Well, I just thought I'd share the story of my missing L-Plate with you...mostly because I'm bored, But it is a little tiny bit interesting
A short while ago, on one of my rides to the famous little town of Waimate...My L-plate went missing ( shock and horror! ), It had been ripped off from where I had bolted it on(between a reflector at the back and where it bolts through), and there was still a small square of yellow plastic from where is once was.
At first I thought it must have been due to it being bent beyond what it could haddle by airpressure created by my excessive speed down a rather long straight. However, A few days later, I noticed a rather odd clicking noise coming from what appeared to be the chain as I rolled the bike backwards out of the garage. A small inspection revealed nothing out of the ordinary and after a short ride the noise was gone.
(and now here's the interesting part) Yesterday, while performing routine maintenance of the chain, I removed the rear hugger for easier access, and what did I find? nothing other that the deformed mess of my old L-plate! Sitting on the swingarm between the rear tyre and rear shock!
It appears that at some point during the duration of my trip, The suspention bottomed out, allowing the bottom of my L-plate, to hit a rather fast spinning tyre that resulted in it being snapped from its bracket and sucked between the tyre and hugger....depositing it on the swingarm thus causing the odd clicking sound when being rolled backwards.....
Pictures to follow tonight
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Originally Posted by Seraph
Being that I had just travelled 50ish k, I didn't hold much hope of ever finding it again.
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