Well........the time came

Mad RS · Post by **Mad RS** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:10 pm

I picked myself up a new Shoei XR1100 helmet the other day. Ever since the weather has been horrible until today so I thought I would give it a try out. There is only 1decent road out here so off I go. Everything is going great, helmet feels awesome, much more stable than my old Shoei TZ-R. About half way along the road there is a culvert in a gully and there is 2 inches of water across the road. No problem I think. I slow down to 5kph and creep across the culvert and in the last metre *bam* front of the bike goes sideways, right knee slams into the concrete and I'm on my back. Bike is a little beat up, scratches all down the right, broken mirror stem, new pazzo levers ground down and 2 1mm stone chips on the back of the helmet (didn't even get 10Km out of it) but it's still servicable (no impact just grazed the concrete).

Best of all...........as I pick up the bike I look across and there are about 6 blokes and kids having a swim in the rock pool.............damn.

Oh well. Time to think about a re-paint and plan how I want the bike.

Chalk up the first, if very weak, crash.

Damn it!!

laidback · Post by **laidback** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:20 pm

Bugger Mad...good that you are OK apart from the crime of being seen...

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:39 am

What a donkey fuck mate! I have an opinion that new gear, helmet, boots, gloves or leathers often cause crashes. More proof!

Glad it's only minor cosmetic and some grazed pride rather than a w/o and an ambulance ride. At least it's happened now and you can just get on with riding.

fireyrob · Post by **fireyrob** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:01 am

Arrrr spewing

Its only cosmetic, Im sure the bike will fix up easily. Your pride and ego will be fine after a few beers

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:09 am

aaaggggh.....BUGGER

Dafuzz31 · Post by **Dafuzz31** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:56 am

Stiff as a honey mooners

tim · Post by **tim** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:10 pm

Doh, as plenty said to me on my minor bin, chalk it up to experience, and if the worst out of the crash was minor and cosmetic it's about as close to a good crash as you can have.

timmyrocks · Post by **timmyrocks** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:46 pm

tim wrote:Doh, as plenty said to me on my minor bin, chalk it up to experience, and if the worst out of the crash was minor and cosmetic it's about as close to a good crash as you can have.

yep

waynemorgan · Post by **waynemorgan** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:28 pm

Damn dude

Mad RS · Post by **Mad RS** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:30 pm

Thanks guys. Got stuck in after work today and she is stripped of all fairings. Now to decide what to do. Either fit a new panel and belly pan and re-paint in a satin black with yellow high lights or replace all fairing in solar yellow?? Decisions, decisions..........

smithy5 · Post by **smithy5** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:50 pm

Mad RS wrote:Thanks guys. Got stuck in after work today and she is stripped of all fairings. Now to decide what to do. Either fit a new panel and belly pan and re-paint in a satin black with yellow high lights or replace all fairing in solar yellow?? Decisions, decisions..........

Chris, Check out OEM prices at a Kwaka dealer. You may be surprised at the cost of new panels as opposed to repairing, colour matching and painting etc the scratched ones

Mad RS · Post by **Mad RS** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:31 pm

What would I be looking at for OEM fairings?? I found some aftermarket fairing from America for around $875 delivered. Looking at either black or solar yellow.

smithy5 · Post by **smithy5** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:14 am

I replaced one panel on my Gumby in 2009. I think it was around $300 from the dealer and the colour match was spot on.
I guess you would need to factor in how many panels need replacing. Any more than 1 or 2 and you may well be on the right track replacing the lot...

Mad RS · Post by **Mad RS** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:40 am

Pulled everything apart last night. Looks like I need a new belly pan (fairly screwed up when I bought it) and a R/H mid fairing. Even if I did buy OEM I would need the other panels painted to match (most panel a badly faded from previous owner leaving it in direct sunlight) and matching a Yellow metalic pearl is impossible at best.

So it is either:
1. Buy 2nd hand panel and repaint
2. Buy OEM panel and still re-paint
3. Go aftermarket and maybe only do tank and seat cowel for change of colour/mismatch colour

Damon Z1000 · Post by **Damon Z1000** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 7:48 am

Buy OEM dude, I would have thought you could bring up the paint around the new panels with a polish. What colour is it? Your Avatar shows an orange Zed

If it's green it will polish no problem, yellow gumby I think had clear over, so you should be able to buff that up, red, not sure if it has clear but even so, you will bring it up.
I would consider it, keep it stock, better resale when it comes to it.

Mind you the last time I priced a mid fairing panel it was for a ZX9R and they wanted a right ball for that

OEM stickers is the killer, hopefully you don't need any.

Good luck

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