Cousin crashed my bike... couple of question
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:49 pm
The bike was my 97 VFR750 
After just having finished working on another friends bike (we installed sliders and fender eliminator on his new GSXR). My cousin pulled my bike out to the alley so that my friend could take his first ride on it (he didn't want to ride without the sliders). My bike was sitting in the middle of the alley, turned on and with my cousin sitting on it revving the engine. That doesn't bother me so much since I'm used to one of my friends doing that. Anyway, a car pulls into the alley, so my friend takes the liberty to put the bike in gear and ride off. Nothing I could do then.
Twenty minutes later he comes back. I reopen the garage door and approach him on the right. I saw nothing wrong with it since it was already night, and my alley is fairly dark and the garage door opener light is dim, so we pushed it back in the garage without any doubt. My friends and my cousin go on their way and I go inside.
A little while later another one of my friend comes by to pick up his bike that is also in the garage. He then asks me if I dropped my bike, I quickly tell him no, but quickly think back to my cousin. After turning on all of the lights, In disbelief I see what he was talking about. I call my cousin and ask him what the hell he did and why he didn't tell me when we pushed it inside. Turns out he dropped the bike while making a turn and he didn't think any damage had been done to the bike.
My cousin agreed to pay for the repairs on my bike... which are essentially just the left front plastics. I've priced out the parts on hondaparts-direct.com and the cost to replace the plastics are around $900... However, I bought the bike with Canadian Imported Silver Fairings... Which I'm not so sure any US dealer would sell to me as US 94-97 VFRs only came in red. Additionally, the front wheel is not perfectly centered when comparing it to the fender.
Do you guys know of any reliable Canadian dealers that will ship to the US? Also, any ideas on what's up with the misaligned wheel?
This sucks too because I was going to trade my bike in for a Z1000 or Bandit 1250 soon. What a crappy end to a nice Saturday.
After just having finished working on another friends bike (we installed sliders and fender eliminator on his new GSXR). My cousin pulled my bike out to the alley so that my friend could take his first ride on it (he didn't want to ride without the sliders). My bike was sitting in the middle of the alley, turned on and with my cousin sitting on it revving the engine. That doesn't bother me so much since I'm used to one of my friends doing that. Anyway, a car pulls into the alley, so my friend takes the liberty to put the bike in gear and ride off. Nothing I could do then.
Twenty minutes later he comes back. I reopen the garage door and approach him on the right. I saw nothing wrong with it since it was already night, and my alley is fairly dark and the garage door opener light is dim, so we pushed it back in the garage without any doubt. My friends and my cousin go on their way and I go inside.
A little while later another one of my friend comes by to pick up his bike that is also in the garage. He then asks me if I dropped my bike, I quickly tell him no, but quickly think back to my cousin. After turning on all of the lights, In disbelief I see what he was talking about. I call my cousin and ask him what the hell he did and why he didn't tell me when we pushed it inside. Turns out he dropped the bike while making a turn and he didn't think any damage had been done to the bike.
My cousin agreed to pay for the repairs on my bike... which are essentially just the left front plastics. I've priced out the parts on hondaparts-direct.com and the cost to replace the plastics are around $900... However, I bought the bike with Canadian Imported Silver Fairings... Which I'm not so sure any US dealer would sell to me as US 94-97 VFRs only came in red. Additionally, the front wheel is not perfectly centered when comparing it to the fender.
Do you guys know of any reliable Canadian dealers that will ship to the US? Also, any ideas on what's up with the misaligned wheel?
This sucks too because I was going to trade my bike in for a Z1000 or Bandit 1250 soon. What a crappy end to a nice Saturday.
