OOPS!

[Anguish]

Hey,

 

Thanks to a little low speed OOPS on a wet curve at the entrance to my subdivision yesterday, I now have a bit more road rash on the bike.

 

All seems ok for the most part, but the farring plastic at the starboard edge, outboard of the speaker grill, has suffered the most.

 

Seems to me I recenlty saw an old online Markland catalogue somewhere. If I remember right there were some chrome caps that fit onto that edge that would likely neatly cover up my bit of damage. I have never seen a set of these in person or on ebay, despite years of browsing, so I conclude that I'm not likely to find a set of these in this lifetime.

 

Strikes me though that this edge is quite vulnerable and damage there must be fairly common, even if the bike never leaves the vertical plane. What do others do to either protect against or cover up road rash on this edge?

 

Thanks,

 

Brian

[Snaggletooth]

Sorry to hear about your skid. As far as the chrome trim, good luck. They are hard if not impossible to come by. I had a set on mine when I bought it. I came out of a store one day and found one hanging from the mounting tape. I just redid it with double face tape and didn't think much about it. I noticed that they were NEVER on E-bay but did run a cross a set one time. I grabbed them and replaced one on mine that was scuffed up.

 

When I realized how hard they were to get I remounted mine. I drilled them out and used bolts and acorns. They should stay on now. LOL!

 

Ride careful.

 

Mike

[skydoc_17]

Hey Brian,

When I saw your "Handle", ( Anguish) and saw the header of your thread, (OOPS!)

I knew that this was going to be a sad thread! Anyone that has a First Gen. and doesn't have a scuff or two on those two corners either has the "Luck of the Irish" or leaves it parked in the garage ALL the time! With that being said, those side protectors from Markland haven't been manufactured in over ten years. If you found a set on Ebay, or Craig's List, it was a miracle. Yamaha stopped making those fairing halves about 3 years ago, so your options are used parts from the same year bike, or used parts from a different year bike and paint. Do a search for "repairing plastic" and you will see that these plastic parts can be repaired, but then you will be forced to repaint. Or do what I do and wear your scuffs proudly, and ride so fast that no one can see them!

By the way, welcome to the VR.ORG forum.

Earl

[Yammer Dan]

Talked with someone about using a set to provide a pattern. Then forgot about it. That is the first place to get skinned up.

[Anguish]

Talked with someone about using a set to provide a pattern. Then forgot about it. That is the first place to get skinned up.

 

Good plan............ and the sort of thing that really appeals to the cheapskate in me BUT, I am thinking that the odd angles and compound curves involved would make fabricating these somewhat complex.

 

B

[Flyinfool]

When I was looking for my bike I looked at somewhere around 12-15 1st gen MKIIs, EVERY single one of them had the right corner of the faring scuffed. Some had both corners scuffed.

 

Ideally you would stamp them out of sheet metal. BUT that would require a couple of very expensive dies and a good size press.

 

If someone has access to modern CNC milling equipment, it would not be that hard (hard no, time consuming yes) to machine them out of a block and then polish or paint.

[Gearhead]

Yup, mine are scuffed on both sides. And that is how they stay.

[bongobobny]

You can hide it with Polish chrome, the self stick plastic chrome trim that comes in various widths...

[Prairiehammer]

Al Sigetic offered a pair of these chrome trim pieces a couple of weeks ago. They were still in the VentureLine package. Perhaps he still has them.

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63919

[a1bummer]

Would anybody happen to have some close-ups of them? I'm betting that someone who is experienced at pounding and shaping sheet steel or something similair. Maybe polished aluminum or stainless?

[Flyinfool]

Al Sigetic offered a pair of these chrome trim pieces a couple of weeks ago. They were still in the VentureLine package. Perhaps he still has them.

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63919

 

They are gone.

[Yammer Dan]

I have a set somewhere.

[Trader]

I've got ONE on my bike.

Would love to find another set.

Edited October 15, 2011 by Trader

[a1bummer]

Thanks for the pics. I have some sheet aluminum scraps in the garage that I'll have to do some experimenting with.

 

My lower half has gotten so bad that I finally tipped her over twice last week. Once on each side. I've been trying to think of something to either cover up the marks or fix it. I had thought of new paint and then some clear acrylic to go over the edges in case it happened again.

