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Mr Whippy - 15/12/07 at 09:04 PM

not working on the cars tonight cos my bike fell over got 20ft away just to hear a crash, thought I'd got away with it then saw my tank NO! blasted rains made the ground all soft.

oh well this gives me the chance to do it in candy red... Rescued attachment dent.JPG
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worX - 15/12/07 at 09:08 PM

gutted!!
I worked at a bike shop and you never like hearing/seeing a bike fall over...

Luckily I never did it, but when you move 20 bikes twice a day, you can imagine it does happen.

What bike is it?

Confused but excited. - 15/12/07 at 09:16 PM

Oooh Poo!
Bummer mate.

onzarob - 15/12/07 at 09:20 PM

owwh.

nasty bump

russbost - 16/12/07 at 12:14 AM

Gutted! For you
Do you remember the bike meeting, think it was at Brands where it got ridiculously hot the tarmac melted & dozens of bikes fell over in the car parks!

skodaman - 16/12/07 at 02:40 AM

My NC30 jumped off it's stand a few times when parked on tarmac. Think it was caused by stiction in front forks and a useless sidestand that meant it was nearly vertical when parked. The last time it cracked the engine sidecase. Hairline crack about 4 inches long but needed a new casing.

Peteff - 16/12/07 at 10:31 AM

That's a fair old ding for a drop, it'll hold less petrol now . The dent man could push a lot of that back out but it's costly and filler does the job, just not as elegant. I dropped mine putting it on the centre stand with sludgy shoes but I was holding the handlebar and slowed it down so it only scraped the other handle weight when it landed. It did Irish Whip me though, quite funny to watch according to some.

Mr Whippy - 16/12/07 at 11:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
That's a fair old ding for a drop, it'll hold less petrol now . The dent man could push a lot of that back out but it's costly and filler does the job, just not as elegant. I dropped mine putting it on the centre stand with sludgy shoes but I was holding the handlebar and slowed it down so it only scraped the other handle weight when it landed. It did Irish Whip me though, quite funny to watch according to some.



Yes it's quite a dent; unfortunately it didn't fall on the handle bars, rather a badly placed bit of garden decoration, a bolder

oadamo - 16/12/07 at 06:34 PM

i droped mine when i pulled up at a juntion lol . i just lost my footing and all the cars started paping the horns lol.
adam

iank - 17/12/07 at 09:27 AM

NastyBe needing some of these or a locost equivalent. A patch of filler that deep and wide would likely fall out at some point.

02GF74 - 19/12/07 at 10:38 AM

apparently dents can be popped out using compressed air.

or just make a similar dent on other side so it looks symmetrical