Dropped my bike, advice please

[tone_crafter]

Hey people after my second day of having my new ZXR250 I dropped it

I was cleaning it up to take some photos and stupidly sprayed some tyre cleaner on the tyres. I didn't realise how sliply the stuff was and it slipped out from under me as a turned out of the driveway.

There is a crack about 80mm long above the indicator and a deep scratch on the edge of the top fairing (seen in the second photo). On the right fairing there is deep scratching and some small craching around the mounting bolt towards the front of the fairing (as seen in the second to last photo).

Other damage that I probably won't bother repairing:
-Mufler is scratched but was already damaged and I was already thinking of replacing this.
-Small scratch on riders foot peg.
-Scratch on brake leaver.
-Scratch on end of hadlebar.

Can anyone make some suggestions of good places to go to get the fairings resprayed and the crack plastic welded that will do a good job that's not too expensive. I live in Mt Eden Auckland. I would do the work myself but I have no experience in this area and would probably do a bad job of it. The bike was recently painted before I bought it so I may ask the guy I bought it from where he got it done.

I'm pritty dissapointed I did this so soon but it could have been worse. My gear is a bit scratched up but not torn. Luckily my helmet is fine.

[tone_crafter]

Here's a picture I took 10 minutes before I did it.

[Blue Velvet]

Bugger. Is it not insured?

[tone_crafter]

Yeah but I was temporarily insured with swann for 14 days and my excess for a crash is $1800. I'm changing to NAC but the is still $1000, I just made a claim for my last bike which was stolen so my excess went up.

[lanci]

Was this the expensive bike from red baron???

I think this sorry to say, is why ideal bikes are naked and not fared.

All the best fixing it......

[JimO]

well it might hurt your feelings but just ride it, worry about fixing it later....chicks dig scars, i put a $500 gouge in the side of my new hilux early december and by the time i got it fixed after xmas i didnt notice it

[HDTboy]

Buy a roll of red duct tape, it adds street cred. Just ask Barbender.
Then clean all the shit off your tyres, I'd use brake clean, but others wouldn't. Then get straight back on the bike and wring its neck for dropping you at a silly slow speed.

If you really want to get the fairings fixed, and painted, click the link in my sig.

[Clivoris]

I think this sorry to say, is why ideal bikes are naked and not fared.

Some people would say, one of many reasons.

Buy a roll of red duct tape, it adds street cred. Just ask Barbender.

Bwahahaha.

[homer]

i know how you feel you just want it back to as was

i took the fairing off mine got it painted and touched up
cost me $250

[tone_crafter]

This wasn't from red barron. I think I'll leave it for a while as I don't want to get it fixed and then come off it again. I did clean the stupid tyre cleaner off with brake cleaner and some degreesing stuff. Still a little nervous to really commit myself to corners for a while tho.

I will need to get a new lense for the right indicator soon as I'm due for a warrant in a month. I'll keep an eye out on trademe. I notice there's some threaded holes just above the side fairings which I think are for crash protectors so I might look into that.

[scracha]

Good gawd...ZXR250s with USD forks can crash? Touch up paint and fibreglass filler are your friends. You'll likely be cheaper with aftermakret indimicators.

[babyblade250rr]

yep cycletreads for aftermarket indicators, kerosene will remove the crap on your tyres paintwork can be done at reflections, Hope you didnt use silicon based tyre shine??

[babyblade250rr]

levers and barends are also cheap at cycletreads

[Brett]

Don't worry about it. If this is your first bike, it will most likely go over again...hopefully just because of something silly like not putting it on its stand properly. I would just ride it as it is. When I dropped my first bike (ZXR 250C) just after I had got it, I left it and was so glad I did because it meant that I didn't have to worry about scratching it again once it was mint again. Fix it just before you sell it. In fact, don't even bother with that. It didn't make mine any harder to sell, and I only got about $400 less that what it was worth, and it would have cost more than that to fix up.

[tone_crafter]

I might get the crack in the top fairing welded up and get some touch up paint to go over the scratches roughly. Will get it fixed up nicely when I've been riding it for a while longer.

I think my tyre pressures may have something to do with it too. I only weigh about 60kg and the service manual said to run both at 28psi. I have a Pirelli Sport demon 110/70-17 M/C 54H on the front and a Dunlop Rideen GPR-70SP 140/60R 18 MC64H on the rear if that means anything to anyone. The rear is quite flat in the middle and will probably need changing very soon. Any suggestions for tyre pressures and a good rear tyre for my weight?