it happend to me (lay down)
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it happend to me (lay down)
hello,i was putting my bike away yesterday after 100 mile ride. i park it in the barn ,to get there i have to drive down a pot-holed gravel alley. i was going about 6-7 miles an hour and was in netural coasting and made a careful turn into the grass and went straight down (and i mean straight down!)it was super fast and did not have time to do anything.i was completely unscathed but my bike fairing cracked by turn signal and bent gearshift lever **** in.i used to talk mild **** to the guys i ride with (some lay down there bikes 2-3 time a summer)it sucks . it was the first time (rode for 18 years) i dont remember hitting the front break ,or if it happened when i shifted to netural (was not turning hard at all )what happened?
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I realize that wet grass and gravel have less traction,and ive parked both of my bikes for years the exact same way .i guess i know what happened ,i just thought it might have somthing to do with shifting to netural (that is somthing i dont usually do)still sucks
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sawunner74: the same thing happened to me (as far as damage is concerned)..
raining through the mountains, visor full of water drops and semi-fogged and a very very very very tight turn through the mountains + with sand 'topping'..
I was doing barely 12 km/h.. perhaps that turn needed 3 km/h
Just barely squeezed front brake, and I was down.
left fairing 2 cracks (one about 6 cm and one 3 cm) & also a bit 'polished', left turn signal, left handlebar end, shifter bent a little...
I'm very disappointed...
But also happy because it could have been worse... by the way the bike fell I was sure the carbon can was gone & the fairing more cracked...
anybody knows where I can find this turn signal the cheapest?
raining through the mountains, visor full of water drops and semi-fogged and a very very very very tight turn through the mountains + with sand 'topping'..
I was doing barely 12 km/h.. perhaps that turn needed 3 km/h
Just barely squeezed front brake, and I was down.
left fairing 2 cracks (one about 6 cm and one 3 cm) & also a bit 'polished', left turn signal, left handlebar end, shifter bent a little...
I'm very disappointed...
But also happy because it could have been worse... by the way the bike fell I was sure the carbon can was gone & the fairing more cracked...
anybody knows where I can find this turn signal the cheapest?
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T-rex sliders! I dumped mine for the first time ever 1 week ago. pulled up in the turn lane at a traffic light, and did not trigger the damned sensors. So when my lights turned green I started rolling and had just started to lean into the turn when the on coming traffic started moving. Had a small o **** moment and grabbed a handfull of front brake. Front locked and slid out from under me. Went down on the sliders so the only damage was to my pride.
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anybody knows where I can find this turn signal the cheapest?
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Hey do you guys have sliders? If not you need em. They prevent most damage. I say you ride back through the same way and see what you did wrong(ha). Any crash you walk away from is a good crash. Aftermarket flush mount turn signals help prevent damage too.
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Sorry to hear about your misgivings. The damage is relatively miner in the grand scheme of things. You can now practice your body work skills
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If you ever contemplated changing the colour of your bike, now is the time! I damaged my bike's fairing many years ago after a track thinking I could ride the bike up a ramp like my mountain bike (not thinking....). I always wanted to paint it black, so now it is black. And no the red and yellow aren't faster.
. If you ever contemplated changing the colour of your bike, now is the time! I damaged my bike's fairing many years ago after a track thinking I could ride the bike up a ramp like my mountain bike (not thinking....). I always wanted to paint it black, so now it is black. And no the red and yellow aren't faster.
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I don't care about 'fast' colors.
I wanted it in yellow,I like it in yellow,it's safer in traffic with yellow,and just because of two cracks I m not painting the whole bike.
I don't have the money and even if I had that money I'd buy better boots, a wind screen, or something usefull.
I'm not a fan of painting a bike because it's stuff that can get f**ed up easily if you drop it,and it seems like a redundant job to me.
I'm on a tight budget. If I could afford it, I'd paint every year,for the 'heck' of it..
I wanted it in yellow,I like it in yellow,it's safer in traffic with yellow,and just because of two cracks I m not painting the whole bike.
