Dropped My Bike

[VR6Dave]

I was putting her on the rear stand to change the tire and the stand got stuck cock-eyed. While fiddling with it I felt the bike lean over the opposite way and I was able to slowly let her down with my left hand on the bar. I just couldn't hold on bent over like that. She landed on my Craftsman motorcycle jack. Luckily the rubber padded rail prevented a lot of damage. The right hand valve cover is scuffed as is the paint on the tank just above that but on the underside of the tank. There is also a nick just infront of the seat on the side of the tank.

 

 

What is the best way to fix the tank blems?

 

I was going to have to repaint the valve covers anyway, the previous owned had scuffed them in his garage as well.

 

I still can't believe it.

 

Dave

[Bbennett]

Hey that could happen to anybody...that slo-mo feeling when she went over must've been bad but at least you weren't injured. These bikes have a lot of mass.

[docc]

I just finishing putting a red vinyl teardrop down the back of my tank to cover a belt buckle gouge under the tank bag strap. Not happy, but, I think 50,000 miles . . .

[Guest Nogbad]

............I still can't believe it.

 

Dave

 

More than a few of us have been there, so don't feel too bad!