titoportugal Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Hi to all Unfortunately 3 weeks ago i had a rough encounter with the back of a car. The front of my bird was completely damaged as your will be able to see in the pictures. I literally flown for a while but nothing happened to me. Fortunately nothing happened to the frame of the bike. The main damages where: - Front Fender - Front cowl - Head light - Speedometer (gauge) - Left lower cowl - Cowl Half Inner - Engine Cover I was also lucky to have a pair of LSL mushrooms other wise the damage would be even greater. I was about to buy the parts needed when I remembered that a friend of mine had a lot of spare parts from his old XX. (can you imagine that some mother fuckers entered his garage, dismantled everything to get to the injection system and took everything except the body of the bike. After 3 months of he had sold what was left of the bike, the police found his pats in a warehouse) He sold me the whole pack with a lot of thing I needed and some that I don't and that I'm going to sell. I will post later about it Now its almost finished. Since that I had my bike all naked I decided that now was the time to the Cruise Control Job http://cbr.geckobox.net/forum/viewtopic.ph...6687&highlight= But unfortunately I'm having a lot of trouble. Later on, I will post some pics of the evolution of my XX Regards to all Tito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matey_peeps Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Looks like mine a couple years ago. :evil: However it looks like you got a rougher deal than I did. Glad you're not hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartonmd Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 sorry man, glad you're OK! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardCranium Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 That'll buff right out. :twisted: Glad you are ok. How/why did you hit the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titoportugal Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 That'll buff right out. :twisted: Glad you are ok. How/why did you hit the car? I was about to take a motorway entrance and the cars were moving... I looked at the mirror to see if I could enter.... and when i look ahead ...the car had made an emergency brake and it was less then 1 meter from me ... it was impossible to brake in time. Lucky me that I was going slowly otherwise I don't know if I was here writing. Very stupid accident Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXBIRD Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I was about to take a motorway entrance and the cars were moving...I looked at the mirror to see if I could enter.... and when i look ahead ...the car had made an emergency brake and it was less then 1 meter from me ... it was impossible to brake in time. So, you were at fault then :twisted: There was an article about this "life saver" in one of the recent mags. Not sure what the conclusion was, bad or good? I gues it all depends on where you are and when. I am used to do "life saver" eventhough I have added small wide angle mirrors on both sides. While merging highway, I case out the traffic at the first lane while I am still on the ramp and act accordingly. Safest is to wait till cars in front to merge first. They will pull up in front of you anyway unless you could move to the next lane quickly. What happened to Tito happened to me while riding in a taxicab in UK. The driver was not patient to stay behind the car in front as he merged in and looked backed to take the car in front over. The car in front came to a full stop once he ran out of road. We rear ended the car dspite of me yelling to watch out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in PA Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Sorry about your wreck, glad you're OK. I was analyzing your pics, trying to figure out how you rear ended a car without tweaking the forks or frame at the gooseneck. Just make sure that stuffs OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBRXXRAGE Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Glad your okay, sorry about your bike. I did the same thing 10yrs ago With me I wasnt so lucky tore my thumb almost off hung on by the ligament and broke my wrist in two places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaSilverBird Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Wow! Sorry about the spill, glad your ok though. I went down on my bird early November. But im about to redeem myself and get another one, yeehaw! -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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