I don't know where you live, but in the Chicago area, last weekend was the first weekend that the streets were alive with a whole bunch of bikes rumbling and roaring to life after the winter. On Saturday, the weather was picture-perfect: Sunny, breezy, and bright. Enough to make riders of all kinds of bikes positively giddy with delight.
There's no bad time to get a refresher on good bike-lifting techniques when your baby falls over, but the beginning of the season seems like an especially good time, you know? Especially if you're a smaller rider, and you don't think you can do it. Barring physical issues (such as injuries) that preclude you from lifting things, Caroline (also known as Doodle on a Motorcycle on YouTube) is back out here demonstrating and sharing knowledge and encouragement to get us all hoisting our bikes back onto their side stands.
In this video, she's lifting a nice, big BMW R 1250 GS that's on its side in a parking lot. And then she's coaching a buddy who's never tried to lift this bike before so she can do it. I'll give you a spoiler here: Both of them, with proper techniques, are able to successfully pick this bike back up off the ground; by themselves, and also with assistance (the Buddy Technique).
