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Re: Ooops!
- Subject: Re: Ooops!
- From: "Lance LaCerte, Psy.D." <LACPSYD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:30:16 -0600
Martin,
Thanks for the compliment--- I agree that once you've got all of the pannier
hardware, there's really not much sense in performing the surgery. Hope
your repairs go well.
Lance
- -----Original Message-----
From: Martin Fay <mfay@xxxxxxxxx>
To: st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 5:07 AM
Subject: Ooops!
> My Turn!
>
> Yesterday evening on my way home for work, I turned down a small side
> street where the traffic on the other side of the road was backed up
> behind a truck. Just as I made the turn a young mother pushed her pram
> out from behind the truck straight into my path. I managed to stop but
> being cranked over for the turn and on an uphill the bike started to
> tip (ever so slowly) onto its' right side. Doooohhh! All I could do
> was lay it down as gently as possible.
>
> Damage was an amazingly lightly scratched right hand pannier, bent
> front brake lever and badly scuffed right side fairing lower.
>
> I managed to polish out the scratches on the pannier using T-cut and
> Colour Magic. The brake lever and sticker are on order. I already have
> my Givi box and rear hugger booked in with the painters to be sprayed
> to match the bike so I'm going to give him a shot at respraying the
> fairing at the same time. The fairing was already lightly scratched on
> that panel where my uncle had let it fall onto his gravel driveway so
> that softens the sting a little.
>
> Invincashield would have saved the pannier and possibly the fairing
> from damage. Sadly I have some 'second skin' in the garage that I
> hadn't got around to fitting yet. Guess what I'll be doing this
> weekend.
>
> Lance,
> Neat job on the mudguard. You now have the best looking rear on the
> list! :) I was going to do a similar job on my own bike but once I
> fitted the luggage I decided not to bother. It was never going to look
> sleek with all that mounting hardware back there.
>
> Martin
> Dublin, Ireland
>
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