Tool Roll Mistake
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Joined: Aug 2008
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From: North Carolina
Sorry it happened but I like you attitude. It can always be worse.
I hung one of those guardian bells above the front fender and the first time I rode the bike out of the drive way it hit the fender. There was at least four inches of clearence. I could not believe that it hit and immediately removed it before it damaged the paint. Like you lesson learned.
I hung one of those guardian bells above the front fender and the first time I rode the bike out of the drive way it hit the fender. There was at least four inches of clearence. I could not believe that it hit and immediately removed it before it damaged the paint. Like you lesson learned.
Road Captain
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Eugene, Oregon
Glad to know I'm not the only knot-head to try to store tools above the fender. Yeah, I'm guilty. Now I keep what I need in the saddlebags, out of harm's way. I still have the tool roll on the forks, but all that's in it are cleaning cloths.
Oh, yeah...After the fender was declared D.O.A., the wife bought me a new one fer me birfday.
Oh, yeah...After the fender was declared D.O.A., the wife bought me a new one fer me birfday.
Tourer
Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Alberta, Canada
Update called HD dealer today and then called my local paint distributor loca can't match paint cause it's special hd paint 3 stage and HD wants $285 for a quart of the three parts of the paint stuff so I'll straighten the fender and put that small area into red primer for now.
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Joined: Dec 2008
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From: Tonopah Az
Hey Bushy I was going 65-70 on a four lane freeway but that freeway goes over the Sierra Mountains and their are some pot holes in that road that I think I needed a snorkel to see out of. I am sure that is what did the damage cause I have had that roll on the bike for about a month on smoother roads with no ill efects.It sucks but What would life be without challenge. I am not sure but I would like to find out for awhile LOL.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: So. Calif.
This is a great posting. I would never have thought that the front end had that much travel.
I was riding in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, through a construction zone, and was joking with my friends about having to "get up on the pegs" to handle the off-road conditions. I'm glad now that I didn't have anything on the front end.
Besides the good advice, I have also been reminded that I need to install a radar detector. But that is a new thread...
I was riding in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, through a construction zone, and was joking with my friends about having to "get up on the pegs" to handle the off-road conditions. I'm glad now that I didn't have anything on the front end.
Besides the good advice, I have also been reminded that I need to install a radar detector. But that is a new thread...
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Joined: Sep 2008
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From: Near North On. Canada
I also did damage from a 10X4" windshield bag I attached to the front forks of my 05 Sporty. I went down through New York with a group and after 1 hour noticed my headlight was aimed high. In the States we stopped at a HD dealer and I asked to lower the headlight and they did cheerfully no charge. That night it was high again. I couldn't figure this out, not loose, just went high. I adjusted it myself again and never thought about the fork travel that deep of compression. When I got home I saw the top of the pouch had a cut in the (vinyl) and opened the pouch to see my 4" little block of wood for the kickstand was in there. The fork travel caused the pouch to hit the front fender but the wood block kept the pouch from compressing and this drove the pouch up into my headlight screw-ramming the headlight up. I had a bent headlight screw and scuff marks to the paint of the fender. The forks travel more than you realize under a load with your weight on it. Lesson learned.
