Goodness me. I wonder what happened to this poor TL1000

[Ixion]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...n-55757653.htm

[Gremlin]

Its a suzuki... what would you expect?? It can't help but crash itself....

[Meanie]

Bugger

[Ixion]

Well, a crash is easily understood. But this does not appear to have been crashed. There looks to be no damage other than the broken frame, and a cracked rocker cover (from the engine face planting the road?).

Maybe a wheelie that went horribly wrong. I would not care to have been riding it at the time.

[GR81]

good buy for $1800 lol

[John Banks]

I'd agree with you on the wheelie if there were any scuff marks on the paint, but everything looks in mint condition. Surely if it was moving at the time it would show the evidence of even a little slide.

[Ixion]

True. And even the zorsts are unscratched. If the frame broke while moving you'd expect the bike to go for a big slide on it's side. Or cartwheel. But I can't believe it was just sitting there on its stand and the frame decided to give up the ghost.

EDIT And it takes on hell of a force to break a frame completely in two!

[Ixion]

Oh, well if you're going to be LOGICAL about it!

[kickingzebra]

Should be a good buy. My guess is often wheelied, then they saw/felt the gaping crack (that sounds almost pornographic!) and decided to remove the steering head etc in the comfort of their garage.
Wonder how hard it is to find an undamaged TL frame. Otherwise welding it up shouldn't be tooo much of a drama.

[Madness]

who ate all the pies then aye??

[bane]

who ate all the pies then aye??

mmmm... pies... sorry, what was this thread about again???

[cruxis]

if its all in good running nick you reckon it could be a good buy for someone with the skillz to fix it?

[Ixion]

I think you'd need more than skillz. That's a hellishly stressed joint, and modern frames are not a simple welding task at the best of times. Plus you'd need to make a jig to align everything. I've straightened a few frames in my day, but this would be a job for the experts. Second hand frame, maybe.

[Crasherfromwayback]

When TL's first came out, I 'borrowed' our demo on a regular basis.
No matter how many wheelie attempts I fucked up, never seen the frame let go there.
Where the rotary damper mounts to the rear of the frame yeah....but NEVER there!

[What?]

Saw another one broken like that somewhere. Might have been at a swap meet in Hamilhole, 2, 3, 4 years ago??? Probably not the same bike, as the one I saw was red. Can't recall whether the front end was bent or not, but it was there, so I'd guess not.