Ok maybe not a horror story, but VERY lame none the less. Could have been worse I suppose. But those words are little consolation when your bike is on it's side.
Ok so first off, bike bike does not have a garage to be kept in. I know, I know, I wish I did, but alas I have a really nice cover and I also store my Bullet in a vinyl shed. It is very sturdy, with steel framing and a really thick poly-something or other cover. It is held down by auger stakes in the grass on 3 sides and a eyelet in the pavement on the fourth.
So we are having a pretty rainy day...nothing to serious. My bike is nice and cozzy in it's little house. I drive to work. About 5:30 I get a call from my wife telling me that my shed blew over and my bike was on it's side. F@#KING SH!T I say a little louder than I meant to. So my wife is probably strong enough to lift it, but I said leave it cause I didnt want her to strain something.
I get home and of course no one wants to see their bike like this. I get over to it, the air filter (K&N half round one) is dented and pulled off. There is 8 dollars worth of the Mobile1 I just put in yesterday all over the ground and gas (I had an almost full tank) all down the side of the tank, on the ground ect. Looks like my gas cap leaks. So the worst of it is the tank for sure. The gas has stained the paint and peeled up a great deal of the logo decal.
The good news is...I had a rubber made storeage tub sitting in my little shed and the bike happened to fall on it and so the pipe never even touched the ground. So I suppose it really could have been alot worse, but again, that is little consolation.
So I know this is just one of those really crappy things that happen sometimes. I think I need to get tie eyelets all the way around for that thing now.
Rain for the next several days, so I wont be able to fully asses the damage until maybe Sunday.