Check your nuts!
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:56 am
...And bolts. Seriously. Telling on myself a bit here. I'm really bad about "set it and forget it" and not re-checking things sometimes. The big twins the board is known for do have some vibrations - it's just the nature of big pistons moving up and down
But I was riding home from work the other day and felt something bounce off my boot - sorta like my front tire kicked up a rock. But I could have sworn it sounded metallic as it pinged off the footpeg/frame/whatever!
Quick check showed all the major components still attached, and it was still running fine so yay for me there. ~30 seconds or so later I noticed my windscreen was a little floppy - it was resting against the clutch reservoir and normally it's an inch or so forward of it.
Oh bother! The left-hand clamp for the windshield support had fallen off.
I keep these little velcro cable organizers in my sissy-bar bag, so I was able to stop and tie the support to the barto keep it from flopping around on the way home; but now I have to order a new clamp. I run the SlipStreamer Enterprise II windshield - it's SO NICE but about the size of a barn door . A quick "nut check" would have saved me the ~$20 replacement cost, and potentially more if the screen had decided to detach more...
But I was riding home from work the other day and felt something bounce off my boot - sorta like my front tire kicked up a rock. But I could have sworn it sounded metallic as it pinged off the footpeg/frame/whatever!
Quick check showed all the major components still attached, and it was still running fine so yay for me there. ~30 seconds or so later I noticed my windscreen was a little floppy - it was resting against the clutch reservoir and normally it's an inch or so forward of it.
Oh bother! The left-hand clamp for the windshield support had fallen off.
I keep these little velcro cable organizers in my sissy-bar bag, so I was able to stop and tie the support to the barto keep it from flopping around on the way home; but now I have to order a new clamp. I run the SlipStreamer Enterprise II windshield - it's SO NICE but about the size of a barn door . A quick "nut check" would have saved me the ~$20 replacement cost, and potentially more if the screen had decided to detach more...