Dropped the bike about a week ago, slow speed but it fell pretty hard. At first it looked like mainly cosmetic damage, scratched and cracked seat cowl, carbon side cover and tweaked SM bars. Today I put the stock bars back on and removed the broken/scraped bits until I can source a new cowl. Took it for a spin and it seems like the bars/triple are pointing slightly right when the front wheel is straight and I'm riding straight. Tell me what you guys think but it looks like I may have a tweaked triple or steering stem or bent fork leg(s). If I take my hands off the bars the bike wants to go left. BB pics only as the real camera is at work, I can take better pictures tomorrow or specific pictures of a certain area if it is more helpful.
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how did u crash?
its common for the bars to be tweeked. You need some serious force to start beinding the triple. hell ive crashed 5 times on my bike and its still straight. bars though, not so much.
Dropped at probably 10mph but it fell from vertical. The bars that are on it in the pic are the stock, never crashed bars. I had suburban machinery bars on it at the time, they are now in the trash can.
looks like your triples are out of alignment. you could have bent your axle.
Your mounts may have tweaked alittle. So if your riding and balanced, you let go of the bars and she starts to veer left? Short of double checking wheel alignment and all triple alignments, I find it hard to believe that you would have bent the triple. You could have wrecked the head bearings, but at 10mph that doesn't even sound right. Check to see if there is any slop in the head and how freely it moves. PS- glad your ok. I know what it feels like to go down even at 10mph. Bones and muscles bruise easily.
Loosen the triple and the axel and bounce the front end. Then tighten everything back up.
Quote from: silentbob on June 27, 2010, 11:19:25 AM
Loosen the triple and the axel and bounce the front end. Then tighten everything back up.
+1.
Quote from: silentbob on Today at 11:19:25 AM
Loosen the triple and the axel and bounce the front end. Then tighten everything back up.
+1.+1...standard procedure....
Great, thanks guys. Do you mean just loosen the pinch bolts on the forks on the upper or the stem pinch on the upper?
Quote from: scduc on June 27, 2010, 10:55:14 AM
PS- glad your ok. I know what it feels like to go down even at 10mph. Bones and muscles bruise easily.
Thanks, the only thing that was bruised this time was my ego...and my gloves are trash
Well, I pulled out the axle and it looked straight. Left the axle loose and loosened all the pinch bolts on the upper triple and bounced it, tightened those back up and did the same with the lower triple. Tightened everything back up and went for a ride around the block, still seems to be off a bit. Anything else to try?
Mark your fork height and loosen all the pinch bolts. You might also want to move this to tech.
Thanks Howie, I'll try that after work tomorrow.