F**K! I banged my s2r and not in a good way.

[kursed]

Bumped into a friggen tow truck today in traffic, was rolling forward as the guy infront was too, looked back real quick as soon as i turned forward again the bike clipped the rear of the tow trucks tray at about walking speed. He had stopped so quietly, probably as soon as I had looked backwards. Dont know how it happened I was about 2m behind him then suddenly I was face first in his tray within a second. Was thinking about the verbal beating I was going to give to one of my lazy arsed employees this morning. Guess I was distracted a tiny bit.
 
God I felt stupid. Put a make the beast with two backsing scratch on the side of the once pristine nose fairing. I am so angry at myself I want to repeatedly smash my head into a wall. Didn't take long, from showroom finish to scratched commuter... ARGH!



I am hoping a good cut and polish will remove the mark, its not deep but it has scratched the plastic. any recommendations on what I can do here? might post a pic of the mark once i am home, would probably help anyone reading decide what the best course of action for repairing it is.

[Spider]

mate, give Brad Wiseman at Bikecraft a call on 03 95852100, tell him you ride a Ducati and a bloke called Spider (who had carbon covers redone 2 weeks ago) gave you his number - tell him what you've done, then ask him is there something you can try yourself and then ask him what his options are.

The paintwork he does is amazing. You should see the 999s at Moto-one - the female angels nipples are so good I forgot I was looking at a bike! 

[Super T.I.B]

Just count yourself lucky that you weren't hurt. 

Just take the fairing off, you don't need it and it looks better with it off. 

Shite happens, learn from your mistakes, we all make them.

As for repairing your fairing, give it a cut and polish and if that doesn't work, you'll know what to do. (re-spray)

[kursed]

i heart the nose fairing. I couldn't remove it permanently. off home to see what I can do with it.

[bigiain]

mate, give Brad Wiseman at Bikecraft a call on 03 95852100

I think kursed is in Sydney, right? (Pyrmont maybe?)

You could ask Melvin for the details of his painter - he's down Woollongong way and has done _magnificent_ work on Melvin's bike. The other place around Sydney that seems to get the best raves is Collidascope up Hornsby way - my ex-flatmate had some touch up work on his 'busa done by them, and they lived up to the "fast, good, or cheap - pick any two" gag...they did great work at a good price, but it took them 6 weeks or so to return one sidepanel.

big (Oh, and sorry to hear about your mishap...)

[Spider]

sh!te, sorry I thought Kursed was another handsome Victorian...not one of YOU people up there! 

apologies for the useless help, got my wires crossed!

[DUCMONROB]

I think kursed is in Sydney, right? (Pyrmont maybe?)

You could ask Melvin for the details of his painter - he's down Woollongong way and has done _magnificent_ work on Melvin's bike. The other place around Sydney that seems to get the best raves is Collidascope up Hornsby way - my ex-flatmate had some touch up work on his 'busa done by them, and they lived up to the "fast, good, or cheap - pick any two" gag...they did great work at a good price, but it took them 6 weeks or so to return one sidepanel.

big (Oh, and sorry to hear about your mishap...)

Shit thats no good Kursed!

The painter is Two Wheels in Russelvale north of Wollongong.

Big did you get my PM??


Rob

[Six95]

I'm one minute from collide-a-scope. If you are doing the putty loop this weekend - you are most welcome to palm of the bits to me and I can drop them up.

Brett

[goldFiSh]

sorry to hear of your mishap. time takes the pain away from silly avoidable mistakes...

If you make it on the ride on the w/e ask me about how I got my tank ding - it'll make your little mistake pale into tiny weeny insignificance against my colossal f#@k up.

And anyway, super is right, take the stupid thing off - IMO they look much much better without the fairing. Now and some bar end mirrors and you're cookin!

[mattyvas]

That hurts Kursed, especially when it was something you did yourself with a little lapse.
I'm sure some cut and polish will make it mostly disappear and if not then it might be a chance to give yourself a special paint job.
 

[kursed]

well I spent some time on it today, its not really as bad as I had expected once I got all the marks off, there is just a very light scratch that is hard to spot. still, first blood and all.... it hurts.

to make me feel better, the ducati gods have been smiling and a whole shedload of bits have started arriving from the US for my s2r.....

the visa gods however, are planning on pinning me to a mountain to have my liver pecked out repeatedly until I can pay back the couple of grand I now owe....

[Betty]

That's more like it kursed, so what are all these goodies you speak of?

[Dockstrada]

I feel you pain  kursed I dropped my mates 3 month old R1 on Monday and I wasen't even riding it now that hurts 

[kursed]

wow, that would hurt. what did your friend do? much damage?

[Dockstrada]

wow, that would hurt. what did your friend do? much damage?

He was very understanding,Lucky there was not much damage