Maybe it's just me, but this expression seems incredibly defeatist. I've never
dropped my bike but I certainly don't feel like I will eventually.

I'm also a pilot and there is a similar phrase in aviation on gear up landings;
there are those that have and those that will. I've never landed gear up and
I don't feel like I will. Again, just seems like defeatist thinking.

Maybe it's just me........

 

Hard to have a gear up landing with fixed gear. Just kidding. Although I do not like to admit it I dropped my bike about 2 year ago in a parking lot standing still. I was stopped and got distracted and went to put the bike on the kick stand that was not down. And over the bike went. Broke a mirror and hurt my pride but it happened. I hope that this is the only time it does but we all make mistakes

 

IT IS REALITY. IF YOU RIDE LONG ENOUGH YOU WILL FALL. I MANAGED TO AVOID IT FOR OVER 30 YEARS THEN ONE DAY, BAM.

 

I guess some people believe in the law of averages. You can only stay up so many times before going down. I've managed to stay up for over 19 years.

 

I dropped mine for the first time last summer. It was my on my old Virago before I bought my Road Glide though. Glad I got my drop out of the way before upgrading .

 

Comparing dropping a bike to landing wheels-up is an "apples and oranges" kind of thing.

Barring mechanical failure, no pilot should land wheels-up as long as the "landing check list" is followed.
If he does, he screwed up. In any case, the pilot in command is the sole responsible party.

Bikes, on the other hand are dropped or laid down every day due to circumstances far beyond the control of the rider.
Running off the road to avoid impacting a cager on the cell phone, or rapid deflation of a tire at highway speed
are only a couple of things that bikers risk on a daily basis.

Being a biker for 44 years and a pilot for 26 years, I know that I have full control over doing a wheel-up landing,
and virtually no control over an inattentative cager.

 

The first rule of "Drop Club" is we DON"T talk about "Drop Club"

 

I live in the sticks and the old timers say the same thing about hitting deer..."It's the one you don't see that's gonna git ya."

 

I dont believe in that type of stuff either. Never have been a numbers person.

 

Old rule: Gravity always wins!