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Hello to everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Refreshments are in a fridge near you, so please, help yourself.
I'm going to get straight to the point. A real stand up citizen and my 848 met, and one ended up on the ground. Sadly, I couldn't respond with belt feed happiness and joy.
Fortunately the bike didn't sustain much, and I was able to simply loosen the clamp bolt for the handle bar to aline it back to rights.
But there are two other minor things that I'm hoping the community at large can help me with.
The upper fairing stay, the right side, between the mirror posts, broke.
Now the mirrors shake so bad anyways I didn't loose anything of riding value, as I can't see in them anyways. Now I could buy Carbon's stay and replace it. But the entire upper electronics have to come off and all that crap, and I'm just not in the mood nor have the tooling and the garage I need.
What I plan on, is drilling two holes into both the piece I have in my hand and the rest that's on the bike, inserting two pins, and JB welding the bastard back in place, getting it tight together, small clamp, let dry.
That should do the trick right?
Right??
The second issue I have is the right side peg. That little heroic thing saved the fairings, the tank, and the rear from being casualties as well, as it dug and stuck and stopped the bike.
But with all heroic actions, there was a cost.
The peg and it's mount as far as I can see aren't bent....but where the bolts go in to the frame mount, those tabs welded on the frame, are.
It's not much, but it's enough. If one is looking down from the tank it's obvious and when I ride, my right side footing feels off.
I have a feeling that has to go to the shop to see if they can ease them back into position, unless someone here has a brilliant and awesome way to correct that issue.
Advice welcome.
Thank you all.
I'm going to get straight to the point. A real stand up citizen and my 848 met, and one ended up on the ground. Sadly, I couldn't respond with belt feed happiness and joy.
Fortunately the bike didn't sustain much, and I was able to simply loosen the clamp bolt for the handle bar to aline it back to rights.
But there are two other minor things that I'm hoping the community at large can help me with.
The upper fairing stay, the right side, between the mirror posts, broke.
Now the mirrors shake so bad anyways I didn't loose anything of riding value, as I can't see in them anyways. Now I could buy Carbon's stay and replace it. But the entire upper electronics have to come off and all that crap, and I'm just not in the mood nor have the tooling and the garage I need.
What I plan on, is drilling two holes into both the piece I have in my hand and the rest that's on the bike, inserting two pins, and JB welding the bastard back in place, getting it tight together, small clamp, let dry.
That should do the trick right?
Right??
The second issue I have is the right side peg. That little heroic thing saved the fairings, the tank, and the rear from being casualties as well, as it dug and stuck and stopped the bike.
But with all heroic actions, there was a cost.
The peg and it's mount as far as I can see aren't bent....but where the bolts go in to the frame mount, those tabs welded on the frame, are.
It's not much, but it's enough. If one is looking down from the tank it's obvious and when I ride, my right side footing feels off.
I have a feeling that has to go to the shop to see if they can ease them back into position, unless someone here has a brilliant and awesome way to correct that issue.
Advice welcome.
Thank you all.