Memorial Weekend motorcycle vacation ended before it really gets started

[bob109]

Called local Honda steelership and was quoted appx $1,300.00 for right side valve cover, gasket and labor. Seems like a person w/some skills concerning wrenching should be able to do this.

Partzilla is your friend! Cylinder Head Cover $235.64......Head Cover Gasket $16.62......Lower Cover $123.68........$375.94 Parts Total

If it's only the Head Cover this is not a complex repair IMHO

See Attached

http://www.partzilla.com/parts/searc...VER/parts.html

[BIGLRY]

Partzilla is your friend! Cylinder Head Cover $235.64......Head Cover Gasket $16.62......Lower Cover $123.68

See Attached

http://www.partzilla.com/parts/searc...VER/parts.html

Yep and it really is an easy job to change them out.

[choptop]

I have no doubt that I could do it and I have the time but not the inclination. Basically 400.00 for parts, to my door plus oil change and my time, lets call it 500.00. I also have a scratch on the top of the bag and their is the reimbursement to someone for hauling the bike to my house on Memorial weekend. I also have a buggered up Rivco peg and not to mention that I am not a mechanic and what if there is a problem w/the head or something else... I have to pay the $500.00 deductible; I want to get it done right and everything fixed and everybody paid for their services.
Would be a different story if it was a $1,000.00 deductible, I would do it myself.

[Old Ryder]

The day I got my B, the owner of the dealership told me he also rode a B and he gave me the story about a lady tipping his over while fueling it at a gas station. She clipped the back of the bike and it fell over and his Rivco pegs were down. Ever since then, I make it a point to retract them every time I take my feet off.

After all of that however, when I was changing the rear tire, I broke the driver peg mount laying it over on it's side----and I did that one on purpose.

Moral of the story, anytime a 800+ lb bike goes on it's side, very little good comes from it. Then I think back to my early crashes on my XL 125 and CB 350 back in the 70's. I got up after going down at 50+ MPH---bent the bars back straight---kick started it and rode it back home. Motorcycles sure have changed.

[tiltingf6b]

The day I got my B, the owner of the dealership told me he also rode a B and he gave me the story about a lady tipping his over while fueling it at a gas station. She clipped the back of the bike and it fell over and his Rivco pegs were down. Ever since then, I make it a point to retract them every time I take my feet off.

After all of that however, when I was changing the rear tire, I broke the driver peg mount laying it over on it's side----and I did that one on purpose.

Moral of the story, anytime a 800+ lb bike goes on it's side, very little good comes from it. Then I think back to my early crashes on my XL 125 and CB 350 back in the 70's. I got up after going down at 50+ MPH---bent the bars back straight---kick started it and rode it back home. Motorcycles sure have changed.

Not to mention you can snap the head off a bolt holding a peg on during removal.

[choptop]

Got a call from the adjuster lady this a.m. Seems she supposedly assigned an person to look at the bike but some how it got sent to the Catastrophe Division, we had some storms here 2 weeks ago, don't ask me how, but that is were it has been sitting.

[F6Dave]

I bought the Aero pegs because they looked great. But I've never felt comfortable using them. Having the valve cover and head hold the weight of your feet and legs doesn't seem like a good idea. So I rarely use them, and when I do it's on a long ride and only for a few minutes to change riding position. After that I close them immediately.

Now that I've read these horror stories I'll probably use them even less!