FYI I have dropped mine at slow speed. Too lazy to take my feet off the highway pegs and was doing heavy braking down a slope. All was good until I hit that little tiny insignificant patch of gravel and the front wheel stepped out and I rolled across the road. I still remember thinking firstly "wtf" followed by "well no need to worry about the pipes anymore".
The only thing damaged was my pride. Unless you count the crash bar but it already had scratches on it from the car stands and where the scratches were you wouldn't notice. We even pulled up about 10k's down the road to check it again and yep... nothing.
I have since scratched the pipes and the crash bars but not from dropping it.
Lol you have better luck than me my friend. I once laid my xr650l down while off road. I wasn't even moving, I was just getting off my bike. The kick stand slid off the rock it was on, into the sand, and over my bike went. No big deal, it's a dual sport with plastic everything. Except for the rock that somehow found its way passed my skid plate, right into the side of my engine's stator case. Lost all my oil right there.
I replaced the case with a spare from a junk yard and not even two weeks later I was at a bank depositing money when a woman on a mobility scooter backed into my bike, knocking it over. The corner of the curb somehow found its way passed my skid plate and right into the side of the stator case. Lost all my oil right there.
Junk yard didn't have anymore cases so I patched the hole with JB weld. It's been holding for 3 years now.
So yeah, I don't trust laying my valkyrie down at all. Not without some major upgrades in protection.