I don't have the money and even if I had that money I'd buy better boots, a wind screen, or something usefull.
I'm not a fan of painting a bike because it's stuff that can get f**ed up easily if you drop it,and it seems like a redundant job to me.
I'm on a tight budget. If I could afford it, I'd paint every year,for the 'heck' of it..
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don't run over a pressurized hose(spray nozzle on) at a slight angle(almost parallel)on a concrete driveway, or you'll be on your *** instantaneously and it only took this dumbass about 40 years of riding to learn that one.
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worst combination is SAND. Sand is the motherf**er.
Not grass, not water, F***ING SAND particles on asphalt !
Not grass, not water, F***ING SAND particles on asphalt !
fogging glasses and shields are a ****, too.
it's spring and getting warmer, so i popped off my Shoei fog shield for the standard mirror face-shield. normally it's my spectacles that fog up. i didn't think of applying defogging agent to shield a couple weeks ago when i rode to work in driving rain. i was f**king blind. i didn't have a rag. i pulled into a gas station and wiped the inside of my face-sheld with my glove. pretty sad.
i picked up some DefogIt (Nanofilm Technologies) liquid last fall for my glasses. i've tried a number of different products and this one does the least bad job of stopping fog and condensation. apply liberally. it get's 3 out of 5 stars from me. everything else i've used, gets 1 out of 5 stars max.
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Has anybody bought any fairings for the VTR from ebay?
I've seen dome fairing kits (full fairing for VTR) around 250 300 $ from some sellers.
Do they fit?
I fucked up my sharkskinz fairing on the left side a bit, and the whole thing is one piece (front + sides = 1 piece).
I'm not willing to buy new fairings,i was just curious.
I'm gonna fix the three small cracks in this one and repaint the left side I think.
JUST ordered a pair or T rex sliders. Should have done this two weeks ago.
I've seen dome fairing kits (full fairing for VTR) around 250 300 $ from some sellers.
Do they fit?
I fucked up my sharkskinz fairing on the left side a bit, and the whole thing is one piece (front + sides = 1 piece).
I'm not willing to buy new fairings,i was just curious.
I'm gonna fix the three small cracks in this one and repaint the left side I think.
JUST ordered a pair or T rex sliders. Should have done this two weeks ago.
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anybody knows where I can find this turn signal the cheapest?
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Nah, I'm leaning toward the LP leds
these look like them if they're gone already:
http://motorcycle.motorcycle-superst...w=flush+mounts
these look like them if they're gone already:
http://motorcycle.motorcycle-superst...w=flush+mounts
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Nath, I have had both and I recomend these for flush replacements. Good bright LEDs that dont burn out. The small bulbs in those burn out quick and are hard/expensive to buy.
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Nath, I have had both and I recomend these for flush replacements. Good bright LEDs that dont burn out. The small bulbs in those burn out quick and are hard/expensive to buy.
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This reminded me of the only time I've ever been down on a motorcycle. I was about 17, and hadn't ridden in about a year. My dad got a new RF900 and asked me if I wanted to ride it around the block. I got on, rode it around the neighborhood just fine, but then when I got back to the driveway, I somehow lost balance at the curb, and ran off the driveway and into the grass. Then I tried to steer it back on the driveway and when I hit the raised edge of the concrete, the front turned in on me and I almost went down. I wish I had gone down actually, because I ended up wobbling the bike into the side of his truck (putting a big dent in the truck) and then dropped the bike on its side and scraped up the side fairing and pipe. So I managed to wreck two of his vehicles at once. Not a good day.
I've had a number of close calls since, most recently last week when I hit the steering stop in a parking lot maneuver (still getting used to the relatively restricted turning radius on the new front end). I managed to save it, but just barely.
I've had a number of close calls since, most recently last week when I hit the steering stop in a parking lot maneuver (still getting used to the relatively restricted turning radius on the new front end). I managed to save it, but just barely.
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