old one too bent out of shape to have straightened and painted?

 

welllll i already bent it back once when i got the bike cause it had been dropped. This time i looks like it isnt jus one piece bent, the whole thing is warped so i wouldd need all kinds of measurements to know what i needed to bend it too. The other thing is the fairing is in kinda rough shapep so its gonna ned s sturdy and straight bracket to hold it together so im thinking it would be worth it to buy a new bracket and save this fairingdd

 

ah.. so is that the part you wracked your nuts on in the wreck?

i just can imagine catching a nut on anything on the bike.

 

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good luck. glad you two are okay.

 

i bent mine back into shape before, give it a try you got nothing to loose

 

Sorry, I guess I should look a lil more closely at what I post. Didn't notice that one was bent. I had to bend mine back into shape, too. Caught the doorway to my shed a few times with the mirror, then I dropped it. It's not too bad.

If you find that it seems a lil soft in any spots use a torch and some oil and google metal hardening to find the procedure to harden the soft spots. Shouldn't be too hard.

good luck.

 

But you still haven't told us... what protective equipment were you wearing on the OTHER nut? [sm=dontgetit.gif]

Glad you both came out ok!

 

haha i think i caught my nut on the rear brake lever.... i saw a piece of my jeans stuck to it

the bruises are still coming out and im nooooot a fan of thesedisolving stitches

haha and i wasnt wearing prtoective gear on my other nut, although if they make it i would loooove to find some for future rides :-P

once i can actually move around and start working on the bike im going to try to bend the bracket back, it just looks really twisted but your right nothing too lose, i found one for like a hundred bucks so either way....

im ordering a handle bar and soon as my stitches are out ill be back on it :-p ill just rock the dents till taxes come back

thanks for all the advice so far, ill keep you posted on how it all comes out

 

sorry to hear about your crash, good to know both you and your gf are okay!!!
so you have any pics of the damage to the bike?

anyways, hope you get some speedy recovery there.....