bike was picked up with only small scratches on the guards. I said thanks for the help and left my favorite coffee shop still in disbelief. So I was thinking about making some small rubber clear hose guards that you could just cut about 1 inch long from a clear 3/4 hose that Lowes sells and place them on the Wings guards for when it gets dicey again. Thanks for taking time to let me vent, Regards
