xsrider
Junior Member
Hi folks,
I've been kind of 'off the grid' for a while now but I hope I'm coming back.
The reason for my post is that I had an incident two weeks ago, where my bike went down apparently for no reason when doing 120kph in the highway. Road was almost a straight, uphill, slightly wet, wheels in good shape, and used to wet riding.
I thing there was 'something else' on the road as later I heard there had been an accident there the previous day.
My rear wheel slid to the right slightly, tried to control oversteering, then to the left slightly, back again to the right and then off to the ground I went.
Luckily I had a good safety distance everywhere around and good equipment on. Love my Alpinestars Overpants which are needing replacement now and going to the trash... although next ones won't have zippers on the sides.
I myself got away with just one bruise in the elbow, just under the jacket protection, an a light hit on my 'bump'. The biggest hit was at my pride
Tale told, now to business. The bike also came out in great shape, but with mainly broken plastics (not that much really, awesome protectors in place ), and the guys at the workshop are asking me near 900€ for fixing it.
Keeping in mind it is a 2004 model with 52000kms in, I don't think it's worth to put that kind of money on it, so I'm looking for either used or good priced parts.
In these search (2nd hand plastics are hard to find, guess why) I've come to the conclusion that buying those parts in the USA is waaaay cheaper than at Europe/Spain (I'm talking a 50% off here). So I'm looking at BikeBandit and Boats.
Do you guys have experience buying internationally from these guys?
I guess the fairing can get a bit bulky, so I'm worried about the shipping costs.
Any help in finding good priced pieces at Europe?
Just in case any is curious (or have pieces available), these are the damages: (FZ6S 2004 silver/black)
- 5VX-2835G-10-00 Front Cowling
- 5VX-28381-31-00* Windshield (just a corner )
- 5VX-2836K-10-00 panel, inner 1
- 5PW-8333A-10-00 - … lens flasher light
(maybe this will require 5PW-83310-10-00 - front flasher light assembly left )
- 5VX-21710-10-00 side cover assembly left liquid silver
- 5VX-21781-30-00 - emblem left liquid silver
- 5EB-83912-03-00 - clutch lever (embrague)
- 4BH-27451-01-00 - left footrest (not really bad, may leave it)
- 5VX-18110-00-00 - shift pedal assembly
Well, that's my story (not-)short. Any help would be appreciated.
Any suggestion on how to avoid that happening again would be great as well :Flash::Flash:
Cheers!
xsrider
I've been kind of 'off the grid' for a while now but I hope I'm coming back.
The reason for my post is that I had an incident two weeks ago, where my bike went down apparently for no reason when doing 120kph in the highway. Road was almost a straight, uphill, slightly wet, wheels in good shape, and used to wet riding.
I thing there was 'something else' on the road as later I heard there had been an accident there the previous day.
My rear wheel slid to the right slightly, tried to control oversteering, then to the left slightly, back again to the right and then off to the ground I went.
Luckily I had a good safety distance everywhere around and good equipment on. Love my Alpinestars Overpants which are needing replacement now and going to the trash... although next ones won't have zippers on the sides.
I myself got away with just one bruise in the elbow, just under the jacket protection, an a light hit on my 'bump'. The biggest hit was at my pride
Tale told, now to business. The bike also came out in great shape, but with mainly broken plastics (not that much really, awesome protectors in place ), and the guys at the workshop are asking me near 900€ for fixing it.
Keeping in mind it is a 2004 model with 52000kms in, I don't think it's worth to put that kind of money on it, so I'm looking for either used or good priced parts.
In these search (2nd hand plastics are hard to find, guess why) I've come to the conclusion that buying those parts in the USA is waaaay cheaper than at Europe/Spain (I'm talking a 50% off here). So I'm looking at BikeBandit and Boats.
Do you guys have experience buying internationally from these guys?
I guess the fairing can get a bit bulky, so I'm worried about the shipping costs.
Any help in finding good priced pieces at Europe?
Just in case any is curious (or have pieces available), these are the damages: (FZ6S 2004 silver/black)
- 5VX-2835G-10-00 Front Cowling
- 5VX-28381-31-00* Windshield (just a corner )
- 5VX-2836K-10-00 panel, inner 1
- 5PW-8333A-10-00 - … lens flasher light
(maybe this will require 5PW-83310-10-00 - front flasher light assembly left )
- 5VX-21710-10-00 side cover assembly left liquid silver
- 5VX-21781-30-00 - emblem left liquid silver
- 5EB-83912-03-00 - clutch lever (embrague)
- 4BH-27451-01-00 - left footrest (not really bad, may leave it)
- 5VX-18110-00-00 - shift pedal assembly
Well, that's my story (not-)short. Any help would be appreciated.
Any suggestion on how to avoid that happening again would be great as well :Flash::Flash:
Cheers!
xsrider
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