[JVS]

lol that power made sure that I should care about the Bullet a tad less. But now I would be spending more time on it sorting these things out. Or I should leave it as it is.

And maybe I can still indirectly read thoughts =o
I shall get back to work for now, slacking off in the office whilst everone else is working.

[singhg5]

Looks like JVS is following me or he is psychic - my G5 had also fallen down but he was faster in posting it.

I had just arrived at a parking lot and turned off the engine. I am sitting on the bike and for a fraction of a second I thought I had pushed the side stand down with my left leg - actually I had NOT. My hands are on handlebar and I started to lean the bike to left to put it on side stand. It kept leaning more and more and down it goes  . A bit embarrased wandering who is looking, I pulled the bike up and it started to roll back but I managed to control it.  Put it on center stand and looked for damage or bent forks.

Fortunately the brunt was borne by butterfly engine bar, the dents are small and after polishing hardly noticable.  A little scratch on the tip of clutch lever.  No damage to gear shifter and forks handlebar seemed straight.

[JVS]

Singh, them crash bars do save a lot of damage, but personally I just do not like the look of the Bullet with them on :/

As mentioned before, I have finally got around to fixing the damage up. Put a new headlight rim & visor, got the dent on the tank removed by a PDR expert and used touch up paint for the front mudguard. I have attached the before and after shots.

Also, I lowered the handle bar, feels good and looks a tad better too. Just got to put the bar-end mirrors back on. Very happy

Lesson learnt: Don't be a tool nor over-confident.

[barenekd]

Put it on center stand and looked for damage or bent forks.

Not likely to bend forks when the bike falls over. If there is some speed involved, you might twist them, easy fix, but bending them is highly unlikely. You have to smack something pretty hard to bend them.
Bare

[JVS]

Yeah, nothing crappy with the forks. It went down at a pace of 0 kmph/mph out of my grip, steadily haha. Still don't know how I managed to get so many dents. I think when the good samaritans came over to help, one of them must've got their knee on the tank or the headlight ring lol

But! I is over it now, everything is sorted. I will try my best not to drop it again! It was my first ever bike drop Felt so stupid after that. *slaps self*

[barenekd]

Bare, do you still have the higher bars?  And would you be willing to part with them?

I still have the bars, but I'm going to hang on to them in case I go back to stock. But they are only about $20.00 from Chaparral, or about any other accessory store.
Bare

[BRADEY]

The bike looks just like new especially the tank job, after the restoration work. Very nicely done. Mind sharing by how much it set you back ? The new handle bar looks very well and must be lot more comfortable to ride compared to the original one.

[JVS]

[suspicious]Cheers bruhzer. I was happy with the job. By the way, the handle bar is stock, just lowered it and adjusted the cable cluster/control thing so that the cables don't hit the tank when the forks are turned to their maximum.

The dent removal was a tad expensive, but after contacting about 5 other dent removal people, he was the only one in my area who also looked at motorcycle tanks. Because the steel is harder on a tank as compared to a car/aluminium etc, no one wanted to come close to it. Another factor is the access to the tank through the petrol inlet/hole. Luckily, the dent was at a place where he could access it easily and the RE tank didn't cause too much trouble (Although he did mention it was probably the toughest tank he has worked on [His first RE]). Whilst observing him, I must admit, PDR takes a lot of patience, experience and the right amount of force.

Eventually, it set me back AUD150. But at that stage, I didn't mind as the job he did was great. I had gone through many PDR videos on YouTube. There are many PDR specialists in the USA for motorcyle tanks and charge a tad less as compared to here I guess. (For bikes atleast)

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[Ducati Scotty]

A new tank would be more than double that.  Also not surprised it was so hard for him, RE tends to use thick, heavy metal for most things.

Scott