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- From: molenda@i9.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda)
- Subject: Re: Backed into
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:05:44 GMT
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- pursell@cheshire.oxy.edu (William Robert Pursell) writes:
-
- > Any suggestions on straightening the steering
- >head, and more importantly what to look for in
- >terms of possible damage (i.e. might cause the
- >bike to be unsafe)?
-
- The first time I crashed my CB750F this summer I bent the handlebars so
- you were kinda leaning to the left. Luckily, I crashed a month or so
- later and changed it so I was leaning to the right. I rode one or two
- thousand miles like that; it bothered me for a short while but I soon
- got used to it and even rode down to Chicago and back with them like
- that.
-
- When I eventually got them fixed, I didn't like the straight bars.
-
- My advice: relax and get used to it. Your bars probably aren't bent
- all that bad, relatively speaking.
-
- (as an interesting aside, my forks got twisted in the first accident
- also but the second accident seems to have bent them right back into
- shape. Now it works great. alas, the rest of the bike is going. :-(
- --
- Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Supercomputer Inst., Technical Support
- SGI Iris Admin molenda@jason.msi.umn.edu DoD #1867 '77 CB750F
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