New Busa fell over today...
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RacingJake
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Mine broke too on the same day I broke my Knee on my B King LOL. Been saying for the last 8 years I'm going to buy one.
RacingJake
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Velcro ? LOLMy Gen 2 has so many scars ...
Might I also add a reminder for riders to always check their fly is zipped up before riding.
Gouged my tank a couple weeks ago this way. No tank protector. Pretty sure I hold some record for the dumbest way to add a mark to the bike. Now I'm obsessed with the damn zipper
Vanishing Point
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Always sucks big time, espacially with a new bike. Hope you get over it soon. As you can see, it's still looks overall just fine. The photos enlarge the scars of course. You know exactly where they are, and your eyes will always fall on them. Take a picture of the entire bike, they will be less noticeable, and certainly to an outsider. For you, they will be always noticable, but let's get a month later, and the pain will already feel less. Give it a good clean and polish, take a little paintbrush with some black paint and faint out the little spots, I bet from a distance it will already be less noticable. Good luck.
Berlin Germany
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yes, i know - now it is too late - the scars it got
but 2 hints 4 the future (after a smart repair or so)
1. park a bike on sidestand only nose uphill - never!! downhill or parallel
2. do the sidestand mod by grinding a ~3mm deep notch into the stand as shown here in post #6
because the angle of the stand is not open enough - see the diff. here 2 posts before
but 2 hints 4 the future (after a smart repair or so)
1. park a bike on sidestand only nose uphill - never!! downhill or parallel
2. do the sidestand mod by grinding a ~3mm deep notch into the stand as shown here in post #6
because the angle of the stand is not open enough - see the diff. here 2 posts before
Thanks for all the comments and support!
I still feel sad. Couldn't get over it yet. Especially the guilt hits hard.
Rode the bike again after the incident recently and I feel like everyone looking at the parts which got damaged and I feel ashamed of it.
To make it worse the T-Rex frame sliders arrived to dealership today after 15 days of ordering. They are exactly 2 days late.
I guess I need more time to feel better. I know the damage doesn't look so bad but I just can't accept it.
Thinking about ways to cover them. I like my bike no matter what, just knowing there are many who rode the bike thousands of kilometers without a scratch and yet here is me just after a month of purchasing the bike I'm trying to cover the scars. Hurts my pride.
I soon plan to put new exhaust, install frame sliders and change windscreen. Maybe then I will recover my wish to ride it again without being ashamed.
I still feel sad. Couldn't get over it yet. Especially the guilt hits hard.
Rode the bike again after the incident recently and I feel like everyone looking at the parts which got damaged and I feel ashamed of it.
To make it worse the T-Rex frame sliders arrived to dealership today after 15 days of ordering. They are exactly 2 days late.
I guess I need more time to feel better. I know the damage doesn't look so bad but I just can't accept it.
Thinking about ways to cover them. I like my bike no matter what, just knowing there are many who rode the bike thousands of kilometers without a scratch and yet here is me just after a month of purchasing the bike I'm trying to cover the scars. Hurts my pride.
I soon plan to put new exhaust, install frame sliders and change windscreen. Maybe then I will recover my wish to ride it again without being ashamed.
I always parked the bike in first gear; rolled it forward onto compression before leaning over onto the stand...
Yes, I did that on my stock stand but after lowering I had to go with aftermarket stand. Have considered doing it to that stand too but haven't yet because aluminum.
Berlin Germany
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grind the notch here too
The Hayabusa isn't the only bike which is subject to falling over because of the location of it's kickstand..
In 99% of the fall over cases, rider error is at fault, if the bike is positioned and set up correctly, it won't fall over...
I did the mod as once I didn't set the bike up properly and it was rolling off the sidestand...I caught it before it went and did the mod that day.
I saw a fellow with a GSXR750 have it fall over as a big gust of wind hit it from behind and rolled it off the sidestand, if he would have parked it in gear it wouldn't have fallen. In that story, he had his helmet on the ground and the bike fell on it and oddly enough did very little damage.
In 99% of the fall over cases, rider error is at fault, if the bike is positioned and set up correctly, it won't fall over...
I did the mod as once I didn't set the bike up properly and it was rolling off the sidestand...I caught it before it went and did the mod that day.
I saw a fellow with a GSXR750 have it fall over as a big gust of wind hit it from behind and rolled it off the sidestand, if he would have parked it in gear it wouldn't have fallen. In that story, he had his helmet on the ground and the bike fell on it and oddly enough did very little damage.
I got into the habit of always giving the grab rail a tug backwards whenever near the bike to take the slack up as it were. Also looking at the angle of the side stand whenever. On a few occasions the side stand was closer to the tipping point than I remember leaving it. Shows that perception can be wrong and/or the bike 'settles' over an indeterminate time.
I recall seeing a cruiser leaning way over and noted it's side stand had sunk into the pavement....I found a pop can, crushed it and lifted the bike and put it under the side stand...
Years later I was recounting this when one of the officers spoke up and said that was his bike and he still has the pop can and was still using it......it turned out he was one of the moral officers who organized leave when we were deployed.....I got the royal treatment after that...
SPECIALFORCESOFGOD
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Wow, seeing the damages on your bikes is heavy! Scratching the left mirror against the garage wall two days after buying my Gen 3 pained my heart so much. I ended up just leaving it as is even though I wanted to buy a new mirror.
It wasn't the kickstand's fault. After parking, I got off the bike, looked, and decided to pull in the clutch to walk the bike forward a bit closer to the wall. I didn't pay attention that the stand kicked the floor a bit and disengaged from the stop.
When I released the bike, it closed and the bike fell on its side. The left mirror functioned as a kickstand against the wall, and my legs functioned as frame sliders. I got to feel how heavy the piggy really is!
Now I obsessively check that the stand is always resting against the stop.
It wasn't the kickstand's fault. After parking, I got off the bike, looked, and decided to pull in the clutch to walk the bike forward a bit closer to the wall. I didn't pay attention that the stand kicked the floor a bit and disengaged from the stop.
When I released the bike, it closed and the bike fell on its side. The left mirror functioned as a kickstand against the wall, and my legs functioned as frame sliders. I got to feel how heavy the piggy really is!
Now I obsessively check that the stand is always resting against the stop.Similar threads
