Originally Posted by
M61A1MECH
I will be needing that video also, thanks for posting it.
I was in the final steps of installing a pair of Rocky's Comfort Risers on my 2013, convinced myself as I started the job, that is was neccessary to wrestle the big girl up onto the centerstand, so I did the old 2x8 under the kickstand trick that I have used on many bikes thru the years. Well you can see where this is going. I was trying to get the set screw that fixes the adjustig nut in position on the left side and needed a bit more room to get my wrench in there, turned the bars to far to the right and she starts tipping and there was no stopping her, until she hit the wife's Solara convertible that is. With the wife's help we were able to get the fat girl up, the Solara has a dent in the left front fender from the GL'smirror and a crease in the driver's door from the trunk lid.
The GL has scratches on the right mirror housing and slight scratches on the indicator lens, the trunk faired OK especially considering the lid was open and it hit the car.
Got a new housing on order, will need to get the assembly off and strip it down and install the guts into the new housing when it arrives.
I feel really bad about the car, it is a 2006 it did not have a scratch on it, the only thing wrong with it is the dash is all cracked, and we just got word from Toyota that they will replace the entire dash on an extended warrenty campaign they are doing for various models that have been afflicted with cracking and melting dashes, so in a few weeks it was going to be like new again, and now stupid drops his bike on it.
Could have been a lot worse, but I do like the risers.
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