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...
Sadly, no. That was after my little incident.... the impact popped the can right off of the pipe
From another thread - here's the short version
And here's a really blurry pic of where it happened:
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.
A couple of the better ones are below, along with some of the repaired pics.
And we can't forget the damage to me
(the swelling the day after)
(that one was 2 days later, shows the tone of the bruising a bit better though)