Dropped my Trophy

Thanks to a lunatic mini-bus driver coming at me on a single track country
road with tall grass banks, I dropped my Triumph Trophy 900 onto the road,
thankfully at low speed after a lot of heavy braking and resulting in no
injury.

I'm replacing the smashed indicator, but has anyone found an economical way
to replace the lower fairing panel? It's quite scratched up from the short
slide and I'd like to restore the bike's looks - but not at retail price!
Any advice?

Well... I guess the 'right of passage' as a motorcyclist is when you scrape
the 'hero blobs'... well I've snapped mine right off - does that make me a
super-hero?!?!

Any advice on where to get a replacement lower fairing panel in the UK
gratefully received.

Cheers,
Jeremy

 

Why were you going so fast on a single track country road that you
couldn't stop quickly and keep the bike upright?

 

Ebay! Worked for me anyway. Other than that if the damage isn't too bad
get it re-sprayed, Bike Medic or someone like that aren't too bad.

 

Who said anything about going "so fast" I couldn't stop quickly? The
mini-bus was going too fast and couldn't have stopped in time. As I was on
a bike I was able to squeeze to its side whilst stopping. Had I been in a
car, stationary or moving, the bus would have hit me, judging by where she
eventually stopped. I came off not through speed, but because of the fact
that I hit the steep bank at the side of the road whilst still in motion.
If you're unsure of why I couldn't keep the bike upright, please go ahead
and bury your left boot in a steep grass covered (earth) bank and see how
you get on. I make no claims of being a skilled rider, by the way, however
the only alternative was to hit the bus. Not a difficult choice in my mind.

Jeremy

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Jeremy Solly said:

Them Triumph trophy drivers are dangerous on the road and should be
banned.

 

Jeremy Solly wrote

You haven't quite got the hang of ukrm yet have you? A more appropriate
reply would have been something along the lines of: "Because I fucking
wanted to."

 

in that case, wouldn't it have been more sensible to just let your
boot sink into the bank and gently lay the bike down onto the bank,
rather than over-compensate and sling it onto the road?

Just a thought, like.

 

darsy wrote in

Yeah. Broken legs & ankles are fixed for free.

 

seriously - why would lowering a bike down break your leg or ankle?

I've fallen off bikes and got trapped underneath - worst injury a bit
of grazing/ripped jeans trying to get my leg out from underneath.

 

The ones with working motorcycles at any rate.

 

darsy wrote in

Seriously, I wasn't being serious. It would have to be a very odd shaped
bank for me to get a trapped leg with my sticky out cylinders.

 

ah - it's hard to tell sometimes, around here.

well, yeah, if you fall under an RGS, just just crawl out, I expect.

 

darsy wrote in

I like being enigmatic

Well, to paraphrase, in the unlikely event of it happening I'll try not
to do myself serious damage.

 

Any working bike at that, no discrimination on brands... Dangerous they are

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What, the mistake of expecting sympathy on ukrm?

 

Trophies are big, top-heavy fuckers. If mine started to go its own way, and
I couldn't get avay fast enough, I'd expect fractures.

 

Take affected pannel off bike. Clean up the deep scratches. Fill with
body-stopper. Sand out the lighter scratches and excess stopper with
180 grit, preferably with a sander/DA. If you rub down by hand, don't
use your fingers under the grit, try to use the palm of your hand.
Take pannel to a bodyshop and let them prime/filler-prime and paint
affected areas. If you do the priming yourself, use 4 or 5 light coats
rather than 2 or 3 heavy coats: do this in warm and dust free
conditions, leave for 15 mins between coats to allow the solvents to
evaporate. Job done...

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Tim, you possibly took that the wrong way - would have helped if I'd
included a smily in there - was tongue in cheek.

 

Thanks Owen, glad someone understood the real purpose of my post )
Jeremy