Rman those light guards look good
, and the price was right. Things that make you say Hmmmmm! I think I have some wire around here that is very similar to what you used. Just might have a project for tomorrow. On another note I have been commuting to work on my bike and Friday when I pulled up to my gate to open it I wasn't paying attention to where I stopped at ( which was on the hump in the middle of the driveway) went to put my foot down and found the ground was further away than I expected! Well you can guess what happened next, over I went!
I managed to stay on my feet but the bike went down, of coarse the first thing I did was to look around and see if any of my neighbors was watching
. I managed to pickup the bike and ride it on in no worse for the wear. Go figure I ride all over the county and then drop my bike in my driveway
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Thanks. And don't feel left out about dropping the bike at your own gate.
I was in a hurry and when I jumped off the bike my pants leg caught the shifter and into 1st it went!
The kickstand switch killed it but the engine had enough momentum to roll it off the stand.
The next day I walked out on the porch and noticed oil on the ground. Well needless to say the shifter cracked the stator cover.
This is an unfortunate week area on the 650 and you can read several other stories about the same thing over at ThumperTalk. One guy had just rolled his brand new 650L into the garage, dropped it and knocked a 1" hole in the cover!!
Anyway, I've posted these pics before but I'll post them again for some of you new guys. The crack wasn't all that bad but it did leak oil so I leaned the bike way over to shift the oil over to the right side of the engine and cleaned the cover real good. Taped off the crack and mixed up some J-B Weld.
Figured I'd better reinforce it with a metal plate. You can use aluminum but since I had a piece of stainless laying around I used it. Trust me, use aluminum
, stainless is incredibly difficult to work with!!!! Had a friend use his cutting torch to get the basic shape but I had to do a lot of grinding to get the finished shape, A LOT OF GRINDING!!!
I originally glued it on with orange (hi-temp) silicone but it fell off after awhile. I thought it was long gone and had already started making another when I was walking down my road, looked down and there it was. I'd like to see those odds. All those miles and miles and it falls off on MY ROAD and I FIND IT?
Thank You God!
I reinstalled it using more J-B Weld so it'll never fall off now, you'd have to grind it off.
So if you haven't already done it I highly recommend anyone with an L to reinforce that side case!