About a month ago I rode to a rally in W.Va. It was about a 500 mile ride in mostly rainy overcast weather...and while there the bike mostly sat outside my room because of that weather. One afternoon I am walking past my bike and see this...
That section of the dash is just melted! I thought at first that something inside the instrument cluster had gotten hot. Pulled the windshield and got the dash apart...nothing inside showed any evidence of having been warm. So buttoned it back up and rode the bike home without incident.
So....what caused this? I have a Cee Bailey windshield. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the shield acted as a magnifying glass....concentrating the suns rays. ??
I kept a close eye on this during the ride home and since then. There has been no further damage.
Whatcha got? :bom_ears:
The "other oddness".....on this same ride I pull off the main road for fuel and in attempting to turn the bike to park, find that my handlebars will barely turn to the left at all. I have full movement to the right but very little to the left. I am checking my tank bag for interference etc., and in looking down through and at the forks, find a bolt just laying on top of part of the forks (triple tree?)! Come to find out it is a sub-frame bolt...there are two of them and the second one is about half way out:jawdrop: Is this a common problem?
TIA............John
That section of the dash is just melted! I thought at first that something inside the instrument cluster had gotten hot. Pulled the windshield and got the dash apart...nothing inside showed any evidence of having been warm. So buttoned it back up and rode the bike home without incident.
So....what caused this? I have a Cee Bailey windshield. The only thing I can think of is that somehow the shield acted as a magnifying glass....concentrating the suns rays. ??
I kept a close eye on this during the ride home and since then. There has been no further damage.
Whatcha got? :bom_ears:
The "other oddness".....on this same ride I pull off the main road for fuel and in attempting to turn the bike to park, find that my handlebars will barely turn to the left at all. I have full movement to the right but very little to the left. I am checking my tank bag for interference etc., and in looking down through and at the forks, find a bolt just laying on top of part of the forks (triple tree?)! Come to find out it is a sub-frame bolt...there are two of them and the second one is about half way out:jawdrop: Is this a common problem?
TIA............John