Well, bollocks. Dropped the bastard

**skidMark** · 25th May 2009, 12:13

RF900 mirrors fit an RF900...

This thread is useless without pics...

In saying this... i chuckled at the way you told it good shit... still sucks to drop your bike though, sounds like there is nothing you could have done... paint can be replaced.... sudden stops into back of sedans does more ahem permenant damage... on the plus side u grow daisys.

**Swoop** · 25th May 2009, 12:17

It's a suzuki. It feeling the need to lay down on a corner, isn't uncommon.

You should have gone ghey. Upright and erect all the time!

(As MDU says, Cycletreads, Mully!)

**skidMark** · 25th May 2009, 12:20

Originally Posted by Swoop

It's a suzuki. It feeling the need to lay down on a corner, isn't uncommon.

You should have gone ghey. Upright and erect all the time!

(As MDU says, Cycletreads, Mully!)

Thats quite possibly the most heterosexual post i have even seen a honda rider make.

**madbikeboy** · 25th May 2009, 12:21

Two arms, two legs, and you'll live. Good outcome really. Thanks for posting this one.

MBB

**Tubbsy** · 25th May 2009, 12:27

That's 1 good thing about riding my too-fiddy Comet. Twice I have almost dropped it doing a slow turn, managed to arrest the fall and pick it up before it got to the ground. Come the full size bike I'll have no chance.

Sorry to hear about the damage. Always seems to be the clutch handle that breaks.

**YellowDog** · 25th May 2009, 12:42

Mully mate, sorry to hear about the 'incident'. If you'd tried to prevent it from falling, as I once did, you may have ripped the meaty bits off your bones as I once did. Best avoided and just aim to have the bars straight to reduce bodywork impact with ground.

You made an annoying, but easy to make, mistake which is very easy to do and forgivable in such circumstaces where you are having to pay more attention to the irratic behaviour of others and also contend with what the road conditions are doing.

Take the fairing off and drop it down to The Plastic Repair Company (Archers Road). They will make it look like new again for around $100ish.

Glad you are otherwise unscathed.

**Big Dave** · 25th May 2009, 16:53

Machine. Fix it. Ride on.

**cowpatz** · 25th May 2009, 20:11

What a bastard Mully. All you needed to complete your morning was to put your back out lifting it up again

Much fairing damage? Is it poss to still get the orig graphics? (assuming they were rashed).

**Mully** · 25th May 2009, 20:20

Well, it has been down the road previously - hence the fact that it's not a standard colour anymore - so the decals are available.

I realised this is the first time I've dropped a bike that I actually liked - probably part of the reason I'm more pissed off than usual.

**bogan** · 25th May 2009, 20:30

that sucks, damn cagers always not indicating as theyre sposed to. I managed to drop mine at a service station, turned to check out some hottie and overbalanced it, almost managed to hold it too, needless to say i promptly picked up the half brake lever and hightailed it out of there

**FROSTY:Me** · 26th May 2009, 09:20

mully--come see me--Ill have some bits you can borrow to get legal.
Riffer got the last of my RF bits but Ill have somethjing Im sure

**Mully** · 26th May 2009, 10:06

Onya Frosty. You wouldn't have some training wheels for it, would you?

**RantyDave** · 26th May 2009, 14:12

Originally Posted by Mully

Mr Pirelli's finest eventually stop me short of turning a small sedan into a small hatchback ... (but) Because of the slippery nature of the road (see Winston Peters reference above) I can't hold it and it unceremoniously falls the hell over onto it's left side.

So tyres=succeed, feet=fail. Damn!

Does anybody know what mirrors will fit an RF900?

An RF900? A bathroom mirror will probably fit on an RF900

Dave