My first proper crash

[xwhatsit]

A third party ?

LMFAO.

Forks you can sometimes straighten. They probably wont be as strong as they were before, so for a road bike strictly speaking you should get a new set (at least that's what I heard). It's easy enough to straighten them using a hydraulic press (most engineering shops will have them, maybe panelbeaters as well?) and a straight rule. The trick is to make sure you have found the high point (try rolling the bar) and be careful not to over-bend it.

[Static]

yea so i took it to botany honda today they reacon they can straiten the forks as they aint too bad but it depends if they can sourch 2nd hand parts or not as to wether its worth fixing if they can it may only cost me $1500ish

[Meekey_Mouse]

Hey Static, sorry but I don't have any idea about all the fixing stuff. Glad to hear you are OK though

Jas

[gijoe1313]

yea so i took it to botany honda today they reacon they can straiten the forks as they aint too bad but it depends if they can sourch 2nd hand parts or not as to wether its worth fixing if they can it may only cost me $1500ish

dizzam, and I thought 4L of motul and an oil filter for $70 was expensive! I shall bite my tongue

[xwhatsit]

$1500! Jaysus. Pull the forks off and take them to an engineering shop... they'd do it for far cheaper than that. Other than that, what else is broken? Your gauges? Just find some second hand ones from a wrecker (ought to be loads of CBR wrecks around, crazy learners on a sportsbike) and it's just a matter of plugging the cables into each other.

Man... I bent my forks in a bin three days after I got my bike, and broke the instrument panel (GiJoe helped me glue them back up ), and my bike wasn't much more than $1500. If I'd had to pay $1500 to fix it up, I would've sold it for parts and bought a Chinese scooter.

[Static]

haha i wish nope the front fairing is totaled the headlights all the gauges and gauge mounts the wireing loom lots of little brackets all the buttons and knobs on the handle bars (indicators headlight switch ect) and the brackets that hold the side fairings oh and the rear right indicator lol. i would do it myself if it was just the gauges but i aint touching electronics that i know nothing about. at this point i would be increadibly stoked if it only costs 1500

[xwhatsit]

Oh ok, sure. In that case... $1500 sounds OK. I still think you could do it for a much smaller lump of money if you do it yourself... of course then you might end up in the situation I'm in, with a bike in a million pieces in your garage, trying to acquire the right parts you need to fix the damage you did seizing the engine...

Good luck

[damo]

heh heh

i got "tapped" by a car this morning on the way to work.

travelling up the side on Tamaki Drv, indicators on like Mr Plod told me too..

when a black Alfa decides that hes too impatient to wait in traffic, and does a U Turn right in front of me.

so I didnt even touch the brakes, and swerved around the front of his car, he didnt even stop.. manus... so his bumper clipped my foot and footpeg.. hope I left a nice scrape across his bumper...

no damage to me, and the Wonton Dragon looks like its sweet as also.

I didn't bother to stop, didn't see the point, so just trundled off to work as per.

pays to be wide awake at that time.. glad I'd had a coffee before I left home!

[Static]

nice well at least you got a reasonable story i still dont even know why my back wheel locked up and ended up in a fence lol

[Squiggles]

good to hear you survived the experience... did you change up gears just before hand? and possibly it didnt fully engage then jumped back down, locking the rear?

[Static]

thats just it i still dont know how i dident change down and i dident brake through the corner

[lukelin250]

yeah my mate just had a similar experiance on a zxr, he has no idea where it came from. weird huh

[KATWYN]

thats just it i still dont know how i dident change down and i dident brake through the corner

Well at first I thought if it wasn't braking then it must've been changing down
but if its neither of these what could it be.....did ya pull the clutch in
slightly an let it out (for whatever reason)??

Theres many eyes (including mine) watching this thread looking for a logical reason of what may have happened....and to learn from it

[Static]

yea i wana have another look at my bike when i get it back to see if i can work anything out, im prety sure i wasent near the clutch and as soon as i realised i was locked i made sure i wasent near cutch or brake

[Snowcarver04]

so yea i dont really know how but i managed to lock up my rear tyre without using the brake round a corner and crash into a concrete fence pole at about 90kms. its screwed my front fairing and completly destroyed all the gauges and electronics and i think it may have bent the front forks. what are ball park figures if anyone knows of the repairs for this kind of damage

I just wrote of my 89 cbr250 so i might have a few parts u are after. I rode into the drain and hit a concrete pipe so buggered both rims went over the front and bike landed and scraped on side so no fairings or anything.The forks seemed fine but I didnt give thema full look over and im pretty sure all the electriccs were fine except for indicator lamps obviously.Ill get it back from my insurance assor this week sometime if your interested. Ill do u some pretty cheap parts