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D-Rider · #1 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:50 am

Today's not started well.

Got the bike out. Parked it on the sloping drive while I went to close the garage and gate ....... then I heard that crunch we all dread, looked round and found my Falco taking a nap on the floor.

Scraped crash bung
Scraped bar-end crash bung
Slightly scraped side-panel
Slightly scraped belly pan
Very slightly scraped mirror tip

..... broken rear brake lever .......

No time to fit my spare brake lever (at least I've got one) so I'll take the car to work .......

Flat battery.

Try to bump it down the slope of the drive - it fires and dies at the bottom.

Hmmm could take the bike I guess as no back brake on a Falco is not a handicap ..... but the car is now at the bottom of the drive and the rest of the family won't be able to get past it ......

Out with the charger ..... work at home this morning .....

Damn

Falcoholic · #2 Post by **Falcoholic** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:15 am

BorroKs.

Not good mate.

Mine fell of the work bench/ramp year before last.

Totally destroyed my brand new pressure washer.

And roughed up the bike a bit too

Falco9 · #3 Post by **Falco9** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:47 am

Feel for you Andy, its the sound none of us want to hear

F9

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:56 am

Oh well, things could be worse - I could have been in Japan today rather than in 2 weeks time .........

Car now charged enough to start - better get off to work.

Samray · #5 Post by **Samray** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:59 am

D-Rider wrote:Oh well, things could be worse - I could have been in Japan today rather than in 2 weeks time .........

My thought when you posted.

furygan man · #6 Post by **furygan man** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 2:06 pm

Oh dear, mine went over in slow motion last year when i missed one of the hooks on the rear paddock stand

If you can't find the lever i have one you can have

Nooj · #7 Post by **Nooj** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:54 pm

Bummer. Imagine the damage if you didn't have the bungs fitted though.

Willopotomas · #8 Post by **Willopotomas** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:57 pm

buggah!

Ye not doing very well for my side stand side line..lol..

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:12 pm

Willopotomas wrote:buggah!

Ye not doing very well for my side stand side line..lol..

Not the stand's fault - just parked it where the slope was too steep and I think a gust of wind caught it ..... there was certainly quite a gust of wind when I realised what was happening .....

Guess I'd just got a bit too used to the fact that you can park the bike almost wherever you want to with the Gixer stand and just went a bit too far in terms of slope.

It fell away from the slope btw.

Found my spare brake pedal so I'm just off to fit it ....

Also found a new side-panel on ebay but at approx £150 I'll pass on that one!

EDIT: .... and spare brake pedal now fitted (with pivot and rose joint all freshly greased)

randomsquid · #10 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:22 pm

Bugger, that's never a good noise.
My Guzzi used to spend as much time lying down as standing up. It did quite a lot of damage to the floor when it fell over too. Fell on a nimby once, which was nice.
My XS400 fell over as well. Mostly because I forgot to put the stand down and went to open the gate.

HowardQ · #11 Post by **HowardQ** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:57 pm

Really sorry to hear about the fall over Andy, hope you get it all sorted quickly.

Falcopops · #12 Post by **Falcopops** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:11 am

I feel your pain Andy, did exactly the same about 2 years ago.

I've got a pair of bronze (rust) sidepanels and only one is sratched, if your lucky it might be the other one, I'll try and find it tonight.

Aladinsaneuk · #13 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:50 am

craig did something very similar last week.....

he got away lightly - clutch lever, indicator lens and a couple of scratches to left mid fairing....

apparently his wife had given him so many instructions he just lost balance....

D-Rider · #14 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:47 pm

Glad I didn't suffer that much damage to mine.

Certainly will make sure mine is parked more securely in future when I wander off from it.

In fact replacing and adjusting the rear brake lever has made the rear brake a much more practical proposition so that's one good thing to come from it.
Rather annoyed at the scratches though.

Willopotomas · #15 Post by **Willopotomas** » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:51 pm

Are the scratches right down to the plastic? If not, I've got some lacquer touch-up stuff that's got me out of the poo before now. It applies a bit like clean nail varnish.. Wait for it to go off, flat it back to blend with the rest and polish to within an inch of yer life..lol..

If it's down to the plastic/primer.. Then arse. I feel your pain..