Curious here: ever have a 'single vehicle' off while riding?

[Stig / Major Tom]

I remember someone telling me a story similar to this.  He pulled off the road onto the soft shoulder and his bike just sank into it.  He didn't fall but he was stuck and couldn't get out.  A cowboy came along and pulled him out with his horse!

I remember watching a short video of a young gal riding out 50 yards, and then back on a brand new Vespa .....locked the tire in small area of grit and down it went...clanging & sliding onto it's lovely metal side!
Stig

[aschrauth]

I have slid off my bike a couple of times, Once was when I hit an oil patch in the road and another was when the road was Icy. I learned the hard way not to apply tire shine to motorcycle tires; I ended up sliding off while going out to work, luckily for me no damage was done to my scooter and I escape unharmed other than a couple of scrapes on my riding gear.

[Mancashire]

One time I tried going into a parking garage. Took my ticket and waited for the gate to go up; started to enter the garage and saw the gate drop down too early. It caught me in the upper chest and I did a back flip off my scooter. Fortunately, rider and bike we fine. When I left the garage, I walked the scooter past the gate just to be safe.