cracked engine case repair

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "dat brooklyn bum" wrote:

> > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "revmaaatin" wrote: > > Punctured an aluminum skid plate AND cracked a case? on a rock? > > Now that requires pictures. > > hmmm. > > I wish I could find the pics. They're probably on a floppy disk somewhere in the garage. And the reason the rock was able to do so much damage was because I was going about 50mph when I came across a washout. From a distance, the washout looked like a little bump in the road because the other side was ~2 feet higher than the "launch pad." Unfortunately, it wasn't until about 15' away from the ditch that I could tell the other side was about 8-10' away. Launched into the abyss, came up short, bottomed the suspension, and happened to be directly over a rock the size of a prize-winning pumpkin. I got kicked up over the handlebars, which followed me over. the guy behind me, Devon I think, crashed too, but he thinks he could have saved it if he wasn't trying to avoid running my flailing body and bike over... > > da Vermonster >

Even I don't need a picture to 'vision' that scary moment. smile. Glad you were seriously hurt. Clear cut case for ATGATT. ATGATT allows you to be the best dressed motorcyclist in your local EMERGENCY ROOM. (Aberdeen, SD has already been validated; go find your own) Low level tactical jet/helicopters have unmarked wires and towers; kamikaze DS riders have: Washouts! Soft-spots. Ruts. High speed gravel roads intersections with limited sighting distances. Open Range/Closed gates = single strand wires across the opening. and many more.... All hazards that will kill you dead if you add enough heat to the throttle and take away the sighting distance. ADV once featured a KTM rider, boiling across the prairie at 50+mph; the first picture of his RR featured tall grass hiding a vertically edged a wash-out (think back-hoe trench without the waste-dirt) that was probably 4ft deep and 3ft wide. Almost impossible to see except right on top of it. The 2d picture featured his bike with a bent rim, the rim touching the hub! The side profile was a round pie with 25% missing = the wheel rim compressed to look like the old pac-man video game icon. Apparently the ditch trapped the bike; and to his good fortune, the bike was not able to follow him to final impact site and smoosh him. Unbelievable. The guy walks away without significant injury and a very expensive memento with bragging rights. revmaaatin.