Pictures of Dan's crashed bike

Alright, so I bought back my wrecked motorcycle from the insurance company and have begun the task of rebuilding it better than new. The first step is to see what we have. I have here about 40 to 50 pictures of the bike prior to tearing it down to show its condition.

Some of these images got distorted when I was rotating them and making them small enough for the web, so bear with me.

Here's where it got most of the damage - front right. There's a lot of pictures of this section.

The bottom right cowl and the right pipe were removed by the salvage yard that the insurance company had pick it up from the motorcycle shop without my authorization. You should be able to see in the full size image that the clamp on the right pipe is brand new, while the one on the left is well used. The last image in this set actually shows both, but the right one is a little out of focus. The guys at the salvage yard didn't put the oxygen sensor back in it, so it sounded like a v4 Harley when I first got it back. It's back together now though and sounds like a sewing machine again! ☺

The right mirror housing is in pieces. The left one popped off and I still have it in a box. It will need a little bit of touch-up paint, but that should be all.

These pictures should show how far everything got pushed back to the right. The plate that the right mirror bracket is bent 90º back. The right side of the cowl stay was pushed back at least 3-4 inches. The bolt that holds the right stabilizing arm of the cowl stay was busted off in the frame - you'll see that more clearly in a later picture.

The bike is filthier than she's ever been right now. It's clear that the salvage yard didn't keep her in the garage as I've always done. I am really not happy that they took her to that awful place.

Pipes are nice and straight... If the image of the right one was actually in focus, we'd have probably seen the Oxygen sensor hanging out of it.

The forks look straight to me in these shots, but the frontal view earlier shows just enough bend in the right one to make me mad. The bend is to the right, not front to back like the bent forks I've seen in the past. Luckily, it's only the slide. Even the service manager at the Honda dealer agreed that the forks can be rebuilt and will be good as new, so that's the way we're going with it. The front wheel is bent. It rode ok up to about 45 MPH and the friend who rode it home for me the day after the wreck didn't feel any problems, but the wheel is clearly bent when you spin it. Rear wheel is still in good shape though.

I don't think the scratches in the headlight lens show up in any of the photos, but they are there. I'm pretty sure they can be polished out, which will save about $320. Man she sure is dirty. I'm going to have to get the kids out to wash it. The left mirror bracket is ok except for the busted glass. If anyone knows where I can replace just the glass for the mirrors, be sure to shout out to me on STLAR or ST-Owners. ☺

The windshield is scratched up a bit. That top scratch looks like the bike might have actually been sliding face-first like I was, but I don't see enough other evidence of it being upside down. There are some very mild abrasions on the seat that I couldn't catch with the camera. The seat was going to Russell for a rebuild a week after the wreck anyhow.

The Honda shop wanted to replace the instrument cluster - I couldn't figure that out because it seems to work fine. Turns out that one of the six tabs that hold the instrument cluster to the panel was busted off. At $972 retail or $632, you can bet I'm pulling out the old plastic cement and gluing that puppy back together!

And here's a few shots with the seat and bags off. Nothing seems to be messed up here.

Well, that's enough to document its pre-repair condition. Click here to see her stripped!

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