If you've dropped your bike for some reason and found that you have no broken bones or other serious injuries, take off your motorcycle gloves and DO NOT sit down next to the bike and light a cigarette thinking how lucky you were. There's a chance gasoline has leaked out of the tank and you'll blow yourself skyhigh! There's also a chance battery acid has leaked out and is beginning to burn holes through your leather pants and into your backside!
Lifting even a small bike can injure your back, especially after you've just survived a crash and then you get hurt trying to lift your bike! Holy Motorcycle Gloves...what an embarrassment! If you do have a dicky back, then get someone else to lift it.
If you do have to lift it by yourself then leave your motorbike gloves on and use leverage...first, grab the handlebar closer to the road with a firm grip of your motorcycle gloves. Turn the front toward you. Grab a solid part of the frame. Work your knee under the seat. Bending your knees and not your back, use your legs to lift the bike upright, being careful not to allow the bike to fall over in the opposite direction.
Before you ride off into the sunset, check that the handlebars are firmly attached to the forks. If they are not, your motorcycle gloves and 'bars will break loose and you'll crash again! You'll be back to square one. What a drag!
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