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out on the loved one yesterday round carsinton water my mirrors would'nt keep still and were no good for seeing if plod was behind me.so we pulled over,mirrors were tight there was a slight lift in the nose fairing,but everthing looked ok.on the way home they were really bothering me. got home and on a really close inspection i spotted two strips of shiny metal where the clock mounting bracket bolts to the yoke.it had cracked both sides so i don't know what else is holding the nose fairing on.i'll be ringing two wheels today as this was replaced at the end of last year when brittany ferries dropped it.

did they fit a new one,or just straighten mine.

My mirrors also vibrate quite a bit, and at a ton, the whole nose fairing shakes aswell, which I thought excessive.

I know the bike was dropped as there is a scrape on the right hand edge nearest the clip on.

Not the first time I've read of this happening. It's by no means a common thing, but other owners have seen it, could be something that only happens to dropped bikes? Usual practice I believe is to weld it back up and add a couple of bracing triangles there to add some strength.

Sounds like they straightened it up and cracked the welds, as these buggers are about £175 or so each. I would be knocking on their door....
Good luck

jayboy wrote:My mirrors also vibrate quite a bit, and at a ton, the whole nose fairing shakes aswell, which I thought excessive.

I know the bike was dropped as there is a scrape on the right hand edge nearest the clip on.

i'd give it a really close inspection as my nose fairing and mirrors were solid before this started.mine was dropped on the right side and it bent the bracket,
and i had heard if you try and straighten them they do crack.my invoice was for a new bracket along with other items so i will be asking them if they did put a new one on.spoke to them this afters and i'l be taking the bike in tomorrow, if it's faulty they'll replace it,
but he knew what i was on about before i'd finished explaining. i think they've tried to pull a fast one.

now i'm really mad, took the bike in today to check out the cracked front frame and was shown an invoice for the replacement so no gripe there then. then the machanic advised me not to ride the bike home as he thaught it was dangerous with nothing holding the front on.even better, (you know) ca'nt get one for 8 weeks plus.so looks like i'm stripping the front off and welding the bracket untill the new one arrives.

Well, if they let you keep the old one (and you repair it), you'll have a spare new one waiting just in case! One of the rarest and/or dearest parts!

I reckon the temp. fix should see you sorted and back on the road OK Ian. Bloody hope so, eight weeks is a long time for a English summer and the nights are already drawing in!
Hope you're back on the road soon mate.
Remember the old Carol King song, "It might as well rain until September", that's about where eight weeks takes you.

HowardQ wrote:Remember the old Carol King song, "It might as well rain until September"

Damn Howard, now you're really showing your age

If you've got it flaunt it so they say!
(Age that is!)
One of my earlier albums!

work on going, ca'nt weld it it's alloy.

Cut a piece of steel plate and rivet the broken sides to it?

Nice clean break though!

I'm no metallurgist, but that break looks as though it was waiting to happen for a long time. To me it points to a manufacturing defect, almost as if the machine which bent the metal through a right angle to form the bracket had either partially cut through the metal or initiated a stress fracture.

That doesn't look 'normal' at all. Having said that, I should imagine it would weld up OK, especially if you removed what's left of the bracket from the steering head and welded it up in the interior angle.

probably right,but i ca'nt mig it as i'm sure it's alloy a magnet dos'nt take to it.i know a firm close by who do cast and alloy just to get me by. my original bracket was fine untill it got bent. unless this one is after market.
duno.

Fastasfcuk you have PM