 

Bill

[Flyinfool]

I sure hope the "I dropped it" fund is getting a workout with all of the drops I am reading about.

[CrazyHorse]

Hey,

 

Thanks to a little low speed OOPS on a wet curve at the entrance to my subdivision yesterday, I now have a bit more road rash on the bike.

 

All seems ok for the most part, but the farring plastic at the starboard edge, outboard of the speaker grill, has suffered the most.

 

Seems to me I recenlty saw an old online Markland catalogue somewhere. If I remember right there were some chrome caps that fit onto that edge that would likely neatly cover up my bit of damage. I have never seen a set of these in person or on ebay, despite years of browsing, so I conclude that I'm not likely to find a set of these in this lifetime.

 

Strikes me though that this edge is quite vulnerable and damage there must be fairly common, even if the bike never leaves the vertical plane. What do others do to either protect against or cover up road rash on this edge?

 

Thanks,

 

Brian

Im interested what caused the oops? Gotta watch out for the right side if you hit the plastic tube for the water pump. I had the engine guard pop that. Not good.

[Anguish]

Im interested what caused the oops?

 

 

As I said, "a wet curve" was the cause.

 

Apparently it was more slippery than most, since I had ridden an hour to that point in the on again off again rain of that afternoon. There was no warning or feeling of uh oh, ........ I'm loosing traction. One moment i was vertical and the next I was horizontal as if a cartoon bannana peel had tripped me up. I was only doing about 40 km/hr (25 mph) as I entered the curve and the bike and I slid about 3 meters (12') before coming to rest. Fortunately in the residential street there was not much other traffic and neither of us met immovable objects like the curb, during the slide. It was kind of surreal watching the bike slide away from me.

 

Yes, my RHS case guard is pushed in a bit but thank fully not far enough to impact the water pump plumbing. Both the rear bag guard rail and the case guard on that side have deep grind spots on them and are aesthetically irredemable although still servicable otherwise. I plan to replace both as ebay availability permits.

 

I had always worried about having my ankle crushed beneth the bike if it went over sideways. Fortunately the case and luggage guards demonstrably give enough clearance that I can stop worrying on THAT score.

 

HOpe this is of interest.

 

Brian

Edited October 17, 2011 by Anguish
grammar

[Flyinfool]

Look at that 90° plastic elbow real close. the caes guard can go up and smack it and spring back to look like it was never there. I did a bunch of grinding on my case guard so that if the bike ever falls to that side there will be more clearance before it gets into the plastic elbow AGAIN. I spent 4 years looking for that hairline intermittent coolant leak in that elbow.

[CrazyHorse]

 

As I said, "a wet curve" was the cause.

 

Apparently it was more slippery than most, since I had ridden an hour to that point in the on again off again rain of that afternoon. There was no warning or feeling of uh oh, ........ I'm loosing traction. One moment i was vertical and the next I was horizontal as if a cartoon bannana peel had tripped me up. I was only doing about 40 km/hr (25 mph) as I entered the curve and the bike and I slid about 3 meters (12') before coming to rest. Fortunately in the residential street there was not much other traffic and neither of us met immovable objects like the curb, during the slide. It was kind of surreal watching the bike slide away from me.

 

Yes, my RHS case guard is pushed in a bit but thank fully not far enough to impact the water pump plumbing. Both the rear bag guard rail and the case guard on that side have deep grind spots on them and are aesthetically irredemable although still servicable otherwise. I plan to replace both as ebay availability permits.

 

I had always worried about having my ankle crushed beneth the bike if it went over sideways. Fortunately the case and luggage guards demonstrably give enough clearance that I can stop worrying on THAT score.

 

HOpe this is of interest.

 

Brian

 

Just wondering if you braked with the linked brakes with rear brake that activated the front made the situation worse . This is a situation where linked brakes scare me. This is what I shoulda said.

Edited October 17, 2011 by CrazyHorse

[CrazyHorse]

Look at that 90° plastic elbow real close. the caes guard can go up and smack it and spring back to look like it was never there. I did a bunch of grinding on my case guard so that if the bike ever falls to that side there will be more clearance before it gets into the plastic elbow AGAIN. I spent 4 years looking for that hairline intermittent coolant leak in that elbow.

 

Well said