Re: Ooops!

["Lance LaCerte, Psy.D." <LACPSYD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

Thanks for the compliment--- I agree that once you've got all of the pannier
hardware, there's really not much sense in performing the surgery.  Hope
your repairs go well.

Lance
- -----Original Message-----
From: Martin Fay <mfay@xxxxxxxxx>
To: st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 5:07 AM
Subject: Ooops!


>     My Turn!
>
>     Yesterday evening on my way home for work, I turned down a small side
>     street where the traffic on the other side of the road was backed up
>     behind a truck. Just as I made the turn a young mother pushed her pram
>     out from behind the truck straight into my path. I managed to stop but
>     being cranked over for the turn and on an uphill the bike started to
>     tip (ever so slowly) onto its' right side. Doooohhh! All I could do
>     was lay it down as gently as possible.
>
>     Damage was an amazingly lightly scratched right hand pannier, bent
>     front brake lever and badly scuffed right side fairing lower.
>
>     I managed to polish out the scratches on the pannier using T-cut and
>     Colour Magic. The brake lever and sticker are on order. I already have
>     my Givi box and rear hugger booked in with the painters to be sprayed
>     to match the bike so I'm going to give him a shot at respraying the
>     fairing at the same time. The fairing was already lightly scratched on
>     that panel where my uncle had let it fall onto his gravel driveway so
>     that softens the sting a little.
>
>     Invincashield would have saved the pannier and possibly the fairing
>     from damage. Sadly I have some 'second skin' in the garage that I
>     hadn't got around to fitting yet. Guess what I'll be doing this
>     weekend.
>
>     Lance,
>     Neat job on the mudguard. You now have the best looking rear on the
>     list! :) I was going to do a similar job on my own bike but once I
>     fitted the luggage I decided not to bother. It was never going to look
>     sleek with all that mounting hardware back there.
>
>     Martin
>     Dublin, Ireland
>
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