suggestions

I need some help from y'all...gotta straighten this out in my head, so suggestions are very welcome.


AS i wrote in my last post i crashed, well now I'm tearing the bike apart to see what all I can do to make it ridable.

It looks like I need to straighten the bracket for the headlight, and front fender, replace the headlamp, speedo,handlebars, mirror, turnsignal stem and cover to the nuteral light/turnsignal light etc(or fabricate a new one somehow).

Also, the handle bars are crooked to the front wheel, and the place where i put the key is plum sheered off. Because of the "main switch" being sheered I'm not sure if the bike starts, although I've no reason to believe it won't. The only damage appears to be front end.


My confusion comes in if i should work out the steering first, or the ignition, or just take it in to a shop and let them decide. I don't have much budget to do this all, so I really don't want to have it hauled to the shop and done there if i don't absoluly need to.

I was kind of toying with the idea of replacing the handle bars, and get different speedo/tach anyway so I have them picked out, but the ignition is really throwing me. Is there a way just to put a toggle switch in its place?

Suggestions?


Links to pics of the bike/wreck:

http://psiklone.com/hobbies/pics/broken ... C00021.jpg
http://psiklone.com/hobbies/pics/broken ... C00022.jpg
http://psiklone.com/hobbies/pics/broken ... C00026.jpg

 

In a bit I'll be parting with bars, controls and a few other bits... should be in the next week or two.

To me that didn't look like too bad a crash. I'd put the controls back to stock. Consider what you want for the console... there are things like the sigma bike computer that are relatively cheap that might serve you well...

indicator... well that might be on ebay - but try your local wrecker for parts first.

 

I would be very concerned that your fork tubes are bent. Loosen up the triple clamps and see if the tubes and such will line back up. New tubes could really put you in the hurt locker (ain't cheap). Everything else you can recover easily at home with a few simple hand tools and a really burly friend (or some long cheater bars). Brother wants to know who the cutie is standing next to the bike, but only if it isn't your wife/girlfriend or kid sister. What a chowder head.

 

Hard to tell from those photos... where it was into dirt I don't know - could have got lucky.

Try a straight edge on the tubes to be sure.

good point.

 

robert: the cutie was my 10yr old daughter, and i'll be hunting your brother down

I can get the turn signal stem for $6 at the local shop, the speedo cable for $15. I'm most worried about the ignition and forks.

Woot, i'll try and scrape up a straight edge, thanks for the idea.

 

hey snick, there's a set of forks and triple trees on ebay right now from a guy in Ontario Canada. He says they fit an 1982 Yamaha 650 seca (XJ650RJ).

Listed at $35.00 with 24.00 for shipping. One day and 9 hours left on listing, and currently no bidders!

Do a search for Yamaha Seca, should show up about 3 dozen listings down.

 

thanks for the heads up

 

A good straight edge is a piece of glass... metal drafting rulers are good too.

 

Snick,

I'm not sure where in NY you are, but I have a set of SECA 750 forks and triples if you need them. They are a little different than the 650's but might be a nice upgrade.

Nachoman

 

Good to know. I checked a map and we're about 5 hrs apart nachoman. I'm north west of you, near Rochester...