Bad luck. I took a ride and within 2 miles, I heard a bang/crash. My right side shock was on the pavement sliding along next to me. I carefully pulled over and walked back to retrieve the shock in the road.

Upon examination of my bike, I noticed the upper shock bolt snapped off inside the strut mounting hole. I also observed that the lower shock bolt, spacer and the actual shock bushing were still mounted on the bike. Very odd. The entire lower shock bushing stayed with the bike; so the shock had actually slipped off and over the bushing and lower bolt.

Luckily, I was close to home and no other damage to bike.

The recovered shock had scrapes and road rash and obviously no lower bushing.

Cause unknown. I didn’t bottom out or hit any potholes. It happened just after a slight, and I mean slight dip.

I was able to extract the sheared upper bolt.

Major bummer.

 

My theory:

Shock was loose, finally causing the bolt to snap.

Hanging shock finally worked it`s way off the lower bushing.

 

Wth? that's odd for sure... you better play the lotto today.

 

Very odd, thanks for posting, any pics

 

Not sure what pics will show other than what I described. It’s a bike with a removed shock.

I’m not trying to be sarcastic.

 

Right shock top bolt snapped on my 07 too. A few months later my Riding Buddy had the same bolt snap on his 07 Dyna. Replaced the grade 5 with a grade 8 bolt on both shocks. Problem solved.

 

So I’m not alone. Wow. Well I guess that’s why the moco went to the stud design the next year.

 

Glad you did not lose control of the bike when it happen.

 

Not uncommon on certain years. The top stud has changed a few times. The early ones seem the strongest, the middle ones weakest, and the later ones good enough.

the lower bushing loss is just because the shock hit the ground and twisted/whipped around so violently that it blew out the bushing.

 

When it fell off, I bet that was quite a shock . Sorry, couldn't help it.