noche_caliente
January 17th, 2009, 09:39 AM
Didn't want to threadjack the fender mod post anymore, but thought sharing these pics might help a little for new riders who may sadly find themselves in a similar place of putting their bike back together...
^ Putting on a new pipe...?
Sadly, no. That was after my little incident.... the impact popped the can right off of the pipe :eek:
From another thread - here's the short version
well, I have no clue what mine looked like, but I was able to get out of a tank slapper the second day I had my bike, unfortunately, I couldn't get out of the object fixation that followed and ended up running into a fence :(
I was making a left-hand turn off of a rural road that drops about feet in the feet leading up to the stop sign. The road I was turning onto had a 45 mph limit, though folks are usually speeding a good bit there, and the stop sign is slightly hidden at the end of a long curve. To further compound things, there was a ridge where the pavements meet, and a good bit of gravel just to my left that I didn't notice at the time... the road was tar and gravel, and upon subsequent inspection of the site, i realized that the gravel part had been kicked out to the sides, leaving only tar where I was stopped. As I hadn't really heard or thought about shimming at that point, the bike was terribly lean and rather erratic when trying to take-off from a stop.
All of these factors led to a tank slapper when I got onto the road - but hey, I didn't stall that time :rolleyes: - I was terrified, but managed to get it under control after the third oscillation or so.... I think if I hadn't fixated on that fence post (it was the corner) I would have come out of it just fine.... but all the if-onlies don't change a thing sadly :(
Good news is that a few months of healing time for the knee and some great getting-to-know-you sessions with my naked girlie, everything turned out just fine, and now I know her so much better than before ;)
And here's a really blurry pic of where it happened:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXI6gp0GKnI/AAAAAAAAAR0/sCgNgHycmq8/s800/scene.jpg
The leftmost red arrow is the fence post that I made friends with that day, the other two show where the gravel was, the yellow line shows the yellow line, and I'm not sure what the red line was, though between the red and yellow, you can see where the gravel was stripped to leave only tar. What was kind of humorous to me was that when we went to take that picture, my husband's car couldn't keep traction to get out of there either, and his tires spun and then grabbed pretty roughly....
That was in the repair stage - there are before pics here (http://picasaweb.google.com/furtiva250/Oops?authkey=ODy_bVRBsZ8&feat=directlink).
A couple of the better ones are below, along with some of the repaired pics.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIF7NcOsBI/AAAAAAAAALI/xcza7bKrBh0/s400/100_3313.JPG
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGLmh2NiI/AAAAAAAAANM/Sd9C8KbsiX8/s400/100_3344.JPG
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGS01RIxI/AAAAAAAAANw/UZ-l0xQPtAk/s400/100_3352.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGbjn3lmI/AAAAAAAAAOo/s-ybLG1OeW8/s400/100_3462.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGdbWZKtI/AAAAAAAAAOw/uE9GvEFKyUk/s400/100_3589%20copy.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGd7HEfMI/AAAAAAAAAO4/kfCKy60Kx_A/s400/100_3588%20copy.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGe6-o3NI/AAAAAAAAAPI/dH1QH0AxwW4/s400/100_3586%20copy.jpg
And we can't forget the damage to me :(
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGaIDLynI/AAAAAAAAAOg/q7NXke9ub_4/s400/100_3380%20copy.jpg
(the swelling the day after)
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGZ0lBakI/AAAAAAAAAOY/KsqZoITMbho/s400/100_3415%20copy.jpg
(that one was 2 days later, shows the tone of the bruising a bit better though)
^ Putting on a new pipe...?
Sadly, no. That was after my little incident.... the impact popped the can right off of the pipe :eek:
From another thread - here's the short version
well, I have no clue what mine looked like, but I was able to get out of a tank slapper the second day I had my bike, unfortunately, I couldn't get out of the object fixation that followed and ended up running into a fence :(
I was making a left-hand turn off of a rural road that drops about feet in the feet leading up to the stop sign. The road I was turning onto had a 45 mph limit, though folks are usually speeding a good bit there, and the stop sign is slightly hidden at the end of a long curve. To further compound things, there was a ridge where the pavements meet, and a good bit of gravel just to my left that I didn't notice at the time... the road was tar and gravel, and upon subsequent inspection of the site, i realized that the gravel part had been kicked out to the sides, leaving only tar where I was stopped. As I hadn't really heard or thought about shimming at that point, the bike was terribly lean and rather erratic when trying to take-off from a stop.
All of these factors led to a tank slapper when I got onto the road - but hey, I didn't stall that time :rolleyes: - I was terrified, but managed to get it under control after the third oscillation or so.... I think if I hadn't fixated on that fence post (it was the corner) I would have come out of it just fine.... but all the if-onlies don't change a thing sadly :(
Good news is that a few months of healing time for the knee and some great getting-to-know-you sessions with my naked girlie, everything turned out just fine, and now I know her so much better than before ;)
And here's a really blurry pic of where it happened:
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXI6gp0GKnI/AAAAAAAAAR0/sCgNgHycmq8/s800/scene.jpg
The leftmost red arrow is the fence post that I made friends with that day, the other two show where the gravel was, the yellow line shows the yellow line, and I'm not sure what the red line was, though between the red and yellow, you can see where the gravel was stripped to leave only tar. What was kind of humorous to me was that when we went to take that picture, my husband's car couldn't keep traction to get out of there either, and his tires spun and then grabbed pretty roughly....
That was in the repair stage - there are before pics here (http://picasaweb.google.com/furtiva250/Oops?authkey=ODy_bVRBsZ8&feat=directlink).
A couple of the better ones are below, along with some of the repaired pics.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIF7NcOsBI/AAAAAAAAALI/xcza7bKrBh0/s400/100_3313.JPG
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGLmh2NiI/AAAAAAAAANM/Sd9C8KbsiX8/s400/100_3344.JPG
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGS01RIxI/AAAAAAAAANw/UZ-l0xQPtAk/s400/100_3352.JPG
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGbjn3lmI/AAAAAAAAAOo/s-ybLG1OeW8/s400/100_3462.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGdbWZKtI/AAAAAAAAAOw/uE9GvEFKyUk/s400/100_3589%20copy.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGd7HEfMI/AAAAAAAAAO4/kfCKy60Kx_A/s400/100_3588%20copy.jpg
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGe6-o3NI/AAAAAAAAAPI/dH1QH0AxwW4/s400/100_3586%20copy.jpg
And we can't forget the damage to me :(
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGaIDLynI/AAAAAAAAAOg/q7NXke9ub_4/s400/100_3380%20copy.jpg
(the swelling the day after)
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DQskVeNT-_s/SXIGZ0lBakI/AAAAAAAAAOY/KsqZoITMbho/s400/100_3415%20copy.jpg
(that one was 2 days later, shows the tone of the bruising a bit better though)