FJR down

[gazza]

Hi all

Got some bad news from home this morning. The wife (god bless her) had reversed the car into the FJR and she was down in the garage.My heart sunk......This was one thing i was always dreading happening and now it's happened. After being so careful when always using the stand going by posts i have read previous the bike hit the concrete doing a reasonable amount of damage to the LH side .My main concern at this stage is wether the impact the mirror has taken has bent its mounting bracket.Hopefully someone can advise me wether they bend easily out of shape or not.I have pulled the left hand side down with damage to the fairing,glovebox panels etc and overall it doesn't look to bad.Will need some plastic welding painting etc and hopefully will fit back together without incident.

Gaz

 

[wfooshee]

Just a tip-over should not have bent the mirror mount, I wouldn't think. Mine bent when the bike went under the armco in my first crash, but that would be an impact different from a tip-over. It was actually pretty easy to straighten out after getting all the plastic off.

 

[Donal]

Sadly mine did bend the mirror bracket & that was just falling over. Hopefully yours will have fared better...................

Don

 

[Geezer]

The only way to know is to sit on the bike and see if the mirrors will adjust to where you normally like them. If not, then you'll have to play with that stay that it mounts to.

 

[Constant Mesh]

I noticed on my '04 that the mirror's pivot joint is a riveted connection rather than an unforgiving spring-loaded bolt. It would seem that the rivet is supposed to pull apart in a fall and spare the structural steel hardware from any severe bending forces. Maybe it doesn't always perform as the designer had envisioned.

 

[DaveInMn]

The wife (god bless her) had reversed the car into the FJR and she was down in the garage.

That could be grounds for divorce (if I was married).