Fixing a wrecked bike!

I guess the bike landed upside down, on the back fender. Seen it happen before, but just not to my bike!

Ok, let us get this out in the open now.  The rider who crashed my bike is ok.  Laynes buddy, DJ,  asked to barrow my bike like many time before.  No problem, just bring it back in one piece.  Well, it didn’t come back quite like that, but it did make it back.  DJ endo’d on the start-finsh line at JB’s and the bike flipped to the point where it landed on the rear fender.  This pushed the fender down and into the pipe, which was just smooshed.

Earlier this week, I started taking the bike apart to see what we had.  I knew I needed another pipe, that was a given, but really didn’t know about anything else.  Got the pipe off and the head, with little problems.  Luckily I remembered that I thought I had stored my old pipe, from my 1st yzf250 up in my attic of the shed.  Went to luck and sure enough, had the pipe, the header AND the plastics!  Happy DAY!

Is it my eyes or is the level bent?

So back to taking the bike apart.  I have the pipe and header off, the back fender off and that is when I noticed it!  OMG, WTF!  Yeah for sure, the bike landed upside down and on the rear  fender.  However it seems as if it landed on the sub-frame and bent the crap out of it.  YIKES!  Call in the sledge hammer!

POS!

You know, it took me a while with my Big Ass Sled Hammer (BASH) to get that right side back to something near normal.  Ended up putting the ‘V’ part of the sub-frame on the edge of a cinder block and hammer on that puppy till the right side was even with the left.  Pulling it off the block wasn’t so easy, so I SMASHED the block.  YEAH!  Take that!!!  Bust up my bike and see what you get, when you mess with the WARRIORS!  Oh ahh, sorry about that.  I love the Warriors.  Bad ass flick!

Ok, so now off to the front of the bike.  Looks ok.  Take the handle bars off  and the look ok.  Not bent.  That is good.  I decided to loosen the forks pinch bolts.  Knowing they were most likely twanked and under some crazy like pressure.  As I loosened the 8 pinch bolts, I waited to hear that “PING” noise.  That noise right there tells me, if I hear it, the forks are under some crazy like twanking pressure.  Yup, heard it once.  However, I suspect all is good.

Bent!

Twankology

Then I went back to the top of the triple clamps and found this!  OMG!  Alert!  Look to the right, you big dummy!  You see that, The world is not level in Scooter-Land.   Ok so I guess that makes sense, sense from on top of the bike, it looks like this!  Now look to the left, big dummy!  UGH!

So I took off the risers and nothing the bent!  Not the bars, not the risers, nothing.  Looks as if the bolt gave some and allowed the riser to move like that.  Hmm, ok.  Best I could come up with at the time.  I mean, it wasn’t bent.  So you are telling me it was the riser fairy.  Naaa, don’t think so, bub.

Now it was time to put everything back together.  Worked from the front and then went to the back.  The front was quite simple and had not problem.  Everything fit back together very well.  Not quite the same for the rear.  The sub-frame is still not quite prefect, which lined up everything just about perfect except the lower bolt to the exhaust.  I figured for one hare scramble all will be ok.  At least that is the plan.

Once everything was back together, I started the bike.  Took only 4 kicks, with flip-flops on, and she fired right up!  5 points for me & the BBB!