[/quote]Ya she is fine now. It happened 5 weeks ago she got a fat lip bruised arm and a gamed thumb on her throttle hand. The bike is ok to. She gorilla taped the wind shield together put the tern-signal back together. I bent the shifter back and use blue duct tape on the head light bucket to match the paint. If it wasn't for the tap and the dent in the tank you wouldn't n know it went down. We had it back together in 3 hrs and the next day took of for a 400 mile weekend ride. Shes a tough one. I'll bondo the tank and order a paint kit and a new shield and head light bucket and she'll be good as new. But my wife wont be good as new till we change those low hanging floorboard mounts. Not sure what to do with them yet cause there is so much stuff mounted on the right side. Rear break master cylinder, break lever, horn exe, Looks like major relocation job.SFCMcGan said:
Ya she is fine now. It happened 5 weeks ago she got a fat lip bruised arm and a gamed thumb on her throttle hand. The bike is ok to. She gorilla taped the wind shield together put the tern-signal back together. I bent the shifter back and use blue duct tape on the head light bucket to match the paint. If it wasn't for the tap and the dent in the tank you wouldn't n know it went down. We had it back together in 3 hrs and the next day took of for a 400 mile weekend ride. Shes a tough one. I'll bondo the tank and order a paint kit and a new shield and head light bucket and she'll be good as new. But my wife wont be good as new till we change those low hanging floorboard mounts. Not sure what to do with them yet cause there is so much stuff mounted on the right side. Rear break master cylinder, break lever, horn exe, Looks like major relocation job.toby said:
Solutions to this problem will be as follows, First and foremost will be more riding time and instructions from me, as I have showed her this bike can be road hard without scraping the boards even with the both of us on it. We made it down this nasty mountain road in 45 minutes normally it takes more than hr.an So the best solution is to develop the right riding style for this bike. Then I will adjust the rear shock dampener up a couple notches and a larger rear tire for starters. Then on one forum someone added spacers to the front springs. Then they trimmed the bottom of the mount even with the bottom of the frame at a angle up towards the floorboard instead of the strait across then up that starts a 1/2 below the bottom of the frame. They said that did not compromise the integrity of the mount. These are all in- expensive fixes. Especially teaching her how to ride this bike. It is completely different from the way she learned on the old Virago. She is already getting better and more confident and has not scraped the boards in a while. She now really enjoys riding this bike cause it is a awesome cruiser. Oh and might I ad the one thing that started the chain of events that led to her crash was she took her focus of the road for a fraction of a second and you can't do that on this road no matter what you are driving.annubissl said:
Ya she is is a tough girl got more balls than some guys I now.lol. But she has taken worse dumps of her horse in the past and I think that was part of the problem she was use to the fact that if you looked over you shoulder on a horse it would still look out for obstacles for you and avoid them lol.StrykenShane said:
Absolutely. She is already doing much better just with the added concentration And riding time and familiarity with the bike. I feel blessed to have a woman in my life that also is a riding partner that isn't just a [email protected]@ch that I pick up and put on the back of my bike once and a while. lol. And also isn't afraid to tern a wrench and get greasy. Gota love it.BryanP said:
