MisterMR
Member
Holy crap!
OK, the first time was caused by me not being used to the top-heaviness of the FJR. I was on my way home from a business day-trip to San Francisco and I swung by a friend's house in El Cerrito. As I was leaving their house, I stopped at the stop sign at the end of their street at an intersection where the cross street is going downhill to the right. When I stopped ,I turned the bike slightly right to prepare to make a right turn and lowered my feet. Unfortunately, the asphalt on my right was a few inches lower than the left as there was a rather severe slope down to the gutter. Sure enough, the bike started tipping over and it was all that I could do to control the drop as much as possible. I had a heck of a time pushing the bike back upright up the slight slope. The result? Scratches on the right saddlebag and the OES slider that I had fortuitously installed a few weeks earlier.
Now, today I dropped it again. This time it was sheer stupidity on my part. I had just finished a three-hour ride up to Loon Lake via Icehouse Road and back home via Wentworth Springs and Salmon Falls Road and was pulling into my driveway. I park the bike in the back of our tandem garage behind the Jeep and our driveway slopes down to the garage, so when I go on a ride I have to pull the Jeep out into the driveway as close to the street as possible. This gives me the room that I need to swing in between the Jeep and the door, turn the bike around, open the garage door, and back the FJR into its spot. I've performed the maneuver many dozens of times in the last couple of months since I bought the bike. This time, however, I got a little too close...
I smacked my right saddlebag into the corner of the Jeep's bumper and Boom!, down I went on our sloping driveway. At least getting the bike upright was easier this time. Today it was the left saddlebag, left mirror, and the left slider that (mostly) paid the price.
I'm not terribly concerned about the aesthetics, but has anyone out there had any success touching-up/repairing the plastic bits? Any tips that you can share?
OK, the first time was caused by me not being used to the top-heaviness of the FJR. I was on my way home from a business day-trip to San Francisco and I swung by a friend's house in El Cerrito. As I was leaving their house, I stopped at the stop sign at the end of their street at an intersection where the cross street is going downhill to the right. When I stopped ,I turned the bike slightly right to prepare to make a right turn and lowered my feet. Unfortunately, the asphalt on my right was a few inches lower than the left as there was a rather severe slope down to the gutter. Sure enough, the bike started tipping over and it was all that I could do to control the drop as much as possible. I had a heck of a time pushing the bike back upright up the slight slope. The result? Scratches on the right saddlebag and the OES slider that I had fortuitously installed a few weeks earlier.
Now, today I dropped it again. This time it was sheer stupidity on my part. I had just finished a three-hour ride up to Loon Lake via Icehouse Road and back home via Wentworth Springs and Salmon Falls Road and was pulling into my driveway. I park the bike in the back of our tandem garage behind the Jeep and our driveway slopes down to the garage, so when I go on a ride I have to pull the Jeep out into the driveway as close to the street as possible. This gives me the room that I need to swing in between the Jeep and the door, turn the bike around, open the garage door, and back the FJR into its spot. I've performed the maneuver many dozens of times in the last couple of months since I bought the bike. This time, however, I got a little too close...
I smacked my right saddlebag into the corner of the Jeep's bumper and Boom!, down I went on our sloping driveway. At least getting the bike upright was easier this time. Today it was the left saddlebag, left mirror, and the left slider that (mostly) paid the price.
I'm not terribly concerned about the aesthetics, but has anyone out there had any success touching-up/repairing the plastic bits? Any tips that you can share?
